Just like rice and Noodles are different from bread, snacks in China are a world apart from those in the UK and the US. For one thing, I never imagined that sunflower seeds(葵花籽) would be so popular here. I found people having them while waiting for tables outside restaurants, before dinner and, of course, while watching TV. I also saw that a plate of sunflower seeds is always on tables during the Spring Festival holidays.
I had seldom tried sunflower seeds when I came to China. In the UK, young people love their snacks. In fact, young people in Britain eat more snacks than people of the same age in other European countries. A recent Survey has discovered that 64% of under 20-year-olds snack between meals, according to an article on a British website. In comparison(对比), 58.7% of young people snack in Germany, 53% in France, and only 40.7% in Spain.
In Britain, we always looked forward to our favorite potato chips and chocolate bars after school. In U.S. One of things that I found the most wonderful when I first visited the US was the number of snacks in their supermarkets; I was surprised to find huge shelves just for snacks were bigger than some stores in the UK. Snack tastes in the US are much the same as in the UK.
All in all, it’s probably best for your health if you like sunflower seeds rather than potato chips and chocolate. But eating these delicious snacks sometimes couldn’t be wrong, could it?
1.What is the article mainly about?
A. The most popular snack in China.
B. Snacks in the UK and the US.
C. Snacks young Western people like.
D. Some tips for choosing snacks in the UK.
2.According to the British Council, snacks are most popular among young people in_______.
A. Britain B. Germany C. France D. Spain
3.What surprised the author when he went to supermarkets in the US?
A. How the snacks tasted.
B. The size of the snacks’ packages.
C. The lack of choice when it came to snacks.
D. The large number of snacks.
4.What does the author think of potato chips and chocolate?
A. They don’t taste as good as sunflower seeds.
B. They are unhealthy, so people should stop eating them.
C. It’s better eat them with sandwiches and fruit.
D. It’s fine to enjoy them sometimes although they are unhealthy.
The koala(考拉) is possibly one of the best known Australian animals, and is found in four states: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
The word “koala” comes from an Australian word meaning “no drink”. Sometimes people call them “koala bears” but koala is not a bear. It belongs to a special group of Australian mammals, called marsupial(有袋类). Female marsupials have a pouch where the baby animals live after they are born.
Koalas have soft, thick, gray or brown fur on their backs. The fur on the stomach is white. The Koala in the south have thicker fur than those in the north because of the cold winters. However, the koalas in the northern part live in warm to hot weather most of the year, so they have thinner fur.A koala has a large nose and round ears. Koalas don’t have tails. Adult koalas weigh between 7kg and 14 kg.
Koalas spend nearly all their time in the trees. They sleep most of the day, but feed and move from tree to tree mainly at night.The reason koala sleep for much of the day is because their food, eucalyptus(桉树) leaves, are so hard that they need a lot of energy(能量;精力)to digest. Sleeping saves energy.
Each koala has a home made up of several trees that they visit regularly. They normally do not visit another koala’s home trees except that a male is looking for a female to mate with.
1.Which of the following statements is NOT true about the name “koala bear”?
A. The name was given by the native in Australia
B. The word “koala” is an English word
C. The name describes one of its living habits
D. The name is partly wrong.
2.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “pouch”？
A. House B. Cave C. Bag D. Nest
3.. Why do the koalas live in the south have thicker fur than those in the north?
A. The thick fur can protect them from the colder weather
B. It’s always hot in summer in the north
C. It’s always cold in the winter in the south
D. They have to move to the north in the winter
4.Why do koalas sleep much in the day?
A. Their foods are poisonous
B. Their food needs too much energy.
C. They want to save energy for the activities at night
D. They can’t get enough water from their leaves
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假定你是李华，你的语文老师Mr.Li受邀于三月初去英国一所学校进行交流。他将做关于中国传统文化的报告，并与英国学生互动（interact）。他请你用英语给对方负责人Ms. Jenkins写一封邮件，希望提前安排好。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Ms. Jenkins.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Yours faithfully,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加，删除或修改
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（Λ），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划线一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
My new friend Tom is good at English writing. One day. I asked him how he did such well in written English. He told me that he has a habit of keep a diary every day. “You can try them, too. I’m sure you will improve your written English quickly in this way.” He said. I thought Tom was right, but I decided to follow his advices. I started to write down something interested every day. Sometimes when I didn’t know how to spell a word, I would look it up in a dictionary. When I didn’t know how to write a sentence correct, I would ask my teacher for the help. My written English has really improved a lot because that.
Tayeb is studying literature at Beijing Language and Culture University.” 1. (celebrate) the Spring Festival in China makes me love China even more,” she said.
On Tuesday, Tayeb’s university organized an event 2. foreign students could try their hands at making dumplings, a traditional food 3. (eat) during the festival. Tayeb said she liked this aspect of the festival most.
4.dumplings, Chinese New Year is also a time for temple fairs, red lanterns, paper-cuts, blessings of good fortune and ancestor worship.
Bayomy, 5. Egyptian student at the same university, said she 6. (plan) to visit a temple fair in Chaoyang Park on Sunday. She was 7.(deep) impressed with the Spring Festival in 2014. She remembered how her classmate’s father left out plates of food for their families’ ancestors.
Like Chinese, many foreigners put couplets (对联), Chinese characters wishing for good fortune on their front doors.
Marie, a British 8. (translate) in Beijing, 9. (send) a couplet by her Chinese friend on Thursday. She stuck them on the floor of her apartment, took a photo of herself standing in front of it, and shared it with her parents in Britain.” “These couplets are an 10. (express) of hope for the future and contain the Chinese spirit of ‘harmony’, ”said Marie.
