An Israeli law banning too skinny models went into effect with the start of 2013. The law, approved last March in Israel, requires models to prove they have maintained a Body Mass Index (BMI) of at least 18.5 for three months before a fashion show. That means a woman who is 68 inches tall can weigh no less than 119 pounds.
“This law is another step in the war against eating disorders,” said physician Adatto. “Underweight models,” he explained, “can no longer serve as role models for innocent young people who copy their false image of being skinny.”
But some critics in this country say it is misguided, focusing on weight instead of health. They also say the Israeli ban is bound to fail because of the strong power of the fashion industry. “I think it’s an approach that isn’t going to work.” said eating disorder expert Susan Ice, who worked with an organization which creates a healthy working environment for models.
But Adatto told the reporter that he began to concern the issue after meeting an ambitious model who looked like she needed to be hospitalized. He said. “I realized that only legislation(立法) can change the situation. There was no time to waste; so many girls were dieting to death.”
However, the efforts to regulate models’ weight in Spain and Italy have not resulted in significant changes in part because of difficulties in determining reliable methods of measuring weight and health.
Still, folks including Ice say there’s no denying that images from Hollywood and the fashion industry can be difficult for young women to deal with. “Certainly I don't believe the modeling industry has caused the rise in eating disorders, but it makes it harder,” she says. “It’s a difficult recovery environment, worshiping thinness as the beauty ideal.”
1. One benefit the new Israeli law may bring is ________.
A. to change the working conditions of models
B. to prevent models from suffering from eating disorders
C. to provide guidance for women worshiping thinness
D. to lower the chance of skinny models’ death
2.In the opinion of the critics, the law won’t succeed because .
A. it misleads young women to form a bad eating habit.
B. the fashion industry is much too influential.
C. it doesn’t create a healthy working environment for models.
D. it doesn’t provide a proper approach that can work well.
3. What caused Adatto to think that a law was needed to change the situation?
A. Being interviewed by a reporter.
B. Establishing his fashion model agent.
C. Meeting an ambitious but too skinny model.
D. Seeing a model die from eating disorders.
4.According to the passage, the new Israeli law banning skinny models is .
A. practical B. reasonable
C. acceptable D. argumentative
Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea.People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like,mainly because tea was very expensive.It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity.Some of them were not sure how to use it.They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves.Then they served them mixed with butter and salt.They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches.
Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century.During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.
At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea.Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it,but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added.She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk.Because she was such a great lady her friends thought they must copy everything she did,so they also drank their tea with milk in it.Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few British people drink tea without milk.
At first,tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening.No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess (公爵夫人) found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it.She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so,tea-time was born.
1.Which of the following is true of the introduction of tea into Britain?
A. British people were the first people in Europe who drank tea.
B. It was not until the 17th century that British people had tea.
C. British people got expensive tea from India.
D. Tea reached Britain from Holland.
2.What does this passage most probably talk about?
A. It talks about how British people got the habit of drinking tea
B. It talks about how tea became a popular drink in Britain
C. It talks about the history of tea drinking in Britain
D. It talks about how tea-time was born
3.People in Europe began to drink tea with milk because .
A. tea with milk stopped people getting a sinking feeling
B. people followed the way a French lady drank tea
C. tea with milk was then a fashionable curiosity
D. tea with milk tasted much more pleasant
4.We may infer from the passage that the habit of drinking tea in Britain was mostly due to the influence of .
A. the upper social class B. the ancient Chinese
C. a famous French lady D. people in Holland
假定你是李华，听闻国外某网站要在全球范围内评选 “The Most Qualified Student”（最美中学生），请你用英语给该网站写一封推荐信。内容包括：
1. 介绍被推荐人（林扬）的基本信息；
2. 说明推荐理由。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头语给出，不计入总词数。
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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。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及二个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，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。
As the saying goes, chance favored the prepared mind. I learned this from one of my experience.
I was not chosen as member of the volleyball team of our school. Because of this, I decided to give up play volleyball. Luckily, my best friend stopped me but pointed out that it was my laziness and poor preparation which led to my failure. After that, I practiced playing volleyball on every day. When another tryout arrived, I was full prepared and tried my best. As a result, I was selected and became an important player on our school team.
From this, I am firmly convincing that we are able to seize a chance as long as I get well prepared.
Flying cars may soon become a 1. (real). The rideshare service Uber has asked 2. expert from NASA, the American space agency, 3. (help) the company develop cars that can fly.
Uber plans to use flying vehicles 4. the future to avoid traffic in and around cities. The company wants to use small, totally electric aircraft, 5. could take off and land like a helicopter on top of parking garages. Uber said its flying vehicles would be much 6. (quiet), cost less to operate and produce less pollution than helicopters.
One person in San Francisco 7. (write) on Twitter, “I used to think that flying cars was a ridiculous idea. 8. I changed my mind this morning when I sat in a heavy traffic.” Another person added from Mumbai, India: “I’m reading about Uber 9. (hire) a NASA engineer to build flying cars, while Fm stuck in traffic. There is hope.”
The expert predicts there will be several early models of cars that can’t fly 10. (they) but with human pilots within one to three years.
Thinking of my good friends, I sense that my attitudes are totally different towards men and women.
My earliest childhood friend is Donald. In the street was a (an) __ old German truck. No wheels. No doors. Each day, __ we were flying over the Atlantic in that truck our “airplane”，there came that wonderful moment: “Engine __!” I’d shout, “We’ll have to jump out.” Glancing at me，he’d say, “I can’t __!” “Fear not! I’ll drag you to the __.
And when we swam __ the dust, Donald cried “Sharks!” But I always __ him. The next day, changing __，Donald would do the same to me. We saved each other hundreds of times, but when my family really did leave for America, we could do __. We just cried silently as the train __.
These days, Jessica is one of my best friends. Recently we were swimming at a beach in the Atlantic, the __ one I had “flown” over in my German truck with Donald. We were far form shore when we both thought we __ a shark! We began swimming __ toward the shore. Although in __，I fell back to protect her. In the end» the “shark” proved __，but not my deep emotional feeling for my friend. We looked into each other’s eyes and said, “I love you!”
You see with women I could be __ ，emotionally honest and transparent. With male friends, it seemed impossible to __ caring feelings however deep the friendship was. “Am I normal?” I thought to myself. Much to my __，researches show that men and women have very different __ and rational (理性的) processes. I do love all my friends - only the means of expression __.
1.A. advanced B. decorated C. abandoned D. updated
2.A. before B. while C. after D. until
3.A. loss B. death C. pressure D. failure
4.A. jump B. swim C. die D. run
5.A. dust B. river C. truck D. shore
6.A. over B. through C. across D. beyond
7.A. left B. fetched C. rescued D. defeated
8.A. roles B. manners C. images D. forms
9.A. something B. nothing C. anything D. everything
10.A. broke down B. moved in C. pulled away D. blew up
11.A. very B. last C. first D. only
12.A. attacked B. spotted C. annoyed D. killed
13.A. eagerly B. casually C. hardly D. crazily
14.A. panic B. hesitation C. doubt D. silence
15.A. fierce B. friendly C. imaginary D. true
16.A. cool B. shy C. passive D. open
17.A. express B. hide C. admit D. control
18.A. embarrassment B. disappointment C. relief D. surprise
19.A. emotional B. physical C. mental D. moral
20.A. changes B. develops C. matters D. differs
