题目
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Prime Minister Tony Blair, said that she would prepare a packed lunch for her son if school dinners do not
improve. So what do students of your age eat for lunch at school?
Japan
High schools have canteens, which serve everything from noodles to rice, but not burgers and chips.
Other children bring food from home such as cold rice balls, meat or fish, pickles and vegetables.
Students take home a menu for the coming month containing notes on nutrition (营养) value. Twice a
year parents are invited to have a taste of the food. The class with the fewest leftovers (剩饭) at the end of
the month receives a prize.
The United States
A typical menu from a US school is made up of a hamburger with fried potatoes or roast chicken, lettuce
and pickles, fruit and cookies. School lunches must also provide at least one-third of the daily dietary
allowances (定量) of protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, iron, calcium, and calories (卡路里).
Australia
Meat pies, sausage rolls and hotdogs are all traditional dishes in Australian school shops. But as the nation
pays more attention to children"s health, healthier foods have started to find their way onto school menus.
Many schools have used a traffic light system. The sale of red-labelled foods, including pastries, chocolate
and soft drinks, is served only twice a week. Healthier green-labelled foods such as sushi, sandwiches, com
and watermelon, however, are served every day.
In some schools, students have a choice of up t0 89 foods to choose from, including popcorn and rice.
South Africa
Most of South Africa"s schools do not serve meals at all. Classes end at 1:30 p. m. and students get their
own lunches. Many students bring food from home, usually sandwiches.
Fast food and fried food sell the best among students, which has led to a rise in obesity among children.
But as more people began to realize the fact that being too fat may cause different diseases, some schools in
towns have led the way towards better nutrition. Now students at these schools are provided with lunches
of porridge with vegetables, such as cabbages, onions, beans, carrots and tomatoes.
B. Sadness.
C. Nutrition.
D. Overweight.
B. most students in South Africa eat their lunches at home
C. many schools in Australia have traffic lights outside their schools
D. you can have whatever you like in school canteens in Japan
B. Schools should try to satisfy the needs of students.
C. Schools serve different foods from country to country.
D. School children all over the world dislike their school food.
B. Headmasters.
C. Students.
D. Nutritionists.
答案
核心考点
试题【阅读理解。 It seems school children all over the world complain about their schoo】;主要考察你对教育文化类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
According to the study, facial expressions of our feelings are innate and are not achieved in cultural
learning.
This is the first research to show that blind people have the same facial expressions as the sighted
when showing certain feelings-the same facial muscles (肌肉) start working. What"s more, the research
gives the new method of how people control their feelings in certain social situations. It states that people
do not leam to manage their facial expressions by examining the expressions of others.
In his study, David Matsumoto, San Francisco State University Psychology Professor, examined
facial expressions of bhnd and sighted judo athletes (柔员) that took part in the Summer Olympics and
Paralympics (残奥会). He examined over 4 800 pictures of different athletes who came from 23 countries.
Matsumoto found that both blind and sighted sportsmen had the same facial expressions, according to a
specific social situation.
"This suggests genes decide facial expressions of feelings," he said.
One of his findings was the "social smiles" of judo athletes who lost their match and got the second
place. It is interesting to find that only mouth muscles are used in social smiles, while during real smiles,
shown when a person is really happy, the eyes of a person twinkle and get smaller and the cheeks (脸颊)
rise.
"Losers pu8hed their lower lip up as if to control the feeling on their face and many produced social
smiles," said Matsumoto. "People blind from birth were unable to leam to manage their feelings with the
help of examining others" facial expressions." He thought that there must be another system involved.
"It"s possible that in order to hide sad feelings, humans have developed a system that closes the mouth
so that they are stopped from crying, biting or rudeness," he said.
B. from daily life
C. from others
D. from teaching
B. using facial muscles
C. closing the mouth
D. watching others" expressions
B. By interviewing some researchers.
C. By showing the results of the research.
D. By giving the answers to the questions.
B. Blind and Sighted Athletes
C. Social Smiles and Real Smiles
D. Genes and Facial Expressions
not talking about disappearing frogs. I"m talking about absent vowels (元音). I got a message the other day
that said," Mt@ 3rd st crnr@ 12", signed (签字) "BT". What did it mean? A young man in the office told
me that BT meant" beauty" and translated:" A beautiful young woman wants to meet you at the corner of
Third Street at noon."
The following week I was at a private dining club when a Hong Kong banker named David told me he
had met with a man who pronounced his name Choong,but spelt C - H - N - G." There can"t be many names
with no vowels in them," he said. It turned out he was sitting next to a Singaporean doctor named Ng. Vowels
are disappearing at high speed among businesses, too. Ever wondered what happened to Reebok, the
sportswear company? It"s still around but has renamed itself Rbk. Kentucky Fried Chicken became KFC.
I"ve read articles saying that the no-vowels trend (趋向) is caused by companies trying to give their
products the shorthand spelling liked by young people. But a research finds that the real reason is often more
uninteresting. Flickr,one of the busiest websites on the Internet, was set up by people who wanted the name
Flicker but were too careless to register (注册) that word.
Have any readers ever been to a small town in the mountains of California called Zzyzx? A man named
Curtis Howe Springer founded it as a health club and called it Zzyzx because he thought it sounded different.
The business failed. People who looked through lists for somewhere to go never reached it.
Older readers may remember the computer game Zzyzzyzz that appeared in 1982. Fans did not know
how to ask for it. James Gleick"s book Faster has been re-titled FSTR. But the revision is half-hearted with
the main text of the book still having vowels. Why not write the whole book in the simpler way? U cn stll rd
the wtht vwls. On the other hand,just know that vowel-free words can be explained in different ways. One
day I"ll get a message from a BT who may be a beauty. But I"m afraid a bat (蝙蝠) will be out there.
B. to study a new language
C. to correct a new mistake
D. to show a new method
B. here and there
C. present in a place
D. without special purposes
B. It helps us write more quickly.
C. It bringsa lot of fun to people.
D. It causes some trouble in life.
B. He doesn"t mind the matter.
C. He doesn"t think it"s good to do so.
D. He accepts the idea at last.
we are middle-aged, scientists from England and America say. They have studied the information on the
mental (心理的) health of two million people from 80 countries.
In England, the probability of low spirits for men and women reaches the highest point at around 44 years
of age. In America, though, there is a big difference between men and women. Among women, unhappiness
reaches the highest point at around the age of 40, but among men, it is about 50.
But the U-shape of happiness is unchanging around the world, and the mid-life sadness happens regardless
of marital status (婚姻状况), changes in jobs or pay. It happens to men and women, to single and married
people, to rich and poor, and to those with and without children.
One possibility may be that people realize many of their dreams won"t come true at middle age. The
researchers said another reason could be that seeing their middle- aged friends die one by one, people begin to
value their own remaining years and their Iove of the nature and long for peaceful and free life once more.
But the good news is that if people make it to aged 70 and are still physically fit, they are on average (平均)
as happy as a 20-year-old person. For the average people in the modem world, the fall in mental health and
happiness doesn"t come on suddenly in a single year. Only in their fifties do people get out of this low period.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
2. Where are the scientists in the passage from?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
3. When does the unhappiness reach the highest point among men in America, at the age of 40 or about 50?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
4. What is the good news for a 70-year-old healthy man?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
5. How will a teenager feel in his future life according to the passage?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
its gr8.
Can you understand this sentence? If you can"t, don"t feel too bad: neither could the middle school teacher
in England who received this as homework. This is Netspeak: the language of computerized communication
found on Internet or cellphones. To newcomers, it can look like a completely foreign language.So, what is
the "translation" of the sentence above? My summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we
used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend, and their three screaming kids face to face. I love
New York; it"s great.
Schoolteachers and parents say this new form of writing is harming (破坏)the English language.
Increasing spelling and grammatical mistakes can be seen in students" writing. They fear the language could
become corrupted (面目全非的).
Everyone should just relax, say linguists (语言学家). They believe Netspeak is in fact more of a good
thing. David Crystal, from the University of Wales, argues that Netspeak and Internet create a new language
use and the almost lost art of diary writing has been picked up again. Geoffrey Nunberg, from Stanford
University, agrees."People get better at writing by writing," he says, "Kids who are now doing text messaging,
e-mail, and instant messages will write at least as well as, and possibly better than, their parents."
Linguist James Millroy says, for centuries, it is believed without exception that young people are harming
the language. And you can bet your bottom dollar that when today"s teenagers become tomorrow"s parents,
they too will think this way. Milroy argues that languages do not and cannot become"corrupted"; they simply
change to meet the new needs.
However, Netspeakers do agree that it is important to teach young people how to speak and write Standard
English. Cynthia McVey says, "I can understand Netspeak worries teachers and it"s important that they get
across to their pupils that text messaging is for fun, but that learning to write proper English is a must for their
future."
Perhaps we should give teenagers a little more trust anyway. Erin, age 12, says, "I wouldn"t use text
language in my homework. Texting is just for fun"
B. To show an example of creative methods.
C. To express worries about using Netspeak.
D. To lead in the topic of Netspeak.
B. Geoffrey Nunberg believes Netspeakers can write Standard English.
C. David Crystal thinks Netspeak helps develop the habit of writing.
D. James Milroy says that language is changing and improving.
B. be greatly surprised
C. think it a pity
D. find it interesting
B. Is Netspeak Harming the English Language?
C. Is Netspeak Helpful in Language Learning?
D. Netspeak: Advantages and Disadvantages
suffer when we try to get by with too little shuteye. So it"s fortunate that our bodies do such a good job
of waming us when it"s time to hit the sack.
Like humans, other animals also take time out to rest. You"ve probably seen a lion dozing at the zoo,
or maybe watched our dog snooze away lying in its bed. In fact, sleep is a necessity for every animal that"s
ever been studied.
How long animals sleep, though, varies widely. Elephants and giraffes sleep only about 2 to 4 hours a
day, while bats may nod off for up to 20 hours. Ducks sleep together, and the birds on the edge of the group
sleep with the outside eye open and half of their brain awake-probably to keep watch while the other half of
their brain snoozes. Some birds may even sleep while flying. The fact that all animals make time for sleeping,
even under very dangerous situations, suggests that sleep is very important. And indeed, some facts suggest
that sleep is important for leaming and forming permanent memories.
But sleep may also be primarily a way for animals to save energy and stay out of harm. This may help
explain why meat-eating creatures sleep more than herbivores, which are animals that live only on plants.
Herbivores, like cows and zebras, need to spend more time searching for and grazing on food than meat eaters
do, such as lions and other big cats. So a big cat might be better off sleeping for a while after it eats, rather
than prowling around and risking injury.
But that"s just a guess. Scientists need to study other animals as well before they can fully understand the
benefits (好处) of sleep and know which benefits are most important for a particular species (物种).
One thing is certain: enough sleep is important to health and learning. So give in when a strong wish to
sleep hits, and catch plenty of ZZZs.
B. to drink something
C. to get up
D. to go to sleep
B. if you want to sleep in class, fall asleep immediately
C. you are easy to give in if you have plenty of sleep
D. if you have a strong wish to sleep, you are perhaps ill
B. how animals sleep in the open air
C. why animals need sleep
D. when animals feel sleepy
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