warned recently.
Psychotherapist (采用精神疗法的医生) Andreas Herter estimated that there were some 380,000
sufferers in Germany. Herter based his prediction (预测) on the growing number of manic mobile phone
users among patients arriving at his Hanover clinic (诊所) for addiction treatment.
"Text message addiction is a real and serious illness because it causes mental and financial damage,"
said Herter. "The problem leads to depression and personality disorders, not to mention skyrocketing
(飞涨的) phone bills."
For example, a teenage boy spent 8,900 euros (US$11,000) texting people he didn"t even know and
a married couple could only communicate by text message, even when they were sitting side by side.
B. text messaging has many advantages
C. overusing text message does great harm
D. text messaging does no good
B. easy to deal with
C. unreasonable
D. worrying
B. they care about nothing else but text message
C. sending text message is their only hobby
D. they are very rich
ABOUT LIPITOR Lipitor is a prescription medicine. Along with diet and exercise, it lowers "bad" cholesterol (胆固醇) in your blood. It can also raise "good" cholesterol. Lipitor can lower the risk of heart attack in patients with several common risk factors, including family history of early heart disease, high blood pressure, age and smoking. |
WHO IS LIPITOR FOR? Who can take LIPITOR: · People who cannot lower their cholesterol enough with diet and exercise · Adults and children over l0 Who should NOT take LIPITOR: · Women who are pregnant, may be pregnant, or may become pregnant. Lipitor may harm your unborn baby. · Women who are breast-feeding.Lipitor can pass into your breast milk and may harm your baby. · People with liver (肝脏) problems |
POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS OF LIPITOR Serious side effects in a small number of people: ·Muscle (肌肉) problems that can lead to kidney (肾脏) problems, including kidney failure ·Liver problems. Your doctor may do blood tests to check your liver before you start Lipitor and while you are taking it. Call your doctor right away if you have: ·Unexplained muscle pain or weakness, especially if you have a fever or feel very tired ·Swelling of the face, lips, tongue, and/or throat that may cause difficulty in breathing or swallowing · Stomach pain Some common side effects of LIPITOR are: · Muscle pain · Upset stomach · Changes in some blood tests |
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[1]One of many important things for the whole family to do is to have dinner together. Researchers began reporting the benefits of family dinner about a decade ago, focusing mainly on how it affects children. Studies show that those families who eat dinner at least 3 or 4 times a week together, benefit in many ways. [2]Eating together helps families achieve open communication and build stronger and healthier relationships. Children have better grades at school and are better adjusted as teens and adults, and the entire family enjoys healthier nutrition. For many families, eating dinner together proves to be a good and effective way to reduce the risk of youth rates of addiction, and helps to raise healthier children. It is also a great time to share the events of the day, discuss news and ideas or just be together and enjoy each other"s company. [3]During dinner time parents have better opportunity to show that they are the prior to their children. Sitting at the same table and sharing meals is where and when parents can find out more about their children"s school performance, daily activities and attitudes toward life. When parents have all this information they can better direct their kids toward positive things in life. They also have better chance to reduce the possibility that children will get involved with alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs. [4]However, family researchers say that the benefits of family dinner by no means can be considered as automatic. Parents can sit down to dinner with their kids every day and achieve nothing. __________________ __ if there is too much arguing going on, if there is no meaningful conversation or, what is even worse, if there is just plain silence during gathering. |
1. What is the main idea of the text? (no more than 8 words) ________________________________________________________________ 2. Which sentence in the text is closest in meaning to the following one? By having dinner together family members can have free exchange of information and develop closer ties among them. ________________________________________________________________ 3. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words. (no more than 8 words) ________________________________________________________________ 4. What information can parents probably get about their children at family dinner? (no more than 12 words) ________________________________________________________________ 5. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 into Chinese. _______________________________________________________________ |
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Paragraph 1 Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of food people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds. (2) citrus (柑桔) fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables; (4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal (谷类), rice is also in this kind of food; (7) butter, or something like butter. Paragraph 2 People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn"t matter whether foods are eaten raw (生的) or cooked, canned or frozen. It doesn"t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o"clock in the afternoon or at eleven o"clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day. Paragraph 3 There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on earth. The first is to find some ways to feed the world"s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy. |
1. According to the scientists, which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your lunch? |
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A. chicken, apples, cereal, cabbages B. potatoes, carrots, rice, bread C. oranges, bananas, fish, tomatoes D. beef, pork, fish, milk |
2. It is important for people to eat _____. |
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A. three times a day B. dinner at the right time C. cooked food all the day D. something from each of the seven kinds of food every day |
3. Which of the following is NOT true? |
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A. People in some places don"t have enough to eat. B. There are too many people in the world. C. One of the problems is that no one is hungry. D. The scientists are trying to make people grow to be strong and healthy. |
4. If there is Paragraph 4, what do you think is going to be talked about? |
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A. When people should eat B. What to do with the two problems C. How to cook food in different ways D. Why people eat different kinds of food |
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Do you love holidays but hate the increase weight that follows? You are not alone. |
1. Holidays are happy days with pleasure but they may _____. |
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A. bring you much trouble in your life B. bring weight problems C. make you worried about your foods D. make you hate delicious foods |
2. In order to really enjoy your holidays without putting on weight, you"d better _____. |
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A. not eat the food in high fat B. drink much water and have vegetables only C. not accept invitations to feasts D. turn away from delicious foods |
3. According to the passage, _____ is a necessary part to stop you from putting on weight. |
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A. vegetables B. water C. calories of energy D. physical exercise |
4. Excess calories can be found in your body in the form of _____. |
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A. energy B. fat C. food D. something invisible (看不见) |
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A new computer treatment is being used to deal with obesity in children. Connected to a small dining set, consisting of (包括) scales and a plate, a mini computer teaches children how to eat and reminds them when to stop. "In very fat people, hunger signals from the stomach to the brain stop functioning. But the new computer system teaches the children how to receive these messages again," says Dr. Julian Hamilton-Shield, the Bristol University senior lecturer leading the treatment trials.(实验). The computer, called a Mandometer, records and stores the weight loss from the plate when children eat. As the food is leaving the plate, a curve (曲线) is produced on the computer screen suggesting whether the child is eating too quickly. "Children with weight problems often eat too quickly. We want them to eat steadily (稳定地) and slowly and the system teaches them to slow down. It"s a bit like retraining," says Hamilton-Shield. Obesity now represents (代表) one of the major threats to the future health of children. About one in five boys and one in four girls aged two to fifteen in England are overweight. But so far no treatments have proven effective in treating children. The Mandometer was developed in Sweden, but at present is experiencing further development at the University of Bristol, with $ 224,400 in funds from BUPA-a global health and care organization. The system could be on the market in two years" time. At first, it would be managed by medical clinics (诊所). |
1. The text is mainly written to explain ______. |
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A. how a new computer treatment dealing with obesity works B. why child obesity becomes a topic of people C. how to lose weight with the help of computers D. why a computer is effective (有效的) in dealing with child obesity |
2. The word "functioning" in paragraph 3 probably means ______. |
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A. eating B. working C. lasting D. losing |
3. Obesity threatens the health of children, which ______. |
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A. people have not cared about B. is nothing compared with other diseases C. has led to many deaths D. is very serious |
4. What can we learn from the text? |
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A. The Mandometer will be put into market once it proves effective. B. The Mandometer is cheap enough for every family to afford. C. The Mandometer is still not perfect. D. Slow eating is sure to make people lose weight. |