When I was a boy, every holiday that I had seemed wonderful. My parents took me by train or by car to a hotel by the _______. All day, I seem to remember, I _______ on the sands with strange _______ children. We made houses and gardens, and _______ the tide(潮汐) destroy them. When the tide went out, we _______ over the rocks and looked down at the fish in the rock-pools.
In those days the sun seemed to shine always brightly and the water was always warm. Sometimes we _______ beach and walked in the country, exploring(搜寻) broken houses and dark woods and climbing trees. There were _______ in one’s pockets or good places where one could _______ ice creams. Each day seemed a life-time.
Although I am now thirty-five years old, my idea of a good _______ is much the same as it was. I ________ like the sun and warm sand and the sound of waves beating the rocks. I no longer wish to ________ any sand house or sand garden, and I dislike sweets. __________, I love the sea and often feel sand running through my fingers.
Sometimes I wonder what my ideal(理想的) holiday will be like when I am ________. All I want to do then, perhaps, will be to lie in bed, reading books about ________ who make houses and gardens with sands, who watch the incoming tide, who make themselves __________ on too many ice creams.
1.A.sea B.lake C.mountain D.river
2.A.played B.slept C.sat D.stood
3.A.moving B.excited C.anxious D.nervous
4.A.made B.brought C.watched D.heard
5.A.collected B.jumped C.turned D.climbed
6.A.left B.came to C.stood by D.played by
7.A.sweets B.sand C.ice-creams D.money
8.A.make B.sell C.buy D.offer
9.A.house B.holiday C.garden D.tide
10.A.hardly B.almost C.still D.perhaps
11.A.destroy B.fix C.use D.build
12.A.But B.However C.Otherwise D.Besides
13.A.strong B.weak C.young D.old
14.A.children B.boys C.girls D.grown-ups
15.A.happy B.tired C.sad D.sick
Nowadays, more and more people are in poor health. If we want to keep healthy, we should have a good 1.( eat) habit.
First, we should have2. balanced diet(平衡饮食). It means we should have 3.(difference) kinds of healthy food. We should eat not only meat 4. also vegetables. It’s a pity that 5. vegetables have a lot of nutrition(营养) 6. are very good for our health, too many children push them away from the table. As a result, more and more fat children 7.(see) around us.
Second, we'd better 8.(eat) regular meals. We need to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, because regular meals throughout the day can give us enough energy to carry out our 9.(day) activities.
Third, we should get away from fast food, for it may cause a lot of diseases.
If you want to have a good-looking and strong body, let’s eat 10.(health).
I feel lucky that I live in the modern age. People are 1.(富有的) and live longer than in the past. We know how to deal with the 2.(普通的) diseases, so we have less 3.(害怕) of getting ill. And we have more 4.(空闲的) time to have good fun. The role of women has also 5.(改变). They can get a good education and have good jobs like men.
But more 6.(财富) sometimes means less health. Because transport and travel are 7.(更容易的), people 8.(很少) walk and they don’t exercise as much as they 9. to(过去常常). When there is a lot of traffic, the pollution is also 10.(使加倍), or even worse. Luckily, our people and our government are taking steps to make the situation better.
He practiced English every chance he could catch. So now he can speak English _______ local Americans.
A.so good as B.as well as C.as good as D.so well as
Bruce ______ watches TV or listens to the radio, so he knows nothing about it.
A.seldom B.sometimes C.usually D.often
In order to keep healthy, we should eat ______ vegetables and ______ meat.
A.more, more B.fewer, more C.more, less D.more, fewer
