Why do Americans struggle with watching their weight, while the French, who consume rich food, continue to stay thin? Now a research by Cornell University suggests how life style and decisions about eating may affect weight. Researchers concluded that the French tend to stop eating when they feel full. However, Americans tend to stop when their plate is empty or their favorite TV show is over.
According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, a health expert, the French see eating as an important part of their life style. They enjoy food and therefore spend a fairly long time at the table, while Americans see eating as something to be squeezed between the other daily activities. Mercola believes Americans lose the ability to sense when they are actually full. So they keep eating long after the French would have stopped. In addition, he points out that Americans drive to huge supermarkets to buy canned and frozen foods for the week. The French, instead, tend to shop daily, walking to small shops and farmers’ markets where they have a choice of fresh fruits, vegetables, and eggs as well as high-quality meats for each meal.
After a visit to the United States, Mireille Guiliano, author of French Women Don’t Get Fat, decided to write about the importance of knowing when to stop rather than suggesting how to avoid food. Today she continues to stay slim and rarely goes to the gym.
In spite of all these differences, evidence shows that recent life style changes may be affecting French eating habits. Today the rate of obesity — or extreme overweight — among adults is only 6%. However, as American fast food gains acceptance and the young reject older traditions, the obesity rate among French children has reached 17% — and is growing.
1. In what way are the French different from Americans according to Dr. Joseph Mercola?
A. They go shopping at supermarkets more frequently.
B. They squeeze eating between the other daily activities.
C. They usually eat too much canned and frozen food.
D. They regard eating as a key part of their lifestyles.
2. This text is mainly the relationship between _________.
A. Americans and the French B. life style and obesity
C. children and adults D. fast food and overweight
3. The text is mainly developed __________.
A. by space B. by process
C. by contrast D. by classification
4.here does this text probably come from?
A. A TV interview B. A food advertisement
C. A book review D. A health report
When I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines, Iowa, he told me about the only time he had been there. It was in the 1930s, when he was an editor of the literary magazine of Southern Methodist University（SMU）in Dallas, Texas. He also worked as a professor at SMU, and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease. She couldn’t afford the operation because her family was poor.
Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston, a seaside town near Houston, Texas. She was cleaning out the attic（阁楼）one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript（手稿）. On its top page were the words, “By O. Henry”. It was a nice story, and she sent it to her daughter at SMU, who showed it to my father. My father had never read the story before, but it sounded like O. Henry, and he knew that O. Henry had once lived in Houston. So it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Galveston boardinghouse, and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident. My father visited an O. Henry expert at Columbia University in New York, who authenticated the story as O. Henry’s.
My father then set out to sell it. Eventually, he found himself in Des Moines, meeting with Gardner Cowles, a top editor at the Des Moines Register. Cowles loves the story and bought it on the spot. My father took the money to the girl. It was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed.
My father never told me what the O. Henry story was about. But I doubt that it could have been better than his own story.
1.Who found the O. Henry’s manuscript?
A. The author. B. The author’s father.
C. The girl. D.The girl’s mother
2.Which of the following might explain the fact that the manuscript was found in the attic?
A. O. Henry once worked in Houston.
B. O. Henry once stayed in Galveston.
C. O. Henry once moved to Des Moines.
D. O. Henry once taught at SMU.
3. The underlined word “authenticated” in Paragraph 2 probably means __________.
A. named B. treated
C. proved D. described
4. According to the text, why did the author’s father go to Des Moines?
A. To meet the author himself.
B. To sell the O. Henry story.
C. To talk with the O. Henry expert.
D. To give money to the girl.
Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.
During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.
He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.
Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can（垃圾桶）that had been left out on the footpath.
My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents（文件）. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.
That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.
1. What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney?
A. Go shopping B. Take his family
C. Join his family D. Find a house
2. The girl’s parents got Rashid’s phone number from_______.
A. a friend of his family B. a Sydney policeman
C. a letter in his papers D. a stranger in Sydney
3..What does the underlined word “restored” in the last paragraph mean?
A. Showed B. Gave back
C. Delivered D. Sent out
4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. Turning Trash to Treasure.. B. Living in a New Country.
C. From India to Australia D. In Search of New Friends.
在繁重的课业负担之下，中学生也应该学会适度地自我放松。请你围绕“Ways to get relaxed”这一话题，按照下列要点写一篇100词左右的英语短文：
1．自我放松的途径：看电视、体育锻炼、上网等；
2．我更喜欢的途径及理由。
注意：1.在表达“我更喜欢的途径及理由”时，请从要点1中选择一项进行阐述；
2．文章开头已给出，不计入总词数。
There are various ways to get relaxed for middle school students._______________________________________________________________
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短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)
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(∧)，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。
(试题内容如下)
My parents have decided to take me to pay visit to Britain. I am excited，hope to make good use of this opportunity. Firstly，I will talk to native speaker as much as I can improve my English. Secondly，there are many attractions that interested me a lot，among which is Big Ben. Besides，football，that is popular in England，is my favorite sport. I have been dreaming of watching a live football match there but now the dream will come true. My friend Alice lives in London. I will probable meet with her. However I do，I am sure I will have a good time.
There are moments in life 1. you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug (拥抱) them for real.
When the door of happiness closes, 2.opens, but often we look so long at the closed door 3. we don’t see the one which has been opened for us.
Don’t go for looks; they can deceive(欺骗）.Don’t go for wealth; even that fades(消退）away. Go for someone 4. makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day bright.
Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be 5. you want to be.
The 6. (happy) of people don’t 7. (necessary)have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that 8. (come)along their way. The brightest future will always be based 9. a forgotten past.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone 10. you was smiling.
