The Healthy Habits Survey(调查)shows that only about one third of American seniors have correct habits. Here are some findings and expert advice.
1. How many times did you brush your teeth yesterday?
Finding:A full 33% of seniors brush their teeth only once a day.
Step:Remove the 300 types of bacteria in your mouth each morning with a battery-operated toothbrush. Brush gently for 2 minutes, at least twice a day.
2. How many times did you wash your hands or bathe yesterday?
Finding:Seniors, on average, bathe fewer than 3 days a week. And nearly 30%wash their hands only 4 times a day-half of the number doctors recommend.
Step:We touch our faces around 3,000 times a day-often inviting germs(病菌)to enter our mouth, nose, and eyes. Use toilet paper to avoid touching the door handle. And, most important, wash your hands often with hot running water and soap for 20 seconds.
3. How often do you think about fighting germs?
Finding:Seniors are not fighting germs as well as they should.
Step:Be aware of germs. Do you know it is not your toilet but your kitchen sponge(海绵)that can carry more germs than anything else? To kill these germs, keep your sponge in the microwave for 10 seconds.
1.What is found out American seniors?
A. Most of them have good habits.
B. Nearly 30% of them bathe three days a week .
C. All of them are fighting germs better than expected .
D. About one third of them brush their teeth only once a day
2.Which of the following is true according to the text ?
A. We should keep from touching our faces.
B. There are less than 300 types of bacteria in the mouth .
C. A kitchen sponge can carry more germs than a toilet .
D. We should wash our hands before touching a door handle .
3.The text probably comes from .
A. a guide book
B. a popular magazine
C. a book review
D. an official document
根据提示,请以以下内容,写一篇短文向一位新生Mary介绍你们学校的规章制度。内容包括:
1. 上课不能迟到。
2. 教室要保持(keep)干净和安静。
3. 见到老师要问好。(greet)
4. 不允许在教室里吃东西。
5. 不许在课堂上听音乐,玩游戏。
6. 不要损害花草树木。(pick flowers; climb trees)
短文改错
Dear Mary,
I receive your E-mail just now. Don’t worry about me. I’m getting on well with my research work in the lab. But to my greatly surprise you say you will give up learn English. The reason is because you have not done well in it recently and you have lost interests. I’m afraid I couldn’t agree with you. I know it is difficulty to learn English, and English is widely used in the world today. It will be important tool in our future work. Beside, it is becoming more and more important in our daily life. If you study hard, you will be succeed. Do remember that where there is a will, there is a way. I’ m looking forward to hearing good news from you.
Yours
Li Hua
One morning Wangpeng sat in his empty restaurant feeling very frustrated and 1. (know) why there were no customers in his restaurant. Suddenly he saw his friend 2. (hurry) by. To figure out why Li Chang wasn’t coming to eat in his restaurant just 3. he always did, he followed him to a small new restaurant. 4. (curious) drove him inside. There Wangpeng met Yonghui, the owner of the new restaurant, whose diet was mainly slimming food to help people lose weight and be fit in a short time. After his research, Wangpeng discovered the weaknesses and 5. (strong) of the diets both in his and Yonghui’s restaurants. 6. (drive) back home, Wangpeng rewrote his sign. The competition between them was 7. .
A few weeks later, Wangpeng and Yonghui met again in his restaurant. Instead of 8.(quarrel) with each other, they combined their ideas and provided a 9. (balance) menu with food full of energy and fibre. Finally they got 10. (marry) and lived happily.
One day an ant was drinking at a small stream and fell in. She made desperate efforts to reach the side, but made no progress at all. The poor ant almost exhausted was still bravely doing her best when a dove saw her. Moved with pity, the bird threw her a blade of grass, which supported her like a raft, and thus the ant reached the bank again. While she was resting and drying herself in the grass, she heard a man come near. He was walking along barefooted with a gun in his hand. As soon as he saw the dove, he wished to kill it. He would certainly have done so, but the ant bit him in the foot just as he raised his gun to fire. He stopped to see what had bit him, and the dove immediately flew away. It was an animal much weaker and smaller than herself that had saved her life.
1.The ant could not reach the side though ________.
A. she could smell well
B. she asked the dove to save her
C. she tried very hard
D. she cried for help
2.The dove saved the ant because ________.
A. she was the ant's friend
B. she took pity on the poor ant
C. the ant was almost exhausted
D. the ant had been struggled in the water for a long time
3.The ant succeeded in getting on the bank with the help of ________.
A. a leafB. a piece of wood
C. a blade of grassD. a raft
4.Just as the man shot at the dove, ________.
A. the dove immediately flew away
B. the dove hid himself in the grass
C. the ant told the dove to leave at once
D. he felt something biting him in the foot
5.In writing the story, the writer wants to show ________.
A. how kind the dove was
B. how clever the ant was
C. how the ant and the dove helped each other
D. we often need help from others, therefore we should help others as much as we can
An old lady in a plane had a blanket(毯子)over her head and she did not want to take it off. The air hostess spoke to her, but the old lady said, “I have never been in a plane before, and I am frightened. I am going to keep this blanket over my head until we are back on the ground again!”
Then the captain came. He said, “Madam, I am the captain of this plane. The weather is fine, there are no clouds in the sky, and everything is going very well. ”But she continued to hide.
So the captain turned and started to go back. Then the old lady looked out from under the blanket with one eye and said, “I am sorry, young man, but I don’t like planes and I am never going to fly again. But I’ll say one thing, ”She continued kindly, “You and your wife keep your plane very clean!”
1.An old lady had _________.
A. glassesB. a blanket over her head
C. a coatD. a basket
2.She didn’t want to ________.
A. turn it offB. take it off
C. talk about itD. get it on
3._________ spoke to her.
A. Her husbandB. One of her friends
C. The air hostessD. The man next to her
4.The old lady had never been _________ before.
A. abroadB. in hospitalC. in a planeD. home
5.The woman didn’t like planes and she was never going ________.
A. to fly againB. to travel
C. to go abroadD. to go home