星光中学(Xingguang High School)近期举行了一次登山活动。假定你是学校英语报记者，请写一篇短文，报道此次活动。内容包括：
1.时间与地点：4月10日，大青山(Daqing Mountain)；
2.活动的过程；
3.你对于这次活动的评论。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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In much of Asia, especially the so-called"rice bowl" cultures of China, Japan, Korea,1. Vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks.
Chopsticks are usually two long, thin pieces of wood or bamboo. They can also be made of plastic, animal bone or metal. Sometimes chopsticks are quite artistic. Truly elegant chopsticks might2.(make) of gold and silver with Chinese characters. Skilled workers also combine various hardwoods and metal3.create) special designs.
The Chinese have used chopsticks for five thousand years. People probably cooked their food in large pots, 4.(use) twigs(树枝) to remove it. Over time, 5. the population grew, people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly. Food in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which 6.( gradual) turned into chopsticks.
Some people think that the great Chinese scholar Confucius,7.lived from roughly 551 to 479 B.C. , influenced the 8.develop) of chopsticks. Confucius believed knives would remind people of killings and9.(be) too violent for use at the table.
Chopsticks are not used everywhere in Asia. In India, for example, most people traditionally eat10. their hands.
Alice was very worried about her dad. For some time now she had noticed he was ______ his hair. One day, she asked him, “Daddy, every day you have less hair. ______ is that?” Her father smiled and said, “It’s the hair thief. He visits my head during the night when I’m ______. One by one he ______ out my hair, as much as he likes.”
This worried Alice but she was ______ to help her father. That very night she stayed ______ as long as she could. When she was ______ her dad and mom had fallen asleep, she took a hammer and went straight to their bedroom. She walked carefully in order not to make any ______. She didn’t want the hair thief to hear her. Then she began carefully ______ her father’s head. When she arrived at her father’s side, she began looking at his head, ______ to catch the hair thief as soon as he appeared. Before long, she saw a shadow on it and ______ all her strength, she swung the hammer down.
Thwack! Her father ______a loud cry. The lump(肿块) on his head was big and growing. ______ with shock, he turned the light on and saw Alice waving her hammer in the ______ with her hands. “Daddy, I ______ got him. I thought I ______ him, but it looks like he escaped!” said Alice. At the same time, the mother woke up. She ______laughing when she knew what had happened.
So Alice’s father had to ______to her that the hair thief didn’t exist, and that losing hair is something that just happens ______ to most daddies. And Alice still worried about her daddy, but she no longer waited for the hair thief. ______ , she bought her daddy a very nice sleeping hat.
1.A. checking B. losing C. touching D. protecting
2.A. How B. Where C. What D. Why
3.A. asleep B. tired C. sad D. careless
4.A. pushes B. makes C. pulls D. gets
5.A. energetic B. determined C. fundamental D. terrified
6.A. awake B. busy C. excited D. hungry
7.A. glad B. sorry C. worried D. certain
8.A. news B. noise C. experience D. mistake
9.A. questioning B. testing C. inspecting D. considering
10.A. trying B. tried C. managing D. managed
11.A. in B. by C. with D. of
12.A. carried out B. let out C. thought out D. gave out
13.A. Trembling B. Laughing C. Puzzling D. Glaring
14.A. middle B. hair C. air D. box
15.A. still B. hardly C. never D. almost
16.A. hit B. killed C. scared D. moved
17.A. burst out B. burst into C. pulled out D. turned into
18.A. write B. lie C. explain D. shout
19.A. mysterious B. unbelievable C. approximately D. naturally
20.A. Instead B. Usually C. Sadly D. Anyway
What Is Emotional Eating?
Emotional eating is when people use food as a way to deal with feelings instead of satisfying hunger.1.Have you ever finished a whole bag of chips out of boredom or downed cookie after cookie while preparing for a big test? But when done a lot — especially without realizing it — emotional eating can affect weight, health, and overall well-being.
Not many of us make the connection between eating and our feelings.
2.One of the biggest myths about emotional eating is that it’s caused by negative feelings. Yes, people often turn to food when they’re stressed out, lonely, sad, anxious, or bored. But emotional eating can be linked to positive feelings too, like the romance of sharing dessert on Valentine’s Day or the celebration of a holiday feast. Sometimes emotional eating is tied to major life events, like a death or a divorce. 3.
Emotional eating patterns can be learned: A child who is given candy after a big achievement may grow up using candy as a reward for a job well done. 4.It’s not easy to “unlearn” patterns of emotional eating. But it is possible. And it starts with an awareness of what’s going on.
We’re all emotional eaters to a degree. But for some people emotional eating can be a real problem, causing serious weight gain or other problems. The trouble with emotional eating is that once the pleasure of eating is gone, the feelings that cause it remain. 5.That’s why it helps to know the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger.
Next time you reach for a snack, wait and think about which type of hunger is driving it.
A. Believe it or not, we’ve all been there.
B. If a crying boy gets some cookies, he may link cookies with comfort.
C. One study found that people who eat food like pizza become happy afterwards.
D. And you often may feel worse about eating the amount or type of food you like.
E. Understanding what drives emotional eating can help people take steps to change it.
F. Boys seem to prefer hot, homemade comfort meals, while girls go for chocolate and ice cream.
G. More often, though, it’s the countless little daily stresses that cause someone to seek comfort in food.
Scientists today are making greater effort to study ocean currents (洋流) . Most do it using satellites and other high-tech equipment. However, ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special way -- by studying movements of random floating garbage. A scientist with many years’ experience, he started this type of research in the early 1990s when he heard about hundreds of athletic shoes washing up on the shores of the northwest coast of the United States. There were so many shoes that people were setting up swap meets to try and match left and right shoes to sell or wear.
Ebbesmeyer found out in his researches that the shoes — about 60,000 in total — fell into the ocean in a shipping accident. He phoned the shoe company and asked if they wanted the shoes back. As expected, the company told him that they didn't. Ebbesmeyer realized this could be a great experiment. If he learned when and where the shoes went into the water and tracked where they landed, he could learn a lot about the patterns of ocean currents.
The Pacific Northwest is one of the world's best areas for beachcombing(海滩搜寻) because winds and currents join here, and as a result, there is a group of serious beachcombers in the area. Ebbesmeyer got to know a lot of them and asked for their help in collecting information about where the shoes landed. In a year he collected reliable information on 1, 600 shoes. With this data, he and a colleague were able to test and improve a computer program designed to model ocean currents, and publish the findings of their study.
As the result of his work, Ebbesmeyer has become known as the scientist to call with questions about any unusual objects found floating in the ocean. He has even started an association of beachcombers and ocean experts, with 500 subscribers from West Africa to New Zealand. They have recorded all lost objects ranging from potatoes to golf gloves.
1.Ebbesmeyer phoned the shoe company to find out _____________.
A. what caused the shipping accident
B. when and where the shoes went missing
C. whether it was all right to use their shoes
D. how much they lost in the shipping accident
2.How did Ebbesmeyer prove his assumption?
A. By collecting information from beachcombers.
B. By studying the shoes found by beachcomber.
C. By searching the web for ocean currents models.
D. By researching ocean currents data in the library.
3.Ebbesmeyer is most famous for ___________________.
A. traveling widely the coastal cities of the world
B. making records for any lost objects on the sea
C. running a global currents research association
D. phoning about any doubtful objects on the sea
4.What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?
A. To call people's attention to ocean pollution.
B. To warn people of shipping safety in the ocean.
C. To explain a unique way of studying ocean currents.
D. To give tips on how to search for lost objects on the beach.
First published in 2001, the book Life of Pi written by Canadian author Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize and an Asian American Prize for Literature. It is the story of a young boy named Pi who spends 227 days at sea with a small group of animals after disaster strikes their ship and is an account of his journey of survival and hardship.
Piscine “Pi” Molitor Patel, on whom Life of Pi is based, is a young boy living in Pondicherry, India, where his father owns a zoo. The story starts when Patel’s family decide to move to Canada, along with their zoo animals for their new home.
However, because of the bad weather, the ship sinks. Pi along with an orangutan (猩猩), an injured zebra, a hyena (鬣狗) and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker are the only survivors who take shelter in a small lifeboat. Both the injured zebra and the orangutan are soon killed and eaten by the hyena. The tiger in turn kills and eats the hyena, leaving just the two of them alone on the boat now.
In an effort to avoid being eaten by Richard Parker, Pi acts himself as the head of the group and remains safe from harm. Since he does not want the tiger to die for fear of going mad by being alone on the boat, he fishes and feeds the two of them in order to stay alive.
The life of Pi then enters its third stage when their lifeboat washes up on the shores of Mexico and the tiger escapes into a nearby forest leaving Pi alone. After the Mexicans refuse to believe Pi’s story, he changes his tale by replacing the animals with his mother, a cook and a sailor and asks the Mexicans which one they prefer. They prefer hearing the first story though they do not believe a word of it.
In my view, Life of Pi is a must read book for all those who love reading.
1.We can learn that the book Life of Pi _____.
A. was written in 2001
B. was awarded two prizes
C. tells a story about friendship
D. is based on the author’s personal experience
2. In the book Life of Pi the hyena is killed by _____.
A. Pi
B. the zebra
C. the orangutan
D. Richard Parker
3. How does Pi escape being eaten by the tiger?
A. By catching fishes for the tiger.
B. By locking the tiger in a cage.
C. By being the leader of the two of them.
D. By fighting with the tiger.
4. What happens after Pi arrives in Mexico?
A. The tiger dies.
B. He tries to escape.
C. The Mexicans feel sorry for him.
D. The Mexicans doubt his experience.
