A HALF - EMPTY BASKET
Once there was a poor farmer and his farm belonged to a rich man. One day he brought a basket of apples to the rich man’s house. On the doorsteps, he met two monkeys dressed like children. They jumped onto the basket to eat the apples and threw some on the ground. The farmer politely took off his hat and asked the monkeys to get off. They obeyed(服从) and the farmer went into the house. He asked to see the rich man. A servant took him to the room where the rich man was sitting.
"I have brought you the basket of apples you asked for," he said.
"But why have you brought a half-empty basket?" the rich man asked.
"I met your children outside, and they stole some of the apples."
1.Why did the farmer bring apples to the rich man? Because ___________
A. he was poor B. he liked the rich man
C. his farm belonged to the rich man D. the rich man’s children liked apples
2.What did the monkeys do when the farmer was on the doorsteps?
A. They jumped and jumped. B. They played.
C. They ran away. D. They ate some of the apples
3.The monkeys left the basket because ___________
A. they had thrown apples on the ground B. the farmer had politely asked them to get off
C. they were afraid of the hat D. the farmer was angry with them
4.How did the rich man feel when he saw the basket? He felt ________.
A. unhappy B. pleased
C. excited D. moved
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Children have their own rules in playing games. They don't care much about 1. wins or loses, and they don't seem to worry whether the game 2. (finish) or not when they leave.
Yet, they like games that depend a lot on luck, so that their personal abilities cannot be 3.(direct) compared. They also enjoy games that move in stages in 4. each stage, the choosing of leaders, the picking-up of sides, or the determining of which side 5. (start) is almost a game in itself.
Grown-ups can hardly find children’s game exciting, and they often feel 6.(puzzle) at why their kids play such a simple game again and again.
However, it is found 7. a child plays games for very important reasons. He can find 8. (he) being a useful partner to someone of whom he is ordinarily afraid. He can become a leader and give 9.(order) when it comes to his turn. In some games, he can pretend to be dead or to kiss someone he has caught. 10. appears to us that when children play a game they imagine a situation under their control.
In the long history of about 5,000 years, numerous Chinese traditional festivals were celebrated as the memory of gods or some significant days, some of which are passed down from generation to generation and people always practice special traditional activities in each festival,
Qingming Festival
Qingming Festival is on the 15th day after Spring Equinox (春分), round April 4 or April 5 every year. 1., They remove the weeds growing on the ancestors* tomb to make them clean, so this festival is also called Tomb-sweeping Festival. In some areas, people are forbidden to use the fire to cook the food, so they only eat the cool food. Thus, it is also named Hanshi Festival.
Double Ninth Festival
2.The Chinese character of September is the same as 9, so we get this special name. Chinese people, especially the north Chinese，climb the mountains to the peak to enjoy the wonderful perspective, and admire the beauty of chrysanthemum(菊花).
Winter Solstice(冬至).
Winter solstice is on around December 22 or 23 of solar calendar each year, From winter solstice on, the daytime will be longer and longer. 3.Chinese people in the northern region, eat dumplings-aad wonton(馄炖), while in the southern regions rice balls.
4.
In China, this festival is in late January or early Februaty, the last day of the Lunar year.
People celebrate it by having a family reunion dinner, setting off fireworks and staying up late. Breaking the dishes and bowls is a thing all the people scare(惊恐），but if you did it, you have to say: “sui sui ping an)”5.
A. Spring Festival.
B. New Year's Eve.
C. People always visit their friends and relatives*
D. People will go to worship(祭拜）their ancestors.
E. It is a pun(双关语), meaning you will be healthy every year.
F. It is celebrated on Sept. 9th of the Lunar Calendar, around October
G. It's a holiday which is regarded as important as the Spring Festival.
When people reunite with their loved ones, it's usually all extremely happy moment. But what is their most common response to seeing them again? It may seem strange, but most of the time they break down in tears.
Now a group of psychologists (心理学家) from Yale University say they have found the reason why, and that crying tears of joy may well be the body's way of keeping emotional(情感的）balance.
“They seem to take place when people are overtaken by strong positive emotions, and people who do this seem to recover better from those strong emotions, ”Oriana Aragon, the lead researcher said.
Aragon and her fellow psychologists looked at hundreds of participants’ emotional responses to different things, including happy reunions and cute babe. Many participants said they would react in a negative or aggressive way to the positive things to cry at happy moments and want to pinch(捏) a cute baby's face or even, tell them“I want to eat you up!” But then researchers found that these people were able to calm down from strong emotions more quickly.
There are many other examples of times when people respond to a positive experience with a negative emotional reaction, At an exciting concert, fans scream at their idols(偶像).People who have just had a big lottery win are often in floods of tears* “These findings advance our understanding of how people express and control their emotions, which is importantly related to mental and physical health, the quality of relationships with others, and even how well people work together/' said Aragon.
1.What have the psychologists from Yale University found in their research?
A. Crying tears of joy helps to balance emotions.
B. The reason why people cry with tears.
C. People recover slowly from strong emotions
D. Strong negative feelings are useful to people.
2.What does the underlined “they” in Paragraph 2 probably refer to?
A. Times when people reunite with friends.
B. Participants’emotional responses.
C. Times when people cry tears of joy.
D. Strong positive emotions.
3.Which of the following agrees with the findings of the research?
A. Kissing a cute baby. B. Crying at good news.
C. Crying at a failure. D. Laughing at happy reunions,
4.Where does the passage most likely come from?
A. A popular biology book. B. A children literature book,
C. A science fiction novel. D. A psychological science journal.
The spread of Westem eating habits around the world is bad for human nealth and the environment.These findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.
David Tillman, a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, America, examined information from 100 countries to identify what people ate and how diet affected health. He noted a movement beginning in the 1960s. He found that as nations mdustriaHzed(工业化),population increased and earnings rose, more people began to sdopt what has been called the Western diet.
The Western diet is high in sugar, fat, oil and meat. By eating these foods, people began to get fatter and sicker. David Tillman says overweight people are at greater risk for non-infectious diseases like diabetes (糖尿病）and heart disease.
Unfortunately, when people become industrialized, if they adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these health problems, especially in developing countries in Asia, China is an example where the number of diabetes cases has been jumping from less than one percent to 10 percent of the population as they began to industrialize over a 20，year period, And that is happening all across the world, in Mexico in Nigeria and so on.
And, s diet bad for human beings, is also bad for the environment As the world's population grows, more forests and tropical (热带的）areas will become farmland for crops or grasslands for cattle. We are likely to have more greenhouse gas in the future from agriculture than that coming out of all froms of transportation right now.
Mr, Tillman calls the link between diet, the environment and human health. "a trilemma11: a problem offering a difficult choice. He says one possibte setttemenf is leaving the behind.
1.According to the passage, more greenhouse gas might be given off in the future from .
A. transportation B. developing countries
C. agriculture D. developed countries
2.David Tilman believes that_ .
A. diet, the environment and human health are closely connected
B. the Western diet is the only choice as the nation industrializes
C. people in tropical areas are more likely to have heart disease
D. traditional diets are more balanced than the Western diet
3.We can infer from the passage that .
A. industrialization contributes to the spread of the Western diet
B. overweight people are at higher risk of infectious diseases
C. the examined information comes from developing countries
D. Nigeria has the largest number of diabetes cases
4.The main purpose of the passage is to .
A. call on us to protect the environment
B. warn us of the danger of the Western diet
C. remind us of the importance of health
D. advise us to have a balanced diet
Londoners are great readers. They read and buy vast numbers of newspapers andmagazines and of books. especially paperbacks, which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy “proper91 books, too, printed on good paper and bound(装订）between hard covers.
There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of (自夸）being “the biggest bookshop in the world” to the tiny dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens time. Some of these shops stock, or will obtain, any kind of books, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, In foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the countless subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes only in books about ballet!
Although it may be the most convenient place fof Londoners to buy books, Charring Cross Road is not the cheapest, For the really cheap second-hand books, the collectors must yenture_off the beaten track, to farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so impressive, as bookshops. The booksellers come along each morning and pour out their sacks of books onto small handarts .And the collectors, some professionals and some amateurs, have been waiting for them, In places like this they can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old one that may be worth many pounds.
1.“Londoners are great readers.” means that .
A. Londoners are great because they read a lot
B. There are a great number of readers in London
C. Londoners are readers who read only great books
D. Londoners read a lot
2.According to this passage, Charring Cross Road _.
A. is in the suburbs of London
B. is famous for its bookshops
C. contains various kinds of shops
D. is the busiest street in London
3.In this passage, what does the underlined part Venture off the beaten track” mean?
A. move away from a busy street.
B. buy books in a most busy street,
C. waste time looking for books.
D. take a risk of losing one's life.
4.On Farringdon Road, .
A. you can find fine books for the latest books
B. there are only small bookshops for the secondhand books
C. you can see booksellers selling books on handcarts.
D. the same books as the ones in the bookshops of Charring Cross Road are sold
