Do you love holidays but hate the fact that you put on weight (增加体重) after the holidays? You are not alone.
Holidays are happy days with pleasure and delicious foods. Many people, however, are worried about the weight that comes along with these delicious foods.
With proper planning, it is possible to control your weight. The idea is to enjoy the holidays but not to eat too much. You don’t have to turn away from the foods that you enjoy. The following suggestions may help you.
Do not miss meals. Before yon leave home for a feast(宴会), have a small, low-fat snack. This may help to keep you from getting too excited before delicious foods.
Begin with clear soup, fruit or vegetables.
A large glass of water before you eat may help you feel full.
Use a small plate; a large plate will encourage you to have more than enough.
Better not have high-fat foods. Dishes that look oily or creamy have much fat in them.
Choose lean（瘦的） meat. Fill your plate with salad and green vegetables.
If you have a sweet tooth, try mints (薄荷) and fruits. They don’t have fat content as cream and chocolate.
Don’t let exercise take a break during the holidays. A 20-minute walk after a meal can help burn off excess calories (多余的热量).
1.Holidays are happy days with pleasure but they may______.
A. make you worried about your foods B. bring you much trouble in your life
C. bring weight problems D. make you hate delicious foods
2.Many people can’t help putting on weight after the holidays because they _______.
A. turn away from the foods that they enjoy B. go to too many feasts
C. enjoy delicious foods D. can’t control themselves and eat too much
3.Which of the following is NOT the suggestion given by the writer?
A. Begin with lean meat. B. Drink a large glass of water before you eat.
C. Have a small, low-fat snack before a feast. D. Use a small plate.
假如你是李华，计划和同学去敬老院（nursing home）陪老人们国重阳节（the Double Ninth Festival）。请给外教Lucy写封邮件，邀她一同前往，内容包括：
1. 出发及返回时间；
2. 活动：包饺子、表演节目等。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 结语已为你写好。
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假段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。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(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，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。
During my last winter holiday, I went to countryside with my father to visit my grandparents. I find a big change there. The first time I went there, they were living in a small house with dogs, ducks, and another animals. Last winter when I went here again, they had a big separate house to raise dozens of chicken. They also had a small pond which they raised fish. My grandpa said last summer they earned quite a lot by sell the fish. I felt happily that their life had improved. At the end of our trip, I told my father that I planned to return for every two years, but he agreed.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Mr. Brown was tired of living in the big city 1. he worked. He wanted to move to the country and live in a house from which he could get to his office in the city early every day. He2.(look) for a house when he saw an advertisement in a newspaper one day. The advertisement said that a suitable house in a quiet area was up for sale 3. a reasonable price, and the house was within a stone’s throw of a railway station from which there were frequent 4. (train)to the big city.
“That’s exactly5. I need,” Mr. Brown said to 6. (him). So he called the housing agency and arranged to go by train the next day 7.(have) a look at the house.
The housing agent met him at the station and they started walking. It took them at least 15 minutes to get to the house. When they finally arrived, Mr. Brown said 8. (angry), “ I should be very 9.(interest) to meet the man who threw the stone you mentioned in10. newspaper.”
Reading is of great importance. That's why World Book Day came into being. World Book Day ___________on April 23rd every year, which____________to encourage people, particularly teenagers, to discover the ___________of reading so that they can fall in love with books. It's also the day to____________honor to those great writers who produced remarkable works of literature and made great _________to human civilization.
Many countries celebrate World Book Day and the___________is yearly held in different ways. On that day, millions of school children can buy books at a much_______price than usual in any bookstore in England, ___________attracts a number of students to flood into bookstores for they can pay less money to buy the_________books. World Book Day is also_____________in China. More and more people_______into the libraries and bookstores to read______________books. Most of them do more reading on that day, _______________they can change the world by changing themselves______________reading.
Reading makes us_______________and learned. Reading helps us to follow the___________development of science and technology. Reading enables us to have a good___________of and have a better understanding of foreign cultures and______. Reading also is one of the most important ways to learn foreign languages. We all know it's difficult and almost____________to learn everything in the classroom, yet the ways English people are living and working today can be__________by reading.
1.A. appears B. approaches C. falls D. forms
2.A. aims B. fails C. remains D. prepares
3.A. laughter B. pleasure C. secrets D. skills
4.A. receive B. enjoy C. feel D. express
5.A. contributions B. progress C. trouble D. benefits
6.A. performance B. celebration C. activity D. design
7.A. higher B. cheaper C. lower D. dearer
8.A. that B. which C. where D. when
9.A. different B. same C. colorful D. interesting
10.A. shared B. expressed C. carried D. celebrated
11.A. crowd B. gather C. accompany D. return
12.A. simple B. rare C. various D. expensive
13.A. demanding B. pretending C. believing D. doubting
14.A. through B. with C. in D. on
15.A. hard-working B. skilled C. serious D. wise
16.A. fullest B. greatest C. latest D. slightest
17.A. collection B. introduction C. sense D. knowledge
18.A. exhibitions B. experiences C. habits D. customs
19.A. unfit B. impossible C. complicated D. forgetful
20.A. learned B. suggested C. accepted D. informed
Before there was the written word, there was the language of dance. Dance expresses love and hate, joy and sorrow, life and death, and everything else in between.
1.We dance from Florida to Alaska, from north to south and sea to sea. We dance at weddings, birthdays, office parties and just to fill the time.
"I adore dancing," says Lester Bridges, the owner of a dance studio in Iowa. "I can't imagine doing anything else with my life," Bridges runs dance classes for all ages. "Teaching dancing is wonderful.2.It's great to watch them. For many of them, it's a way of meeting people and having a social life."
3."I can tell you about one young couple," says Bridges. "They're learning to traditional dances. They arrive at the class in low spirits and they leave with a smile.4."
So, do we dance in order to make ourselves feel better, calmer, healthier? Andrea Hillier says, "Dance, like the pattern of a beating heart, is life. Even after all these years, I want to get better and better.5.I find it hard to stop! Dancing reminds me I'm alive."
A. So why do we dance?
B. If you like dancing outdoors, come to America.
C. Dance in the U.S. is everywhere.
D. They stayed up all night long singing and dancing.
E. I keep practicing even when I'm extremely tired.
F. Dancing seems to change their feeling completely.
G. My older students say it makes them feel young.
