The same life day by day is like eating white rice every day for your brain(大脑). Playing games with your mind(头脑) keeps your brains quick, and make your memory and powers of reasoning much better. Try the following fun and free activities to stimulate your brain.
Use the opposite hand: If you are right-handed, become a lefty. Changing the hand you usually use can get your brain thinking in a different way.
Talk to yourself: Pick one hour a day to discuss something with yourself. Describe what you see, what you are doing, or what you are going to do. Talking while thinking is a great brain booster(助推器).
Write down your dream: You can write out your wishes and goals(目标) and they can call your attention. Keep a pen and paper next to your bed. You can record your sleeping dreams with them. It is a fun way to get your brain thinking. Along with increasing memory, trying to unlock the secret behind your sleeping brain is one way to get to know yourself better.
Walk on: Just like the body, your brain needs exercise, too. Walking can increase blood circulation(血液循环), which encourages blood vessels(血管) in your brain grow, raise energy production and throw away the waste. So walk anywhere at anywhere at anytime if possible.
根据短文内容，选择最佳的答案。
1. The same life day by day is like eating white _______ every day for your brain.
A. rice B. bread C. dumplings
2. the underlined word “stimulate” means “______”.
A. make…clear
B. make…active
C. make…wide
3.Talking while _____ is a great brain booster.
A. sleeping B. thinking C. laughing
4.Keep a pen and paper next to your bed, and you can record your sleeping _____.
A. times B. places C. dreams
5. The passage is mainly talking about ______.
A. how to use your brain
B. how to improve your brain
C. how to manage your brain.
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1.Li Ming lost a blue _______.
A. coat B. hat C. scarf
2.Wei Fang found a black schoolbag ______.
A. in the dinning hall
B. in the classroom
C. on the playground
3.Wei Fang is probably a student in ______.
A. Class 5, Grade 9
B. Class 1, Grade 8
C. Class 5, Grade 7
4.The meeting will start at _______.
A. 3 pm B. 2:40 pm C. 2:20 pm
5.The students in Grade 9 need to take pens and paper because _______.
A. the meeting is very important
B. they have to make notes during the meeting
C. they want to play with them in the meeting
Tina was not like many of her friends. She didn’t listen to pop music, but her friends liked rock and pop music. When Tina asked her friends to try classical music, they all looked at her strangely. “Classical music is for old people,” they said. Tina was worried if something was wrong with her.
Tina decided to talk to her father. In the study(书房), asked her father, “Dad, am I strange?” “Of course not,” he answered. “Why do you ask that?” “Because I don’t like the same things as my friends do. They want to listen to Mariah Carey’s music. I like Yo Yo ma’s.” “ I can understand. Tina, it’s all right to be your own person. You don’t have to copy(模仿) what other people do. Everybody has different tastes.” After talking with her father, Tina felt better. She realized that doing different made her special. It was an important lesson for her to learn.
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
1.Tina didn’t listen to ______.
A. pop music
B. classical music
C. Yo Yo Ma’s Music
2.When Tina asked her friends to try classical music, they all looked at her _____.
A. angrily B. sadly C. strangely
3.Tina talked to her father about her worry in the ______.
A. bedroom B. kitchen C. study
4.Everybody has different ______.
A. tastes B. hobbies C. feelings
5.What can we know from this passage?
A. After knowing her interest, Tina’s father gave her a lesson on it.
B. After hearing her words, Tina’s father encouraged her to do what she liked.
C. After hearing her friends’ opinions about music, Tina wanted to give up her interest.
John was born in a rich family. When John finished school, he was already 18 years old. His father said to him, “Get a job in the town. If you stay at home, you will get nothing from me.” A few weeks later, John went to an office and asked for a job there. A man took him into a small room and gave him some questions on a piece of paper. John answered the questions quickly, then he gave the paper to the man. The man looked at the paper for a few minutes and asked, “You were born on September 23. But which year you were born in?” John answered, “Oh, every year.”
根据短文内容判断正误，正确的选择A，错误的选择B。
1.John was born in a rich family.
2.When John finished school, he was 17 years old.
3.A man took John into a small room.
4.John answered the questions quickly.
5.John was born on July 23.
My friend Jack always had accidents. He did not ______ attention to what he was doing or where he was going.
A few months ago, _____ car hit him while he was on his way home from school. The driver was tired, ______ he did not see Jack. And Jack was talking on ______ mobile phone and was riding in the middle of the road. The car hit him. He ______ his leg and was in hospital for over a month.
Last week, he was not looking ______ he was going as usually. As a result, he fell into a hole ______ the park. Some ______ people in the park helped him climb out of the hole and then took him to hospital. ______, he did not break an arm or a leg this time. At the hospital, the ______ gave him some medicine and then he went home.
After the two accidents, Jack changed a lot. Now he is very careful.
1.A. cost B. take C. pay
2.A. a B. an C. the
3.A. as B. so C. till
4.A. he B. him C. his
5.A. broke B. jumped C. carried
6.A. why B. where C. when
7.A. on B. in C. under
8.A. bad B. rude C. kind
9.A. Luckily B. Certainly C. Loudly
10.A. doctor B. drivers C. farmer.
A friend is a person ______ you know very well and like very much.
A. who B. which C. whose
