Increasingly ,over the past ten years ,people—especially young people—have become aware of the need to change their eating habits ,because much of the food they eat ,particularly processed foods ,is not good for the health .As a result ,there has been a growing interest in natural foods :foods which do not contain chemical fertilizers ,widely used in farming today .
Natural foods ,for example ,are vegetables ,fruit and grain which have been grown in soil that is rich in organic(有機(jī)的)matter . In simple terms ,this means that the soil has been nourished by unused vegetable matter ,which provides it with essential vitamins and minerals. This in itself is a natural process compared with the use of chemicals and fertilizers , the main purpose of which is to increase the amount—but not the quality—of food grown in commercial farming areas .
Natural foods also include animals which have been allowed to feed and move freely in healthy grassland for cattle .Compare this with what happens in the mass production of poultry (家禽):there are battery farms ,for example ,where thousands of chickens live crowded together in one building and are fed on food which is little better than rubbish .Chickens kept in this way are not only tasteless as food; they also produce eggs which lack important vitamins .
There are other things of healthy eating which are now receiving increasing attention from experts on diet .Take ,for example ,the question of sugar .This is actually a non-essential food! Although another natural food ,such as honey ,can be used to sweeten food if this is necessary ,we can in fact do without it .It is not that sugar is harmful in itself .But it does seem to be addictive : the quantity we use has grown steadily over the last two centuries and in Britain today each person consumes an average of 200 pounds a year !Yet all it does is provide us with energy ,in the form of calories .There are no vitamins in it ,no minerals ,and no fibre .
It’s very important that nowadays fibre is considered to be an important part of a healthy diet .In white bread ,for example ,the fibre has been removed .But it is present in unrefined flour and of course in vegetables .It is interesting to note that in countries where the national diet contains large quantities of unrefined flour and vegetables ,certain diseases are comparatively not often seen .For this reason ,the importance is placed on the eating of wholemeal(沒有去麩的面粉)bread and more vegetables by modern experts on “healthy eating”.
1.People have become more interested in natural foods because .
A.they want to keep fit |
B.they want to taste all kinds of foods |
C.natural foods are more delicious than processed foods |
D.they want to return to nature |
2.Chickens raised in poultry farms are all of the following EXCEPT that .
A.they are fed on food which is little better than garbage |
B.they live in very crowed condition |
C.the eggs they produce lack vitamins |
D.they are allowed to move about and eat freely |
3.According to the passage,_________.
A.people need sugar to give them energy |
B.sugar is bad for the health |
C.the use of sugar is habit forming |
D.sugar only sweetens food, but provides us with nothing useful |
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科目:高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源:廣東省中山市實(shí)驗(yàn)高中2010屆高三上學(xué)期12月月考 題型:閱讀理解
If you look for a book as a present for a child. You will be spoiled for choice even in a year when there is no new Harry Patten J.K Rowling’s wizard is not alone: the past decade has been a harvest for good children’s books ,which has set off a large quantity of films and in turn led to increased sales of classics such as The Lord of the Rings.
Yet despite that ,reading is increasingly unpopular among children .According to statistics, in 1997 23% said they didn’t like reading at all . In 2003, 35% did . And around 6% of children leave primary school each year unable to read properly.
Maybe the decline is caused by the increasing availability of computer games. Maybe the books boom has affected only the top of the educational pile . Either way , Chancellor Cordon Brown plans to change things for the bottom of the class .In his pre-budget report , he announced the national project of Reading Recovery to help the children struggling most.
Reading Recovery is aimed at six-year-olds ,who receive four months of individual daily half-hour classes with a specially trained teacher . An evaluation earlier this year reported that children on the scheme made 20 months’ progress in just one year, whereas similarly weak readers without special help made just five months’ progress ,and so ended the year even further below the level expected for their age.
International research tends to find that when British children leave primary school they read well ,but read less often for fun than those elsewhere .Reading for fun matters because children who are keen on reading can expect lifelong pleasure and loving books is an excellent indicator of future educational success . According to the OECD, being a regular and enthusiastic reader is of great advantage.
46.Which of the following is true of Paragraph 1?
A.Many children’s books have been adapted from films.
B.Many high-quality children’s books have been published .
C.The sales of classics have led to the popularity of films.
D.The sales of presents for children have increased.
47.Statistics suggested that _______.
A.the number of top students increased with the use of computers
B.a decreasing number of children showed interest in reading
C.a minority of primacy school children read properly
D.a large percentage of children read regularly
48.What do we know about Reading Recovery?
A.An evaluation of it will be made sometime this year.
B.Weak readers on the project were the most hardworking.
C.It aims to train special teachers to help children with reading.
D.Children on the project showed noticeable progress in reading.
49.Reading for fun is important because book-loving children _________.
A.take greater advantage of the project B.show the potential to enjoy a long life
C.are likely to succeed in their education. D.would make excellent future researchers
50.The aim of this text would probably be _________.
A.to overcome primary school pupils reading difficulty.
B.to encourage the publication of more children’s books
C.to remind children of the importance of reading for fun
D.to introduce a way to improve early childhood reading
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As people slowly learn to cure diseases, control floods, prevent hunger, and stop wars, fewer people die every year. As a result, the population of the world is becoming larger. In 1925 there were about 2 billion people in the world; today there are over 6 billion.
When the number rises, extra mouths must be fed. New lands must be brought under development, or land already farmed must be made to produce more crops. In some areas the land is so over-developed that it will be difficult to make it provide more crops. In some areas the population is so large that the land is divided into too tiny units to make improvement possible with farming methods. If a large part of this farming population went into industrial work, the land might be farmed much more productively (多產(chǎn)地) with modern methods.
There is now a race for science, technology, and industry to keep the output of food rising faster than the number of people to be fed. New types of crops, which will grow well in bad weather, are being developed, so there are now farms beyond the Arctic Circle in Siberia and North America. Irrigation (灌溉) and dry-farming methods bring poor lands under the plough. Dams hold back the waters of great rivers, which can provide water for the fields in all seasons and provide electric power for new industries. Industrial chemistry provides fertilizer to suit different soils. Every year, some new methods are made to increase or to protect the food of the world.
【小題1】The author says that the world population is increasing because _____.
A.there are many rich valleys and large fields |
B.farmers are producing more crops than before |
C.people are living longer due to better living conditions |
D.new lands are being made into farmlands |
A.the land was divided into smaller pieces |
B.people moved into the countryside |
C.industrial methods were used in farming |
D.the units of land were much larger |
A.growing new types of crops | B.irrigation and dry-farming means |
C.providing fertilizers | D.destroying pests and diseases |
A.To develop a new kind of dry-farming methods. |
B.To prevent crops from floods. |
C.To provide water and electricity in all seasons. |
D.To water poor lands in bad weather. |
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Not all think laughter is the best medicine, but it seems to help.So scientists carried on a new study of diabetes (糖尿。 patients who were given a good dose of humor for a year to prove it.
Researchers divide 20 high-risk diabetic patients into two groups.Both groups were given standard diabetes medicine.Group L viewed 30 minutes of humor of their choice, while Group C, the control group, did not.This went on for a year of treatments.
By two months into the study, the patients in the laughter group had lower level of the hormones epinephrine (腎上腺素), considered to cause stress, which is known to be deadly.After the 12 months, HDL cholesterol rises 26 percent in Group L but only 3 percent in Group C.In another measure, C-reactive proteins, a maker of heart disease, drop 66 percent in the laughter group but only 26 percent in the control group.
“The best doctors believe that there is a physical good brought about by the positive emotion, happy laughter,” said study leader Lee Berk of Loma Linda University.And other research has found that humor makes us more hopeful.Still, more study is needed, Berk said.The research by Berk found that humor can bring about similar changes in body chemistry, which was proved in the new study.The research result will be presented this month at the meeting in the US.Research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine shows that laughter causes the inner lining of blood vessels to expand, increasing blood flow in a way thought to be healthy.
“Lifestyle choices have an important effect on health and these are choices which we and patients should pay attention to, rather than prevention and treatment,” Berk said in a statement this week.
【小題1】Why did the scientists carry on the new research?
A.To find out if laughter was good to health. |
B.To discover the best medicine to cure diabetes. |
C.Because the number of diabetic patients is the largest in the world. |
D.Because diabetic patients need more laughter than other patients. |
A.C-reactive proteins increase 66 percent in Group C |
B.the level of the hormones epinephrine stays the same in both groups |
C.the level of the hormones epinephrine has dropped |
D.C-reactive proteins reduced 66 percent in Group L |
A.something bad to our health | B.something good to our health |
C.a(chǎn) kind of wonderful medicine | D.a(chǎn) kind of dangerous disease |
A.Blood is made thick by laughter. |
B.Laughter makes blood vessels thin. |
C.Laughter increases blood pressure. |
D.Laughter makes blood flow fast. |
A.choose lifestyles carefully |
B.change our lifestyles |
C.prevent our lifestyles in advance |
D.pay less attention to the positive emotion |
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科目:高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源:2011屆湖南省雅禮中學(xué)高三第六次月考英語(yǔ)試卷 題型:閱讀理解
Olympic building projects are at risk because skilled Polish workers are going back home and there are not enough skilled British workers to replace _【小題1】__ . A quick training plan is being put in place to teach British people basic construction __【小題2】__ specifically for Olympic projects. As the Polish builders are beginning to go back home, migrant workers from other parts of Eastern Europe are taking their places; __【小題3】__, they don’t seem to be as well trained or have the same work ethics as the Polish workers. The Olympic Delivery Authority, the London Development Agency (LDA) and other partner organizations are going to spend £20 million —23 per cent of 【小題4】 training budget for London 2012 —in increasing the skills of the British workforce to _【小題5】_ the construction needs of the Olympics. They are also training electricians. A total of 1,500 workers nationwide will become fully skilled electricians _【小題6】__ attending the program. These workers will then work on building the Olympic Village. Iain MacDonald, head of a training program, told TheTimes, "All the way along we have been holding the view 【小題7】 we can’t rely on migrant labour. We have to put in plans for the long term. We can’t rely on migrant labour all the time. Britain has become too dependent on the migrant labour force. It is better to develop the skills of the 【小題8】 population."
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科目:高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源:2016屆上海市高一上學(xué)期第一次月考英語(yǔ)試卷(解析版) 題型:完型填空
We all laugh. We all hurt. We all make mistakes. We all dream, that’s life. It’s a journey. Please follow these rules to make the journey of your life a journey of joy!
positive through the cold season could be your best against getting ill, new study findings suggest.
In an experiment that healthy volunteers to a cold or flu virus, researchers found that people with a sunny characteristic were less likely to ill. The findings, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, build on evidence that a “positive emotional style” can help the common cold and other illnesses.
Researchers believe the reasons may be both objective as in happiness increasing immune(免疫的) function and subjective as in happy people being less by a scratchy throat or runny nose. “People with a positive emotional style may have different immune to the virus,” explained the lead study author Dr Sheldon Cohen of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. “And when they do get a cold, they may their illness as being less severe.”
Cohen and his colleagues had found in a study that happier people seemed less likely to catch a cold, but some questions remained as to whether the emotional tendency itself had the effect.
For the new study, the researchers had 193 healthy adults with complete standard measures of personality tendency, health-consciousness and emotional “style”. Those who be happy, energetic and easy-going were judged as having a positive emotional style, those who were often unhappy, tense and unfriendly had a negative style. The researchers gave them drops through their noses either a cold virus or a particular flu virus. Over the next six days, the reported on any aches, pains, sneezing they had, while the researchers collected data, like daily mucus(黏液) production. Cohen and his colleagues found that based on objective measures of nasal woes(鼻部的不適), happy people were less likely to develop a cold.
1.A. Living B. Staying C. Pulling D. Surviving
2.A. safeguard B. opportunity C. caution D. defense
3.A. excluded B. explored C. exposed D. escaped
4.A. generally B. commonly C. frequently D. perfectly
5.A. change B. fall C. turn D. remain
6.A. keep B. avoid C. deny D. remove
7.A. suffered B. troubled C. disturbed D. hinted
8.A. function B. ability C. response D. action
9.A. think B. relate C. interpret D. translate
10.A. formal B. current C. previous D. precious
11.A. tended to B. opposed to C. used to D. stuck to
12.A. while B. however C. what’s more D. therefore
13.A. implying B. matching C. containing D. occupying
14.A. patients B. adults C. volunteers D. researchers
15.A. objective B. impressive C. positive D. effective
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