Do you love holidays but hate the increase weight that follows? 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, though, 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 be of some help to you.

Do not miss meals. Before yon leave home for a feast(宴會),have a small, low-fat snack(小吃). This may help to keep you from getting too excited before delicious foods. Begin with clear soup and 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 meat(瘦肉 ).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(過多的) calories.

1.Holidays are happy days with pleasure but they may ______

A. bring weight problems

B. bring you much trouble in your life

C. make you worried about your foods

D. make you hate delicious foods

2. In order to really enjoy your holidays without putting on weight, you'd better__

A. drink much water and have vegetables only

B. not eat the food in high fat

C. not accept invitations to feasts

D. turn away from delicious foods

3.According to the passage, ___ is a necessary part to stop you from putting on weight.

A. physical exercise B. water

C. calories of energy D. vegetables

4.Many people can't help putting on weight after the holidays because they _______ .

A. enjoy delicious food

B. go to too many feasts

C. can't control themselves

D. can't help turning away from the foods

Many Chinese students who have learnt English for more than ten years are still unable to speak English very well when they meet a foreigner.They seem to have mastered the basic language structure(結(jié)構(gòu)), but a conversation in English will make them feel uneasy. They are afraid that other people might find out their mistakes.

It's uncommon that many students who are bad speakers of English can write English perfectly. This proves that they are unable to organize their idea in English. The center of the problem is that they lack practice and confidence (自信).

Why should you be afraid? Do you fear those foreigners with whom you are speaking? Don't be shy, they will not laugh at you just for a little mistake you make. The best way to get rid of trouble is to learn to speak by speaking more. I am sure that constant practice will help you succeed.

1. What's the best topic for the passage?

A. How to Speak to Foreigners

B. How to Study English Well

C. How to Organize the Idea in English

D. Practise Speaking English All the Time

2.Many Chinese students can write English very well, but they cannot speak English fluently because ________

A. they seldom practise speaking English

B. they seldom meet foreigners

C. they had no chance to speak English

D. they think it's enough to master the basic language structure only

3. So many Chinese students are afraid speak to foreigners because

A. they worry about making mistakes in their speaking

B. they don't think their English is poor

C. they are afraid they can't understand foreigners

D. they didn't like speaking to foreigners

Some ways to Cheer Up.

Feeling a little blue? Here are some fast and easy ways to smile.

Play outside

Leave your apartment and go outside. Sun and fresh air are good for you.

Exercise

When you exercise, your brain releases a chemical called endorphins. This chemical makes you feel happier. 1.

Play Pop Music

Westlife, Backstreet Boys, S.H.E…who doesn’t like a little mindless pop? Listening to upbeat, happy music will make you smile. Singing along won’t hurt either.

Laughter is the best medicine

2. Children laugh around 400 times a day. Adults only laugh about 20 times a day. What happened? Be a kid for a day: play games, watch funny movies, or read jokes online.

3. Chocolate has special natural chemicals that make you happy. Besides, it tastes so good!

Get a dog

Dogs are cute, energetic, and fun. Plus, studies show that people with pets live longer and people with dogs live the longest!

Breathe

If you can’t go to the gym, try taking deep breaths. 4.

Have a Heart-to-Heart talk

If something is bothering you, it is a good idea to talk about it. Call a friend or relative. 5. Close your eyes and think of a beautiful scene or a time when you were happy and feeling good.

A. Laughing is the best way to improve your mood.

B.Everyone likes laughing.

C.The youth like chatting online.

D. A good chat is great way to feel better fast.

E. Power of Chocolate.

F. Breathing deeply will relax your muscles and give you energy.

G. That is just another reason why exercise is good for you.

1. Do you know there are seven______ in the world? (州,大陸)

2. Having a ____ diet is quite good for our health（平衡的）.

3. It ’said that the plane flying to Canada __ last weekend (墜毀).

4.When she came to China, she brought _ (行李)with her.

5.They were selling everything at a ________(折扣).

6.Though he was hurt ____ (輕微地), he still lay on the bed all the day.

7.Not long ago a ____ (劇烈的)earthquake occurred off the coast of Indonesia.

8.The three?star hotel offers a friendly ________ (氣氛)and personal service.

9.Li Bai and Du Fu were both Chinese _____ (詩人)．

10.The biologist likes _____ with his students(閑聊).

假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請你修改你同桌寫的以下作文。文中共有10處語言錯誤，每句中最多有兩處。錯誤涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號(∧)，并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線(\)劃掉。

修改：在錯的詞下畫一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：1.每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞。

2．只允許修改10處，多者(從第11處起)不計分。

Today is Sunday, I didn't get up early as usually. In the morning after I finished my homework, I do some washing. Then I telephoned one of my classmate and invited him to see a film. And unfortunately, when we got to the cinema at 3:00 p.m. we found all the tickets had sold out. Then we went back to school and played the football. After this, while we were about to go home , we saw our English teacher, Mr. Wang, coming into the school gate. He told us we have made great progress in English this term . He also suggested that we should read more and wrote more. We promised him that we would follow his advices.

假設(shè)你是李華，曾在美國學(xué)習(xí)半年，現(xiàn)已回國。你想聯(lián)系你的美國老師Mr. Smith ，但沒有聯(lián)系方式。請根據(jù)以下要點給你的美國同學(xué)寫信：

1.感謝Tom對你學(xué)習(xí)上的幫助

2. 詢問Mr. Smith的近況并索要其聯(lián)系方式

3. 邀請Tom在春節(jié)期間來中國感受中國文化。

50 years ago Barbie Millicent Roberts first appeared in the world of toys. Barbie, as everyone called her, has become the most successful toy in history. According to Barbie’s parents, the Mattel Company, 90% of all American girls between 3 and 10 have at least one Barbie at home.

In today’s world, however, Barbie is facing an identity crisis. There are many rivals on the market. For example, Bratz dolls, which are very popular among older girls, came to life seven years ago. They look more like today’s pop stars with heavy make-up（濃妝）and fashionable miniskirts. Today Bratz is a challenge for Barbie, because the company offers a wide variety of clothing, too.

It seems that Barbie has lost her appeal to older girls. “For younger girls playing with a Barbie is much fun, but when you get older you want something chic, says Alina Foley, a shop assistant in a New York toy store. Indeed, sales have been going down over the past year, partly because of the world’s economic crisis.

Barbie still has a lot going for her. More and more doll lovers all over the globe have become collectors. They trade Barbies or buy them on eBay. Others look for special and rare Barbie dolls, like Scarlett O’Hara from “Gone with the Wind”.

On the international market, Barbie remains number one. Although Mattel has been selling fewer Barbies in the United States over the past year, sales in other countries have been going up. In January Mattel opened its first Barbie store in Shanghai, where girls can shop, eat or even become their own fashion designer.

Barbie has changed her image many times over the past decades. Originally she worn blond pony tails and had bright red lips. In the 80s she changed to a more colorful new look.

For her 50th birthday Mattel is planning some big events. Fashion designers from all over the world have been called to make new clothes for Barbie. She is also scheduled to be a big star during the New York Fashion Week.

How long will Barbie stay on as a celebrity（名人）in the world of toy dolls? Hard to say, but 50 is definitely not the age to retire.

1.The author mentions Bratz in Paragraph 2 in order to show that __________.

A. even pop stars have their own favorite toy dolls

B. Barbie is facing tough competition on the market

C. clothing plays the key role in the design of toy dolls

D. the toy market has been expanding greatly over the years

2.The underlined word “chic” in Paragraph 3 probably means “__________”.

A. valuableB. scientific

C. complexD. fashionable

3.We can learn from the text that Barbie __________.

A. plays a role in a film directed by Scarlett O’Hara

B. is most popular with girls under the age of ten

C. has rarely changed its image since its birth 50 years ago

D. has long lost its leading position on the market of toy dolls

4.What would be the best title for the text?

A. Barbie Turns Fifty

B. Hottest Toys for Girls

C. Mattel’s Barbie Sales

D. Play with Bratz Toys

Are you reading this while sitting in an office cubicle（辦公室格子間）? If so, please take a moment and glance around you. Are there photos of your last vacation hung on the wall? One of your kid’s drawings? A yellowed print of a favorite cartoon?

If so, you are doing something good for both yourself and your organization. Newly published research suggests working in an environment that offers little privacy can lead to emotional exhaustion and burnout（過度疲勞）. But personalizing one’s workplace is an effective protection against such unwanted outcomes.

“Individuals may take comfort from the items with which they surround themselves at work, and these items may help employees to keep emotional energy high in the face of stresses that come from their work,” writes a research team led by Gregory Laurence of the University of Michigan-Flint, Michigan, in north central U.S.

In the Journal of Environmental Psychology, Laurence and his colleagues describe a study featuring 87 white-collar employees at a large, urban university in the Midwestern United States.

Research assistants noted whether they worked in a private office (with a door that can be closed) or a cubicle. They also counted the number of items each worker had brought from home to decorate his or her workspace – a list that included photographs, posters, artworks.

Not surprisingly, Laurence and his colleagues found a connection between the amount of privacy an employee enjoys and his or her rate of burnout. “High privacy conditions tend to serve as strong protectors against unwelcome interferences and distractions（干擾和分心的事）,” they noted, “contributing to a work environment supporting reduced emotional exhaustion.”

But this link disappeared when those employees had personalized their cubicles. Employees who had turned their workspaces into areas that reflect their interests and personalities reported the same (relatively low) level of emotional exhaustion, no matter whether they worked in an office or a cubicle.

The research confirms “the calming effect” of having your own stuff around you. So if you’re feeling exhausted at work, relief could be as simple as hanging a few of your kindergartener’s colorful creations on your cubicle wall.

1.Who might be most interested in the passage?

A. Job hunters.

B. Office workers.

C. Kid’s parents

D. Employment researchers.

2.For employees, decorating cubicles with their own items __________.

A. offers them little privacy

B. may help improve their work efficiency

C. will sometimes cause burnout

D. serve as interferences and distractions

3.The participant of the research __________.

A. come from the university of Michigan-Flint

B. all suffer high levels of emotional exhaustion

C. may work in a private office or in a cubicle

D. like personalizing their homes with little items

4.Where does this passage probably come from?

A. A book reviewB. A research plan

C. An official documentD. A news report

Two new studies suggest that modern running shoes could increase the risk of injuries to runners.

One study involved sixty-eight healthy young women and men who ran at least twenty-four kilometers a week. The runners were observed on a treadmill machine (跑步機). Sometimes they wore running shoes. Other times they ran barefoot (赤腳).

Researchers from the JKM Technologies Company in Virginia, the University of Virginia and the University of Colorado did the study.

They found that running shoes create more stress that could damage knees, hips and ankle joints than running barefoot. They observed that the effect was even greater than the effect reported earlier for walking in high heels.

The study appeared in the official scientific journal of The American Academy of Physical Medicine.

The other study appeared in the journal Nature. It compared runners in the United States and Kenya. The researchers were from Harvard University in Massachusetts, Moi University in Kenya and the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

They divided the runners into three groups. One group had always run shoeless. Another group had always run with shoes. And the third group had changed to shoeless running.

Runners who wear shoes usually come down heel first. That puts great force on the back of the foot. But the study found that barefoot runners generally land on the front or middle of their foot. That way they ease into their landing and avoid striking their heel.

Harvard’s Daniel Lieberman led the study. He says the way most running shoes are designed may explain why those who wear them land on their heels. The heel of the shoe is bigger and heavier than other parts of the shoe, so it would seem more likely to come down first. Also, the heel generally has thick material under it to soften landings.

But the researchers do not suggest that runners immediately start running barefoot. They say it takes some training. And there can be risks, like running when your feet are too cold to feel if you get injured.

The study was partly supported by Vibram, which makes a kind of footwear that it says is like running barefoot. The findings have gotten a lot of attention. But the researchers say there are many problems in the way the press has reported in their paper. So they have tried to explain their findings on a Harvard Website.

1.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Walking in high heels could cause less serious effects than running barefoot.

B. Two new discoveries encourage people to run in high heels.

C. Running in shoes is partly good to runners.

D. Two new studies prove running without shoes is beneficial to runners in most cases.

2.Which part of our body could be injured if we run in running shoes?

A. Toes.B. Hips.

C. Feet.D. Legs.

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A. The way that we run by landing on the front or middle of our foot could avoid damaging our heel.

B. We should start running barefoot in no time.

C. Running in modern running shoes could cause more serious effects than running in high heels.

D. We won’t be injured if we run barefoot.

Walking down a path through some woods in Georgia, I saw a small pool of water ahead on the path. I angled my direction to go around it on the part of the path that wasn't covered by water or mud. As I reached the pool, I was suddenly attacked!

Yet I did nothing for the attack. It was so unpredictable and from somewhere totally unexpected. I was surprised as well as unhurt though I had been struck four or five times. I backed up a foot and my attacker stopped attacking me. Had I been hurt I wouldn't have found it amusing. And I was laughing. After all, I was being attacked by a butterfly!

Having stopped laughing, I took a step forward. My attacker rushed me again. He charged towards me at full speed, attempting to hurt me but in vain. For a second time, I took a step backwards while my attacker paused. I wasn't sure what to do. After all, it’s just not every day that one is attacked by a butterfly. I stepped back to look the situation over. My attacker moved back to land on the ground. That's when I discovered why my attacker was charging me only moments earlier. He had a mate and she was dying.

Sitting close beside her, he opened and closed his wings as if to fan her. I could only admire the love and courage of that butterfly in his concern for his mate. He had taken it up on himself to attack me for his mate’s sake, even though she was clearly dying and I was so large. He did so just to give her those extra few precious moments of life. Should I have been careless enough to step on her? His courage in attacking something thousands of times larger and heavier than himself just for his mate’s safety seemed admirable. I couldn’t do anything other than reward him by walking on the more difficult side of the pool. He had truly earned those moments to be with her, undisturbed.

Since then, I’ve used that butterfly’s courage as an inspiration and to remind myself that good things are worth fighting for.

1.The writer changed his direction while walking down a path because he wanted_______.

A. to get close to a butterfly

B. to escape a sudden attack

C. to look over the bad situation

D. to avoid getting his shoes dirty

2.From the passage we can learn that the attacker _________.

A. struck the author four or five times and made him badly hurt

B. paused until the author took a step backwards

C. thought it was the author who caused the death of his mate

D. attacked the author for his mate’s safety and to accompany her for the last moments of life

3. From this experience the man learned_____.

A. butterflies are brave insects

B. the small can defeat the large

C. how to deal with challenges in his life

D. people should try their best to fight for everything

4.Which of the following words can best describe the butterfly?

A. caringB. ambitious

C. courageousD. aggressive