British researchers have found that children's IQ predicts their probability of becoming vegetarians (素食者) as young adults.

     Recent studies suggest that vegetarianism may be associated with lower cholesterol  (膽固醇), reduced risk of overweight and heart disease.

      "We know from other studies that brighter children tend to behave in a healthier fashion as adults--they're less likely to smoke, less likely to be overweight, less likely to have high blood pressure and more likely to take exercise," lead author Catharine Gale said, "This study provides further evidence that people with a high IQ tend to have a healthier lifestyle."

     In the study, Gale's team collected data on nearly 8,200 men and women aged 30, whose IQ had been tested when they were 10 years of age.

      "Children who scored higher on IQ tests at age l0 were more likely than those who got lower scores to report that they were vegetarian at the age of 30," Gale said.

     The researchers found that 4.5 percent of participants were vegetarians. Of these, 2.5 percent were vegan, and 33.6 percent said they were vegetarian but also ate fish or chicken.

     There was no difference in IQ score between strict vegetarians and those who said they were vegetarian but also ate fish or chicken, the researchers add.

     One expert said the findings aren't the whole answer, however.

      "We don't know the beliefs or attitudes of the parents of the children, nor do we know if there was a particular event that led these children to becoming vegetarian in their teens or adulthood," said Lona Sandon, and assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

1. From the article, we know that

A. brighter children are likely to become vegetarians when they are 10

B. people with a higher IQ will not be overweight

C. brighter children are likely to have a healthier lifestyle

D. overweight may cause high blood pressure

2. According to the passage, we know vegetarianism may be associated with ______

A. lower cholesterol    B. overweight     C. heart disease   D. All the above

3. What does the underlined word "vegan" mean?

A. someone who only eats vegetables

B. someone who chooses not to eat meat or fish

C. someone who likes eating meat and fish

D. someone who tikes eating vegetables

4. This study left some unanswered questions EXCEPT _______

A. Did the vegetarian children grow up in a family with a vegetarian parent?

B. Did the children eat a primarily vegetarian diet at the age of 10?

C. Were meatless meals regularly served in the participants' families?

D. Did the vegetarian children really have a high IQ?

5. The passage is mainly about _______.

A. How to become a vegetarian when children grow up

B. Being vegetarians can reduce the risk of overweight and heart disease

C. The importance of IQ to vegetarians

D. High IQ children are more likely to become vegetarian when they grow up

"A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right," says Mollie Hunter. Born and brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience

for any good book whatever its main market is. In Mollie' s opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which is what every writer should be doing. "If you aren't telling a story, you're a very dead writer indeed," she says. With the chief function of a writer being to entertain, Mollie is indeed an entertainer. "I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language," she says. "This love goes back to early childhood. I've told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said 'Nonsense, Mollie, dear, you'll be a writer.' So finally I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer."

     This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical and gives a picture both of Mollie's ambition and her struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably brought thoughts of the time when her home was still a Village with buttercup meadows and strawberry fields--sadly now covered with modern houses. "I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood. I'll never go back," she said, "Never." "When I set one of my books in Scotland," she said, "I can recall my romantic feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at work. And that's important, because children now know so much so early that romance can't exist for them, as it did for US."

1. What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book?

A. It should not aim at a narrow audience.

B. It should be attractive to young readers.

C. It should be based on original ideas.

D. It should not include too much conversation.

2. In Mollie Hunter's opinion, which of the following is one sign of a poor writer?

A. Being poor in life experience.               B. Being short of writing skills.

C. The weakness of description.                 D. The absence of a story.

3. What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child?

A. She didn't expect to become a writer.        B. She didn't enjoy writing stories.

C. She didn't have any particular ambitions.    D. She didn't respect her teacher's views.

4. In comparison with children of earlier years, Mollie feels that modem children are ____

A. more intelligent                             B. better informed

C. less eager to learn                          D. less interested in reality

5. What's the writer's purpose in this text?

A. To describe Mollie Hunter's most successful books.

B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter's books.

C. To introduce Mollie Hunter's work to a wider audience.

D. To provide information for Mollie Hunter's existing readers.

NASA is moving ahead with plans to put a long-armed Lander on Mat's' icy north pole to search for clues for water and possible signs of life.

The $386 million Phoenix Mars is planned to touch down in the Martian arctic in 2008. The stationary probe (探測器) will use its robotic arm to dig into the icy land and pick up soil samples to analyze. In 2002, the Mars Odyssey orbiter spotted evidence of ice-rich soil near the arctic surface.

Scientists hope the Phoenix mission will find clues to the geologic history of water on the Red Planet and determine whether microbes (微生物) existed in the ice.

Phoenix will be the first mission of the Mars Scout program, a renewed, low-cost effort to study the Red Planet. "The Phoenix mission explores new territory in the northern plains of Mars similar to the permafrost (永凍土) regions on Earth," Peter Smith said.

True to its name, Phoenix rose from the ashes of previous missions. The Lander for Phoenix was built to fly as part of the 2001 Mars Surveyor program. But the program broke down after the well-known disappearance of the Mars Potar Lander in 1999. The Polar Lander lost contact during a landing attempt near the planet's south pole after its rocket engine shut off too early, causing the spacecraft to fall about 130 feet to almost certain destruction.

The Phoenix probe had been in storage at a Lockheed Martin clean room in Denver before it was reused for its present mission. It will carry science instruments that were designed for the Mars Surveyor program including an improved panoramic (全景的) camera and a digging robotic arm. Phoenix will lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in August 2007 and land on the planet nine months later.

1. The passage mainly tells readers that _______.

A. clues of water will be found in Phoenix

B. the Mars Scout program will be carried out

C. August 2007 will see Phoenix lift off

D. Phoenix will be sent to find clues of water on Mars

2. According to the passage, we know Phoenix will 1and on Mars _______.

A. in August 2008                 B. in August 2007

C. in May 2008                    D. in September 2008

3. According to the passage, the name "Phoenix" is after the meaning of ________.

A. rebirth         B. death          C. energy         D. hope

4. After Phoenix lands on Mars, we can infer it will firstly ________.

A. find soil samples and send them to the earth

B. look for the icy land to dig for the soil samples

C. take photos and send them to the earth

D. find the remains of the Mars Polar Lander

5. What's the best title for the passage?

A. An adventure to Mars              B. The destruction of the Polar Lander

C. A plan for exploring Mars         D. Information of Mars

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For the next seven days, sit down each evening and write down ten things you are grateful for each day. Better still, do this with your partner or a friend. Before we practice gratitude(感恩), we are in the dark and there appears to be very little to be grateful for. Once we begin, a new light dawns, sometimes a brilliant light, a light as bright as heaven itself.

To whom are you grateful in your life? Do these people know the full extent of your gratitude? Do you realize how grateful they will be when you tell them? Gratitude is more than an attitude; gratitude is a philosophy. The philosophy of gratitude begins as a hope, grows into a belief, and finally becomes an absolute knowing. It is a knowing that within any given situation—peaceful or painful, beautiful or ugly--there is always a gift waiting, wanting for you to see.

If it appears you have nothing to be grateful for, it is because you are not allowing yourself to receive. Just because you do not receive does not mean there is nothing to receive. On the contrary, there is always              , and so there is always a reason to be grateful. Pray: "Dear God, teach me I am worthy to receive, teach me how to receive, teach me gratitude". Gratitude is good medicine. One single serving of gratitude is often enough to open the heart, energies the body, warm the bones, make your hair curl, put a spring in your step, start you humming, and make you smile like a baby!

1. What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)

    _______________________________________________________________________

2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

Showing even a bit of gratitude can make everything look fine, and it will be of great benefit to you.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________                                                                              

3. Please fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words.)

    ___________________________________________________________________________

4. Do you agree with the author' s opinion of gratitude? Why? (Please answer within 30 words.)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Translate the underlined sentence in the first paragraph into Chinese.

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--Can you make out ________ it says?

--Yes, from ________ I'm standing it's quite clear. It says "No Parking".

A. which; which        B. what; which         C. what; where       D. that; where

________walk is expected to last all day, so bring________ packed lunch.

A．A; a   B．The; 不填   C．The ; a   D．A ; 不填

Could I speak to_______ is in charge of International Sales ,please?

A．a(chǎn)nyone  B．someone     C．whoever   D．no matter who

—Have you been wasting time on computer games again?

— _______. I’ve been studying a lot and I need a break.

A．No way     B．Not really   C．I don’t agree  D．I couldn’t agree more

_______worries me the way he keeps changing his mind.

A．This    B．That C．What   D．It

It’s the sort of work that _______a high level of concentration.

A．calls for   B．makes up   C．lies in     D．stands for