阅读理解。 A growing number of health, hunger, and sustainable (可持续的) agriculture
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| 阅读理解。 |
A growing number of health, hunger, and sustainable (可持续的) agriculture groups today announced plans for Food Day-a nationwide campaign to change the way Americans eat and think about food.
Food Day will encourage people around the country to sponsor or participate in activities that encourage Americans to "eat real" and support healthy, affordable food grown in a sustainable, humane way.
Organizers hope Food Day will inspire Americans to hold thousands of events in schools, college
campuses, houses of worship and even in private homes aimed at fixing America"s food system. A Food
Day event could be as small as a parent organizing a vegetable identification contest at a kindergarten
class-or as massive as a rally (集会) in a city park, with entertainment and healthy food. Health
departments, city councils and other policy makers could use Food Day to launch campaigns, hold
hearings, or otherwise address communities food problems.
The campaign will advocate progress toward five central goals:
Reducing diet-related disease by promoting healthy foods. The American diet is too low in fruits,
vegetables, and whole grains and too high in fatty meat, soft drinks and salty packaged and restaurant
foods-contributing to hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year.
Supporting sustainable farms and stopping subsidies to agribusiness. Billions of federal
dollars a year would be better spent helping environmentally conscious family farmers than
hugeagri business operations.
Expanding access to food and alleviating hunger. Far too many Americans don"t know where their
next meal is coming from, or have access to fresh produce in their neighborhood.
Reforming factory farms to protect animals and the environment. Farming of animals can and should
be done without cruelty, and without degrading the quality of life.
Curbing junk-food marketing to kids. Food companies should not be targeting children with foods
that promote tooth decay, obesity and other health problems. |
| 1.What is the best title of the text? |
A. Food Day Campaign
B. Eat Real and Keep fit
C. How to Observe Food Day
D. Food Problems in the USA |
| 2.What can we learn from Paragraph 2? |
A. Food problems are not easy to deal with.
B. Food Day events should be held in public places.
C. Kindergarten kids are unable to identify vegetables.
D. People are invited to create their own Food Day events. |
| 3.One of the aims of Food Day is to ____. |
A. target children with junk food
B. operate more agribusiness
C. increase access to food
D. cancel a series of events |
| 4.The underlined word "curbing" in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to " ". |
A. controlling
B. enlarging
C. evaluating
D. providing |
| 5.We can infer from the text that _____. |
A. Food Day will not help preserve natural resources.
B. Food Day can be an opportunity to solve food problems.
C. Food Day has so far achieved all the central goals.
D. there are different ideas and views about Food Day. |
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阅读下面短文并回答问题(请注意问题后的字数要求)。 |
〔1〕Secondhand smoke is a byproduct of cigarette, cigar or pipe smoking. Secondhand smoke occurs when tobacco burns or when smokers exhale, and it is inhaled involuntarily by non-smokers.
〔2〕Secondhand smoke___________________.The first is called side stream smoke, which is the
smoke released from the burning end of a cigarette or cigar, or from tobacco burning in the bowl of a
pipe. The second is called mainstream smoke, which is exhaled by a smoker.
〔3〕When nonsmokers are exposed to secondhand smoke, they inhale many of the same
cancer-causing chemicals that smokers inhale. According to the U.S. Surgeon General, cigarette smoke
contains more than 4,000 chemical compounds, including more than 50 cancer-causing chemicals, and at
least 250 chemicals that are either toxic or carcinogenic.
〔4〕Both side stream and mainstream smoke are dangerous to nonsmokers. Side stream smoke is
generated at lower temperatures and under different conditions than mainstream smoke. As a result, it
contains higher concentrations of many of the toxins found in cigarette smoke.
〔5〕Secondhand smoke has been designated as a known human carcinogen by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, the National Toxicology Program, and the International Agency for
Research on Cancer. Secondhand smoke also is listed as an occupational carcinogen by the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
〔6〕According to the 2006 report by the U.S. Surgeon General, there is no risk-free level of exposure
to secondhand smoke: even small amounts of secondhand smoke exposure can be harmful to people"s
health. Separating smokers from nonsmokers, cleaning the air, and ventilating buildings can help.
However, they cannot eliminate the exposure of nonsmokers to secondhand smoke. |
1.What is the main idea of the text? (no more than 10 words)
_______________________________________________________________________
2.Which sentence in the text is closest in meaning to the following one?
In whatever way, people can"t get rid of the risk of nonsmokers to secondhand smoke completely.
_______________________________________________________________________
3.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words.(no more than 8 words)
_______________________________________________________________________
4.Name at least three ways that will help reduce the harm of secondhand smoke.(no more than 12 words)
_________________________________________________________________________
5.Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 into Chinese.
______________________________________________________ |
| 阅读理解。 |
The rising costs of health care have become a problem for many countries in the world. To deal with
this problem, it is recommended that a big part of the government"s health budget be used for health
education and disease prevention instead of treatment. Actually, many kinds of diseases are preventable
in many ways and preventing a disease is usually much cheaper than treating it. For example, people
could avoid catching a cold if they dressed warmly when the weather starts getting cold. But many
people get sick because they fail to do so, and have to spend money seeing a doctor.
Daily habits like eating more healthy food would have kept millions of families from becoming
bankrupt if the patients had taken measures for early prevention. For instance, keeping a balanced diet,
such as not consuming too much animal fat and insuring a steady intake of vegetables and fruits, seems
to be quite important.
One very effective and costless way of prevention is regular exercise, which is necessary for a healthy mind and body. Regular exercise, such as running, walking, and playing sports is a good way to make
people feel better or reduce stress.
In addition, health education plays a key role in improving people"s health. By giving people more
information about health, countries could help people understand the importance of disease prevention
and ways to achieve it. For example, knowing one"s family medical history is an effective way to help
keep healthy. Information about health problems among close relatives will make them aware of what
they should do to prevent certain diseases through lifestyle changes, which will work before it is too
late.
However, stressing disease prevention does not mean medical treatment is unimportant. After all,
prevention and treatment are just two different means toward the same effect. In conclusion, we could
save money on health care and treat patients more successfully if our country spends more money on
health prevention and education. |
| 1. What"s the best title of the passage? |
A. Prevention or Education?
B. Prevention or Treatment?
C. Health or Illness?
D. Exercise or Illness? |
| 2. Which of the following can replace the underlined word "bankrupt"? |
A. Unable to be cured
B. Unable to pay one"s debts
C. Stronger than ever before
D. More successful than ever before |
| 3. We learn from the passage that ______. |
A. dressing warmly can prevent diseases
B. a balanced diet is cheaper than regular exercise
C. the more health education, the better
D. the government"s health budget should be increased |
| 阅读理解。 |
The food we eat seems to have a great effect on our health. Although science has made big steps in
making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat. Some research has
shown that perhaps eighty percent of human illness is related to food and forty percent of cancer is
related to food as well. That food is related to illness is not a new discovery. In 1945, some researchers
realized that things commonly used to keep colour in meats and other food additives (添加剂) caused
cancer.
Yet, these additives remain in our food, and it is difficult to know which things on the wrappings (包
装) of foods are helpful or harmful. The additives which we eat are not all so direct. Farmers often give
penicillin to their animals, and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of cows. Sometimes
similar tings are supplied to animals not for their health, but just to make a profit.
The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to get a higher price on the market.
Although some countries have tried to control such things, the practice continues. |
| 1. Which food is the healthiest at present? |
A. chocolate
B. alcohol
C. fresh vegetables
D. French fries |
| 2. According to this passage, we can know . |
A. perhaps most of human illness is caused by what we eat
B. perhaps most kinds of cancer are related to what people eat
C. cancer was discovered in 1945
D. science has made food unfit to eat |
| 3. Things that are used to keep colours in meats are . |
A. harmful
B. useless
C. helpless
D. dangerous |
| 4. All the additives __ . |
A. are bright and colourless
B. are not bright and colourful
C. have indirect effects on our health
D. have direct effects on our health |
| 5. Which of the following is not true? |
A. Some wrappings of food are harmful.
B. Farmers try to make more money on the market by fattening their animals.
C. "The practice continues" means "things are still going on like that".
D. We needn"t take care of what we eat. |
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Weight loss is a hard topic. Lots of people aren"t satisfied with their present weight, but most
people aren"t sure how to change it. You may want to look like the models or actors in magazines
or on TV, but those goals might not be healthy or realistic for you. ___1___
So what should you do about your weight control?
___2__ The best way to find out if you are at a healthy weight or if you need to lose or gain
weight is to talk to a doctor or dietitian(营养学家) __3__ If it turns out that you can benefit from
weight loss then you can follow a few of the simple suggestions listed below to get started.
__4__People who lose weight quickly by crash dieting or other extreme measures usually gain
back all of the pounds they lost, because they haven"t permanently changed their habits. Therefore,
the best weight management ways are those that you can maintain for a lifetime.
Small changes are a lot easier to stick with (坚持) than large ones. Try reducing the size of what
you eat. _5__ Once you have that down, start gradually introducing healthier foods and exercise
into your life.
It"s a good idea to maintain a healthy weight because it"s just that healthy.
A. Try giving up regular soda for a week.
B. Try to pay attention as you eat and stop when you are full.
C. Weight management is about long-term success.
D. Besides, no magical diet will make you look like someone else.
E. Being healthy is really about being at a weight that is right for you.
F. Changing from whole to nonfat or low-fat milk is also a good idea.
G. They will compare your weight with healthy standards and help you set goals. |
| 阅读理解。 |
People are overweight for many reasons, the most important one of which is that they eat the wrong
foods, get the wrong types of calories per meal, and they also eat meals at the wrong time each day.
Food is more powerful than any weight loss pill, because the food that you eat can either make you thin
or fat. This is true because your body is like an engine, and it only needs certain foods at certain intervals(间隔)each day.
Low-calorie Diets Do Not Work
The reason people cannot lose weight by starving themselves is that their metabolism(新陈代谢)will
detect any major drop in calories and it will then adjust(调整)itself by burning fewer calories each day.
That is the reason why you can eat 1,000 calories per day and not lose any weight, while your friends
can eat 2,500 calories per day and not gain any weight.
Low-fat Diets Do Not Work
Many people in today"s society are buying mostly low- fat or non-fat food at the grocery store.
Everybody knows how much fat is inside the food they buy. However, people are getting fatter than ever
before by doing this. They are not losing weight by changing to this low-fat lifestyle.
Losing weight has nothing to do with these things. One of the most important things you can do to
control your weight is to eat the proper foods, such as fruit and vegetables, eat them at the right time, and
exercise every day. If people make this a habit, they will lose weight. |
| 1. What is the main reason why people are overweight according to the author? |
A. They eat the wrong foods at the wrong time.
B. They eat food with lots of calories.
C. They don"t take any weight loss pills.
D. They burn many calories every day. |
| 2. The article is written in order to _______. |
A. tell readers not to buy low-fat or non-fat food
B. tell readers how to lose weight
C. tell readers about an important scientific discovery
D. call on people to lose weight and stay healthy |
3. To realize the aim of your weight loss plan, you should ________.
a. do exercise every day b. eat meals at the right time
c. eat fruits and vegetables d. eat low-fat or sweet food
e. eat the proper foods at each meal |
A. a, b, c, d
B. a, b, d, e
C. a, c, d, e
D. a, b, c, e |
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