If you need glasses to read this, you are among most of Chinese students. About four-fifths of high school students in China have poor eyesight(视力). And now more and more children in primary school need glasses, too.
Two main reasons can cause poor eyesight: too much time spent indoors studying and too little time spent outdoors playing. Reading and writing for hours and hours, sometimes in poorly lighted rooms, causes eyesight to weaken. But students have to do this because there is so much pressure on them to succeed in school. They have less time to enjoy the sun.
The sun, it turns out, is important in developing good eyesight. According to a study by Australian National University, Australian children and Chinese children have the same level of eyesight before they start school, but once they enter primary school, Chinese children only spend about an hour a day outside, while Australian children spend three to four hours each day in the sunshine. The result is that while about forty percent of Chinese primary school students need glasses, only three percent of Australian children do.
And poor eyesight at a young age can have serious long term influence. As you get older, your eyesight can worsen.
With all that in mind, don’t you think it’s time to give your eyes a break.
1.How many high school students have poor eyesight in China according to the reading
A. A half of them. B. Three percent of them.
C. Forty percent of them. D. Four-fifths of them.
2.Which can cause poor eyesight according to the reading
A. Like reading and writing very much. B. Spend too much time enjoying the sun.
C. Spend too much time indoors studying. D. Start primary school at a young age.
3.What can we learn from the third paragraph
A. Primary school studying can be very harmful to young students.
B. Australian children spend more time outdoors than Chinese children.
C. After primary school, children in China and Australia have the same eyesight.
D. Fewer Chinese primary school students have poor eyesight than Australian ones.
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Have you ever heard someone use the phrase” once in a blue moon” People use this expression to describe something that they do not do very often. For example, someone might say that he tries to avoid eating sweets because they are unhealthy, but will eat chocolate” once in a blue moon”. Or someone who does not usually like to go to the beach might say “I visit the shore once in a blue moon.”While many people use this phrase, not everyone knows the meaning behind it.
The first thing to know is that the moon itself is never really blue. This is just an expression. In fact, the phrase” blue moon” has to do with the shape of the moon, not the color.
As the moon travels around the earth, it appears to change shape. We associate certain names with certain shapes of the moon. For example, when we can see a small part of the moon it is called a crescent moon. A crescent is a shape that looks like the tip of a fingernail when we cannot see the moon at all; it is called a new moon.
When we can see the whole moon is called a full moon. Usually, there is only one full moon every month. Sometimes, however there will be two full moons in one month. When this happens, the second full moon is called a blue moon”.
Over the next 20 years, there will only be 15 blue moons. As you can see, a blue moon is a very rare event. This fact has led people to use the expression” once in a blue moon” to describe other very rare events in their lives.
1.Which of the following would be a good example of using the phrase” once in a blue moon”.
A. Simon often tells jokes. Simon tells jokes once in a blue moon.
B. Tom rarely remembers to do exercise. Tom does exercise once in a blue moon.
C. Mary likes to go shopping every weekend. Mary goes shopping once in a blue moon.
D. Cindy hates to stay up, but she stays up every day. Cindy stays up once in a blue moon.
2.When does a blue moon happen in nature
A. When the moon has a blue moon. B. When we cannot see the moon at all.
C. When there are two full moons in one month. D. When we can only see a small part of the color.
3.Which of the following is another example of something that has a crescent shape
A. The letter “O” B. The letter “M”
C. The letter “H” D. The letter “C”
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Every child has his own dream. Every child hopes to be an adult.________ , is it really like what they imagine? As a boy _______ lives in modern times and in a modern city, I feel _________pressure (压力) on me with the city’s development. Although we _________worry about money, we still have some _________ problems, such as competition among classmates and expectation (期望) from parents. These experiences are very ________ to our future. But _________, they really give me a lot of pressure. I still clearly _______ the happiness of my childhood. _______ , we had to face the fact with time passing by. We began to ________ this invisible (无形的) pressure come upon us. We get up before sunrise and ________ after sunset. We work and study _______ an adult, even harder.
_________ we do is in order to get an excellent ________ . Growing up is very boring, but we__________ try to find happiness while growing up. I think friendship among our friends, the support from our parents and the encouragement from our teachers can help us. Why not enjoy the pleasure of growing up and its delicious taste?
1.A. However B. And C. So D. or
2.A. which B. who C. whom D. whose
3.A. less B. fewer C. greater D. little
4.A. always B. often C. seldom D. usually
5.A. other B. another C. others D. the other
6.A. helpful B. happy C. bad D. worse
7.A. at first B. for example C. in fact D. at last
8.A. think B. remember C. forget D. say
9.A. Luckily B. Unluckily C. Impossibly D. Lucky
10.A. see B. touch C. feel D. smell
11.A. come out B. come down C. come back D. come in
12.A. as B. like C. alike D. dislike
13.A. What B. That C. How D. where
14.A. progress B. mark C. success D. luck
15.A. should B. shouldn’t C. mustn’t D. can
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。将答案填写在答题纸的相应位置。
American schools begin1. September after a long summer holiday. There 2. (be) two 3. ( term) in a school year. The4. term is from September to January and the second is from February 5. June. Most6. (America) 7. (child) begin to go to school when they are five years old. Most students are seventeen or eighteen years old when they finish high school.
High school students take only four or five 8. (subject) each term. They usually go to9.same classes every day, and they have homework for every class. But they have many interesting10. (activity) after class.
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71. 假设你是李明，你的美国笔友Tom向你介绍了他们学校的课程科目后，想了解你们学校课程开设的情况，请根据以下要点给他写一封电子邮件。
1. 你们学校开设的主要课程科目；
2. 你喜欢的科目是什么；
3. 你喜欢这门（些）科目的理由。
注意：
1. 词数85左右；
2. 开头和结尾已为你写好不计入总词数；
3. 可以适当发挥，以使行文连贯；
3. 文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
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