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Holiday Activities for Kids
Clay Craft (陶艺) at Art Center
This two-hour workshop teaches children to make gifts
using clay. For children aged 6 to 12.
When: Jul. 19 (1-3 pm) (Friday)
Price: $20
Go to www.skills.org/clay for more information.
Fun Cooking at Little Cook School
Children aged 6 to 10 can learn to make healthy hamburgers. Children aged
10 to 12 can learn to make delicious cake.
When: Every Wednesday (2-5 pm) in the month of Aug.
Price: $ 35
Wonder Dance Class at Emma Workshop
Learn to dance with excellent teachers. A four-week dance
course for those aged 10 to 12.
When: Jul. 11 (3-5 pm) every Thursday
Price: $ 60 for four lessons
For details, go to http://emmaworkshop.blog.com.
1.Children can learn to make clay gifts on __________.
A. Jul. 11 B. Jul. 19 C. Aug. 11 D. Aug. 19
2.At Emma Workshop, children can _______.
A. have a big dinner B. make special gifts
C. make hamburgers D. learn to dance
3.How many activities can an eight-year-old child take part in?
A. 4. B. 3. C. 2. D. 1.
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Little Mike's grandma died weeks ago. He missed her very much. One afternoon Mike went to the city park where his grandma used to go. There he saw an old lady, She looked very kind. She was sitting there, watching pigeons. Little Mike went up and sat next to her. He took out his food and drinks and gave some to her. She smiled at him. Her smile was so sweet that Mike wanted to see it again. She seemed to understand him, so once again she smiled. Mike was very glad.
They sat there all the afternoon, eating and talking. As it grew dark, Mike got up to leave. Before he left, he hugged the old lady and she gave him her sweetest smile.
When Mike got home, his mother was surprised by the look of joy on his face. "I met a granny in the park. Her smile was like the kind of smile I had seen on grandma's face."
The old lady also returned to her home happily. She told her son that she had food and drinks with a little boy. "He was as lovely as Brittany." she said. Her son was surprised, because he had never seen her so happy since Brittany, her grandson, died weeks ago.
1.Little Mike went to the park and _________.
A. played with some pigeons B. fed the pigeons
C. met an old granny D. saw a friend of his grandma's
2.The old lady's smile showed that _________.
A. she had hoped to meet the boy B. she wanted to get some drinks
C. she missed her grandson D. she liked the little boy
3.Mike felt very glad because _________.
A. he gave the granny food and drinks B. the old lady was as kind as grandma
C. he had seen his grandma D. the old lady liked him
4.What can we learn from the story? ________.
A. When one feels unhappy, he must go to a park.
B. Old people are always kind and happy.
C. Children and old people should get on well with each other.
D. When people are kind to each other, they will feel happy.
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We've reached a strange-some would say unusual -point. While fighting world hunger continues to be the matter of vital importance according to a recent report from the World Health Organization (WHO), more people now die from being overweight, or say, from being extremely fat, than from being underweight. It's the good life that's more likely to kill us these days.
Worse, nearly 18 million children under the age of five around the world are estimated to be overweight. What's going on?
We really don't have many excuses for our weight problems. The dangers of the problem have been drilled into us by public-health campaigns since 2001 and the message is getting through-up to a point.
In the 1970s, Finland, for example, had the highest rate of heart disease in the world and being overweight was its main cause. Not any more. A public-health campaign has greatly reduced the number of heart disease deaths by 80 per cent over the past three decades.
Maybe that explains why the percentage of people in Finland taking diet pills doubled between 2001 and 2005, and doctors even offer surgery of removing fat inside and change the shape of the body. That has become a sort of fashion. No wonder it ranks as the world's most body-conscious country.
We know what we should be doing to lose weight-but actually doing it is another matter. By far the most popular excuse is not taking enough exercise. More than half of us admit we lack willpower.
Others blame good food. They say: it's just too inviting and it makes them overeat. Still others lay the blame on the Americans, complaining that pounds lave piled on thanks to eating too much American-style fast food.
Some also blame their parents-their genes. But unfortunately, the parents are wronged because they're normal in
It's a similar story around the world, although people are relatively unlikely to have tried to lose weight. Parents are eager to see their kids shape up. Do as I say-not as I do.
1.What is the "strange" point mentioned in the first sentence?
A. Hunger is taking more people's lives in the world.
B. The good life is a greater risk than the bad life.
C. WHO report shows people's unawareness of food safety.
D. Overweight issue remains unsolved despite WHO's efforts.
2.Why does the author think that people have no excuse for being overweight?
A. A lot of effective diet pills are available.
B. Body image has nothing to do with good food.
C. They have been made fully aware of its dangers.
D. There are too many overweight people in the world.
3.The example of Finland is used to illustrate ________.
A. the cause of heart disease B. the fashion of body shaping
C. the effectiveness of a campaign D. the history of a body-conscious country
4.Which would be the best title for the passage?
A. Actions or Excuses? B. Overweight or Underweight?
C. WHO in a Trouble D. No Longer Dying of Hunger
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While Jennifer was at home taking an online exam for her business law class, a monitor (监控器) a few hundred miles away was watching her every move.
Using a web camera equipped in Jennifer's Los Angeles apartment, the monitor in Phoenix tracked how frequently her eyes moved from the computer screen and listened for the secret sounds of a possible helper in the room. Her Interact access was locked - remotely - to prevent Internet searches, and her typing style was analyzed to make sure she was who she said she was: Did she enter her student number at the same speed as she had in the past? Or was she slowing down?
In the battle against cheating, this is the cutting edge and a key to encourage honesty in the booming field of online education. The technology gives trust to the entire system, to the institution and to online education in general. Only with solid measures against cheating, experts say, can Internet universities show that their exams and diplomas are valid - that students haven't just searched the Internet to get the right answers.
Although online classes have existed for more than a decade, the concern over cheating has become sharper in the last year with the growth of "open online courses." Private colleges, public universities and corporations are jumping into the online education field, spending millions of dollars to attract potential students, while also taking steps to help guarantee honesty at a distance.
Aside from the web cameras, a number of other high-tech methods are becoming increasingly popular. Among them are programs that check students' identities using personal information, such as the telephone numbers they once used.
Other programs can produce unique exams by drawing on a large list of questions and can recognize possible cheaters by analyzing whether difficult test questions are answered at the same speed as easy ones. As in many university classes, term papers are scanned against some large Internet data banks for cheating.
1.Why was Jennifer watched in an online exam?
A. To correct her typing mistakes.
B. To find her secrets in the room.
C. To prevent her from slowing down.
D. To keep her from dishonest behaviors.
2.The underlined expression cutting edge in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ___.
A. advanced technique B. sharpening tool
C. effective rule D. dividing line
3.Some programs can find out possible cheaters by _______.
A. producing a large number of questions B. checking the question answering speed
C. scanning the Internet test questions D. giving difficult test questions
4.Which of the followiny is the best title of this passage?
A. The Advantages of Online Exams
B. The High-tech Methods in Online Courses
C. The Fight against Cheating in Online Education
D. The War against the Booming of Online Education
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