Food，football and fashion—Milan has it a11．Th...

Food，football and fashion—Milan has it a11．The city is perhaps most famous for its annual Milan Fashion Week and its world-class soccer teams AC Milan and Inter Milan．And May will see it host the six-month Milan Expo，the theme of which is food and nutrition．

Milan may not the first place tourists think of when they think of Italy．Rome is the most famous city in Italian history，Venice draws visitors who want to travel along its canals and Florence is popular with art lovers．Yet Milan can often be left off tourists’lists．But although some see Milan as the“ugly sister”of these cities，according to Lonely Planet，in 2015 the city is“suddenly back in fashion in a big way”．

The Milan Expo will look at the future of food，trying to answer the question of how Earth’s fast-growing population can be fed in the future．According to Lonely Planet website．“144 countries will set up shop northwest of central Milan，forming a mini city-within-a-city”．

Milan’s famous opera house，La Scala，normally closed in the summer，will also host daily performances during the expo，reported Fox News．

Not interested in opera?Don’t worry．Visitors who prefer sports may want to visit the San Siro stadium，home of the soccer teams AC Milan and Inter Milan．Tile stadium is one of the most famous in Europe and has seen many important games over the years，both in Serie A and the European Champions League．

So even if all of its fashion and beautiful people can make Milan seem“soulless”，as Lonely Planet said．it still has“a serious sense of history and place”．Many people will be discovering it this year，and eating great food from all over the world to help solve world problems．Will you?

1.Which of the following statements is True about Milan?

A．It is the largest city in Italy and has the longest history．

B．It is hosting the world’s largest Fashion Week in 2015．

C．Football，fashion and ancient canals are three features of the city．

D．The city’s La Scala opera house will offer additional performances in 2015．

2.What’s the attitudes of the editors from Lonely Planet towards the city of Milan?

A．uninterested．　　 B．modest．

C．favorable．D．dissatisfied．

3.In the 2015 Milan Expo，you can ___________．

A．enjoy food from all over the world

B．Watch great football games

C．Travel along the canals

D．Enjoy great art works

4.The author’s purpose in writing this article is to ____________．

A．give an introduction to Milan as a tourist destination

B．inform readers of the theme of the 2015 Milan Expo

C．give an objective review of the food culture in Milan

D．explain why Milan will be holding the world Expo in 2015

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Have you ever been to France before? It is not only a country of great food, fashion and art. It’s also home to the most influential painters in the world.

Edouard Manet

He was one of the first artists to paint modern life. He began to paint in his own style, but still used some of Couture’s techniques like thick lines and dark colors. He was greatly influenced by Claude Monet and Berthe Morisot, which can be seen in his use of light shades. Most of his paintings had scenes of daily life on the streets of Paris. His works include Olympia and The Absinthe Drinker.

Camille Pissarro

In his early years, Pissarro painted scenes of a river or a path from memory. After meeting Claude Monet and Paul Cezanne, who painted in a more realistic style, he changed his course to Impressionism. During his career, he experimented with various styles, and finally formed his own one. His works include Old Market at Rouen and Sunset at St. Charles.

Vincent van Gogh

He had a huge influence on art in the 20th century. His early works were most painted in somber tones. However, influenced by Monet, Pissarro, and Bernard, he adopted brighter colors in his works, and started creating his own techniques. Although he had produced more than 2,000 works of art, the artist sold only one painting during his lifetime — Red Vineyard at Arles. His works include The Potato Eaters, Starry Night and Bedroom in Arles.

Claude Monet

He was the founder of the Impressionist movement and completely changed the French painting in the 19th century. Although he first started by selling charcoal caricatures（木炭讽刺画）in Paris, he soon started painting with oil after meeting Eugene Boudin, who taught him to use oil paints and also encouraged him to paint outdoors. And then he painted with his own style. His works include Impression, Sunrise and The Water Liles.

1.What can we learn about Edouard Manet’s paintings?

A. They reflected the changes of life.

B. They were mainly about daily life.

C. They were all painted in bright colors.

D. They were painted in Morisot’s style.

2.Which painting was sold by Vincent van Gogh in person?

A. The Potato Eaters.

B. Bedroom in Arles.

C. Red Vineyard at Arles.

D. Starry Night.

3.What’s the common point of the four painters from the text?

A. All of them were given many awards in their life.

B. All of them were taught by some famous painters.

C. All of them had a good taste in delicious food.

D. All of them had their unique styles in painting.

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The traffic in our city is already good and it _____ even better.

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Since it is common　　　 to copy others’designs, the Council of Fashion Designers has recently urged the government to pass laws to protect designers’ rights.

A. practice　　　　 B. standard　 　　 C. sense　　　　　 D. activity

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Brisbane is an exciting city, voted as one of the most liveable cities in Australia. Its fine food will make you hate to leave. Here are four famous restaurants.

Aria

For a fine dining experience in Brisbane, it is hard to go past Aria by award winning well-known chef Matt Moran. With a beautiful setting at the Eagle Street Pier overlooking the Brisbane River, Aria is all about beautifully presented food. This is what Alia differs from other restaurants. The menu here is seasonal with different lunch and dinner options, and prices are set depending on how many courses you choose.

Bavarian Bier Café

There are lots of fantastic restaurants that overlook the Brisbane River and the Story Bridge. A big favorite is the Bavarian Bier Café where you can enjoy amazing German food, with big cups of Bavarian beer to drink and cookies to go with it. Prices are quite reasonable and the views are some of the best you’ll get in Brisbane.

E’cco Bistro

Set in an old tea warehouse building, E’cco Bistro has been serving up amazing food in Brisbane for over 20 years. E’cco Bistro is run by chef Philip Johnson who focuses on using the best local produce to create dishes where the materials do the talking. The menu has a good variety of dishes at reasonable prices, with dishes such as lobsters with sweet and sour onions, carrot, mushroom.

The Plough Inn

Plough Inn is one of the best pubs to go to for food in Brisbane. No matter when you come in, it is sure to satisfy all of your appetite. Pub dining is huge in Brisbane and the dining experience has moved away from the basic pub bugs of old, now offering extensive menus with restaurant quality food. The pub atmosphere is still there however, and the food is generally still cheap, plentiful and not too fancy.

1.What makes the food served by Aria special?

A. Its taste. B. Its price.

C. Its appearance. D. Its variety.

2.Which restaurant would you like to go to if you are a lover of German food?

A. Aria B. Bavarian Bier Café

C. E’cco Bistro D. The Plough Inn

3.In which aspect is Philip Johnson expert?

A. Cooking food with local food materials.

B. Presenting his food in an attracting way.

C. Offering beer with delicious cookies.

D. Creating a traditional pub atmosphere.

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It’s the dieting fashion that is sweeping the world, and encourages fasting (禁食) for two days of the week. But does it work?

People are starving themselves to lose weight, with a dieting trend known as the “fast diet” growing in popularity.

The method is also known as the 5:2 diet, and consists of eating normally for five days of a week and cutting calories to about 25 percent of normal intake during other two days. Men consume just 600 calories on the two fast days, while women are limited to 500 calories.

Notably, the two fasting days should not be back-to-back. The dieter should have at least one normal eating day in between.

In the best-selling book The Fast Diet: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent (断断续续的) Fasting by Dr. Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer, the two authors claim that the 5:2 diet not only promotes weight loss, but also benefits health, offering protection from disease, improved cognitive (认知的) function and increased lifespan.

The diet originated in the United Kingdom and became popular in the United States. Now, it is gaining popularity among the Chinese middle-class.

Zhong Minghui, who is 178 cm tall and used to weigh 100 kilograms, finds fasting effective in weight control. He works in the sales department of a trade company and used to drink and eat a lot after work. After sticking to the fasting diet for five months, he managed to lose about 20 kilograms.

“Actually I did not exactly rely on the 5:2 diet to lose weight. My fasting was more extreme. I almost completely cut off my supper every day and only ate some fruit. I also used an app to calculate the calories in the food I ate and was cautious of not eating any high-calorie food. I did about an hour’s aerobic exercise (有氧运动) every day. Fasting is definitely effective, but I think sports also help,” he says.

“I do not really believe that fasting is the magical cure-all (灵丹妙药), but my high blood sugar has improved,” he adds.

The US Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics says that although there is evidence that intermittent fasting diets may help prevent chronic disease, more research is needed.

Han Ting, a clinic nutritionist of Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, says that people who suffer diabetes (糖尿病) or eating disorders, pregnant women, kids, teens and frail seniors should not try fasting. She recommends a regular low-calorie diet, which is safer and less risky for health. When on a fasting diet, on the weekly fasting days, Han recommends low-fat, low-sugar, and low-protein food, such as vegetables, yogurt, non-fat milk, shellfish and fruits with high dietary fiber (食用纤维).

1.What does the underlined word “back-to-back” in paragraph 4 mean?

A. Continuous.　　　　　　 B. Different.

C. Vegetarian.　　 　　　　 D. Fatty.

2.What can we infer from what Zhong Minghui said in paragraph 8?

A. He strictly relied on the 5:2 diet to lose weight.

B. He used an app to calculate how much sport he played.

C. Fasting and sports helped him a lot when he lost weight.

D. In order to lose weight he used to do gymnastic exercise.

3.What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A. Han thinks people who suffer diabetes should try a fasting diet.

B. A clinic nutritionist says that it’s safer to have a low-calorie diet.

C. Han Ting recommends that everyone should have a fasting diet.

D. Hang Ting says only a fasting diet can help people keep healthy.

4.Which is the best title of the passage?

A. Fast diet　　　 　　　　　　　 B. How to stay thin

C. Eating to stay healthy　　 D. The magical cure-all

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It is only when a football player has aged and been through many battles ________ he learns an important lesson: there is no “I” in “team”.

A. after                               B. before                           C. what                      D. that

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It is fashionable today to criticize Big Business, and there is one issue on which the many critics agree: CEO pay. We hear that CEOs are paid too much (or too much relative to workers) , or that they control others’ pay, or that their pay is insufficiently related to positive outcomes. But the more likely truth is CEO pay is largely caused by intense competition.

It is true that CEO pay has gone up---top ones may make 300 times the pay of typical workers on average, and since the mid-1970s, CEO pay for large publicly traded American corporations has, by varying estimates, gone up by about 500%. The typical CEO of a top American corporation-from the 350 largest such companies-now makes about $18.9 million a year.

While individual cases of overpayment definitely exist, in general, the determinants of CEO pay are not so mysterious and not so trapped in corruption (腐败). In fact, overall CEO compensation for the top companies rises pretty much in line with the value of those companies on the stock market.

The best model for understanding the growth of CEO pay, though, is that of limited CEO talent in a world where business opportunities for the top firms are growing rapidly. The efforts of Americans highest-earning 1 % have been one of the more dynamic elements of the global economy.

It’s not popular to say, but one reason their pay has gone up so much is that CEOs really have upped their game relative to many other workers in the U. S. economy.

Today’s CEO, at least for major American firms, must have many more skills than simply being able to “run the company.” CEOs must have a good sense of financial markets and maybe even how the company should trade in them. They also need better public relations skills than their predecessors, as the costs of even a minor slipup can cause a bad consequence. Then there’s the fact that large American companies are much more globalized than ever before, with supply chains spread across a larger number of countries. To lead in that system requires knowledge that is fairly incredible.

There is yet another trend: virtually all major American companies are becoming tech companies, one way or another. An agribusiness company, for instance, may focus on R&D in highly IT- intensive areas such as genome sequencing (基因组序列). Similarly, it is hard to do a good job running the Walt Disney Company just by picking good movie scripts and courting stars ； you also need to build a firm capable of creating significant CGI (计算机生成图像) products for cartoon movies at the highest levels of technical sophistication and with many frontier innovations along the way.

On top of all of this, major CEOs still have to do the job they have always done- which includes motivating employees, serving as an internal role model, helping to define and extend a corporate culture, understanding the internal accounting, and presenting budgets and business plans to the board. Good CEOs are some of the world’s most powerful creators and have some of the very deepest skills of understanding.

1.Which of the following has contributed to CEO pay rise?

A.The growth in the number of cooperation

B.The general pay rise with a better economy

C.Increased business opportunities for top firms

D.Close cooperation among leading economics

2.Compared with their predecessors, today’s CEOs are required to ________.

A.foster a stronger sense of teamwork

B.finance more research and development

C.establish closer ties with tech companies

D.operate more globalized companies

3.The meaning of the underlined word “slipup” (line 5, paragraph 4) is close to ________.

A.operation B.success

C.mistake D.promotion

4.The most suitable title for this text would be ________.

A.CEOs Are Not Overpaid B.CEO Pay: Past and Present

C.CEOs’ Challenges of Today D.CEO Traits: Not Easy to Define

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The dress is really fashionable and eye-catching, but it is ______ too big for me.

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The dress is really fashionable and eye-catching, but it is ________ too big for me.

A. fairly                       B. rather                              C. quite                      D. pretty

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