Adults are happy to tell their children that crusts (面包皮) will give them curly hair, carrots will help them see in the dark, and spinach will make them strong. Even though adults know it's not totally true, they think it's good for their children's health, a study had found.
In a study about 31 per cent of adults said they once told their children the curly hair tale, and 36 per cent said they'd been told the same thing by their mother or father. Among the over-50s, almost half said they'd been promised curly hair if they ate their crusts. A quarter of the 2,000 adults questioned in the study told their children carrots would help them see in the dark. This could be true to some extent because of the high levels of vitamin A and beta-carotene in root vegetables.
Another favorite among parents is that milk will make one strong. A third surveyed said their parents told them this, and about 29 per cent said they told their children the same thing. But while there is plenty of evidence to suggest milk is good for people's health, there are also a lot of scientific papers saying it isn't.
Thanks to Popeye, spinach is also fed to children, along with the idea that it will make them strong. While there is also some truth in this one, scientists now believe it is not the iron, but the inorganic nitrates (无机硝酸盐) that improve physical power.
One in seven of the surveyed admitted telling their little ones that runner beans will make them run faster, which is nothing more than wordplay and has no basis in science. Almost one in five adults were subjected to the same tale in childhood.
Just over one in 10 parents told their children green food would turn them into a superhero, and a quarter admitted hiding vegetables in meals.
Lyndsay Jones, spokesman for Persil Washing Up Liquid, said, "It's clear that the most persuasive stories about food are passed on from generation to generation. Our research shows that the ideas continue, and we tell our kids the same things our parents told us, even if they're not always entirely true."
Crusts may not make your hair curly, but there's plenty of research that says crusts contain more of the goodness than the rest of a loaf. Hopefully, as a result of our Cook with Kids promise, more parents will be encouraged to spend time with their children in the kitchen and teach them the truth about food.
1.We can know from Paragraph 3 that ________.
A. a third people are forced to drink milk by their parents
B. milk is beneficial to children's physical strength
C. there is doubt whether milk is helpful to people's health
D. about 29 percent people wish their children good health
2.Which of the following does Lyndsay Jones agree?
A. Adults are willing to teach their children as their parents did.
B. Most persuasive stories about food are false.
C. Stories about food shouldn't be passed on from generation to generation.
D. Parents can't make sure if some stories about food are totally true.
3.We can learn from the passage that ________.
A. scientists think the iron in spinach helps children grow strong
B. parents are expected to tell children the truth about food
C. runner beans can really make children run fast
D. crusts are said to contain less nutrition than a loaf
4.How is the passage mainly developed?
A. By following time order B. By making comparisons.
C. By giving examples D. By analyzing causes.
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题
Adults are happy to tell their children that crusts (面包皮) will give them curly hair, carrots will help them see in the dark, and spinach will make them strong. Even though adults know it's not totally true, they think it's good for their children's health, a study had found.
In a study about 31 per cent of adults said they once told their children the curly hair tale, and 36 per cent said they'd been told the same thing by their mother or father. Among the over-50s, almost half said they'd been promised curly hair if they ate their crusts. A quarter of the 2,000 adults questioned in the study told their children carrots would help them see in the dark. This could be true to some extent because of the high levels of vitamin A and beta-carotene in root vegetables.
Another favorite among parents is that milk will make one strong. A third surveyed said their parents told them this, and about 29 per cent said they told their children the same thing. But while there is plenty of evidence to suggest milk is good for people's health, there are also a lot of scientific papers saying it isn't.
Thanks to Popeye, spinach is also fed to children, along with the idea that it will make them strong. While there is also some truth in this one, scientists now believe it is not the iron, but the inorganic nitrates (无机硝酸盐) that improve physical power.
One in seven of the surveyed admitted telling their little ones that runner beans will make them run faster, which is nothing more than wordplay and has no basis in science. Almost one in five adults were subjected to the same tale in childhood.
Just over one in 10 parents told their children green food would turn them into a superhero, and a quarter admitted hiding vegetables in meals.
Lyndsay Jones, spokesman for Persil Washing Up Liquid, said, "It's clear that the most persuasive stories about food are passed on from generation to generation. Our research shows that the ideas continue, and we tell our kids the same things our parents told us, even if they're not always entirely true."
Crusts may not make your hair curly, but there's plenty of research that says crusts contain more of the goodness than the rest of a loaf. Hopefully, as a result of our Cook with Kids promise, more parents will be encouraged to spend time with their children in the kitchen and teach them the truth about food.
1.We can know from Paragraph 3 that ________.
A. a third people are forced to drink milk by their parents
B. milk is beneficial to children's physical strength
C. there is doubt whether milk is helpful to people's health
D. about 29 percent people wish their children good health
2.Which of the following does Lyndsay Jones agree?
A. Adults are willing to teach their children as their parents did.
B. Most persuasive stories about food are false.
C. Stories about food shouldn't be passed on from generation to generation.
D. Parents can't make sure if some stories about food are totally true.
3.We can learn from the passage that ________.
A. scientists think the iron in spinach helps children grow strong
B. parents are expected to tell children the truth about food
C. runner beans can really make children run fast
D. crusts are said to contain less nutrition than a loaf
4.How is the passage mainly developed?
A. By following time order B. By making comparisons.
C. By giving examples D. By analyzing causes.
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Parents often say that they don't mind what their children do in life just as long as they are happy. Happiness and pleasure are almost universally seen as among the most precious human goods.1.
Philosopher Jeremy Bentham believed that all sources of pleasure are of equal quality, but John Stuart Mill disagreed. Mill argued for a difference between higher and lower pleasure.2.Lower pleasure, in contrast, requires mere (仅仅的;纯粹的) senses.
The entire debate assumes a clear divide between the physical and the mental.3.What will it mean for our ideas about pleasure?
4.Food is usually considered to be the lower pleasure. All animals eat, using the senses of smell and taste. It doesn't require any complex cognition (认知) to conclude that something is delicious. However, these people failed to appreciate something that the French food writer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin captured. That is, "Animals feed; man eats; only the man of intellect(才智) knows how to eat."
Eating shows that the difference between higher pleasure and lower pleasure is not what you enjoy but how you enjoy it.5.Preparing it using the powers of reflection and attention turns it into a higher pleasure.
A. The dining table is a good place to start.
B. Wolfing down your food is a lower kind of pleasure.
C. What's the real difference between high and low pleasure?
D. What happens if the physical and the mental cannot be separated?
E. All philosophers believed that cookery could never be a form of art.
F. Higher pleasure depends on human abilities such as self-awareness or language use.
G. However, disagreements will be caused about whether some forms of pleasure are better than others.
高一英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析
When the children were told that they could go camping on Saturday,they could ________ to tell their best friends.
A.never wait B.nearly wait C.hardly wait D.always wait
高一英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Now that newsrooms(新闻编辑室) are becoming less popular in the US,young people have begun to tell their own stories.
GlobalGirl Media,an organization that teaches teenage girls digital(数码的) storytelling skills for free,was started by award-winning filmmakers Amie Williams and Meena Nanji in Los Angeles in 2010.
“By giving girls a voice,you introduce a different story,and change the existing one,”said Danny Glover,a member of the GlobalGirl Media organization.
“When the camera’s in my hands,I feel like I can’t lose,”Said Cheyenne Grisez,14.“It makes me happy and I feel like I can do anything.”
On the final day of the summer academy in California,Williams worked with Grisez and Camila Prado,15, on a short film about Prado’s fight against an eating disorder(紊乱). In the film,Prado bravely interviewed her parents and sister about how she was able to beat her bad feelings and eating disorder. This film and others the girls had made were shown to parents and friends on the last day of the academy, celebrating their hard work.
“It’s their story,and nobody knows how to tell it better than they do.”Williams said.
“These girls are from really difficult backgrounds. They feel trapped sometimes. They feel alone.”Williams said.“The camera gives them a way to look at their world in a different way and get out of that feeling.’’
Girls in the program practice their skills and build confidence by going out in the community and interviewing people for the short films.Many of them had no experience, but found they had good storytelling skills.
“I work with these girls. Every day I leave gratefully,because I know that.due to the work we're doing with them,things will be better,”said GlobalGirl Media summer academy project director Heather Faison.
1.Why do many American girls like to tell stories using the camera?
A.Their parents hate to give them a hand.
B.They desire to improve their photo skills.
C.They can make profits from their documentaries.
D.The camera can help them out of their trouble.
2.What do we learn about GlobalGirl Media from the text?
A.It was founded by the government.
B.It gets much money from girl students.
C.It gives girls digital storytelling skills.
D.It has newsrooms in California.
3.What difficulty did Prado overcome by making her film?
A.Self-harm. B.Poor school scores.
C.An eating disorder. D.Teenage difficulty.
4.Who directed GlobalGirl Media summer academy project in California?
A.Heather Faison B.Amie Williams.
C.Danny Glover. D. Meena Nanji
高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
Now that newsrooms(新闻编辑室) are becoming less popular in the US,young people have begun to tell their own stories.
GlobalGirl Media,an organization that teaches teenage girls digital(数码的) storytelling skills for free,was started by award-winning filmmakers Amie Williams and Meena Nanji in Los Angeles in 2010.
“By giving girls a voice,you introduce a different story,and change the existing one,”said Danny Glover,a member of the GlobalGirl Media organization.
“When the camera’s in my hands,I feel like I can’t lose,”Said Cheyenne Grisez,14.“It makes me happy and I feel like I can do anything.”
On the final day of the summer academy in California,Williams worked with Grisez and Camila Prado,15, on a short film about Prado’s fight against an eating disorder(紊乱). In the film,Prado bravely interviewed her parents and sister about how she was able to beat her bad feelings and eating disorder. This film and others the girls had made were shown to parents and friends on the last day of the academy, celebrating their hard work.
“It’s their story,and nobody knows how to tell it better than they do.”Williams said.
“These girls are from really difficult backgrounds. They feel trapped sometimes. They feel alone.”Williams said.“The camera gives them a way to look at their world in a different way and get out of that feeling.’’
Girls in the program practice their skills and build confidence by going out in the community and interviewing people for the short films.Many of them had no experience, but found they had good storytelling skills.
“I work with these girls. Every day I leave gratefully,because I know that.due to the work we're doing with them,things will be better,”said GlobalGirl Media summer academy project director Heather Faison.
1.Why do many American girls like to tell stories using the camera?
A.Their parents hate to give them a hand.
B.They desire to improve their photo skills.
C.They can make profits from their documentaries.
D.The camera can help them out of their trouble.
2.What do we learn about GlobalGirl Media from the text?
A.It was founded by the government.
B.It gets much money from girl students.
C.It gives girls digital storytelling skills.
D.It has newsrooms in California.
3.What difficulty did Prado overcome by making her film?
A.Self-harm. B.Poor school scores.
C.An eating disorder. D.Teenage difficulty.
4.Who directed GlobalGirl Media summer academy project in California?
A.Heather Faison B.Amie Williams.
C.Danny Glover. D. Meena Nanji
高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
Adults usually do not remember most of the things that are taught by their teachers at school. But this story is one such lesson that I will never forget. Every time I drift off course, I think of this story.
It was a normal Monday morning, and my teacher was teaching us on important things in life and about devoting ourselves to what is important to us. This is how the story went:
An old man lived in a certain part of London, and he would wake up every morning and go to the subway. He would get onto the train right to Central London, and then sit at the street corner and beg. He would do this every single day of his life. He sat at the same street corner and begged for almost 20 years.
His house was dirty, and a stench (恶臭) came out of the house and it smelled terrible. The neighbors could not stand the smell any more, so they called for the police officers to clear the place. The officers knocked down the door and cleaned the house. There were small bags of money all over the house that he had collected over the years.
The police counted the money, and they soon realized that the old man was a millionaire (百万富翁). They waited outside his house expecting to share the good news with him. When the old man arrived home that evening, one of the officers told him that there was no need for him to beg any more as he was a rich man now, a millionaire.
But the old man said nothing at all; he went into his house and locked the door. The next morning he woke up as usual, went to the subway, sat at the street corner and continued to beg.
Clearly, this old man had no great plans, dreams or anything significant (有意义的) for his life. We learn nothing from this story other than staying focused on the things we enjoy doing.
1.The neighbor called the police because ______.
A.the old man kept begging money from them every day
B.there was something dangerous in the old man’s house
C.the old man wouldn’t buy tickets for the train
D.they couldn’t bear the smell from the old man’s house
2.When the old man knew he was a millionaire, he ______.
A.remained calm B.became excited
C.felt worried D.became nervous
3.What lesson do we learn from the story?
A.Make great plans for your life.
B.Keep on doing what you like.
C.Do something that is good to society.
D.Depend on yourself rather than others.
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Adults usually do not remember most of the things that are taught by their teachers at school. But this story is one such lesson that I will never forget. Every time I drift off course, I think of this story.
It was a normal Monday morning, and my teacher was teaching us on important things in life and about devoting ourselves to what is important to us. This is how the story went:
An old man lived in a certain part of London, and he would wake up every morning and go to the subway. He would get onto the train right to Central London, and then sit at the street corner and beg. He would do this every single day of his life. He sat at the same street corner and begged for almost 20 years.
His house was dirty, and a stench (恶臭) came out of the house and it smelled terrible. The neighbors could not stand the smell any more, so they called for the police officers to clear the place. The officers knocked down the door and cleaned the house. There were small bags of money all over the house that he had collected over the years.
The police counted the money, and they soon realized that the old man was a millionaire (百万富翁). They waited outside his house expecting to share the good news with him. When the old man arrived home that evening, one of the officers told him that there was no need for him to beg any more as he was a rich man now, a millionaire.
But the old man said nothing at all; he went into his house and locked the door. The next morning he woke up as usual, went to the subway, sat at the street corner and continued to beg.
Clearly, this old man had no great plans, dreams or anything significant (有意义的) for his life. We learn nothing from this story other than staying focused on the things we enjoy doing.
1.The neighbor called the police because ______.
A.the old man kept begging money from them every day
B.there was something dangerous in the old man’s house
C.the old man wouldn’t buy tickets for the train
D.they couldn’t bear the smell from the old man’s house
2.When the old man knew he was a millionaire, he ______.
A.remained calm B.became excited
C.felt worried D.became nervous
3.What lesson do we learn from the story?
A.Make great plans for your life.
B.Keep on doing what you like.
C.Do something that is good to society.
D.Depend on yourself rather than others.
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Adults(成年人)usually do not remember most of the things that are taught by their teachers at school. But this story is one such lesson that I will never forget. Every time I drift off course, I think of this story.
It was a normal Monday morning, and my teacher was teaching us on important things in life and about devoting ourselves to what is important to us. This is how the story went:
An old man lived in a certain part of London, and he would wake up every morning and go to the subway. He would get onto the train right to Central London, and then sit at the street corner and beg(乞讨). He would do this every single day of his life. He sat at the same street corner and begged for almost 20 years.
His house was dirty, and a stench (恶臭) came out of the house and it smelled terrible. The neighbors could not stand the smell any more, so they called for the police officers to clear the place. The officers knocked down the door and cleaned the house. There were small bags of money all over the house that he had collected over the years.
The police counted the money, and they soon realized that the old man was a millionaire (百万富翁). They waited outside his house expecting to share the good news with him. When the old man arrived home that evening, one of the officers told him that there was no need for him to beg any more as he was a rich man now, a millionaire.
But the old man said nothing at all; he went into his house and locked the door. The next morning he woke up as usual, went to the subway, sat at the street corner and continued to beg.
Clearly, this old man had no great plans, dreams or anything significant (有意义的) for his life. We learn nothing from this story other than(除了)staying focused on(专心于)the things we enjoy doing.
1.The underlined part in the first paragraph may mean ______.
A. I get tired of learning my subjects
B. I fail to listen to lessons attentively
C. I go in the wrong direction of life
D. I wouldn’t like to go to school
2.The neighbor called the police because ______.
A. the old man kept begging money from them every day
B. there was something dangerous in the old man’s house
C. the old man wouldn’t buy tickets for the train
D. they couldn’t bear the smell from the old man’s house
3.When the old man knew he was a millionaire, he ______.
A. remained calm B. became excited
C. felt worried D. became nervous
4.What lesson do we learn from the story?
A. Make great plans for your life.
B. Keep on doing what you like.
C. Do something that is good to society.
D. Depend on yourself rather than others.
高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
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1.What is Learn English for Kids?
A.A website. B.A center.
C.A course. D.A game.
2.What is special about English for Parents ?
A.Adults can share their views freely.
B.There are apps designed on the phones.
C.There are course offered at the centers.
D.Children can do some experiments.
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高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
In some Western countries, there are many opportunities for adults who want to improve their lives. There are public schools you can attend. In the schools, you can take things like English, arithmetic, and history. You can find classes in almost any subject you want to study. You may want to learn to type, sew, paint, or fix TV sets. You may want to learn more about trade you are already in. You may want to learn a new trade. You may want to get a high school diploma. You may even want to go to college. All it takes is time and effort.
In many cities, there are adult classes in the public schools. You can attend many of these classes without having to pay money. In some schools you may have to pay a small fee. There are also many kinds of private schools for adults.
In addition to schools, many industries and unions conduct on-the-job training programs. In these programs you hear about new ideas and learn new skills. Many large companies will send a worker to school if he or she has ability.
Many job opportunities are offered to those who wish to work. It helps if you know more than one language. There are good jobs for interpreters and typists who know English and another language.
There are many good jobs in government. In most cases, you must be a citizen of this country, and you must take a civil service examination. These examinations are open to everyone, regardless of race, religion, or color.
For many civil service jobs you need a high school diploma. The person who does not have a high school diploma can get one. There are several ways. You can study high school subjects at home and then take special tests. If you pass the tests, then you get a diploma. Or you can go to night school. There are classes that prepare you to take special tests to earn a diploma.
You can attend a night school that grants a high school diploma if you complete certain courses. If you do this, you do not have to take the special test.
Be as well trained as you can. Get as much training as you can. Opportunity knocks at every door. Be sure that when it knocks at your door you are ready.
1.According to the article, if you want to live a better life, you have to get__________.
A. some time B. an education C. new ideas D. new jobs
2.In many places, public schooling for adults is ____________________.
A. difficult B. easy C. free D. new
3.What does this article tell us?
A. Civil service jobs are offered to everyone.
B. Only a citizen can apply for a government job.
C. Training programs are often poorly organized.
D. Large companies will send most of their workers to school.
4.We can see that___________________________________.
A. well-trained people are often out of work
B. typists who know English earn much more money
C. one can work on a high school diploma at home
D. the person without a high school diploma can also get a civil service job
5.The purpose of adults’ going to night school is to_______________.
A. take special tasks B. complete certain courses
C. get more training D. get a diploma
高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析