Animals seem to have the sense to eat when th...

Animals seem to have the sense to eat when they are hungry and they do not eat more than their bodies need. It has been shown that rats will, when given a choice over a period of time, prefer water with vitamins(维生素) to water without vitamins even though there is no difference in taste or smell between the two water bottles. When a fragrant flavor was added to the vitamins-enriched water, the rats did seem to develop it and kept drinking it, even after the vitamins were switched to the clear water. In time, however, they broke the habit and went back to where the necessary vitamins were.

In a classic experiment, babies of 6 to 12 months old were placed in a cafeteria feeding arrangement, with a wide selection of baby food before them. They were given whatever food they pointed to or appeared interested in. We are told that at first they showed some unusual eating patterns, but over a period of time they managed to select well-balanced diet.

So, in choosing food, rats and babies do seem to know and act on what’s best for them. Apparently, there is a kind of “body wisdom”, which humans soon lose. Most of us do not eat as wisely as we could. Many of our food preferences are culturally determined and influenced by long-formed habits. Some people eat foxes, dogs and blackbirds, while we eat cows and pigs. So what people eat and how much they eat seems to be greatly influenced by what is going on around them.

1.In the experiment on rats, a fragrant flavor was added to the rats’ drinking water to _________.

A. test whether rats know which drink is good for them

B. encourage rats to drink vitamins-enriched water

C. find out rats’ preference in flavor

D. demonstrate the vitamins are tasteless

2.According to the passage, adults eating habits differ from those of babies because _________.

A. adults know better than babies what kind of food are good for their health

B. adults’ eating habits are closely related to the social and cultural customs

C. adults have more choices of food than babies in eating patterns

D. adults usually cannot resist the temptation of various delicious foods

3.As far as their eating habits are concerned, babies and rats are similar in that ________.

A. both prefer flavored food and drink

B. both have the same eating patterns

C. both have the wisdom to choose a balanced diet

D. both develop a taste for the same kinds of flavors

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Remember, from the moment they are born, our children have the ability to know when they are hungry – and they cry to let us know too! Of course, they also cry to let us know they are wet, hurt, or bored, but we soon learn to tell the difference and try to meet each need somehow. When we begin to feed them solid foods, they let us know when they have had enough by turning away from the spoon – or refusing the food back at us!

Why is it that once children are old enough to sit at the table their parents are often heard bargaining with them or threatening them to finish all their dinner? When we make our children eat up the plate that we filled, we don’t pay attention to their born ability to know how much, and what, their bodies need. Instead, we should allow them to use their own hunger feelings to determine how much they need, while we provide a balance of nutritious and “fun” foods. When we teach them about moderation and set a great example by living an active, healthy lifestyle, they will be less likely to develop weight problems later in life. Think of your slim friend who eats whatever she wants –but will refuse ice cream if she has had enough to eat!

“Eat all your dinner if you want dessert” translates to “you must overeat so I will reward you by letting you overeat some more!” By using sweets as a reward for good behavior, kids begin to believe sweets are really special and they may want them even more. Instead, by making dessert just another (small) part of an enjoyable meal, kids learn to “save room for dessert” instead of becoming a member of the “clean plate club.”

1. Children are born to know _______.

A. how to stay away from poison

B. how much they should take when hungry

C. meat is worse than vegetables

D. sugar is better than fat

2.The best way for parents to have their baby eat properly is to _____.

A. persuade them to eat as much as possible

B. act more funny when they are having a meal

C. set a great example by living an active and healthy lifestyle

D. cheat them into more delicious food

3.If you are one who eat enough but still stay slim, you may ______.

A. refuse to take more ice-cream after a good meal

B. Eat far less food than anyone else

C. go out for a run and take some more after going home

D. drink more water even though you are hungry

4.“Eat all your dinner if you want dessert” just mean _______.

A. your children’s healthy eating

B. a wrong signal of too much food

C. another better meal for a baby

D. a slimmer girl when growing up

5.The next passage may tell us _____.

A. how to have your baby eat more for its future height

B. how to guide your children to finish all the plates

C. why you should award your children more sweets

D. how to have your son be a real “good eater”

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It’s not always easy to eat healthy foods when others seem to eat whatever they want. Follow the tips and know that it will make a difference in your life.

What about sweet foods?

Everyone likes the taste of sweet foods! Small amounts of sweet foods can be part of a healthy meal plan. Sugary foods include soda, sweetened fruit drinks, honey, and candy. Desserts such as cakes, pies, cookies, and ice cream contain a lot of fat as well as sugar. If you choose to eat any of these sweet foods, just have a small amount at the end of a healthy meal. Have a piece of fruit if you are still hungry. Drink water, sugar-free soda, and sugar-free fruit drinks, if you are thirsty, instead of drinks that are all high in sugars.

How much should you eat?

Your height, weight, age, whether you are a boy or a girl, and how active you are will affect how much food you need to eat each day to stay at a healthy weight. Everyone is different. Talk to your doctor or diet expert about how much to eat, especially if you need to lose weight. If you take in more food than your body burns, you will gain weight. If you take in less food than your body burns, you will lose weight. Being active and eating smaller amounts of food and fewer sweet or fatty foods can help overweight kids lose weight in a healthy way. You will keep your heart healthy, too.

1.Which of the following desserts is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A.Cakes.          B.Pies.         C.Cheese.           D.Cookies.

2.How much we should eat will depend on the following EXCEPT___________.

A.our body size

B.the time we spend taking exercise

C.how old we are

D.the money our family earns

3.According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.The more food our body burns, the faster we will lose weight.

B.The more food we eat, the more food our body will burn.

C.The more active we are, the more food we need to eat.

D.The more food we eat, the more weight we will gain

4.The author advises overweight children to_________.

A.eat healthy foods and take regular exercise

B.pay much attention to their heart health

C.keep foods containing sugar and fat away

D.talk to their doctor and join a health club

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It’s not always easy to eat healthy foods when others seem to eat whatever they want. Follow the tips and know that it will make a difference in your life.

What about sweet foods?

Everyone likes the taste of sweet foods! Small amounts of sweet foods can be part of a healthy meal plan. Sugary foods include soda, sweetened fruit drinks, honey, and candy. Desserts such as cakes, pies, cookies, and ice cream contain a lot of fat as well as sugar. If you choose to eat any of these sweet foods, just have a small amount at the end of a healthy meal. Have a piece of fruit if you are still hungry. Drink water, sugar-free soda, and sugar-free fruit drinks, if you are thirsty, instead of drinks that are all high in sugars.

How much should you eat?

Your height, weight, age, whether you are a boy or a girl, and how active you are will affect how much food you need to eat each day to stay at a healthy weight. Everyone is different. Talk to your doctor or diet expert about how much to eat, especially if you need to lose weight. If you take in more food than your body burns, you will gain weight. If you take in less food than your body burns, you will lose weight. Being active and eating smaller amounts of food and fewer sweet or fatty foods can help overweight kids lose weight in a healthy way. You will keep your heart healthy, too.

67.Which of the following desserts is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A.Cakes.                     B.Pies.                        C.Cheese.                           D.Cookies.

68.How much we should eat will depend on the following EXCEPT___________.

A.our body size

B.the time we spend taking exercise

C.how old we are

D.the money our family earns

69.According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.The more food our body burns, the faster we will lose weight.

B.The more food we eat, the more food our body will burn.

C.The more active we are, the more food we need to eat.

D.The more food we eat, the more weight we will gain

70.The author advises overweight children to_________.

A.eat healthy foods and take regular exercise

B.pay much attention to their heart health

C.keep foods containing sugar and fat away

D.talk to their doctor and join a health club

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What are the speakers talking about?

A. What to eat for lunch.　　 B. Whether to eat out.　　 C. When to have lunch.

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Animals like the lion are known as carnivorous (meat-eating) animals. They feed on smaller animals. But many other animals eat grass or plants. They are called herbivorous (plant-eating) animals.

You may be surprised to learn that there are carnivorous plants as well as carnivorous animals. Plants that grow in poor soil need other food. They trap (catch by a trick) small insects (昆虫) and take their bodies as food.

The pitcher plant (猪笼草) is a common carnivorous plant. This plant has a clever trap like a pitcher or jar. It even has a lid to keep out of the rain. The mouth of the pitcher is covered with something sweet like honeydew(蜜露). Insects come to the plant to feed on the honeydew. When they have eaten all that is round the mouth, they go into the pitcher to look for more. There is more honeydew deep in the pitcher and they go down to feed on it. The inner wall of the pitcher is covered with fine hairs. These hairs point downwards so that the insects cannot climb out of the pitcher. They are trapped in it. They die there, and their bodies are taken as food by the plant.

1.Animals are divided into two kinds.

2.Which of the following is NOT true?

3.From this passage, we can mainly learn that       .

4.The text mainly talks about ___________________.

5.What kind of magazine can we find the text?

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We should have a sense of responsibility to do something to help ____ poor whenever they are in___ trouble.

A. 不填; the          B. the; the      C. the; the          D. the ;不填

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Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.

　I am one of those unlucky people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the place I was heading for.

　I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit（承认）that they didn’t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite（相反的）direction to that in which you should be going.

　If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.

　Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.

　Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions of my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.

1.What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?

2.Why did the writer consider himself to be an unlucky dog?

3.How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room?

4.Who showed the right way to the interviewee according to the passage?

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Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have just visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.

I am one of those unfortunate people who have a very poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still manage to get lost on my way there.

When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hoped that by some chance I would get to the spot I was heading for.

I am no longer too shy to ask people for directions, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit that they do not know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you cannot possibly hope to remember; and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite direction to that in which you should be going.

If anyone ever asks me the way somewhere，I always tell him/her that I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving him/her wrong directions, but even this can have embarrassing results.

Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building.

However, at this point, I decided it was too late to turn back and search him out of the crowd behind me, as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.

Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions to my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.

1.The author seems to be very frustrated by the fact that　 ____.

A. he is poor at giving directions

B. he is too shy to ask for direction to improve his sense of it

C. he is jealous of those who have excellent sense of direction

D. he is not born with an adequate sense of direction

2.Poor in recognizing the way, the author managed to ___.

A. go without asking anyone the way in the street

B. lose himself even visiting a place repeatedly

C. show others the way when necessary

D. go to his office all by himself

3.The author prefers not to ask the way now because ___.

A. he knows many people are just like him

B. he has been used to getting lost

C. he finds it hard to trust strangers

D. few people can give effective instructions

4.An example is given to show the narrator’s ___.

A. embarrassing encounter

B. successful escape

C. poor sense of direction

D. stupid response

5.The tone of the story is ___.

A. helpless　　　 B. proud

C. anxious　　　 D. humorous

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_____ hungry you are, you shouldn’t start to eat before the whole family gather around.

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