阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

According to Chinese medicine, the body is like a tree that lives through the seasons of nature, and it needs regular energy to stay healthy and prevent illness. The four important bodily organs need special energy in each season. We should eat special food and vegetables to protect them.

The liver, which enriches the blood with energy and cleans the bad things in the body, is replenished in spring time. We'd better eat onions, carrots and some vegetable leaves.

The heart seeks comfort and coolness from the heat in summer. Melons, pumpkins, cucumbers, tomatoes, and many fresh high­water vegetables have a cooling effect and should be eaten.

The lungs often make people suffer from colds, coughs, and sore throats in the dry fall season. They need to be replenished with food such as spinach, bananas, pears, potatoes.

The kidneys are the lowest organs in the body like the roots of a tree. They need protection in winter specially. Replenish the kidneys with vegetables like broccoli, green chard and some other green vegetables.

1．This passage is mainly about ________.

A．eating according to the seasons

B．what is good health

C．how to get enough energy

D．the importance of food

2．Which of the following has a cooling effect?

A．Onions.  B．Tomatoes.

C．Spinach.  D．Broccoli.

3．Which of the following is NOT true?

A．The liver can clean the bad things in your body.

B．Eating fresh high­water vegetables is good for heart in summer.

C．We needn't protect our hearts in winter.

D．The lungs often suffer from coughs in fall.

Katya knew she was not good at basketball, but she decided to try out for the basketball team anyway. She hoped she would improve with practice. When the team roster was posted the next day, Katya's name was not on the list.

Basketball was the latest of Katya's failures. Soccer was fun, but Katya was always bumping into her teammates. She had also tried art, but she drew even worse.

Katya was good at reading, though. She read about all kinds of sports. She also read about art. Then one day she found a book about photography in the library. She couldn't take her eyes off the beautiful black­and­white photos, and she imagined herself taking pictures.

Katya's brother, Alex, had an old camera. Katya began to take photos. One afternoon she showed up at basketball practice and took photos of her friends playing ball. Three days later the pictures were ready.

Katya decided to show the photos to Alex. He took the packet and laid all the photos on the table. He looked at each shot for a long time. Then he pointed to one of the pictures. “That's a great shot. I think you've found something you're really good at，” he said.

In the photo Katya's friend Kim was shooting a basketball. Her feet were high off the floor, and her arms were above her head in a position that made Kim look like a ballerina. Actually, her friend looked more like a dancer than a ballplayer.

Katya smiled. “So this is what it feels like to be good at doing something you like，” she thought.

1．Who helps Katya realize that there is something she can do well?

A．Her friend.                   B．Her teammates.

C．Her brother.                   D．Her coach.

2．What does the underlined word“roster” in Paragraph 1 mean?

  A．Team.          B．Name.

C．List.              D．Day.

3．Why does the author compare the basketball player in one of Katya's photos to a ballet dancer?

A．The basketball player looks beautiful.

B．The photo is in black and white.

C．The photo was taken at a theater.

D．The basketball player is wearing a uniform.

4．Which word best describes Katya?

A．Lazy.     B．Funny.

C．Athletic.   D．Determined(坚定的)．

Clothing is a language.It tells us about individual people：their personality, their age, their place in society and so on.If we want to know more about a society, we can look at traditional clothing.

The continent of Africa has a long history and a rich culture, and this is shown in traditional dress.You often find three colours—red, gold and green in the clothing.The first colour stands for the blood of millions of people who suffered as slaves；the second is the rich resources of the African earth；and the third represents the grasslands of home.

The  patterns on the clothing also have a meaning.A common pattern is in the form of a cross“X”， which stands for “unity”．Another pattern is a rectangular(长方形的)box, which represents “strength”．Because clothing has a strong social meaning, people are very careful in choosing what to wear.It would be a serious mistake to wear the wrong clothing, or to wear clothes in the wrong way. For instance, in Ghana, a woman should wear her waistband(腰带) differently according to the importance of the social event.

Traditional dress also tells us about everyday life.African designs are famous.Wide temperature range requires that the clothes be comfortable for daily life.

Although many people wear western clothes particularly in big cities in Africa, traditional African dress is very highly valued.This is because it has deep cultural meanings.

1．The main theme of this passage is________.

A．the history of clothes in Africa

B．modern fashion styles in Africa

C．the meanings of traditional dress in Africa

D．the materials used in traditional dress in Africa

2．According to the passage, red________.

A．represents the setting sun

B．stands for African unity

C．is chosen because it is a bright colour

D．is a reminder of the sad history in Africa

3．Gold stands for________.

A．the hot sun  B．strength

C．wealth  D．happiness

4．Traditional dress should also be practical because________.

A．it needs to keep people dry in the rainy season

B．people wear it in the big cities

C．it needs to protect people from the climate

D．it has deep cultural meanings

Could your best friend make you fat?

Researchers who have studied“networks”of obesity(肥胖) think so：they found that if someone's friend becomes obese, that person's chances of becoming obese increase by more than half.

Brothers or sisters and a husband or a wife also have an influence, although reduced_people whose brothers or sisters became obese were 40 percent more likely to grow obese, while people whose husband or wife became obese were 37 percent more likely to.

“This is the first study to show how obesity spreads through the social network from person to person，”James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, who worked on the study, told in a telephone interviewing.

The researchers said their findings show that obesity is contagious—not like a virus which is contagious, but in a social sense.

It may help explain why obesity is worsening across the United States, with two­thirds of Americans over­weight and almost a third technically obese.

“It has become very popular to speak of the obesity epidemic.We began to wonder if it is truly an epidemic，”Dr.Nicholas Christakis, a professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, told the briefing.

“We think that these findings reinforce(加强) the idea that obesity is not just an individual problem but a collective problem，”Christakis said.

“People look around them and see people gaining weight and it might change their attitude about what constitutes an acceptable body size，”he added.“You might say it's OK to be heavier.”

1．The underlined phrase“reduced people”refers to______.

A．the influence of people is smaller and smaller

B．fat persons are having less and less friends

C．the number of fat persons is decreasing largely

D．persons are becoming thinner and thinner

2．What's the new finding of researchers in the passage?

A．Obesity is popular with Americans.

B．Obesity spreads from person to person.

C．Obesity can be spread like a virus.

D．Obesity is becoming an epidemic.

3．In what aspect do your fat friends have an impact on you?

A．They may influence you how to choose a lover.

B．They may assist you in forming a life value.

C．They may change your attitudes towards obesity.

D．They may help you understand what obesity is.

4．From the passage，we can infer that________.

A．it's better not to make friends with fat persons

B．obesity is a kind of disease that can spread

C．most Americans think obesity is a kind of beauty

D．it needs a collective effort to deal with obesity

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Although many Chinese students say that their knowledge of English grammar is good, most would admit that their spoken English is poor.Whenever I speak to a Chinese student, they always say, “My spoken English is poor.”__1_I would like to suggest that there may be some reasons for their problems with spoken English.

First, they fail to find suitable words to express themselves due to a limited vocabulary.__2_ However, you can speak with a limited vocabulary, if you choose a positive attitude.Others will follow you as long as  you use the words that you know.

__3__Sometimes they make mistakes when they are speaking because they are shy and nervous.Yet students should remember that their goal should be fluency not accuracy.Your aim in writing is to be accurate following the rules of grammar and using the right words and spelling them correctly.However, in speaking your aim is fluency.You want to get your message across to talk to someone in English, as quickly and as well as you can, even though sometimes you may use a wrong word or tense, but it doesn't matter.__4__

The third reason is that not enough attention is paid to listening.You have one mouth but two ears！All that hearing is necessary for you to start speaking.

Fourth, most Chinese students are reactive rather than proactive language learners.Instead of actively seeking out opportunities to improve their spoken English, they passively wait for speaking opportunities to come to them and wonder why their English always remains poor.__5__

A．The person you are speaking to will understand you and make allowances for any mistakes he hears.

B．They may try to avoid making similar mistakes next time.

C．Obviously the better answer is to expand their vocabulary.

D．If you have this proactive outlook, then you will see English opportunities wherever you go.

E．However, their spoken English does not have to remain“poor”！

F．Second, they are afraid of making mistakes.

G．The second reason lies in the reluctance of using what has just been learned.