Before you learned how to walk or talk, you learned how to snack. It started as a handful of Cheerios (面包圈) on your high chair tray (高腳椅), then some Goldfish Cookies after school. In fact, many teens snack as often as four times a day.

The top snack picks for teens are factory made desserts, salty snacks, candies, and fruit drinks. While unprocessed food like strawberries or cheese can give you what your body needs. Those aren’t the foods that are the easiest to get your hands on. Have you looked at the vending machine (投幣式自動(dòng)售貨機(jī)) or local convenience store recently? They’re not exactly filled with oranges or hard boiled eggs.

One reason: There’s less money to be made on real food, so companies have invented “snack food”, which are cheaper to make and take years to go bad.

Still, you buy them anyway. It’s hard not to, thanks to billions of dollars spent on snack-food marketing. You can see ads for these between-meal snacks everywhere— whether they’re TV ads or ads on a phone app. “Everywhere you go, you see ads to snack on the wrong kinds of foods.” says Margo Wootan. “The reason is simpler: The more you eat. the more money food companies make.”

EATING WRONG FOOD

You love chips and cookies. But they’re full of man-made materials and lack of nutrients (營養(yǎng)素) you need like iron.

Do it right: Junky snacks are OK sometimes, but always include fruit or vegetables with every meal or snacks.

REDUCING PROTEIN

Your store’s snack shelf is filled with things that are heavy on fat hut light on protein (蛋白質(zhì)), a nutrient that’s especially filling. So you end up eating more, but still feeling unsatisfied.

Do it right: Stay satisfied between meals by adding a healthy protein to your snacks, like a hard-boiled egg or cheese.

1.The first paragraph implies (暗示) that ________.

A.eating snacks is becoming our habit

B.snacks are the favourite food of babies

C.a teen usually eats four kinds of snacks at a time

2.Which is NO!’ included in the top snack picks for teens?

A.Salty snacks. B.Cheese. C.Fruit drinks.

3.Why isn’t there real food in vending machines?

A.Because it won’t bring more money for companies.

B.Because it isn’t what your body really needs.

C.Because it can’t be easily kept fresh.

4.From the passage, we can know that ________.

A.Margo Wootan supports the ads on snacks

B.Margo Wootan doesn’t mind the ads on snacks

C.Margo Wootan is against the ads on snacks

5.What might be the most suitable title for the passage?

A.Are you snacking to death?

B.Are you losing yourself in eating snacks?

C.Are you interested in keeping fit?

The growth in skyscrapers (摩天大樓) worldwide, most of which have large glass panes, has led to a great need for window washers. Though the job, which earns workers as much as $35 an hour, can be lucrative, accidents are not uncommon. However, the dangerous chore may soon be done by Ozmo, an intelligent window cleaning robot, with humans supervising (監(jiān)督) from the safety of the ground.

Much like humans, Ozmo, hanging off the sides of the building, uses its arms and brushes to clean the dirt and grime on the glass panes. A 3-D map of the building programmed into its system allows the robot to skillfully move up and down. Computer vision and touch sensors (傳感器) enable it to move out of the way in case of unexpected events, such as the sudden opening of a window. And the robot will self-correct and move around it so as not to break a window.

Unlike other window washers, the robot cleaner does not require soap or Windex to clean the glass. Instead, it uses purified water (純凈水) and a process called reverse osmosis (反滲透) to do the job. It is environmentally friendly.

While it takes three cleaners 480 hours each to clean the windows of a 40-story glass building, the robot will single-handedly complete the task in just 80 hours. However, unlike other robots, Ozmo will not replace human workers, only making their jobs safer. Human workers will control the robot from below.

Whether Ozmo, which is still undergoing testing, docs as good a job as humans remains to be seen. * Past efforts to use a robot to do this dangerous job have not been successful, because the machines do not have the same eye as humans and often miss the soot (煙垢) collected on window corners.

1.The underlined word “l(fā)ucrative” in the passant’ probably means “________”

A.安全的 B.危險(xiǎn)的 C.賺錢的

2.The second paragraph mainly tells us

A.why Ozmo is much more intelligent than human workers

B.how Ozmo works to clean the glass smartly

C.what makes Ozmo an intelligent window cleaning robot

3.What does Ozmo use to clean the glass?

A.Purified water. B.Soap. C.Grime or soot.

4.To finish the task of cleaning the windows of a 40-story glass building, Ozmo spends ________ hours less than a cleaner.

A.560 B.400 C.1,360

5.Which of the following is TRUE about Ozmo?

A.As an intelligent window cleaning robot. Ozmo is successful.

B.Ozmo does harm to the environment while cleaning the window.

C.Ozmo can make human window washers do their jobs safely.

Maybe you are a common student. You probably think you will never he a top student. This is not necessarily so. however. Anyone can become a better student if he or she wants to. Here’s how:

Plan your time carefully. When planning your work, you should make a list of things that you have to do. After making this list, you should make a plan of your time. First, spare your time for eating, sleeping, dressing, etc. Then decide a good, regular time for studying. As the saying goes, all work and no play makes Jack a dull hoy. 1. A weekly plan may not solve all your problems, but it will make you realize what is happening to your time.

Find a good place to study. Look around the house for a good study area. Keep this place, which may be a desk or simply a corner of your room, free of everything hut study materials. No games, radios or televisions. When you sit down to study, focus on the subject.

Makegood use of your time in class. 2. Listening carefully in class means less work later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says.

Study regularly. When you get home from school, go over your notes, preview the important point that your teacher is going to discuss the next day, and read that material. 3. If you do these things regularly, the material will become more meaningful, and you’ll remember it longer.

Develop a good attitude (態(tài)度) towards tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. They help you remember your new knowledge. The world won’t end if you don’t pass a test, so don’t he over worried.

4. You will probably discover them after you have tried these.

A.There are other methods that might help you with your studying.

B.Don’t forget to make enough time for amusement.

C.Make the most of class time to listen to everything the teacher says.

D.No one can become a top student unless he or she works hard.

E.This will help you understand the next class.

Many of us might want to take on traditional jobs when we grow up such as being a doctor or a lawyer. However, there are many more choices than just these that are available today.

In October, a jobhunting website Zhao pin. corn gave a report after surveying people who work in more than 800 different jobs in major Chinese cities. These jobs include early childhood educator, fitness coach and make-up artist. Most of the jobs pay well, with one in three workers making more than 8,000 yuan a month. The top-paying is vet about 29 percent of these animal doctors make over 20,000 yuan per month.

These workers’ educational background is also impressive (令人印象深刻的). Over 60 percent of the surveyed workers have a college degree or above, the report says. Most of the workers said they chose their jobs because of love and interest in the area. Many of the jobs are no longer taken by only one sex. For example, the report found that one-third of child care workers are men. These positions used to be filled almost only by women.

Many of these jobs are in the service industry. Economic (經(jīng)濟(jì)) development means more people are in greater need of high quality services, China News Service noted. For example, a number of people have started to raise pets. Pet owners spent about 4,800 yuan on one pet in 2019, an increase of 20 percent from 2018, Xinhua reported. The growing need for animal care, therefore, has encouraged more people to become vets.

1.What are vets?

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2.According to the passage, why did most workers choose their jobs?

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3.Are child care workers only women?

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4.With the development of economy, what do people need more now?

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5.How much did pet owners probably spend on one pet in 2018?

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Many got to know Emma Watson when she was only ten for playing smart Granger in the Hurry Potter movies. Now in her late twenties, she continues to shine as a successful actress.

Even though she grew up in the UK, Watson is able to speak in a US accent when she needs to, 當(dāng)她還是小孩子的時(shí)候，她常常跟著收音機(jī)唱美國歌曲。Later, when Watson started her acting career, she found a coach to help with her US accent, “I worked with a dialogue coach and I just put in the time to listen and practice it again and again until I felt comfortable speaking American English.” she told The New York Times.

Watson’s hard work won her many roles in Hollywood. “Her accent in the movie. The Bling Ring, from what I heard, is perfect,” US dialect expert Eric Singer said. “It’s a very perfect accent.”

Yet, as a famous actress, Watson faces many challenges, especially followed by paparazzi (狗仔隊(duì)). But being in showbiz (演藝圈) for year, the star has learned to keep her private life to herself, “I don’t want to be changeable: I can’t talk about my boyfriend in an interview and then expect people not to take paparazzi pictures of me walking around outside my home. 你不可能同時(shí)擁有二者。” She once told in public. “Always looking on the bright side is what really matters if you want to succeed. If life gives you lemons, make lemonade,”

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公益組織Helping Makes Perfect在新冠爆發(fā)期間，做了很多有意義的事情。假如你是中學(xué)生李華，得知其正在招募暑假志愿者，你很感興趣，請向該組織寫一封自薦信，內(nèi)容包括：

1、想成為志愿者的原因；2、說明優(yōu)勢：特長及愛好，相關(guān)經(jīng)歷，合作精神(至少兩點(diǎn))；3、希望得到回復(fù)。

注意：

1、80詞左右；

2、包含要點(diǎn)，行文連貫；

3、不得使用真實(shí)的姓名、校名和地名，書寫規(guī)范，美觀。

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I’m Li Hua, a middle school student. I heard a lot about Helping Makes Perfect during the outbreak of NCP.

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Yours,

Li Hua

The HZMB(港珠澳大橋) opened to the public ________October 24, 2018.

A.on B.in C.at

—Is that a watch?

—Yes. And ________watch is John’s.

A.a B.不填 C.the

—If you don’t know the date, please look at the ________.

—OK, Mrs. Green.

A.stamp B.calendar C.book

You’d better take an umbrella. It’s often ________in April in most areas of Sanming.

A.sunny B.rainy C.cloudy