Exercise. Get fit. Watch your weight. We see these messages all around us in magazines and newspapers, but how do you choose the right activity?

  There are three main goals for fitness. First, strengthening the heart and lungs. Second, strengthening the muscles. Third, controlling body weight. Not all activities will meet each goal. You may center on one goal or, for total fitness, all three.

Running

  No other exercise will help you lose weight faster than running. It also strengthens your heart, lungs, and leg muscles. But it can hurt your joints. If you feel pain in your knees, you need to stop and choose a different activity.

Walking

  This activity puts less stress on the body than running. But to see results you need to get your heart beating faster. This means you’ll need to walk fast.

Swimming

  Swimming is a great way to strengthen different pasts of your body. But if weight loss is your goal, you may want to pass on the pool. The water in a swimming pool is cooler than our body temperature. The body naturally protects itself from the cold by keeping fat.

Cycling

  Riding a bicycle will help you lose weight and work your leg muscles. But be careful! If you live in the city, stay on bike path, away from traffic. Or you can ride indoors on a stationary bike.

Weight lifting

  We often hear of elderly people falling and hurting themselves. They just don’t have the strength to catch themselves. Lifting weights can prevent that. It also helps prevent injury form other activities. The drawback to weight lifting is that you’ll need to pay for a membership at a gym.

68. Running can help you a lot, but it can’t ______.

     A. strengthen your heart and lungs

     B. strengthen leg muscles

     C. control body weight

     D. prevent pains in your joints

69. You can choose any activity below to lose your weight except ______.

      A. running                 B. walking          C. swimming             D. cycling

70. Which of the following statements is not mentioned in the text?

     A. Running is the fastest way of loosing weight.

     B. You need to walk fast in order to build up your strength.

     C. Cycling is the perfect way to get total fitness.

      D. You need to pay for a membership at a gym if you want to exercise weight lifting.

     Four hundred and three babies are crying loudly. Do you know how to make them quiet in 41 seconds? There is an amazing new product on sale in Japan which does exactly this. It is an LP (a long-playing record) of sounds from inside a mother’s body, which a hospital doctor recorded. In tests with the record she played the LP to 403 crying babies. After 41 seconds not one baby was crying and 161 of them were sleeping.

　The record began as an experiment by Professor Hajime Minooka of the Nippon Medical University near Tokyo. He was looking for something natural that helped new-born babies go to sleep. The sound of the mothers’ heart-beat and other body sounds are the things the babies heard inside their mothers. They feel safe and happy when they hear these sounds again. And they go to sleep.
　Hospitals in Osaka and Tokyo are using the LP. 10, 000 young couples are using it too. Toshiba Music Company who makes and sells the records is very happy. One and a half million couples marry every year in Japan. Many will have babies, so the LP will definitely be a hit!

65.   Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
      A. About 55% of the crying babies fell asleep after 41 seconds hearing the LP.

     B. The LP sounds were first recorded by Professor Hajime Minooka.

     C. The LP is produced and sold by Toshiba Music Company.

     D. One million and a half babies are born in Japan every year.

66. Babies feel ______ when they hear these LP sounds.

     A. the sounds to be their mothers’ voices
     B. as if they were inside their mothers
     C. the music natural and soft
     D. themselves sleeping together with their mothers

67. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
     A. The LP will be a popular thing in the future

      B. Hospitals in Osaka and Tokyo will make a lot of money

      C. New-born babies are sensitive to music　     　  

     D. More babies will be born in Japan

“WHAT is the right weight for my height?” is one of the most common questions both boys and girls ask. With the summer holidays coming, many teenagers are thinking about how to get fit, in relation to their weight.

Because people have different body types, there is no single weight that is right for everyone. But there is a healthy weight range（范圍）for your height. It is called the Body Mass Index, or BMI. BMI is a formula that doctors use to see how much body fat a person has, based on his or her weight and height.

 BMI = weight (in kilograms) / height2 (in meters). For adults, a BMI between 18.4 and 25 is healthy. For example, if a person is 1.75 meters, his standard weight should be between 56 kg and 76 kg. But things are more complicated for teens and children.

Young people go through a period of fast growth, called puberty (青春期). In this period the body begins making hormones (荷爾蒙) that cause great physical changes, like faster muscle growth and gains in height and weight.

The average person can expect to grow by as much as 25 centimeters during puberty before he or she reaches full adult height. But not everyone grows and develops at the same speed. Girls and boys differ greatly in the way they change as they grow.

This is why BMIs for teens are different according to gender（性別） and age. Doctors use the different percentiles (百分點) on a chart to decide whether teenagers or children are underweight or overweight.

A teen above the 95th percentile is considered overweight because 95 per cent of their age group have a smaller BMI. A teen below the 5th percentile is considered underweight.

Sounds complicated? To say it in an easy way, if you are a 16-year-old girl, your BMI should be between 17 to 24.7, as for boys of the same age, a healthy BMI score is between 17 and 24. 

62. What is the purpose of the story?
     A. To tell you how to keep fit.
     B. To tell you a healthy range for your height.
     C. To explain BMI.
     D. To show how different boys and girls are during puberty.
  63. The word “complicated” in Paragraph 3 probably means ______.
     A. different                  B. interesting                C. hard to explain             D. surprising
  64. How do doctors decide whether a teenager is underweight or overweight?
     A. By checking whether their BMI is between 18.4 and 25.
     B. By using a BMI chart showing different percentiles.
     C. By checking whether their BMI is between 95% and 10%.
     D. By visiting a health website.

When the six best students from different cities in Guangdong province all together chose universities in Hong Kong; when the very best student of Beijing picked up HK university while giving up the nearby Peking or Tsinghua University; when the highest enrollment(錄取) rate of Hong Kong Science and Industry university reached 48:1, it’s the high time to ask where the real education heaven for students in China is.

Years ago, the answer certainly would be Peking or Tsinghua University. But now no one could give the exact reaction without hesitation. The only sure thing is that HK universities have gradually showed an unusual attraction to a great many mainland students.

It’s no doubt to call this HK craze(狂熱), which is even out of the expectation of those HK universities themselves.

  How can HK universities shake the steady foundations of Peking and Tsinghua and attract so many mainland students?

First, Hong Kong universities offer large-amount scholarship, especially for the top students who can receive the sum scholarship as much as 400,000

Second, most HK universities receive professors and students from all over the world and carry out bilingual(雙語) education. This kind of excellent language atmosphere is another attraction for mainland students.

Furthermore, university students in Hong Kong have a better chance to study abroad as exchange students.

The fierce competition brought by HK universities can be a good thing for an entire improvement of education in China.

At least, it reminded the mainland universities the tuition fees(學費) are among students’ top concern when they are choosing universities. It’s time to move.

59. Top students from mainland apply for HK universities because ______.

   A. many students now would love to study abroad to get a better experience

   B. they concern only about the tuition fees when choosing universities

   C. Peking University has lost its worldwide reputation

   D. HK universities offer higher scholarship, better environment and more opportunities for their            further study

60. What is the author’s attitude toward the competition brought by HK universities?

   A. Universities both in mainland and in HK will get an entire improvement during the competition.

   B. Only by lowering their tuition fees can mainland universities win back the top students.

   C. The government should take relevant measures to stop this unfair competition.

   D. It may probably cause a complete loss to both sides in the end.

61. From the passage we can see HK universities ______.

   A. didn’t mean to enroll top students from mainland

   B. have strict enrollment rules and only 1 out of 48 students can get the chance to study there

   C. didn’t expect their enrollment of mainland students would be so popular

      D. are proud of their teaching staff and facilities

   The mayor of a small town invited a wise man to dinner. The town’s economy was bad and the local people were disappointed. They wanted this wise man to give them some help.

   During his speech, the wise man took a large piece of white paper and made a small black dot in the centre of it with a marker pen. Then he held the paper up before the group and asked them what they saw.

   One person quickly replied, “I see a black dot.”     

   “Okay, what else do you see?”

   Others joined in agreement, “A black dot.”

   “Don’t you see anything besides the dot?” he asked.

   “No,” all of them replied.

   “What about the piece of paper?” asked the wise man. “I am sure you have all seen it,” he said, “but you have chosen to overlook it.”

   “In life, we often overlook many wonderful things that we have, or that happen around us and we only focus on small, dot-like failures and problems. The so-called ‘problems’ that we have are usually like the black dot on the paper. They are small and unimportant if we can look at the whole picture.”

   Are you one of the people who focus on dot-like problems?

56.  Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?                                          

  A. The people in the town didn’t believe the wise.   

  B. The wise man took out a piece of paper to test the people’s eyes.

  C. The people in the town were very rich.

  D. The people in the town were worried about their economy.

57. According to the wise man, “the black dot” represents ______.

  A. problems in life                                     B. things people like

  C. people’s lives                                     D. the centre of the paper

58. What did the wise man think according to the passage?

  A. The people in the town were foolish.

  B. There was something wrong with the people’s eyes.

  C. Things were not so bad as the people thought.   

  D. The town’s economy was in serious trouble.

Only after his mother came home ______ to watch TV.

     A. was he allowed        B. he was allowed       C. did he allow            D. he did allow

______ was found on the ground confirmed that fall had arrived in Canada.

     A. It                          B. That                     C. What                    D. When

When I saw him on the street, Roger was a bag of bones, and ______.

     A. in time                  B. in surprise               C. in rags                    D. in ruins

A basketball team is about to be organized; there is a good chance ______ I can join.

     A. in which                B. that                       C. for which              D. when

In this way they could ______ the fat and increased the fiber in the meal.

     A. cut off                   B. rid of                     C. cut down                D. settle down