Adventure in Africa
by Connie Lee Berry
Ages 7-9 85 pages Kid's Fun Press December 2007
Adventure in Africa is written for children aged between 7 and 9 and may just be my favorite book in the Incredible Journey Series. In this book the two main characters Max and Sam are taken to an African Safari camp. Even with all the care taken by the staff to ensure the safety and comfort of the camp, things do go wrong and the two brothers find themselves rescuing an elephant and their tour guide, while braving the native wildlife and habitat of Africa.
Adventure in Africa is one of four books in this series of fluent readers’ paperback travel adventure books by Connie Lee Berry. The font(字体) is quite large and there are roughly a dozen maps, images and pictures in the book, which will attract younger readers. As an extra attraction, the back cover of the book lists some activities for children to do.
The animal photos were exciting, especially when the boys were able to ride an elephant! The pictures on the cover look like regular photos of family vacations. A large, interactive （互动的） companion website (www.ijbooks.com) allows readers to join in activities, contests and a club.
The price of the book is only ＄3.95 (US) now,＄1 lower than before, and Adventure in Africa is a bargain. Hurry up to order one.
60. The book Adventure in Africa is written for _________.
A. all the readers B. young parents C. young kids D. high school students
61. From the first paragraph we get to know _________ of the book.
A. the general idea B. the design C. the author D. the price
62. The last word in the passage ‘bargain’ probably means ‘something _________.
A. cheap B. expensive C. useful D. priceless
63. The purpose of the writer is _________.
A. to tell readers something about Africa B. to ask readers to join in contests
C. to introduce the book D. to attract young readers to buy it
Recently some American scientists have given a useful sincere piece of advice to people in industrialized nations that they would be much healthier if they ate more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago.The scientists say that the human body has changed very little since humans first appeared on the earth, but the way we live has changed greatly. Our body has not been able to deal with these changes in life style and this has led to new kinds of sicknesses. These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times, so they are called “diseases of civilization”. Many cancers and diseases of the
blood system, including heart attacks and strokes ( 中风 ) are examples of such diseases.Scientists noted that people in both the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age enjoyed very little alcohol or tobacco, probably none. Ancient people also got a great deal of physical exercise, but a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and that of today.Stone-age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than domestic or tame ones ( 家畜 ). They also ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables and fruits. They didn’t have milk or any other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains. But today, we eat a large amount of these. We eat six times more salt than our remote ancestors. We eat more sugar. We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein and much less vitamin C.People today probably do not want to live the way people thousands of years ago did, but scientists say that we would be much healthier if we ate 
much the same way as remote ancestors did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet food.What is the main cause that people suffer from a lot of new sicknesses?
| A．Ancient people did a great deal of physical exercise. |
B．People today have a lot of alcohol. |
C．People today have more tobacco. |
D．Food today is quite different from that of ancient times. |
Which of the following belongs to the dairy products?
| A．Milk | B．Corn | C．Pork | D．Flour |
New kinds of sicknesses have been found because ________.
| A．the human body has changed compared with humans who first appeared on the earth |
B．the way we live has changed a little |
C．our body can’t deal with the changes in life style |
D．the way we live today is proper for the human body |
According to some scientists, Stone-age people were much healthier than people today because they ate a lot of ________.
| A．milk and other dairy products | B．salt and sugar |
C．wild animals, fresh wild vegetables and fruits | D．grain foods |
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| A．Part-time Shop Assistant. | B．Teaching Assistant in Hania's Playschool. |
C．Weekend Work in Rubberlast Group Ltd |
D．Teaching Assistant in the University of Bristol. |
If you have good computer skills and recently graduated from university (English degree), which jobs can you apply for?
| A．Job 1, 2 and 7. | B．Job 3, 4 and 6. | C．Job 4, 6 and 7. | D．Job 2, 3 and 5. |
Which is the only position that has a formal educational requirement?
| A．Full Time Secretary at United Business Ltd. |
B．Home Delivery Representative for Yorkshire Post. |
C．Teaching Assistant at Hania's Playschool. |
D．University Positions at the University of Bristol. |
How can you get more information if you are interested in the position of a full-time computer trained secretary?
| A．By telephone. | B．By letter. | C．By Internet. | D．In person. |
Eat, drink and be merry. That’s what Spring Festival is all about. But there are millions of people, too, who love to let happiness go up in smoke.Offering cigarettes to guests is a traditional Chinese way of showing respect to them. A cup of tea and cigarettes are perhaps the most common way of welcoming a guest in China, especially during festive occasions.No wonder, 40 percent of the people surveyed(调查) recently said they would smoke at least twice the usual number of cigarettes during the Spring Festival because of all those gatherings and parties. Only 20 percent of the respondents said they would refuse a cigarette when offered one. Why can’t the others do the same? Because they could be seen as being rude, said more than half in the respondents. 15 percent feared they could be taken as “someone who cannot get along well with others”.The Think-tank Research Centre for Health Development and sohu. com survey shows 61 percent Chinese think offering a cigarette is useful for socialising, and 52 percent have offered cigarettes to others. The study surveyed 3,800 people, and 64 percent of them were men.One-third of those surveyed were smokers, out of which 57 percent said they couldn’t give up smoking because of the offering-and-accepting culture. “People have accepted offering cigarettes as an effective way of making friends,” research centre director Wu Yiqun says.China has more than 350 million smokers, catering to the tobacco market that is worth 500 billion yuan. “The survey shows we still have a lot of work to do,” Wu says. “It is time to let people know that offering a cigarette is a bad habit and it should be given up immediately.”The passage is written with the purpose of ________.
| A．telling us a custom about the Chinese Spring Festival |
B．introducing a way to make friends with Chinese |
C．stopping smoking during the Chinese Spring Festival |
D．telling us that offering cigarett es is a bad habit |
The third paragraph mainly tells us ________.
A. the fact that smokers are greatly increasing during the festivalB. the reason why refusing cigarettes is acceptableC. the fact that many people have to smoke more cigarettes during the festivalD
. it is rude to attend parties without smoking cigarettes Which of the following may NOT be the reason that makes many people fail to refuse the offered cigarettes?
| A．It’s impolite to refuse. | B．Smoking is harmful for non-smokers. |
C．They want to be friendly | D．It’s a kind of social habit. |
The writer mentions the 500 billion yuan tobacco market because ________.
| A．the tobacco market is not developing smoothly |
B．the writer thinks that smoking wastes a lot of money |
C．smoking is helpful to the tobacco market |
D．the tobacco market attracts too many smokers |
We find that bright children are seldom held back by mixed-ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming(按能力分班) pupils. It does not consider the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have had effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright children. After all, it can be quite discouraging to be the bottom of the top grade.Besides, it is rather unreal to grade people just according to their intellectual(智力) ability. This is only one aspect of their total personality. We care much about the development of all the pupils’ abilities to the full, not just their study ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed-ability teaching does good to these aspects of learning.In our classrooms, we work in various ways. The pupils often work in groups; this gives them the chance to learn to work together, to share, and to develop leadership skills. They also learn how to deal with personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make decisions, to analyze(分析) an devaluate(评价)
and to communicate effectively. The pupils learn from each other as well as from the teachers.Sometimes the pupils work in pairs; sometimes they work on individual(个人) tasks, and they can do this at their own speed. They also have some formal class teaching when this is proper. We encourage our pupils to use the library, and we teach them the skills they need in order to do this well. An advanced pupil can do advanced work and it does not matter what age the child is. We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to achieve this goal.By “held back” in the first paragraph, the writer means “________”.
| A．made to remain in the same class | B．forced to study in the lower class |
C．drawn away form the ir studies |
D．prevented from advancing |
The writer’s purpose of writing this passage is to ________.
| A．argue for teaching bright and not-so-bright pupils in the same class |
B．advise pair work and group work for classroom activity |
C．offer advice on the proper use of the library |
D．tell us the importance of proper formal classroom teaching |
What would be the best title for the text?
| A．Pair work. | B．Group work. | C．Mixed-ability teaching | D．Individual tasks. |
A new study by a Penn State College of Medicine research team found that honey is a better and safer treatment for children than cough medicines.
Ian Paul, the study’s lead researcher, was motivated to test honey because treating coughs in children has recently become a sticky subject. Coughing is the body’s way of clearing irritated (受刺激的) airways to help you breathe. But too much coughing can irritate your lungs and throat even more. It can also make it tough to get the sleep your body needs to heal. Hoping to ease the suffering of their children, parents often give them cough medicines.
But there have never been any good studies showing that they work. Cough and cold medicines may also cause serious side effects. Hundreds of kids die in the hospital each year after receiving too much cough medicine by mistake. Last October, the US Food and Drug Administration suggested that parents should not give cough medicines to children under 6.
In order to search for a different solution, Paul designed a study that involved 105 kids who were sick with coughs and other cold conditions. At bedtime, the kids took buckwheat (荞麦) honey, honey-flavored (蜂蜜味的) DM (one of the most common ingredients in cough medicines), or no treatment. Parents and kids in the no-
-treatment group knew they weren’t getting anything, but the other two groups weren’t told which treatment they were getting.
The surveys showed that kids who swallowed about 2 teaspoons of buckwheat honey before bedtime coughed less and slept better than kids in the other groups. “When parents want something for their kids to take,” Paul says, “honey seems like the best option”.
But what gives honey its healing power? Substances called antioxidants (抗氧化剂) may be part of the answer. All honey contains antioxidants that protect our cells from damage. Studies show that antioxidant levels in the body rise after someone swallows honey.
Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?
| A．No cough medicines to children |
| B．Sweet solution to kids’ coughing |
| C．Best treatment for your cold |
| D．Cough medicines don’t work |
We can learn from Paragraph 2 that coughing ______.
| A．sometimes does good to people |
| B．can cure lung and throat diseases |
| C．is more harmful to children |
| D．helps improve children’s diet |
During Paul’s experiment, the kids who received treatment ______.
| A．seemed much worse than before |
| B．knew they weren’t getting anything |
| C．coughed less and slept better |
| D．had no idea what they swallowed |
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