Zhang Zhaojie, a 13-year-old schoolboy in Xiamen enjoyed many snacks during Spring Festival. “I love chocolate and chips very much. They are high in sugar and fat. But I can’t help eating them,” Zhang said.
Recently, an online list of favorite snacks in China became popular. It said that peanuts, walnuts and chocolate are good for our health, and jelly, potato chips and lollipops(棒棒糖) are “bad”. Almost every kid on the planet loves snacks, and they seldom care how healthy they are. Although some snacks like chocolate and candy are found everywhere, others are unique(独特的) to a country or a culture.
In Japan, Matcha(抹茶) is a kind of green tea powder. It’s made from tea leaves and can be used with ice cream or cakes. In fact, Matcha originated in China but took off in Japan. Biscuits or cookies covered with chocolate are also a Japanese favorite.
Potato chips and French fries are very popular in the US. They are cheap but tasty. But they are high in calories and eating too much may make you fat. Popcorn(爆米花) is another typical snack. People eat it when they are watching sports games or visiting the amusement park. Most cinemas also sell Popcorn.
In the UK, many people sit down for snacks at around 4 p.m. every day. They call it “afternoon tea”. Traditional afternoon tea is biscuits and tea. People also have scones(烤饼) with jam and cream, which is probably the most classic English snack.
| Countries |
Snacks |
What it is like |
| Japan |
Matcha |
★a kind of green tea powder made from |
| ★often used with ice cream or cakes |
||
| Biscuits or cookies |
★usually have |
|
| The US |
★cheap and tasty |
|
| Popcorn |
★when watching sports games and |
|
| ★when visiting the amusement park |
||
| The UK |
Biscuits and tea |
★the traditional afternoon tea |
| Scones |
★eaten with |
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In this unlikely place, researchers are putting the seeds from flowering plants and trees in a sleeplike state. Many years from now, other workers will wake the sleeping seeds up to plant them they are most needed. These seeds are
the legendary Rip Van Winkle, who fell asleep under a tree and woke up 20 years later.
The small farm, called the Greenbelt Native Plant Center, is part of a global effort to save(threaten) plants and trees. Around the world, native plants are being crowded out by invasion newcomers. Native plants have less room to grow now
a result of the growth and spread of cities. And global warming is making some places hotter, drier, or different from
native plants are used to.
Experts used to thinkpossible to protect big-city plants such as American bittersweet because growth space is limited in urban environments. Crowding increases competition between natives and invaders, and the latter often win the battle.
, scientists have found ways
fighting back. So far, workers at the Greenbelt Native Plant center
(gather) seeds from about 300 of those plants and put them in a sleeplike state. When
(plant) in the future ,these seeds could help restore damaged parkland and forests.
第二节语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
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Jean is a 17-year-old high school student. On Saturday mornings, Jean and her friends take part in the program 31 (call) SAVE THE KIDS. They travel to a poor area of Washington D.C. They help younger students learn 32 to read and to solve mathematics problems. Many American teenagers join in programs 33 serve their communities. On weekends Jean sometimes works at an ice-cream store. When she is not working, she gets together with her girlfriends. They might go to a movie, to a shopping mall or to an eating place. Or they might attend 34 sports event of their high school. They also often stay at one girl’s house for the night.
35 teenagers in most parts of the country, Jean began driving a car when she was 16 years old. She does not have her car, however. She must 36 the family car with her parents. About 70 percent of American teenagers have their own cars. Many of them drive their cars to school every day. Jean does not smoke cigarettes 37 drink alcohol. 38 do her friends. But many teenagers at her school do. Drinking alcohol is a major problem there. Every weekend teenagers have parties, where they drink alcohol. Then they drive to other parties. People under the age of 21 39 (not allow) to drink alcohol in the United States. And it is 40 (danger) to drink and drive a car. Yet this does not stop some teenagers.
第二节：语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31—40的相应位置上。
Sometimes Chinese English teachers are puzzled by __31____ questions, “Have you got any skills in reading comprehension?” Actually, many of the teachers can’t give students 32__ efficient way to deal with reading. Anyway, __33____ often simply say, “Read more and practise more, and you 34 __ (get) more experience in reading comprehension.” Frankly, these teachers’ good 35 __ (suggest) are only helpful to arouse students’ interest in reading 36 __ not helpful to deal with the questions in the examinations of reading comprehension. Personally, I think the skill for reading comprehension should be based 37__ the knowledge of English writing. Since the English passages are written under some rules or principles, the science of reading and understanding may have a close relationship with writing. Reading comprehension can’t be independent from the knowledge of writing. So __38____ (do) better in reading comprehension, we should learn the knowledge of writing, study __39____ questions are designed and the relationship __40____ questions and the reading materials.
第二节：语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31-40的相应位置上。
Many patients who don’t want to tell their doctor how much they really drink are often more honest with a computer. The computer __31__ (use) for this purpose is programmed to be friendly. For example, if a patient called Ann says that __32__ her parents are dead, the computer will say: “I’m sorry to hear that, Ann.” Apart from expressing sympathy, the computer __33___ also question and remind. If a patient says he __34__ drinks alcohol, the computer can ask him, “Never? Not even at parties or at Christmas?” Does this direct contact __35__the patient and the computer mean that we do not need doctors any more?
It depends. Computers are useful __36__ they do not look shocked if you say you drink two bottles of whisky __37__day. And they do not stop to talk on the phone as doctors often do.
But ___38___ a doctor said, “We smile and we give a patient a handkerchief or put arm around her shoulder if she __39__ (cry). That is ___40___ people will always want us.”
第二节：语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答卷标号为31~40的相应位置。
When someone says “Well, I guess I’ll face the music.”, he doesn’t mean that (31)_______
is planning to go to a concert. It is something far less happy, as you are (32)________ (call) in by your boss to explain why you did this or did that, or (33)______you did not do this or that.
At some time (34)______ another, every one of us has to “face the music”, (35)________
(especial) as children, we can all remember father’s angry words “I want to talk to you!” And it was only because we did not listen to him. (36)_____ a bad thing it was!
In the middle or at the end of every term, some students have to “face the music”. The result of the exam will decide (37)______they will have to face the music or not. There might be parents’ blame and the contempt (轻视) of the teachers and other (38)___________(classmate).
The phrase “to face the music” is well known to every American, (39)_____ or old. It is at least 100 years old. It originally means that you have to do something (40)_______ (brave), no matter how terrible the whole thing might be, because you know you have no choice.
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