MSG (monosodium glutamate) is a food additive (食品添加剂), which has been widely used by many food factories all over the world since it appeared first in Japan in 1909.
MSG is a substance that is added to some food to improve its original (原先的) taste and colour. It is used in foods around the world such as cakes, bread, frozen meats, fish and vegetables. In the beginning, people thought MSG was safe just like salt and sugar. However, in 1968 some people reported they seemed to have bad reactions (反应) to MSG after having had a meal at a restaurant. They included headaches and quick heartbeat (心跳). It was also reported that MSG excited a person's brain and caused his death in Japan. Scientists think that MSG may lead to many neurological disorders (神经紊乱). In mice studies done by a university, the evidence showed the mice didn’t want to eat the food including MSG.
Today many food companies “hide” MSG on food labels (标签) by using different names. If you see “natural flavorings”, “hydrolyzed protein” and “spices” in a food label, you are probably seeing a hidden way to “report” MSG in a food label. Every time we have a meal in a restaurant, we always feel the food very delicious to taste, but sometimes it is dangerous for our health because some poisonous food additives have been added to the food.
To protect people’s health, our governments, from central to local, are taking actions to stop factories producing poisonous food additives.Monosodium Glutamate is _______.
| A．a food | B．an additive |
| C．a factory | D．a country |
MSG is often used in _______.
| A．frozen meats | B．cups | C．clothes | D．book covers |
The examples in the second paragraph tell us ________.
| A．the food including MSG is delicious |
| B．people like to eat in a restaurant |
| C．mice like eating the food including MSG |
| D．MSG is not safe sometimes |
If you see “natural flavorings”, “hydrolyzed protein” and “spices” in a food label, you will know________.
| A．you must eat the food in a hidden way |
| B．the food label must be hidden |
| C．MSG is probably added to the food |
| D．you must report the food to your parents |
The underlined word “substance” in the article means __________.
| A．colour | B．material | C．taste | D．Food |
It was Mother’s Day. A man stopped his car at a flower shop to order some flowers. He wanted the shopper to send the flowers to his mother, who lived two hundred miles away.
As he got out of his car, he found a young girl sitting on the road crying.
He asked her what was wrong and she replied,“I want to buy a red rose for my mother, but I only have seventy-five cents. A rose costs two dollars.”
The man smiled and said, “Come into the shop with me, and I’ll buy you a rose.’
He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they were leaving, he offered to drive the girl home. She said, “Yes, please! You can take me to my mother.” She brought him to a cemetery(墓地), where she placed the rose on the grave.
The man was moved. He returned to the flower shop, picked up the flowers he ordered, and drove two hundred miles to his mother’s house.
Today is the day for your mother. Send a flower to your kind and beautiful mother.The man went to the shop to ________.
| A．have a rest | B．help the girl | C．buy some food | D．order some flowers |
The man’s mother lived ________ away from him.
| A．2 kilometers | B．75 miles | C．200 miles | D．200 kilometers |
The girl was crying on the road because ________.
| A．she was hungry |
| B．she got hurt |
| C．she couldn’t afford a rose |
| D．she couldn’t find her way home |
After the man bought the girl a rose, they went to ________ together.
| A．the cemetery | B．his shop | C．the girl’s home | D．his mother’s house |
We can learn from the passage that _________.
| A．the girl loved flowers very much |
| B．the girl loved her mother very much |
| C．the shopkeeper sent the flowers to the man’s mother |
| D．the man drove to his mother’s house to look after her |
下面是一些同学对课外活动的看法，请仔细阅读下列短文，按信息卡内容要求填入相关信息。
Mike Smith: We have many after-class activities in school—English corner, hand-writing lessons, playing basketball, playing chess, dancing and so on. Students in our school can choose any kind of activities they like.
Jane White: I’m a member of the music club in our school. I can learn different kind of music instruments. It’s fun.
Frank Green: I take park in drawing and English corner after class. I benefit a lot from the activities. I can not only improve my abilities of drawing and spoken English, but also make some new friends who have the same hobbies as me.
Amy young: Some teachers think after-class activities take up too much time. But as a student, I think it’s necessary for schools to give us the chance to improve our other abilities after class. We are under great pressure with too much homework and exams. We need time to relax.
Information card
| Kinds of after-class activities |
1 , hand-writing lessons, playing basketball, 2 , dancing, instrument playing and 3 |
| Advantages of after-class activities |
●a good chance to improve students’ other abilities ●a good chance to 4 ●to help students to 5 |
“No man is an island” is a well-known line from John Donne’s Devotion, written more than three hundred years ago. Even now people still agree with him. No one can live a completely isolated life. Without other people, life became empty and sad. We all need friends.
For some of us, though making friends is not difficult, feeling shy, we may not want to make the first move. It is also difficult at times to keep the friends we already have.
There are many books about friendship, but Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, written in 1936, is the most famous. This “how to” book about getting along with other people became a best-seller. It was later put into 28 languages.
Dale Carnegie’s advice seems to be simple, but can his advice help you? Do you need to change the way you act? Here is the list of advice from his book.
1. Be friendly and polite. Always greet with a smile. Begin with “excuse me” or “would you please”, when you want to ask somebody. Remember to say “thank you” and try to be as helpful as you can.
2. Go out of your way to be nice. Find some time to do special things for other people. Making some soup for a sick neighbor may seem like a little thing to you, but it will make your neighbor feel a lot better.
3. Remember names. They say that the sweetest music to a person’s ears is the sound of his or her own name.
4. Be open-minded. Try to understand other people’s ways and ideas and learn something from them.
5. Listen patiently. When someone is talking to you, look at him or her, listen carefully and say something when necessary.The underlined sentence “No one can live a completely isolated life” means “______” in this passage.
| A．No one can live a hard life |
| B．No one can live without difficulty |
| C．No one can live alone |
| D．No one can live on an island |
Some of us feel it not easy to make friends because ________.
| A．we are afraid to make bad friends |
| B．we are too shy to take the first action |
| C．we feel worried that we won’t be able to keep our friends |
| D．we feel sure that we already have enough friends |
We can learn from this passage that ________.
| A．John Donne learned something from Dale Carnegie |
| B．friends are always friends |
| C．few people bought Carnegie’s book |
| D．the writer of this passage agrees with John Donne and Dale Carnegie |
Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Carnegie’s book?
| A．Say “excuse me” before you ask. |
| B．Don’t visit your neighbor too often. |
| C．Think more about others. |
| D．People enjoy hearing their own names. |
The best possible title for this passage should be “________”.
| A．How to Make Friends |
| B．A Famous Book |
| C．About Friendship |
| D．John Donne and Dale Carnegie |
A survey was made about what to do if there was a fire. These are some of the replies.
| First name: Emily State or province: Illinois Country: USA Stay low, close to the ground and make your way outside. Then call the local emergency(急救)number from your neighbor’s house. This is the most important thing to do. Then wait for the firefighters(消防队员). |
| First name: Vanessa State or province: Texas Country: USA If there was a fire and I was in the shower, the first thing I would do would be to make all my clothes really wet and put them on. Then I would break the window with something and get out. If I couldn’t do that, I would lie down and leave the water running. |
| First name: Kystina State or province: Illinois Country: USA I’ve never actually been in a fire, but I know what to do. Sometimes at school we have fire drills so that we know what to do if there is a real fire. |
| First name: Henry State or province: Alaska Country: USA I would do what they did in the Great Fire, even though it did not happen in the real life. It was a very exciting story. |
Emily thinks that _____ is the most important thing to do if there is a fire.
| A．staying low |
| B．calling the emergency number |
| C．waiting for the firefighters |
| D．making the clothes wet |
_______ come from the same state.
| A．Vanessa and Henry | B．Emily and Kystina |
| C．Emily and Henry | D．Kystina and Henry |
Kystina would know what to do because ______.
| A．she was once in a real fire |
| B．she has read a story about a fire |
| C．she knew the emergency number |
| D．she sometimes has fire drills at school |
The Great Fire was ______.
| A．not a real fire |
| B．the biggest fire in history |
| C．a story that made people happy |
| D．a story that really happened |
Which of the following things is NOT mentioned in the passage if there is a fire?
| A．Making the clothes wet. |
| B．Waiting for the firefighters. |
| C．Putting out the fire by yourself. |
| D．Breaking the window and getting out. |
Nowadays, too much carbon dioxide makes the earth warmer and warmer and causes terrible effect to human beings. To save our planet and ourselves, a new lifestyle called low-carbon life becomes popular. Low carbon means low energy and no waste. It is necessary for everybody to learn to live a low-carbon life.
To live a low-carbon life, we’d better save energy as much as possible. Turn off the lights and TV whenever they are not needed. If possible, use cold water to wash clothes or dishes. Take a short shower and try to take a cold one when the weather gets warm. Don’t do the cooking with electricity.
To live a low-carbon life, we should eat less meat. Everybody knows eating too much meat makes people fat and easy to have heart disease, but maybe you don’t know keeping animals for food produces even more carbon dioxide than all the cars in the world, and being a vegetarian (素食主义者) can help reduce one and a half tons of carbon dioxide a year. Maybe it is a little difficult, but it’s really necessary.
To live a low-carbon life, we are supposed to do less shopping. When we go shopping, we may drive a car or take other transportations (交通工具). On one hand, these machines pollute the air and waste energy. On the other hand, most of us always buy some useless things because of some advertisements. It not only waste money but also causes trouble to the earth, because making everything will produce carbon dioxide more or less.
There are many other ways to live a low-carbon life, such as recycling things, planting trees and reusing textbooks. If we can keep it a habit in our daily life, the earth will become a safer planet for us to live on.
任务一：根据短文内容，用简洁的句子或短语完成下列表格。
| Advice |
How to Live a Low-Carbon Life |
| Advice 1 |
﹡ 1. |
| Advice 2 |
﹡ 2. |
| Advice 3 |
﹡ Take a short shower and try to take a cold one when it’s warm. |
| Advice 4 |
﹡ 3. |
| Advice 5 |
﹡ 4. |
| Advice 6 |
﹡ Be supposed to do less shopping. |
| Advice 7 |
﹡ Recycle things, plant trees and reuse textbooks. |
任务二：除了文中提到的建议外，你一定还有许多自己的想法，请写一条与大家分享吧。
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