I feel very excited at the thought that in another week I’ll be with you again on holiday.

  I enjoy my stay in England very much indeed.My host and my fellow-students are all very nice to me, but as they say in England, “There’s no place like home”, and I think you will feel this above all at Christmas time.

  I’m leaving here early on Thursday, the 23rd, and I will be arriving in Paris on Friday morning.So I will be home about lunch time Please meet me at the station.In some of my earlier letters I have told you all about the other students here.Well, I want to ask my Canadian friend, Ken, to come and spend Christmas, and he has no friends in England except me.He is a very nice boy.I know you will like him and I feel sure he will enjoy Christmas with us.But I haven’t invited him yet.Please let me know soon if that’s all right.I’ve got some Christmas presents for you all, but I’m not going to tell you what they are, so it will be a surprise.

  How are you all at home?I hope you are keeping well.Make sure that father always puts on his big coat when he goes out so that he will not catch a cold.We don’t want him ill for Christmas.

(1)

The passage is part of a ________.

[  ]

A.

short story

B.

novel

C.

letter

D.

report

(2)

The writer is probably ________.

[  ]

A.

an English woman

B.

a French woman

C.

a Canadian

D.

an American

(3)

The writer feels very excited because ________.

[  ]

A.

she enjoys her stay in England very much

B.

She will have her friend spend Christmas with her family

C.

She will soon be with her family

D.

She has got some Christmas for her family

(4)

The saying “There’s no place like home” means ________.

[  ]

A.

There’s no place in the world which looks like home

B.

One feels best when one is at home with one’s own people

C.

Things at home are much better than things in other places

D.

Our own home is in every way better than anyone else’s home

(5)

The word“they”in the first paragraph means ________.

[  ]

A.

my host and my fellow-students

B.

the English people

C.

people I met in England

D.

some people in England

答案:1.C;2.B;3.C;4.B;5.B;
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Breaking Bad Eating -Habits

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  Bad habit 1:_________

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  Bad habit 2:_________

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  Bad habit 3:_________

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  Bad habit 4:_________

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a.You are a fast eater.

b.You often don't eat breakfast.

c.All your meals come in packages.

d.You snack too much.

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2.列舉出文中提到的三種packaged foods:

_________ _________ _________

3.根據(jù)上下文,將文中劃線句子譯成漢語

It takes your baby at least 20 minutes to “tell” your brain that you are full.

__________________________

4.根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容完成句子。

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5.回答問題;How can you eat snacks healthily?(至少答出兩種方式)

__________________________

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Your heaith depends on the food you eat.

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  take phrasal verbs

  take after sb, phr. v [T not in progressive form]to look or behave like (an older relative): Mary really takes after her mother; she has the same eyes, nose and hair.

  take off phr. v

  1.[T](take sth, off) to remove (esp. clothes): Take your coat of f. opposite put on.

  2.[I](of a plane, spacecraft, etc.) to rise into the air at the beginning of a flight.

  3.[T](take sb. off) informal to copy the speech or manners of (someone), esp. for amusement; mimic: The actor made everyone laugh by taking off the members of the royal family.

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  5.[I]to begin to become successful, popular, or well-known: It was at this point that her acting career really took off.

  6.[I]informal to go away, esp. on a journey or to leave in a hurry: She just took off without saying goodbye to anyone.

  take (sth.) over phr. v

  [I; T]to gain control over and be responsible for (something): Who do you think will take over now that the governor has Left./I'm feeling too tired to drive any more; will you take over?

  take to sb./sth. phr. v

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  take sb./sth, up phr. v [T]

  1.to begin to spend time doing; interest oneself in:John took up acting while he was at college. [+-ving]Alfred's just taken up playing the guitar.

  2.(of things or events) to fill or use (space or time) esp. in a way that is unpleasant:The job took up most of Sunday./These boxes of yours are taking up too much space.

  3.to continue:I'll take up the story where I finished yesterday.

  注釋:amusement n.娛樂活動(dòng)  gain vt.獲得

  mimic adj.模擬的  responsible adj.有責(zé)任的

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1.Which “take off” in the following sentences has a different meaning?

[  ]

A.I took a week off in October and I'm taking off Thanksgiving, too.

B.Everyone takes Christmas off.

C.She used to take off her teacher to make her friends laugh.

D.You need a break. Why not take a fortnight off from work?

2.Melissa ________ her father in being generous.

[  ]

A.takes after
B.takes off
C.takes to
D.takes up

3.“Today, we are to ________ Unit 11, Planting trees.” Our teacher said to us at the very beginning of the class.

[  ]

A.take after
B.take off
C.take to
D.take up

4.He will ________ my job while I ________ a week ________ for New York.

[  ]

A.take after, take…to

B.take up, take…after

C.take to, take…over

D.take over, take…off

5.I ________ her the moment I met her.

[  ]

A.took after
B.took to
C.took over
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  “Twenty pounds. Would it be enough?”

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Arriving at the slopes(山坡) on a cold February morning, I filled my mouth and nose with mountain air. I stepped 1 a foot of white snow from the car. But soon my new shoes 2 as heavy as iron. My son and my daughter happily joined the lines 3 at the chair lifts. The skiers arrived and they were all 4 , from little children to grandparents.

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1.

[  ]

A.on
B.to
C.beside
D.into

2.

[  ]

A.felt
B.looked
C.got
D.seemed

3.

[  ]

A.standing
B.waiting
C.sitting
D.a(chǎn)rriving

4.

[  ]

A.visitors
B.kinds
C.players
D.a(chǎn)ges

5.

[  ]

A.sounded
B.shouted
C.came
D.rang

6.

[  ]

A.something
B.a(chǎn)nything
C.everything
D.nothing

7.

[  ]

A.beat
B.hit
C.jumped
D.moved

8.

[  ]

A.when
B.if
C.because
D.though

9.

[  ]

A.driver
B.friend
C.teacher
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10.

[  ]

A.Now
B.Then
C.First
D.Soon

11.

[  ]

A.a(chǎn)fraid
B.sure
C.tired
D.OK

12.

[  ]

A.gave
B.brought
C.made
D.showed

13.

[  ]

A.quickly
B.slowly
C.easily
D.heavily

14.

[  ]

A.did
B.took
C.caught
D.received

15.

[  ]

A.One
B.The
C.An
D.A

16.

[  ]

A.feet
B.back
C.a(chǎn)rms
D.head

17.

[  ]

A.harder
B.more difficult
C.worse
D.more dangerous

18.

[  ]

A.slopes
B.lifts
C.cars
D.skis

19.

[  ]

A.were able to
B.could
C.were going to
D.would

20.

[  ]

A.was doing
B.had done
C.is doing
D.has done

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(1)

It took Yang ________ to travel around the earth every circle.

[  ]

A.

6 hours

B.

90 minutes

C.

1.5 hours

D.

21 hours

(2)

How did Yang feel after he came back to the earth?

[  ]

A.

Quite tired.

B.

A little afraid.

C.

Tired but excited.

D.

A little nervous.

(3)

Which of the following statements(敘述)is right?

[  ]

A.

There is no difference between China’s spaceship and other countries.

B.

Yang knew he’d be China’s first spaceman long before.

C.

At the news, Yang was too excited to fall asleep.

D.

Yang was proud of the flight.

(4)

What does the underlined(劃線的)word launch mean?

[  ]

A.

發(fā)射

B.

出發(fā)

C.

制造

D.

設(shè)計(jì)

(5)

China issued the stamps to ________.

[  ]

A.

leave them in space

B.

give them to Yang Liwei as a reward

C.

celebrate the success

D.

give them to Russian and American

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