-______________ If I leave it much longer, I might miss your chance.

A.That’s all right.B.I can’t agree more.

C.Do you think so?D.Isn’t it a good idea?

When we eat potato chips, it’s often difficult to stop until the bag’s empty. We open a bag of chips , and before we know it ,they’re all gone . So why can’t we control ourselves when it comes to eating this salty snack?【1】

Scientists found that certain neurons(神經(jīng)元) can make us want to eat salt. The neurons take note of whether our bodies are short of sodium(鈉)，the main part of salt .【2】

Scientists did experiments on mice. They found that when mice lack sodium, their body produces a chemical.【3】 More research showed that adding salt to meals makes people enjoy their food more, which may cause us to continue eating even if we’re full. Scientists asked healthy people to eat the same food for lunch for four weeks.【4】 At the same time, the scientists measured how much these people ate. They also asked the people how they felt about each meal. For example, If they felt happy or were still hungry after eating . The results showed that salt made people eat out 11 percent more food than usual.【5】 “But when we add salt to that food , all of a sudden those controls are gone,”researcher said.

So the next time you finish a whole bag of chips to yourself, don’t feel so bad about it – just blame it on your brain.

A. Eating less salt can be difficult at first.

B. Then, they send signals to our brain to encourage us to eat more salt.

C. When eating low-salt meals, they had better control over how much they ate.

D. It could have something to do with our brain.

E. Eating too much salt can lead to health problems.

F. This chemical then makes the neurons active.

G. Each week , the number of salt in the food was changed.

—I’m sorry I haven’t made a _____ yet. I’m still thinking about whether to go or not.

A.contributionB.changeC.decisionD.wish

Headmaster:_____________. Your class did a good job in the last exams. But why do you look worried?

Mike: I need your help, sir.

Headmaster: About what?

Mike: Most students are doing their best. But three of them have given up.

Headmaster: _____________

Mike: Yes, many times. But still teachers can’t receive any of their homework

Headmaster: _____________

Mike: No, they used to do their homework every day.

Headmaster: Have you asked their parents for help ?

Mike: They say______________. The kids are used to fighting with them over almost everything. They can’t communicate well at all.

Headmaster: That’s the problem. Let’s visit their homes after school. We can talk about how to help them.

Mike: Grade 9 students have much more pressure, which is the challenge everyone has to face . One the one hand,_______________. On the other hand, we can begin with less homework for them .Then bit by bit maybe they can catch up with others.

Headmaster: OK. Good idea! At adolescence(青春期), problems are normal. Don’t forget, 5 o’clock at the school gate!

Mike : So many thanks !

【1】

A.Congratulations, Mike!B.Thanks. Mike

C.How’s everything going?D.A fine day, isn’t it?

【2】

A.What have you doneB.What’s the matter

C.Not a big dealD.Have you communicated with them?

【3】

A.What are you going to do ?B.How long have they been like this?

C.Did they use to be like this ?D.What did they use to do ?

【4】

A.they get on well with their kidsB.they are out of control of their kids.

C.their kids love sportsD.they are in control of their kids

【5】

A.they should know their responsibilityB.they can cut out some lessons

C.we can send them homeD.we should be careful.

—Sorry, I can’t. I only remember it was _____ Sunday.

A.aB.anC.theD./

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Do you know the poem called Jing Ye Si? The great poet, Li Bai 【1】 it in Tang Dynasty. It is easy for readers 【2】 the writer’s missing of his home.

Chen Be, a 14-year-old boy, is from Inner Mongolia. He 【3】in Guangzhou for many years. “When I think of my hometown, I 【4】this poem,” he said to his friends in Guangzhou.

Do you know this poem in English? Several years ago, it 【5】beautifully by Chinese translators. It’s “Beside my bed a pool of light. Is it hoarfrost on the ground? I lift my eyes and see the moon. I bend my head and think of home.” Do you like it?

If aliens are discovered one day, scientists fear their language may make it impossible to understand them. But John Elliott of Leeds Metropolitan University in Britain has come up with a program that can figure out the structure (結(jié)構(gòu)) of their language. He thinks that’s the first step in understanding what they are saying.

Dr Elliott’s program would compare an alien language to a database (數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)) of 60 different languages in the world to look for a similar structure. He believes that even an alien language will have its own structure. “Language has to be structured in a certain way, or it will be hard to use,” he told New Scientist magazine.

Research has shown that it is possible to know if a signal carries a language rather than a picture or music. Dr Elliott has gone a step further by finding a way to pick out what might be words and sentences. Because languages have different word orders, Dr Elliott has set up a library of the sentence structures of 60 human languages.

If a message is received from outer space, it could be compared against this database. Scientists would then be able to see if it’s similar to any human language, or a mix of the languages.

However, Dr Elliott also said that in order to translate what the aliens are actually saying, it may still be necessary to have a “code (密碼) book”.

【1】Why did Dr Elliott come up with the program?

A.To learn more about outer space.B.To compare an alien language to human languages.

C.To develop a new language.D.To help translate messages from aliens.

【2】According to Dr Elliott, what’s the first step of understanding an alien language?

A.Coming up with a program.B.Knowing its structure.

C.Understanding aliens.D.Discovering aliens.

【3】What does Paragraph 4 mainly tell us?

A.Some necessary conditions for making the program work.

B.Dr Elliott’s findings about the differences between human languages.

C.Three important functions of the program.

D.The number of sentence structures of human languages.

【4】How does the program work when it receives a message from aliens?

A.Mix the message with 60 human languages.

B.Translate the message and send it to the database.

C.Pick out the sentence structure and translate it.

D.Compare the message to the database of 60 human languages.

【5】What can we infer from the passage?

A.Not all languages have their own structures.

B.To translate alien languages, there is much work to do.

C.The structure of alien languages is similar to that of human languages.

D.Alien languages are signals carrying pictures and music.

【1】Jack likes reading English in the morning. (變一般疑問(wèn)句)

___________ Jack ____________ reading English in the morning?

【2】I go to see my grandparents twice a week. (就畫(huà)線(xiàn)部分提問(wèn))

___________ _____________do you go to see your grandparents?

【3】The reporter asked the girl, “Do you enjoy your volunteer work on weekends?”（改寫(xiě)句子，句意不變）

The reporter asked the girl ____________ she _____________ her volunteer work on weekends.

【4】Lisa did much better in her English study this term than last term. (改寫(xiě)句子，句意不變)

Lisa _________ great __________ in her Chinese study this term than last term.

【5】Jay Chou held a concert last year in Jinan and a lot of fans went to see it. (改寫(xiě)句子，句意不變)

Jay Chou’s concert _________ __________ on May Day in Jinan and a lot of fans went to see it.

During the Song Dynasty, doctors needed to show thy understood meridians (經(jīng)絡(luò)) — paths of energy running through the body.

If you were the one to take the exam, you would be asked to show how you would treat symptoms on a life-sized model covered in wax (蠟). Under the wax, the model would be made of bronze (銅), filled with water, and covered in holes running along the meridian paths.

You would need to place an acupuncture needle (針灸用的針) into the correct part of a meridian to pass the exam. If you got it right, the needle would go straight through he hole, and water would pour out of the model. If you picked the wrong spot, the needle would hit the bronze model and you failed.

The exams wanted to make sure all young doctors knew how to treat patients hitting the same correct acupuncture points.

The first “bronze man” acupuncture model was made in 1026 by one of the great doctors named Wang Weiyi. Wang also wrote a book that was used across the country to teach how to use the model. Now you can see a copy of one of these bronze men in China’s National Museum.

【1】Why was there wax on the model?

A.Because the model was totally made of wax.

B.Because wax can protect the model well.

C.Because wax stopped test takers seeing the holes.

D.Because the meridians of the body were covered with wax.

【2】What does the underlined word “spot” mean in the passage?

A.地點(diǎn)B.斑點(diǎn)C.職位D.疤痕

【3】What would happen if a test taker put his needle into a wrong point?

A.The water would pour out of the model.

B.The needle wouldn’t go straight through the hole.

C.There would be one more hole in the bronze model.

D.The hole would be covered with wax.

【4】From the last paragraph, we learn that________ .

A.Wang Weiyi invented the bronze man to test doctors

B.Wang Weiyi was also a teacher in the Song Dynasty

C.doctors now still take the bronze men now

D.we can’t see any of the bronze men now

【5】What does the story mainly talk about?

A.Why TCM is still popular now.

B.The use of a bronze model in acupuncture.

C.How doctors in the Song Dynasty treated different symptoms.

D.The exam for the TCM doctors in the Song Dynasty.

—I wondered _____________?

A.what rules do you have in your schoolB.what size bowl of noodles would you like

C.where do you have lunchD.how you came to school