We all need physical exercise. Exercise uses up food we eat and keeps the body energetic. If you exercise several times a week, you will stay happy and healthy.

Some Western countries, such as the United States, have problems with exercise. In the US, many people do not have enough exercise because it is hard for them. People have to work from morning to late afternoon, so they don’t have time to take exercise. They work in office buildings, sitting in chairs all day long in front of computers. It is impossible for them to get much exercise in this way.

Some Westerners can get exercise walking from their homes to work. However, most people cannot do this. It is too far from their homes to their offices. They have no choice but to drive to work. In fact, some have to drive one or two hours to their offices. This is not good in two ways. First, these people don’t have a chance to exercise because they are sitting in their cars for two to four hours each day. Second, driving is challenging especially in rush hours and needs too much attention. It makes a person very tired. So, when these people arrive home at night, they don’t want to take exercise after work.

Today, many people in the West are overweight, which causes health problems for them. Doctors say exercise can help people both lose weight and improve their health. So many people are trying to get more exercise. But it takes time to change, and when people don’t see a difference right away, they will lose patience and stop exercising.

A long time ago, Francois Millet, Claude, Carl and I were young artists—very young artists—in fact.

Yes, Francois Millet, the great French artist, was my friend.

Millet wasn’t any greater than we were at that time. He wasn’t known, even in his own village.

We were all poor though we had stocks(存貨) and stocks of as good pictures as anybody in Europe painted. Once a person ever offered four francs (法郎) for Millet’s “Angelus”, which he meant to sell for eight.

It was a fact in human history that a great artist would never be accepted until after he was starved and dead. His pictures climbed to high prices after his death.

Then we made a decision that one of us must die, to save the others and himself.

Millet was chosen, chosen to die.

During the next three months Millet painted with all his power, enlarged his stock all he could, not pictures, no! sketches, studies, parts of studies, fragments of studies, of course, with his cipher(暗號) on them.

They were the things to be sold.

Carl went to Paris to start the work of building up Millet’s name. Claude and I went to sell Millet’s small pictures and to build up his name as well.

We made Millet a master. I always said to my customer, “I am a fool to sell a picture of Francois Millet’s at all, for he is not going to live three months, and when he dies, his pictures can’t be had for love or money.”

Claude and I took care to spread that little fact as far as we could.

Carl made friends with the reporters, and got Millet’s condition reported to England and all over the Europe, and America, and everywhere.

The sad end came at last, Millet died, not really. He became Theophile Magnan.

The pictures went up. There’s a man in Paris today who owns seventy Millet pictures. He paid us two million francs for them. Do you still remember the “Angelus”? Carl sold it for twenty-two hundred francs.

We are no longer artists and Millet dead.

【1】Why did the four friends decide to choose one of them to die?

A.They wanted to be rich.B.They wanted to be famous.

C.They wanted to save money.D.They wanted to be respected.

【2】Which of these is a fact based on the passage?

A.The story was written in memory of Millet.

B.Millet was still alive but had a new name.

C.Millet lived a wealthy life at first.

D.Millet failed to make a famous artist.

【3】What made the four friends’ plan succeed?

A.That they didn’t want to be artists any longer.

B.That Millet’s pictures were sold at very high prices.

C.That people had pity on these poor artists.

D.People’s wish to own valuable art works at low prices.

Li Mingyu, 15, Lanzhou

* . His father is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. The hospital he works in has received several corona-virus pneumonia patients. Although Li’s father doesn’t have to treat the patients, there are still risks of infection (感染). To help cheer up his coworkers, Li’s father made a few packages containing traditional Chinese medicine and handed them out.

Zhao Junyan, 15, Shanghai

Zhao is a Grade 8 student from Shanghai. On Feb 3, he transported 15,000 masks from Indonesia back to China. During the winter holiday, Zhao went to visit his uncle in Jakarta. When he saw the news about the outbreak and the shortage of masks in China, he and his uncle bought as many masks as they could.“When a country is in trouble, everyone is responsible (有責(zé)任的) to help,”Zhao said to the media. “What I have done is what an ordinary Chinese person can possibly do.”

Tong Zexi, 15, Harbin

Tong hasn’t left his house for more than 20 days. Sometimes he really wanted to run outside and breathe freely without a mask. “But I need to protect myself and cause no trouble. In this key time, if one gets sick, many others could be affected,” he said. With this in mind, he has stayed at home and worked on his homework. He also tries to do some exercise indoors, believing that staying fit will help prevent the disease.

【1】How does the writer support the idea that this winter holiday is different?

A.By sharing three stories.B.By comparing different families.

C.By giving examples of teenagers.D.By listing different activities.

【2】Which sentence is suitable for___*___?

A.Here is a story by Li’s father.

B.Li’s father should be a good person.

C.Li worries about his father a lot these days.

D.Li thinks his father made great contributions to the society.

【3】What can we learn from the passage?

A.Tong Zexi has to stay at home to work on his homework to avoid causing trouble.

B.People used to get together for family unions and hang out with masks in Spring Festivals.

C.Indonesia is good at producing masks so Zhao Junyan bought many masks there.

D.Zhao Junyan thinks everyone should do something for their country in trouble.

So do you feel like you are a global citizen (世界公民)? More people are_______ themselves global citizens. Researchers from the BBC World Service asked more than 20,000 people from 18_______about this as part of a report.

But_______is “global citizenship”? For some, it means the easy communication. To others, it might be a________of responsibility (責(zé)任) about problems like weather change. And for many, it is about being able to______elsewhere, according to the BBC.

The BBC also found that people in rising economies (新興經(jīng)濟(jì)體) feel like they are becoming_______global. “They feel their voices are more likely (可能的) to be_______than they were 20 years ago,” said the report’s author Lionel Bellier. However, people in developed countries are more likely to see the________sides of globalization, such as job loss.

But generally speaking, the world is______more and more interconnected.

【1】A.mustB.shouldC.mightD.need

【2】A.callingB.caringC.workingD.imagining

【3】A.familiesB.schoolsC.companiesD.countries

【4】A.whyB.whatC.howD.where

【5】A.soundB.senseC.knowledgeD.voice

【6】A.fitB.leaveC.moveD.visit

【7】A.moreB.lessC.nearlyD.hardly

【8】A.refusedB.forgotC.rememberedD.heard

【9】A.goodB.dangerousC.badD.bright

【10】A.feelingB.leadingC.becomingD.changing

We ___________________________with schools closed during the COVID-19 outbreak.

—You’re so lucky. He ________(speak) at a meeting minutes ago, but now he is free!

—Why not have it________? Maybe nothing serious.

A.displayedB.changedC.checkedD.charged

A.worriedB.worryC.have worriedD.will worry

—Yes, but people still wonder________.

A.why can’t the games be cancelled

B.when will the games be held smoothly

C.whether the games will be held as planned

D.how can the games be held safely next year

—Yes. What bad news! No one knows how much time we have. We must enjoy the moment.

A.deathB.lossC.accidentD.crash