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Look at the tower! Nothing is wrong with your eyes. 【1】 As the name says, the Leaning （傾斜的）Tower of Pisa leans. It is in Pisa, a city in Italy.

【2】 In 1173, people in Pisa began to build the tower. In 1178, when the tower was just three storeys（層）tall, it began to lean. There were wars in Pisa at the time. So the construction（建造）of the tower stopped for years. After about 200 years, in 1370, people finished the construction.【3】 It is 55.86 meters tall.

【4】 There are many opinions. One goes like this: The tower is very tall and heavy, but the ground is made of soft sand and clay. When the ground sinks, the tower leans.

Did you know these? The tower was first the bell tower to a large church.【5】Each bell stands for a musical note（音符）. From 1990 to 2001, the tower was closed to visitors. Workers repaired it. The tower may stand for another 200 years.

A.The tower has eight storeys.

B.There are seven bells in it.

C.There is something wrong with the tower.

D.Why does it lean?

E.Let’s know about its history

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IT makes our fingers look ugly. It’s dirty. It could hurt a lot. But many people just can’t stop doing it: biting their nails.

Up to 45 percent of teenagers in the UK bite their nails, the BBC reported. There are also many famous nail biters, including ex-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and American singer Britney Spears.

There’s nothing wrong with biting nails to keep them tidy. But it could get out of control.

Some people bite a nail not because it’s too long, but because they are driving, reading, feeling stressed out, or just have nothing else to do.

The same could happen to skin picking and hair pulling. A normal behavior could become “pathological”(病態(tài)的), as experts say.

In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association labeled (把……列為) nail biting as an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). People with this disorder may wash their hands too many times or have to line up their shoes in a certain way.

These behaviors have a lot in common. OCD is doing something normal and healthy too much, NPR reported.

But nail biting is different from other OCD behaviors in at least one way.

“In OCD, the behavior is really unwanted,” Carol Mathews, a psychiatrist（精神病醫(yī)生）at the University of California, San Francisco, told NPR. People with OCD don’t want to wash their hands over and over again. There is no fun in it. They just fear that if they don’t do something, something else that’s very bad will happen to them.

But nail biters enjoy it.

“It’s rewarding. When you get the right nail, it feels good,” said Mathews.

Therefore some people argue that most nail biters are not having a problem as serious as a mental (心理的) disorder.

But anyway, it’s still a bad habit. So what can we do to stop it?

Since most people bite nails as a way of relieving (緩解) stress, finding another way to relieve that stress could be useful, suggested Rochelle Torgerson, a doctor at the Mayo Clinic in the US. Try playing with your pen instead.

Besides, nail biters feel the urge (刺激，沖動(dòng)) to bite if they find a small imperfect part of the nail, said Mathews. So always keep your nails in good shape.

【1】What does the phrase obsessive-compulsive disorder in Paragraph 6 mean?

A. An activity that people enjoy doing it.

B. A kind of behavior that people is really wanted.

C. A way of doing something that people does it normal and healthy.

D. A mental disorder that people are unable to control the thoughts or the activities.

【2】How is nail biting different from other OCD behaviors?

A. People do it over and over again.

B. People do it happily and willingly.

C. It does no harm to people’s health.

D. It is a physical and mental problem.

【3】What do doctors suggest people do to stop nail biting?

A. Pick skin or pull hair instead.

B. Force them to control the urge to bite.

C. Keep them busy and forget about nails.

D. Find some other ways to release their stress.

Body language is one of the most powerful means of communication, often even more powerful than spoken language. People around the world show all kinds of feelings, wishes and attitudes that they might never speak aloud. It is possible to ―read‖ others around us, even if they do not want us to catch their unspoken communication. Of course, body language can be misread, but many gestures and actions are common.

The most common facial expression is, of course, the smile – its function is to show happiness and put people at ease. It does not always mean that we are truly happy, however. Smiles around the world can be false, hiding other feelings like anger, fear or worry. There are unhappy smiles, such as when someone ―loses face‖ and smiles to hide it. However, the general purpose of smiling is to show good feelings.

From the time we are babies, we show unhappiness or anger by frowning (皺眉頭). In most places around the world, frowning and turning one’s back to someone shows anger. Making a fist (拳頭) and shaking it almost always means that someone is angry.

How about showing that I am bored? Looking away from people or yawning will, in most cases, make me appear to be uninterested. However, if I turn toward and look at someone or something, people from almost every culture will think that I am interested.

Being respectful to people is subjective, based on each culture, but in general it is probably not a good idea to give a hug to boss or teacher. In almost every culture, it is not usually good to stand too close to someone of a higher rank (等級(jí)). Standing at a little distance with open hands will show that I am willing to listen.

With so many cultural differences between people, it is great to have some similarities in body language. We can often be wrong about each other, so it is an amazing thing that we understand each other as well as we do!

【1】What is even more powerful than spoken language according to the passage?

【2】What is the most common facial expression?

【3】How do babies normally show their anger?

【4】What is not good to do when you stay with someone of a higher rank?

【5】What does the writer mainly want to tell us

A.twelve; twelve B.twelfth; twelfth

C.twelfth; twelve D.twelve; twelfth

A. too much B. many too

C. too many D. much too

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【1】The material(材料) abrove（上面） is a(n) ___________________.

A. invitation cardB. Christmas cardC. birthday cardD. thank you card

【2】Anna’s family name is _____________ .

A. BriannaB. RileyC. LeahD. Anna

【3】The party will begin at _____________ .

A. 10:00 am.B. 11:30 am.C. 3:00 pm.D. 5:00 pm.

【4】If you can’t go to the party, you should call Leah ___________ .

A. at 574-7425B. at 754-7425C. by August 7thD. by August 13th

【5】According to(根據(jù)) the material, we know Anna ____________ .

A. is three years oldB. likes eating ice cream

C. is Leah’s friendD. lives on 48 Bear Road

【1】You can go to ______ to have guitar lessons.

A. Magellan Books B. Island Language School

C. Youth Volunteers D. Kowloon Community Centre

【2】Life Line is a hotline to help ______.

A. feed the homeless

B. read to the elderly

C. check out travel books

D. deal with teenagers’ problems

【3】Magellan Books is ______.

A. next to the language school

B. at 88 Queen’s Road Central

C. at 232, Cityplaza, Tai Koo Shing

D. on the left side of Youth Volunteers

【4】 You can call ______ to join Youth Volunteers.

A. 29553000 B. 31810000 C. 27886388 D. 27882200