From kindergarten to the final years of high school, recent reports show that some students are getting too much homework. On average, teachers give high school students around world about five hours of homework each week. However, according to the survey, teenagers in Shanghai spend 14 hours a week on homework. About half of the students said they offered at least three hours of homework per night. Many students felt they were being asked to work as hard as____  (1)  ______. They have to____  (2)  ______the whole day doing schoolwork, with their only break coming when they ate a meal. They reported having___  (3)  ______time for relaxing or creative activities.

A parent from Shanghai recently wrote in an email to a newspaper, “My second-grade son was required(被要求) to research____  (4)  ______important person from history and write a paper of at least two pages about the person. How can he do that by____  (5)  _____? He just started to learn to read and write a couple of months ago.____  (6)  ______are pushing too hard and expecting too much from kids.” The researchers also reported that family fights about homework were twice as likely____  (7)  ______parents didn’t have a college degree.

Kids need more space to grow, but too much homework makes them____  (8)  ______interest in learning. They cannot develop freely and do___  (9)  _____they enjoy doing. It’s also bad for their___  (10)  ______. More than 70 percent of students said they were “often or always stressed over schoolwork.” About 56 percent listed homework as a major stressor (紧张性刺激). Stress is very unhealthy for growing teens, and more homework means more stress.

   Once my mother told me a story. In Africa, when an antelope(羚羊)wakes every morning, the first thing it thinks about is, “I must be able to run faster than the fastest lion, or I’ll be killed.” At the same time, a lion wakes from his dream. The first thing the lion thinks about is, “I must be able to catch the slowest antelope, or I’ll starve(饥饿) to death.” So almost the same time, the antelope and the lion get up and start running toward the rising sun.

    This is life: full of chances and challenges. Whether you are an antelope or a lion, you must go ahead when the sun rises. For students, it is just the same. If we do not study hard, sooner or later, we will fall behind the other students. At first, I didn’t know what the word “exam” meant. Later, I knew an exam was a kind of competition. In competitions, there are always winners and losers. As I grew up, I got to know competition well. In one’s life, there must be competitions, so people can improve.

    Each time I saw children playing games, and heard their laughter, I wished I were that age again, However, I remembered my parents’ words: “You must work very hard in order to have a good future.” So I picked up my pen and began to study hard again.

     I was still not sure what competition really meant. One day, I was taking part in an English-speaking competition. When I went to the stage, I saw other students looking at me kindly, I suddenly knew what competition was. It is not as cruel as my teacher and my parents told me. In fact, competition is the opposite: it is kind and necessary.

     I learned a lot from realizing this fact. Now I understand more about the world. Competition is important for us all.

根据短文所提供的信息判断正（A）误（B）

We can learn a lot from the movie. We should be thankful to the earth. If we always get everything from it without stopping, we will be punished(惩罚). We should face our mistakes like Maui and find the true ones for ourselves like Moano.

Everyone knows that exercise is important. We need to exercise. Doctors say it is good for us. It keep our bodies strong. When the daytime comes, we must get up. This is the time for exercise. Exercise means doing things with the body. There are many ways to exercise. You can walk, run, swim, skate, or play ball games. Make sure you excise in the following ways: you have to like what you’re doing. Exercise enough---but not too much. It is good to exercise twice each week. Thirty minutes each time is enough. Try all kinds of things until you find one, two or three sports that feel right for you.

Exercise can be fun. Friends can exercise together at fitness center, or they can play sports together. How do you exercise? 

Life is full of difficulties. Your attitude (态度) will always be of __21__. If you are afraid of it, you will never succeed. But if you are strong, happiness __22__ more likely to come to you. A little America girl called Beth was born __23__ a serious disease. She was a lovely and beautiful girl. However, the doctor told her parents that she would not live to the age of ten. Everyone was sad, but she wasn’t. She said to herself, “ __24__ is impossible if you put your heart into it. I will never __25__ .” So he exercised every day, even though the disease made her weak. At last, she proved(证明) the doctor wrong and lived a __26__ life for many years. When I __27__ this story, tears came into my eyes. Beth’s experience made me know that life is not worth anything if you do not put any effort(努力)into it. If you’re at a loss(失去)，don’t be disappointed (失望). Wipe(擦掉) away your tears and try to stand up! Improve the quality (品质) of your life by __28__ the quality of your attitude. Once, I went climbing. The mountains were __29__ high that I got both thirsty and tired. But at last, I __30__ at the top. I saw the sun rising. I felt like I’d won something. I think that this takes me to be a real hero.

  Many middle school students like watching TV very much. But   41 Monday   42 Friday, they must go to school. So on Saturday and Sunday, they   43 at home and watch TV from morning to night. They don’t know it’s bad for their eyes. Usually children like to eat fish, meat and chicken, but they don’t like vegetables  44 fruit. They don’t know   45 more vegetables and fruit is   46 than eating meat.

  At school, children only do a few minutes of sports or   47 do any sports. The teachers must know itisn’t good for   48 health.

  We always think of ways to keep   49 . We must eat   50 vegetables and fruit, and do a lot of sports every day. And we should watch TV and relax in right ways.

Mary loved small animals. One morning while she was walking in the forest, she found two weak birds in the grass. She took them home and put them in a small cage. She looked after them with love and the birds both grew well. They thanked her with a wonderful song every morning.

But something happened one day. The larger bird flew out of the cage. She thought that it would fly away, so she grasped (抓紧) it quickly. She was very excited to catch it. Suddenly she felt strange. She opened her hand and found the bird was dead. Her great love killed the bird!

The other bird was moving back and forth in the cage. Mary could feel the bird wanted to go out. It wanted to fly into the blue sky. At once, Mary took the bird out of the cage and let it fly away. Mary enjoyed watching the bird flying and singing. It sang the sweetest song that she had ever heard.

The easiest way to lose love is to hold it tight. The best way to keep love is to give it freedom.

 Long ago, in a small village of Wakefield lived two farmers, Harry and Peter. Harry was very hard-working while Peter was lazy. Every day Harry got up early and came home late, but Peter walked around for fun.

    One summer there was no rain and the crops were dying. Harry thought“I must do something to save these crops, or they shall die.” With this problem in mind, he went out to find a river so that he could dig a canal to his field. He walked on and on, feeling tired and thirsty. After a long search, he found a river full of water. He was very happy. He started digging a canal to his field. Until it was noon his wife sent their daughter to bring Harry home for lunch. But Harry did not go. He did not want to leave his work unfinished. He completed his work late at night. He was very satisfied. He went home, had a good meal and fell into a sound sleep.

      Peter did the same. But he was not at all determined. He also started digging a canal to his field but he didn’t have his work completed. His field did not get enough water and all his crops died. 

    Harry’s field would be watered when it was needed. He had a good harvest because of his hard work. So dear friends, please remember that hard work is the key to success.

根据短文内容判断正误。正确的涂“A”，错误的涂“B”

One year, a college in the United States announced that it would offer a lot of money for the pure white marigold(金盏花). The high reward attracted so many people, but in the nature, besides golden, the marigold is brown, andit is not easy to get the white one. So after they were excited for a time, many people had forgotten the announcement.

  One day after 20 years, the college received a letter and 100 seeds(种子) of pure white marigold. It turned out to be an old woman of over 70 years old. Some scientists in the college doubted it, but it was surprising that those seeds finally took root(根) in the earth. The miracle（奇迹）appeared after one year, the field was covered by pure white marigold.

  So the old woman who was always unknown to the public became a new focus(焦点).

  The old woman was a flower-lover. When she read the announcement 20 years ago, she got very excited like others. But her eight children were against her decision. After all, a woman who never knew the seed genetics(遗传学) couldn’t complete the job that scientists could never do, so her thought was only a daydream.

  Still, the old woman didn’t change her mind and went on working. She planted some of the most common seeds and took good care of them. A year later, when the marigold came out, she chose the faintest (最暗淡的) one from those golden and brown flowers and got the best seed. The next year, she again grew them and chose…. Day after day, year after year, through many seasons, the old woman’s husband died, her children flew far, a lot of things happened in her life, but only the wish to grow the pure white marigold took root in her heart.

   Finally, after 20 years on the day we all know, in the garden she saw a marigold, which was not nearly white, but as white as silver or snow.

   A problem even scientists couldn’t deal with was solved by an old woman who didn’t understand genetics. Was it magic?

   To take root in the heart, even the most common seed, can grow into a miracle!

   A large number of people in the world eat fast food. Whenever you go into a fast food restaurant, you can see lots of people enjoying their meals there. But do you know in which country people like fast food best?

   The English people like the fast food best, while the French are the least interested in quick meals, according to survey(调查) done last year.

   The survey of thirteen countries shows 45% of the English people say they can't give up fast food because it's delicious. And 44% of Americans and 37% of Canadians say the same.

   The French, proud of their delicious and high-class cuisine(菜肴), don't like fast food. 81% of them think it is unhealthy, followed by 75% of the Japanese.

   How about the Chinese? How often do you have hamburgers or fried chicken? It doesn't matter whether you like Western fast food or Chinese food. The most important thing is to keep a balanced diet.