May 20 is National Student Nutrition Day. Why is student nutrition important？

    Just as a cell phone needs energy from charging(充电)，we humans need energy from food. (A) 虽然吃食物是唯一的方式使我们强壮 ，what we eat and the way we eat it are also very impor⁃ tant，because they decide (B) whether we can get good nutrition.

Many of us have bad eating habits. For example，some don’t eat breakfast. Others eat too much fast food. These bad habits may cause  nutrition problems，which are bad for the growth of(C)_______bodies.

A study by the government in 2005 showed that (D)over 20 percent of people aged 13 to 20 have nutrition problems，such as obe⁃ sity (肥胖) and high blood pressure.

More students of Chinese middle and primary schools are now having nutritious meals，such (E)_____ milk and fruit. This year，the  theme (主题) of National Student Nutrition Day is“improve the nutrition of students in the countryside”. (F) The government will spend  quite a lot helping students get nutritious meals.

You may know the English letters A,B and C, but do you know there are people called ABC? You may like eating bananas. But do you know there is such a thing as “banana person”? How strange! Are these people from “another earth”? No, they are just Chinese people like you and me.

ABC means American-born Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside. So, when a person is a banana, he or she is white inside thinking like a westerner and yellow outside looking like a Chinese. Do you know why?（1）通常，美裔华人对中国以及她的语言知之甚少。Some of them do not speak Chinese. Also, they are not interested in Chinese politics.

But if ABC cannot speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are Chinese. They are overseas (海外的) Chinese.（2）These people may be citizens (公民) of another country like the US, England and Canada, but they have Chinese blood.Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from of China. They all have black eyes and black hair. But they are not Chinese citizens. They are not people of the People’s Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist C.N. Yang (杨振宁).He got the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957.Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizens.

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 I have three kids and they often help me at home.(1)Many parents think it’s difficult for children to do chores. But I don’t think so.

     My daughter is ten years old. At night, I write down her chores on a piece of paper for the next day. (2)然后我把它贴在我女儿的门上.Usually she gets three to eight chores a day. It depends how she does chores. (3)If she can do them well, she can have less work to do the next day. The chores are some easy ones, such as sweeping the floor, folding the clothes and cleaning the table after dinner.

     For my other two children, the chores are different because they are very young. (4)他们知道怎么样做一些简单的事情.They can help me when I’m working in the yard(院子). They help me pick up the sticks(树枝) and throw them away. (5)My 19-month-old son helps me put the dirty clothes in the washing machine.  

When you start a new school, go to a party or try to know a person, you often need to break the ice in order to start a friendly conversation. Breaking the ice means saying or doing something to stop feeling shy or uncomfortable around someone you don’t know well. Almost everyone feels uncomfortable or shy when people meet for the first time. If you feel like this, the following ① tips can help you out.

Smile ② When you smile, people think you’re friendly and easy to talk to. They are also very likely to smile back and help you feel more comfortable about starting a conversation.

Be positive Everybody likes being around happy people. Always look on the bright side of life and see everything positively（积极地）.

Be a good listener  Don’t control the conversation and don’t just talk about yourself. ③ 仔细听别人讲，并且问一些关于他们自己的问题。They’ll think you’re worthy of talking to.

Be easy-going ④  too,people,to,break,some,the,shy,ice,are, Don’t avoid being around new people just because you feel uncomfortable. If you face a situation again and again, you’ll soon break the ice.

A.questions      B.sentences      C.suggestions     D.conversations

(2)请将②处划线句子译成汉语。

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(3)请将③处划线句子译成英语。

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(4)请④处划线句子连词成句。

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(5) How many tips are mentioned(提到) in the passage?

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  Want to know all about the world in a minute? Have a (A)______ at a newspaper. Newspapers collect the news. (B) They tell people what’s going on in the world.

      Ancient Romans wrote the news on stones. China first wrote news on silk in Han Dynasty. These were the first newspapers. Some English speaking countries (C) began to have paper newspapers during the 17^th and 18^th centuries.

      From then on, newspapers developed fast. In the US there were 1456 daily newspapers by 2007. Yomiuri Shimbun in Japan sold the most in the world:(D) around 10 million. Reference News is China’s(E)最受欢迎的报纸。Its sales ranked the 6^th in the world.

      Now, the Internet is a big part of our lives. Mobile news is popular, (F) ______. People can read short news stories quickly at any time. (G) Newspapers have different forms, but they all tell people about the world.

It’s known that the marmots(土拨鼠) are very shy around humans, beating their tails and making loud noise with their teeth to tell other members of their colony to run away.

But when these marmots see Matteo Walch, they run to his side and show him nothing but affection(喜爱).

 The eight-year-old Matteo Walch built up a great relationship with the creatures since first being taken to see them by his nature-loving family four years ago.

The family return to visit these marmots in Groslocker in the Austrian Alps(阿尔卑斯山) for two weeks every year.

 Matteo loves those animals and they are not at all afraid of Matteo because he has a feeling towards them and they understand that.

Marmots stand at around 18cm tall and can reach up to 50cm in length. Strangely, the animals are heavier in autumn, when they can weigh up to 8kg, but 3kg in the spring months.

Michael, a teacher from Innsbruck, Austria, has taken lots of photos of Matteo and his marmot friends during the past four years.

He said,“I could spend several hours watching animals. It’s great that I have been able to document the marmot’s natural behavior around Matteo without making them afraid of me and my camera, I wanted to capture(用影片文字等记录…的原样) the animals exactly the way I see them ---the way they behave among each other.”

从照片上很清楚地看出，马蒂奥和土拨鼠彼此相处得很好。

I could spend several hours watching animals. 

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从照片上很清楚地看出，马蒂奥和土拨鼠彼此相处得很好。

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Do you keep fish in your classroom at school? Do you ever have a class in a boat? Do you put the food you leave over into a compost(混合肥料）box? That’s all part of a school day at Barnard School.

Barnard School is a “green” school in America. (A)This school wants to tell kids the importance of caring about the environment. The students can also learn a different way to live a healthier life.

With the special lessons, about 300 students in the school study the environment all day long. They learn about turtles and many other animals in their classrooms. Students throw some lunch leftovers(剩饭菜）into a compost box in a greenhouse. They use the compost to help plants grow.

At Barnard School, almost everything has something to do with the environment.

(B)_______Their art work also has something to do with the environment. (C)甚至他们的数学课也与环境有关。

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A. Students sing songs about the environment.

B. Students never cut off the young trees.

C. The kids must care about the grass.

D. The kids need to learn math.

Smaller and better

(A)在二十世纪四十年代,the first computers were bigger than cars. Now computers are becoming smaller and better.

Some computers are(B)tiny. You may be unaware of them. There is probably one inside your TV or washing machine. You depend on computers more than you realize.

What can we do with computers?

We can use computers to calculate. They can calculate at a faster(C)_______ than we can and almost never give wrong answers. We can also type and draw things with them. In addition, computers can do important jobs like(D)_______ railways and flying planes and spaceships.

Is a computer(E)clevererthan me?

The answer is “No”. Your brain can produce new ideas but computers cannot. However, one day computers may be able to a better job than human beings. For example,(F)they may be better than doctors at doing their job.

What will happen to us if computers can do all our jobs? Will we have nothing to do? Computers may change our lives, but will they make(G)thembetter?

Once upon a time, there lived a brother and a sister called Hansel and Gretel.(A)Theirfamily was very poor, so their parents sent them into the forest to find some food. They walked for hours and were soon tired and hungry.

Then they saw a house. They could not believe their eyes.(B)这栋房子是由糖果制成的!Suddenly an old woman came out of the house. “Come inside,” the old woman said. “I’ve lots of cake and sweets for you!”

Hansel and Gretel were very hungry, so they(C)followedthe old woman inside. However, it was a trap. The old woman pushed Hansel into a cage and(D)_______ the door.

“Now you’ll work for me!” the old woman said to Gretel.

“And when you’re fat,” she said to Hansel, “(E)I’ll cook and eat you!”

Every day the old woman fed Hansel cake to make him fat. When she tried to feel his arm to see how fat he was, Hansel held out a stick for her. Her(F)______ were not good, so she thought he was still very thin.

Finally, Hansel got a chance to break out of the cage. He(G)tookhis sister’s hand and they ran home to their parents.