As we get older, we start thinking about the future and the past, and the present seems to ________ from us.

Does brain power ______as we get older？ Scientists now have some surprising answers.

A．descend

B．decline

C．deduce

D．collapse

"It's 53.____a myth that older people need less sleep. The more healthy an older adult is, the more they sleep like they did when they were 54.____. Our data suggests that older adults would benefit from 55 to get as much sleep as they did in their 30s. That's 56.____from person to person, but the amount of sleep we had at 35 is probably the same amount we need at 75."

ain, he is driven by some unseen force to do the same thing repeatedly, then a habit is formed. Once a habit is formed, it is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to get rid of. It is therefore very important that we should pay great attention to the formation of habits. Children often form. bad habits, some of which remain with them as long as they live. Older persons also form. bad habits as long as they live, and sometimes become ruined（毁坏） by them. There are other habits which, when formed in early life, are of great help. Many successful men say that much of their success has something to do with certain habits in early life, such as early rising, honesty and so on. Among the habits which children should not form. are laziness, lying, stealing and so on. These are all easily formed habits. Unfortunately older person often form. habits which should have been avoided. We should keep from all these bad habits, and try to form. such habits as will be good for ourselves and others.

1）.（）are formed little by little.

A、Good habits

B、Bad habits

C、Both good habits and bad habits

D、Either good habits or bad habits

2）.Generally speaking, it's difficult for one（） and easy for him（） which should be avoided.

A、to form. bad habits, to form. good habits

B、to form. good habit, to form. bad habits

C、to form. such habits as will be good, to get rid of bad habits

D、to get rid of bad habits, to form. good habits

3）.The last word, "them", in the first paragraph refers to（）.

A、good habits

B、bad habits

C、children

D、older persons

4）.Why should we pay much attention to the formation of habits？（）

A、Because habits are of great help to every one Of us.

B、Because a man can never get rid of a habit.

C、Because we are forced to do them again and again.

D、Because it's hard and even not possible to throw away bad habits.

5）.According to the passage, early rising（）.

A、is such a habit as should have been avoided

B、has something to do with success

C、is an easily formed habit

D、is such a habit as will be kept

body. Our minds also need a kind of food. This kind of food is 52. We begin to get knowledge even 53 we are very young. Small children are 54 in everything around them. They learn 55 while they are watching and listening. When they are getting older, they begin to 56 story books, science books…, anything they like. When they find something new, they love to ask questions and 57 to find out answers. What is the best 58 to get knowledge？ If we learn by ourselves, we will get 59 knowledge. If we are 60 getting answers from others and do not ask why, we will never learn well. When we study in the right way, we will learn more and understand better.

51. Which one is the best to fill in the blank？()

A、sleep

B、read

C、drink

D、eat

52. Which one is the best to fill in the blank？()

A、sport

B、exercise

C、knowledge

D、meat

53. Which one is the best to fill in the blank？()

A、until

B、when

C、after

D、so

54. Which one is the best to fill in the blank？()

A、interested

B、interesting

C、weak

D、better

55. Which one is the best to fill in the blank？()

A、everything

B、something

C、nothing

D、anything

56. Which one is the best to fill in the blank？()

A、lend

B、read

C、learn

D、write

57. Which one is the best to fill in the blank？()

A、try

B、have

C、refuse

D、wait

58. Which one is the best to fill in the blank？()

A、place

B、school

C、way

D、road

59. Which one is the best to fill in the blank？()

A、little

B、few

C、many

D、the most

60. Which one is the best to fill in the blank？()

A、often

B、always

C、usually

D、something

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The average person swallows about half-a-ton of food a year—not counting drink—and though the body is remarkably efficient at extracting(摄取) just what it needs from this huge mixture, it can only cope up to a point. If you go on eating too much of some things and not enough of others, you'll eventually get out of condition and your health will suffer. So think before you start eating. It may look good. It may taste good. Fine! But how much good is it really doing you？

What you eat and the way it affects your body depend very much on the kind of person you are. For one things, the genes you inherit from your parents can determine how your body metabolism(新陈代谢) copes with particular foods. The tendency to put on weight rather easily, for example, often runs in families which means that they have to take particular care.

And your parents may shape your future in another way. The way you are brought up shapes some basic attitudes to food—like whether you have a sweet tooth, nibble (吃零食) between meals, take big mouthfuls or eat chips with everything. Eating habits, good or bad, tend to get passed on.

And then there is your lifestyle. How much you spend on food (time as well as money) , how much exercise you get—these can alter the balance between food and fitness.

And finally, both your age and your sex may affect this balance. For example, you're more likely to put on weight as you get older, especially if you're a woman.

So everybody is different and the important thing is to know yourself.

Before eating something, we are advised to consider______.

A．how good it will taste

B．whether we really need it

C．why we want to eat it

D．if we have eaten too much of it

We know that we are getting even older，and that the______(near)a society approximates to zero population growth，the older its population is likely to be.

hanked him，he said,‘They are not from me; they only come through me.’

At that moment I noticed the similarity between fish and haiku.

Nowadays, if Mom doesn't ever serve fish for dinner at least the kids get a taste of

haiku at school.

For most of us，our first introduction comes from reading translations from Japanese,

which is a bit like comparing sushi to frozen fish sticks. Even with the knowledge of the

exotic, most poets stick to the meat and potatoes of English literature. It often isn’t until we get older that we accept the simple goodness of fish，adding them to the menu more often.

Having acquired a taste for fish and learned how to cook them, one is better able to

appreciate the short form. of haiku. Like fishing, haiku writing can be done with minimal

equipment. A pin or a pen，and a scrap of paper, is enough，but it is tempting to go all out and buy a rod and reel (even study Zen，visit a monastery or take a trip to Japan).

If one goes in for deep sea fishing,a computer and laser printer are soon on the list of 'must haves'.

Like fishing, to catch haiku you have to go where they are. Unlike fish, haiku are

everywhere. Still，you have to know the secret places where they hide and how to get there.

Wearing old comfortable clothes(usually thought of as a meditative state) we look around

just where we are. It does little good to only read of fishing off the coast of Japan when

sitting beside the lake by our own front door. It does help to know which fish are edible and which are not. There are two ways of finding this out. We can either eat everything we catch and publish what feels right, or we can read books containing others’experiences while making up our minds about what kind of fish to go for.

If we compare spending days on rough seas to fish or strolling on the beach writing

haiku; it is very easy for me to decide where my interest lies. Still I do love a fish dinner and I hope my neighbor enjoys my latest poems.

(1). The similarity between fishing and writing haiku the text does NOT mention is

A. the freedom to choose what we do with the product of each activity

B. the delayed appreciation of both activities

C. the thrill experienced when engaging in them

D. the limited resources required for practising them

(2). In paragraph 2，the author refers to sushi_.

A. to point out that the American eat frozen fish sticks more often

B. to contrast it with meat and potatoes

C. to give an example of an exotic dish

D. as a metaphor for original Japanese texts

(3). According to the author, haiku writers have to_·

A. read about the process of haiku writing

B. be observant of what is around them

C. try to have their poems published

D. get acquainted with Zen philosophy

(4). The best title of this text would be_·

A. Something fishy about haiku

B. The forgotten skill of fishing

C. Writing haiku is easy

D. The art of writing haiku

(5). The author's attitude towards haiku is_.

A. positive

B. neutral

C. indifferent

D. negative

was, I didn't know enough to really care. My older brother and I lived with Mom in a dingy multi-family house in Detroit. We watched TV every night. The background noise of our lives was gunfire and horses' hoofs from "Wagon Train" or "Cheyenne", and laughter from "I Love Lucy" or "Mister Ed". After supper, we'd sprawl on Mom's bed and stare for hours at the tube.

But one day Mom changed our world forever. She turned off the TV. Our mother had only been able to get through third grade. But she was much brighter and smarter than we boys knew at the time. She had noticed something in the suburban houses she cleaned -- books. So she came home one day, snapped off the TV, sat us down and explained that her sons were going to make something of themselves. "You boys are going to read two books every week," she said. "And you're going to write me a report on what you read."

We moaned and complained about how unfair it was. Besides, we didn't have any books in the house other than Mom's Bible. But she explained that we would go where the books were: "I'll drive you to the library."

So pretty soon there were these two peevish boys sitting in her white 1959 Oldsmobile on their way to Detroit Public Library. I wandered reluctantly among the children's books. I loved animals, so when I saw some books that seemed to be about animals, I started leafing through them.

The first book I read clear through was Chip the Dam Builder. It was about beavers. For the first time in my life I was lost in another world. No television program had ever taken me so far away from my surroundings as did this verbal visit to a cold stream in a forest and these animals building a home.

It didn't dawn on me at the time, but the experience was quite different from watching TV. There were images forming in my mind instead of before my eyes. And I could return to them again and again with the flip of a page.

Soon I began to look forward to visiting this hushed sanctuary from my other world. I moved from animals to plants, and then to rocks. Between the covers of all those books were whole worlds, and I was free to go anywhere in them. Along the way a funny thing happened: I started to know things. Teachers started to notice it too. I got to the point where I couldn't wait to get home to my books.

Now my older brother is an engineer and I am chief of pediatric neurosurgery at John Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore. Sometimes I still can't believe my life's journey, froma failing and indifferent student in a Detroit public school to this position, which takes me all over the world to teach and perform. critical surgery.

But I know when the journey began -- the day Mom snapped off the TV set and put us in her Oldsmobile for that drive to the library.

We can learn from the beginning of the passage that

A．the author and his brother had done poorly in school.

B．the author had been very concerned about his school work.

C．the author had spent much time watching TV after school.

D．the author had realized how important schooling was.

Questions are based on the following passage.

Young people tend to be critical of their parents at times and blame them for most ofthe misunderstandings between them. I think it is true that parents often underestimate theirteenage children and also（36）how they themselves felt when young.

For example， young people like doing things on spur of the moment: it is one of theirways of showing that they can accept a（37）. Older people worry more（38）; most ofthem plan things ahead， at least in the back of their minds， and do not like their plans to beupset by something（39）.

So my advice to you is this: when you want to borrow the family car or get your mother tomend something for you， you will have better success ifyou can possibly ask in advance.

Young people also make it harder for their parents to trust them because they liketo（40）them. They say things like "Everybody we know drives at ninety miles anhour"， or "We"ve all decided we won"t study for our final examinations —— it"s（41）"Young people often irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles，in entertainers and music. This is not their main（42）. They feel cut off from the adultworld， into which they have not yet been accepted. So they（43）a culture and society oftheir own. Then， if it tums out that their music or entertainers or vocabulary or clothes orhairstyles irritate their parents， this gives them（44）enjoyment. They feel they are（45），at least in a small way， and that they are leaders in style. and taste.

A．create

B．worse

C．additional

D．superior

E. challenge

F. recall

G. importantly

H. unexpected

I . shock

J . easily

K. benefit

L . motive

M. forget

N. helpful

O. Useless

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that you don't see, isn't it？ Many Americans spend money that isn't even there and get deeper and deeper in debt. Why do so many people spend more than they have？ "Buy now, pay later" has become an American way of life. Recently, American households spent nearly 11 billion dollars more than they earned, creating a negative saving rate.

There are two ideas—one, living within your means, and the idea that living on debt is a great equalizer(平衡装置). They both have validity because it is important that someone live within their means over their lifetime. When people are young and they are earning money, but they have very little savings, they almost have to borrow in order to own a house or own a car. But as they grow older, they should develop the habit of saving, so that by the time they reach the end of their earning life, they have savings to live on in retirement, and live within their means.

"Buy now, pay later" worked very well for us in the 1990s, but one suspects it won't work forever. The only thing that concerns me is that Americans are so contented, so optimistic, so unconcerned about any bumps in the road that many American households, not all of them, but many American households are very heavily extended in personal credit, a lot of credit card debt. People are paying very high prices for houses and borrowing heavily against those prices; and if we do run into a bump in the road, a recession, there are going to be a lot of households, not all of them, but many households that Ml be severely squeezed. That means we're more vulnerable to serious financial distress than Japan is. Japan has been in financial distress for ten years, but one reason it's been able to weather that is that the households had been very conservative, had a lot of savings, were very liquid, and were able to weather difficult times. And many American households would now be less able to do that because they are so heavily in debt.

We know from the passage that credit cards

A．make Americans get deeper and deeper in debt

B．are likely to be abandoned by more Americans

C．will soon become a symbol of American life

D．will help solve potential financial problems