Take the escalator—but climb the stairs while you ride. You'll get there faster and use your muscles while you're at it. Just 5 minutes of stair climbing burns 144 calories.

Instead of piling items on the stairs so you can take them upstairs at once, take them one at a time.

When cooling your heels while waiting in a doctor's office, drugstore, or airport, stay on your feet—standing burns 36 more calories per hour than sitting.

Rake leaves instead of using a leaf blower. You'll burn 50 more calories every half hour.

Scrub your floors more often. Putting some elbow grease into cleaning floors is more intense than vacuuming—and it makes your floors look better to boot.

Chew sugarless gum. Research has found that the action of jaw muscles alone burns about 11 calories an hour.

Wash your car by hand instead of taking it throug the automatic carwash. You'll burn an extra 280 calories in an hour.

Play with kids: Impromptu (即兴的) games of basketball, touch football, or tag—or just jumping rope or throwing a ball—will help you use energy and set a good example of active play for the children. Calories burned: 80 to 137 every 10 minutes.

1．How can you get to some place faster?

A．Taking an escalator.

B．Taking a lift.

C．Taking an elevator.

D．Taking an escalator and climbing the stairs at the same time.

2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?

A．Compared with washing cars by hand, playing

impromptu games with kids is better for losing weight.

B．You'd better stand while waiting in the doctor's office since it's usually dirty there.

C．Cleaning the floor by hand is better than vacuuming it because it's better for your elbow's muscles.

D．Lots of people like chewing gum because they want to burn more calories.

3. The best title of the article will be ________.

A．How to Lose Weight

B．Ways to Burn Calories Without Noticing

C．Sports Is Good for Your Health

D．The More Exercise, the Better Shape You Will Have

Buckminster Fuller once said, “The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it’s a different kind of life.” If you want to live abundantly, decide what you really want and figure out a way to do it. Be clear and live with intent.

You may have heard of Fred Lebow. He complained to his doctor that he lacked energy. His doctor advised him to take up running. He fell in love with it! He was 39 years old when he entered his first race.

Fred joined the New York Road Runners Club and organized New York City’s first marathon race. But what Fred truly wanted to do was to bring people together. He believes that anybody should be able to run — people of all ages and of any country.

Not everyone in New York was excited about people running through their neighborhood. A youth gang warned him that nobody had better run through their turf. “That’s great,” Fred said. “I need someone to protect the runners in your area, and you look like just the fellows to do it.” He gave them each a hat, shirt and jacket and that year, when the marathon went through their neighborhood, these young men proudly guarded the runners along their way.

Fred decided what was truly important to him and he found a way to do it. He lived with intent. That single decision made his life remarkably different.

As one sports writer said, “Fate handed him a short race. With his goal, with his love of life, Fred turned it into a marathon.”

Fred would say that it’s not about how long you live, but how you run the race of life.

The purpose that Fred Lebow organized New York City’s first marathon race was _____.

A. to be popular with people

B. to display his true love for sports development

C. to drive away his loneliness in the running

D. to get more people together

Which word in the passage is the closest in meaning to the underlined word “turf”?

A. Neighborhood. B. Way. C. Decision. D. Race.

What’s the best title for this passage?

A. Determination guarantees you a success.

B. The race of life with intent.

C. Nothing is impossible in one’s life race.

D. The benefits of taking up running.    

I used to quarrel a lot with my parents，but now we       well.

1. A.
   look out
2. B.
   stay up
3. C.
   carry on
4. D.
   get along

—May I have a book at your photo album??

—Sure. __________.I’m not engaged at the moment anyway.?

A.It makes no difference              B.Take your time

C.Look at it slowly               D.I don’t care at all ?

14. — Look! Here _____.

— Oh, yes, here _____.

A. the bus comes…it comes

B. comes the bus…comes it

C. does the bus come…does it come

D. comes the bus…it comes