Healthy Eating
Healthy eating is important to us. What and how should we eat to be healthy?
First, we must have enough food, never too much or too little. The food must be clean and we should cook it properly.
Second, it’s very important for us to keep a balanced diet. Different kinds of foods are necessary, such as rice, bread, meat, fish, eggs, milk and vegetables. Rice and bread give us energy. Meat, fish, eggs and milk help our bones grow. Fruit and vegetables make us healthy.
Third, we should eat regularly. It’s said that half of the students don’t have a regular breakfast or don’t eat anything at all in the morning. It is bad for their health. In fact, a good breakfast keeps us strong.
In short, we should not only eat enough food, healthy food but also eat regularly.
【小题1】We eat food freely.
【小题2】We should eat different kinds of healthy foods.
【小题3】Vegetables are the most important food for our health.               
【小题4】 The more regularly, the healthier we are.
【小题5】 All the students don’t have a regular breakfast.

At last, the mid-term exams are over. You’ve done the hard work, but you can’t relax. You have to prepare for the next exams. Do you hate exams? If you do, you are not alone. Students in other countries hate them as well.

Luckily for them, British students have fewer exams than Chinese students. And they only have them once a year. Every summer they take a test in each subject. Each test lasts about an hour. These exams don’t count for much, even if a student does really badly they still progress to the next grade. When the results come out, they are then placed in an end-of-year report. The report is sent to the child’s parents. It describes how the student studied at school.

This report is private, so only the teacher, the student and his or her parents see it. This means that the students don’t know how other students scored(得分) in the test. Some students choose to tell each other, but others keep it secret.

Parents’ meetings are held twice a year, at the end of winter term and then at the end of the summer term. Children go along with their parents to meet their teachers privately and discuss their performance at school.

1.For British students, the school life is         than that of Chinese students.

A．more relaxing      B．much tenser       C．more boring       D．much harder

2.The underlined phrase “don’t count for much” means           

A．难以计数         B．不太重要          C．期望不多         D．难度不大

3.Which of the following is NOT true for British students?

A．They have exams once a year.

B．They don’t know their classmates’ scores.

C．Parents’ meetings are held at the end of the terms.

D．They like to tell each other their scores

Today we find that school students hardly spend much time on sports. Is it because they aren’t interested in sports? No, they often say they have other important things to do.

         What are these important things? Tests! They have to spend much time on all kinds of tests at school. So many of them almost become bookworms(书呆子) . Books stop them from going out for sports. Because of the pressure from their parents and teachers, the students have to work harder and spend most of their time on books. As for the students, they want to get good results in order to improve their studies. So it is necessary for them to give all of their free time to their studies and stop their school sports.

         In fact, education can’t go without body exercise, because a quick mind hardly goes along with a weak(虚弱的) body. If you don’t have a strong body, you can never get anything or any great success in your life.

1.The underlined word “pressure” means ________.

A. 愉快   B. 主意       C. 压力 D. 关爱

2. If you don't have a ______, you can get nothing. 

A. good father     B. strong body  C weak body   D. good face. 

3.In the writer’s opinion, students should _______.

A. work all day and night                    

B. not have sports

C. have sports after studying         

D. spend all their free time studying 

4.Which of the following is NOT TRUE? 

A. The students don’t go out for sports because of their parents.

B. Body exercise is very important for education.

C. A person can’t become successful with a weak body

D. The students stop their school sports because of studies and tests.

Do you know what school life is like in Singapore? In Singapore, a class only lasts half an hour, but there are no rests between classes. The students only have a 30-minute tea break after 3 or 4 classes.

They do not do eye exercises. Yao Suyu, a Singaporean student said our eye exercise were new to her. “I’d like to introduce them to our school,” she said. “They’re very useful.”

In Singapore school ends at 1:30p.m. But students join other clubs after school, such as dancing clubs and singing clubs. Yao said she joined the dancing club twice a week and it lasted from 1: 50 to 5:30 p.m.

Its population includes Chinese, Indians, Malays and Westerners. But there is no school for any one of the groups. The students in Yao’s school are Chinese, Indians and Malays. “The Indian students take Indian language classes when we study Chinese,” said Yao, “but if an Indian student is interested in Chinese, he ore she can study it, too.”

In Singaporean schools, teachers teach in English. It’s the official（官方的）language in Singapore. Singaporean students have to take different courses after school. Like most Singaporean students, Yao takes other courses in Chinese，such as math and English.

1.判断正误（T，F）：A class lasts an hour in Singaporean schools.

2.完成句子：The students don’t do ____________ in Singapore.

3.完成句子：In Singapore school ends at __________.

4.简略回答问题：What does Singapore’s population in clude? ______________________________

5.找近义句：在文中找出并写下与下列句子意思相近的句子。

Singaporean teachers speak English in class.

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