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Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day, they are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds; (2) citrus (柑桔) fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables; 94) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal (谷类), rice is also in this kind of food; (7) butter, or something like butter.

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People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked, canned (罐装的) or frozen (冷冻的). It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.

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There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on the earth. The first is to find some way to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy.

1.According to(依据)the scientists，which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your lunch？

A. Chicken, apples, cereal and cabbages.

B. Potatoes, carrots, rice and bread.

C. Oranges, bananas, fish and tomatoes.

D. Beef, pork, fish and milk,

2.It is important for people to eat ______.

A. three times a day 　

B. dinner at twelve o'clock

C. cooked food all the time 　

D. something from each of the seven kinds of food every day

3.People in different countries and different places of the world ____ .

A. have the right kinds of food to eat

B. cook their food in the same way

C. have their meals at the same time

D. eat food in different ways

4.Which of the following is not true？

A. People in some places don't have enough to eat.

B. There are too many people in the world.

C. One of the problems is that no one is hungry.

D. The scientists are trying to make people grow to be strong and healthy.

5.If there is Paragraph (段落) 4, what do you think is going to be talked about？

A. When people eat their lunch.

B. What to do with the two problems.

C. How to cook food in different ways.

D. Why people eat different kinds of food.

A bag is useful and the word “bag” is useful, too. Here is an interesting phrase（短语）, “to let the cat out of the bag”. In meaning it is the same as “to tell the secret（秘密）”. And there is an old interesting story about it.

　　Long ago, when farmers wanted to sell chickens at the market, they would usually just throw the chickens in cloth (布) bags. But cats were cheaper than chickens at that time, so many farmers would put cats into the cloth bags but not chickens. One day, a woman asked a man for a chicken. The man gave her a cloth bag in which there was a cat.      When the man opened the cloth bag, a big black cat ran out. Not a chicken! The man’s secret was out and everyone knew it.

　　Now when we say someone gives away a secret, we say “he lets the cat out of the bag”. And that is the story where the interesting phrase came from.

1.The underlined word “it” in the passage refers to (指的是)     .

A. the useful bag                 B. the phrase              C. the cat                     D. the chicken

2.The farmers put cats but not chickens in the bags to      when they sold chickens.

A. tell the secret                                                      B. sell the cats

C. get more money                                                  D. keep the cats quiet

3.Which is the best for the blank (空白处) in the passage?

A. The woman was angry to see a cat.                 B. The man put a cat in the bag.

C. The man asked her to see the chicken.         D. The woman wanted to see the chicken.

4.The writer wrote the story to tell us     .

A. the woman was smart                                         B. how farmers sold their cats

C. the phrase is useful                                             D. where the phrase came from

阅读理解

　　Mr King was a chicken farmer. He had hundreds of chickens , and sold the eggs and the meat and got quite a lot of money from them, but he lived in a very hot part of the country, and he found that his hens could hardly lay (下) eggs in summer. So he decided to put air-conditioning (空调) in his chicken-house , so then the hens would lay well all through the year and he would get more eggs and in that way get more money.

　　The owner of the air-conditioning company came to see him, and when he saw Mr King's house , he thought that he might be able to persuade (劝说) him to buy some air-conditioning for that , too.

　　“Your wife would be much happier and have a nicer house to live in then,”he said to Mr King. But Mr King was not interested.

　　“My wife doesn't lay eggs.”he said.

1．Mr King's hens could lay ________ eggs when the weather was too hot.

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2．My King decided to put air-conditioning into his chicken house in order to ________.

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3．The owner of the air-conditioning company hoped to put air-conditioning into Mr King's house so that ________.

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A．Mr King's wife would be happier

B．he could get more money

C．they could have a nicer house

D．he could help people in trouble

4．Which of the following is true ________.

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A．Mr King was a kind-hearted man.

B．The owner of the company was always ready to help others.

C．Mr King put air-conditioning into both his chicken house and his own house.

D．Both Mr King and the owner of the company wanted to get more money.

5．From the story we can know that Mr King cared for ________ more than anything else.

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阅读理解

　　Once there was a rich man who lived with his wife and child. He loved the child so much that he sent him to Oxford University for two or three years. At the end of the first year at the university, this young student came home. He wanted a change. And he also wanted to tell his parents about Oxford University.

　　It happened one night that the father, the mother and the young student were having supper. They had in front of them only two chickens. Just as they were about to eat, the father said, “My boy, I have spent a lot of money on you to send you to Oxford University. Now I want to know what you have learnt.” The son smiled and said, “Father, I have studied a science which can make prove that these two chickens on the plate are really three chickens.”

　　“Well,” said the father, “this is something I would like very much to know.”

　　“There are two chickens on the plate,” said the student, he took one of the chickens in his hand and said, “Here is one more, and one and two makes three. So there are three chickens.” Then the father took one of the chickens to himself, gave the other to his wife, and said, “I will have one of the chickens myself, your mother shall have another, and you can have the third for your supper and nothing else.” The father kept his words and so the student went without his supper.

1．The rich man loved his son very much, so he ________.

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A．sent him to Oxford University to study

B．wanted him to live at Oxford University for two or three years

C．sent him to work at Oxford University for two or three years

D．kept him at home for about two or three years

2．The story happened ________.

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A．one morning when the family were having breakfast

B．one evening when they were sitting at the table

C．one night when the student and his parents were having dinner

D．one evening when the student was sitting at table with his parent

3．The father asked his son ________.

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A．how much money he had spent at he university

B．how he liked Oxford University

C．what he had learnt by the end of the first year at the university

D．how he was at the Oxford University

4．The student said that ________.

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A．he could make three chickens

B．he could change the two chickens on the plate into three

C．he could prove the two chickens on the plate were really three

D．he could take one of the chickens away from the plate

5．In the end ________.

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A．the student had nothing to eat for his supper

B．each of them had a chicken for his supper

C．the father gave his son the third chicken to eat

D．the father thought his son was very clever