Do you have a headache? Take an aspirin or eat bird brains. Do you want beautiful skin? Use skin cream or eat pearls. Is your hair turning gray? Color your hair or eat black rice.

“Eat bird brains, pearls, and black rice?” some people ask. “How strange!” But for many Chinese people, bird brains, pearls, and black rice are not strange things to eat. Instead, they are good medicines.

Food that people use for medicines is called medical(药用的) food. The Chinese have eaten medicinal food and spices(香辛料) for centuries. Ginger, for example, is a common spice in Chinese cooking. Ginger gives food a nice flavor. The Chinese began to use ginger many years ago. They used ginger not because it tasted good. They used ginger because it was medicinal. Ginger, they thought, was good for the digestion. It also helped people who had colds. Pepper and garlic, too, were probably medicines a long time ago.

Some people don’t believe that food and spices are good medicines. They want to buy their medicine in drugstores, not in supermarkets. Other people want to try medicinal food. They say, “Maybe medicinal food can’t help me. But it can’t hurt me, either.”

People can try medicinal food at a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco, California. The restaurant serves medicinal food. The menus at the restaurant have a list of dinners. Next to each dinner there is information about the food. The information helps people order “Queen’s Secret,” for example, is one dinner at the restaurant. This dinner has meat from chickens with black feathers. It is for women who want to look young.

1.All of the followings are common spices in Chinese cooking EXCEPT .

A. ginger B. pepper C. garlic D.pearls

2.What do you know about medicinal food?

A. The Chinese have eaten medicinal food for a long time.

B. Many Chinese believe medicinal food tastes good.

C. Medicinal food may be bad for your health.

D. Medicinal food is served all over the world.

3.Why did the Chinese begin to use ginger many years ago?

A. Because it gave food different flavors.

B. Because it made food more delicious.

C. Because it was good for people’s health.

D. Because it made people feel cold.

4.Which answer to the following questions can be found out from the passage?

A. When did the Chinese start to eat bird brains?

B. Why do women like “Queen’s Secret”?

C. What is the advantage of using pepper?

D. How do Chinese people stop a toothache?

5.What can we infer (推测) according to the passage?

A. More foreigners will learn more about medicinal food.

B. All the Chinese will believe black rice stops hair turning gray.

C. Ginger will be more and more popular in China.

D. Medicinal food will be sold in drugstores and supermarkets.

Life comes in a package. This package includes happiness and sadness, failure and success, hope and despair. Life is a learning process. Experiences in life teach us new lessons and make us a better person. With each passing day we learn to deal with various situations.

Love plays a main role in our life. Love makes you feel wanted. Without love a person could become cruel. In the early stage of our life, our parents are the ones who show us with love and care. They teach us about what is right and wrong, good and bad. But we don’t always care about it. It is only after marriage and having kids that a person understands others’ feelings.

Happiness can bring people a peaceful mind. No mind is happy without peace. Sadness is the cause of the death of a loved one or the failure. But all of these things will pass away.

Failure is the path to success. It helps us to touch the sky, teaches us to survive and shows us a specific way. Success brings in money, pride and self-respect.

Hope is what keeps life going. Parents always hope their children will do well. Hope makes us dream. Hope builds in patience. Life teaches us not to despair even in the darkest hour, because after every night there is a day.

Life teaches us not to regret over yesterday, for it has passed and is out of our control. Tomorrow is unknown, for it could either be bright or dark. So the only choice is to work hard today, so that we will enjoy a better tomorrow.

1.We usually have to accept _______ if we want to be successful.

A. love B. failure C. sadness D. hope

2.In which section can readers probably read the passage?

A. Business. B. Travel. C. Lifestyles. D. Education.

3.What does the word “despair” mean in Chinese?

A. 颓废 B. 遗憾 C. 悲伤 D. 绝望

4.What’s the meaning of the last sentence of the whole passage?

A. When choosing between “today” and “tomorrow”, you’d better enjoy tomorrow.

B. If you work hard today, you’ll have a better life in the future.

C. What you can only choose is to work hard today rather than tomorrow.

D. The only choice you make is that you should enjoy a better tomorrow.

5.What’s the purpose of the passage?

A. To encourage people to love each other.

B. To tell people how to deal with happiness and sadness.

C. To give readers some information about life.

D. To remind people to keep having a beautiful dream.

根据括号中所给的汉语写出单词，使句子意思完整正确，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为41~45的相应位置上。

1.The ________（第二十二）Winter Olympic Games was held from February 7th to February

23rd in Sochi, Russia.

2.As a Nanjing citizen, we should devote our time to _________（改善）the environment around us for the YOG.

3.Please fill in your names and ________（地址）in this form first if you want to be volunteers.

4.-- Look! An old lady is _______（躺）by the side of the road.

-- What’s happening? Let’s go and help her.

5.-- Don’t lose heart. I’ll give you as much help as I can.

-- Thanks for your kindness. Perhaps I can do it ________（成功地）with your help.

根据句子意思，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为46~50的相应位置上。

1.You’d better ________（not play）basketball on the playground in such smoggy weather.

2.Boys and girls, try your best to pull _________（you）up the rocks! Don’t give up easily!

3.Now young people like to use microblog and We Chat to communicate with each other, and text messages are _________（popular）.

4.Do you think it is better to travel ten thousand miles than _______（read）ten thousand books?

5.The smart phone which _______（invent）14 years ago has changed our everyday life.

根据短文内容，从下面方框中选择适当的单词或短语填空，使短文内容完整正确。

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The lights in many buildings around the world were turned off at 8: 30 p.m. on March 29th, 2014. The lights _____1.____ for one hour an event called Earth Hour. The event is organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature, also ____2.___ as the World Wildlife Fund. People are asked to turn off their lights for one hour to call attention to ___【小题3__ change,

The first Earth Hour was held in 2007 in Sydney, Australia. Since then, Earth Hour has ___3._ an international event. People in more than seven thousand cities in one hundred and fifty countries ___4.__ this year. The event organizers say big changes start with small steps like turning out the lights.

“If you consider getting older with needing less sleep, it’s not true!” says Robert Oexman, D.C., director of the Sleep to Live Institute. Besides disease, medicine and pain, if partients complain of bad sleep, Dr. Oexman looks at their nighttime habits, where the problem almost always exists. So, how are you destroying your sleep?

Watch TV until you fall asleep

It has nothing to do with what you watch. It’s you who face TV’s bright light. That’s the reason. So even if you nod off in front of the TV, for example, you probably won’t stay asleep for long.

So an hour before bedtime, treat yourself like a baby: a warm bath. But no reading or writing on your computer before bed or in the middle of the night.

Exercise too close to bedtime

Remember how poorly you sleep when you have a fever, never really feeling rested? Well, heavy exercise too close to bedtime has the same effect--it raises your body temperature, so when you lay your sleepy head on the pillow, your body temperature is normal.

Eat fatty, heavy foods too close to bedtime

If you’ve ever tried to go to sleep after eating a fatty meal, you’ve probably found the discomfort of stomach acids（胃酸）less than good for falling asleep or staying asleep.

So try to eat your last meal of the day at least 2-3 hours before bedtime. Should you feel hungry before bed? So have a bowl of cereal or a small boiled potato. Or maybe have a serving of jasmine rice.

根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

Malaysia Airlines deeply regrets that MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean. MH370 first d__1.__ in the early hours of March 8th, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

We should know how to s___2.__ ourselves when the crash happened. Australian professor Galea, summed up 6 golden rules after years of research. It might be able to help you escape in case of emergency. S___3.__ 1985, Australian professor ED Galea has interviewed 2,000 survivors of 105 plane crashes, searching for the keys to survival.

First, if you are traveling in a f ___4.___ group, you should insist that the airline does not separate （分开）you throughout the aircraft. Why? It’s natural that if you’re involved in that kind of situation that you’re going to want to meet the family before you move out.

Second, how do you untie your seat belt in a plane? You press a button. If you can’t untie your seat belt, then, you can’t run away and your c___5.__ of survival will drop.

Third, sit within seven rows of an exit and count exactly how many rows you are from the nearest two exits. Count so that you can find an exit in the d___6.___.

Fourth, we would all be safer if airline seats faced backward. But the difficulty with this is that the most of the tourists don’t like t___7.__ with their back facing the direction of travel.

Fifth, “Smoke is h___8.___ to your health. If you take in enough of them, you will die,” explains Galea. You must learn how to use a smoke mask. Otherwise, you’ll waste time trying to put it on -- time that could be used for running a ___9.__.

At last, listen to the preflight bricfing by the flight attendants and read the s___10._ instructions. Always be prepared. Good luck to you.

还有半个多月就是“母亲节”了。妈妈总是忙碌的，忙着忙着，忙花了眼睛；忙着忙着，忙白了头发……妈妈的时间都去哪儿了？请你根据下面四幅图写一篇短文并谈谈自己的感受。

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The Korean actor called Kim Soo Hyun has been famous in China 2013.

A. since B. from C. for D. in

—What do you think of the 3-D printer?

—It’s great although it still needs further .

A. arrangement B. education

C. information D. development