You will spend hours at the gym training your body, but do you ever think about training your brain? Here are four ways to keep your brain mentally (脑力上地) active and healthy.

Play games

Your brain is a muscle just like the ones in the rest of your body. If you don’t use it, you will lose it. For example, doing a crossword puzzle (纵横填字游戏) once a day is a good way to give the brain the exercise it needs. This kind of puzzle is good at training different areas of the brain. But remember that when doing this puzzle, you should gradually increase the complexity (复杂度); otherwise, it will become repetitive (重复乏味的) and stop being mentally challenging.

Talk aloud

Although it might sound strange to you, talking aloud is a great way to boost your memory. A good exercise to try is counting to 99 in threes as fast as you can.

Be a team leader

If you find you can do your work very easily, you should find a new task. It is important that your job should be mentally challenging. Complex jobs are often more challenging and make the brain work a little harder.

Learn a language

A study found that, compared with those who could speak only one language, the people who could speak two languages had a slower rate of cognitive (认知能力) decrease. Learning a new language is very challenging and it makes sure that different areas of the brain have their lights on.

1.What is the main idea of this passage?

A．Why you should train your brain.

B．How to be a good team leader.

C．Training the brain is more important than training the body.

D．How to make your brain healthy and work actively.

2.Which word can replace the word "boost" in the third paragraph?

A．Change.           B．Promote.          C．Decrease.         D．Lose.

3.We should gradually increase the complexity when doing crossword puzzles because ______.

A．if we don’t use our brain, we will lose it

B．we should make our brain face different challenges

C．our brain is a muscle like other parts in our bodies

D．these puzzles can work on different areas of the brain

4.Which group of people have a slower rate of cognitive decrease?

A．Those who don’t often do crossword puzzles.

B．Those who don’t often count to 99 in threes.

C．Those who do their work very easily.

D．Those who can speak more than one language.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。

All over the world people enjoy sports .sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer.

_1.___.They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when their player or team wins.

___2.___Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in china, Egypt or Italy! _3.__ Think how many lovers to skate or ski in Japan, Norway or Canada.

Some sports or games go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. __4.__ Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.

People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends. 5. One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace(胜不骄，败不馁)。

A．And think of people in cold countries.

B．Sports help to train a person’s character. (性格)

C．Not a few people like sports in the world.

D．Many people like to watch others play games.

E.People aren’t inventing new sports or games.

F.Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere take part in them.

G.People are inventing new sports or games all the time.

根据句子意思和所给中文或首字母提示,写出单词的正确形式。（每小题I分满分8分）

1.Canada has two __________ (官方的) languages: English and French.

2.The f______ toys have attracted a lot of children.

3.If he gets that _________(职位），I think he can do it well.

4.Though he e_________ from the big fire, his skin was severely burned.

5.Jane ________ (忽视) his invitation to the party by not giving him a reply.

6.In some countries, especially in some poor countries, women are not really e________ to men.

7.This kind of washing powder is of good q_______. It doesn’t harm our hands.

8.If you can’t show us any ________(证据), we will not be able to believe you.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文.

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(^)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意:每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;

只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

I am a high school student. A few days before one of my very good friend told me that he was going to stop school. He said that he wanted to start his own’s business. I tried my best to get him to change his mind and failed. I realized it was difficult of me to change his mind. He is not doing so good in his studied. The process are more important than the result. Now there are only 90 days being left before the test. I am not sure that his decision is right or wrong. I needed your advice.

假如你是李华,Jane 是美国人。在她暑假来中国游玩时你们相识,并成为好朋友。Jane回国后,你很想念她,于是给她写了一封信,并且和她谈了你对高一新生活的感受。信头信尾均已给出；词数100左右。

Dear Jane,

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Yours sincerely,

Xiaohua

Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts. The plane __________.

A．takes off                              B．is taking off

C．has taken off                           D．took off

I am going to meet Tom __________ they say is a good boy.

A．who                                 B．whom

C．whose                                D．which

Jim passed the driving test, __________ surprised everybody in the office.

A．what                                 B．that

C．which                                D．it

Do you know the factory, __________ products are of high quality?

A．which                                B．whose

C．that                                  D．its

The doctor __________ she sent her friend is very well known.

A．by whom                              B．at whom

C．whom                                D．to whom