English teenagers are to receive compulsory(必修的)cooking lessons in schools. The idea is to encourage healthy eating to fight the country’s increasing obesity(肥胖)rate. It’s feared that basic cooking and food preparation skills are being lost as parents turn to pre-pre-pared convenience foods.

Cooking was once regarded as an important part of education in England-even if it was mainly aimed at girls. In recent decades cooking has progressively become a minor activity in schools. In  many cases the schools themselves have given up cooking meals in kitchens in the schools .But the rising level of obesity has led to a rethink about the food that children are given and the skills they should be taught.

“What I want is to teach young people how to do basic, simple recipes like a tomato sauce, a bolognaise, a simple curry, a stir-fry-which they can use now at home and then in their later life”, said Ed Balls, the minister responsible for schools.

The new lessons are due to start in September, but some schools without kitchens will be given longer to adapt. There is also likely to be a shortage of teachers with the right skills, since the trend has been to teach food technology rather than practical cooking. Also the compulsory lessons for hands on cooking will only be one hour a week for one term. But the well-known cookery writer, Pru  Leith, believes it will be worth it .

“If we’d done this thirty years ago we might not have the crisis we’ve got now about obesity and lack of knowledge about food and so on. Every child should know how to cook, not just so that they’ll be healthy, but because it’s a life skill which is a real pleasure”.

The renewed interest in cooking is primarily a response to the level of obesity in Britain which is among the highest in Europe, and according to government figures half of all Britains will be obese in 25 years if current trends are not stopped.

1.The passage mainly talks about        .

A．the compulsory cooking classes            B．the lost cooking skills

C．the healthy eating                       D．the reason for obesity

2.Which of the following is NOT the purpose for English teenagers to receive cooking lessons?

A．To encourage teenagers to eat healthy food.

B．To reduce the country’s increasing obesity rate.

C．To prevent basic cooking and food preparation skills from being lost.

D．To stop parents from turning to pre-prepared convenience foods.

3.In what way will cooking lessons benefit the students?

A．They will be able to do some basic, simple recipes like a tomato sauce.

B．They will be healthy and enjoy the pleasure of such a life skill as well.

C．They will be able to make food experiments with the knowledge and skills.

D．They will be able to control the level of obesity in the whole country.

4.The well-known cookery writer, Pru Leith, thinks it        to offer compulsory cooking lessons in schools.

A．difficult           B．necessary         C．funny            D．timely

5.It can be inferred from the passage that       .

A．cooking has always been an important part of school education in England

B．English teenagers will have their cooking lessons twice a week for one year

C．the obesity rate in Britain has been rapidly growing in recent decades

D．the students will pay a lot of money to the school for their cooking lessons

阅读下面短文并回答问题,然后将答案写到题后相应的位置上(请注意问题后面的词数要求).

[1] Learning to save money when you’re young is an important lesson. All good lessons and habits begin early, and saving is a skill that everyone needs. Many people-adults included-do not have a good sense of saving for the long run.

[2] Make sure you save and don’t spend too much, which is a good way to build up wealth. I have put my earnings in a bank. Many teens I know spend all the money they earn so it never has a chance to grow. Young people should realize that their teenage years are a great time to begin saving.

[3] At high school many parents pay for almost everything , so your expenses can be small, If you have a lot , you should have fun with some of the money. But you should also save some so that it will grow. Then you can begin planning for your future.

[4] After high school, college is expensive and then “real” life begins, with expenses such as food and rent. You can hold on to a good percentage of the money you earn as a teen. The earlier      ,the more time the money has to grow. If you are in your thirties without any savings, you will always have to struggle. The earlier you begin saving, the easier it is to create a nest egg.

[5]Later in life it can be hard to start saving because general costs of living are more expensive and you may only have enough to pay your bills. If you want to buy a house and have a family, you need money to start with, which comes from saving.

[6]Saving early will mean you will have to work for fewer years when you are older. It will also allow you to spend time doing the things that you want to do. In addition, it will mean you can live the way you want to without worrying.

1.What might be the purpose of the writer?(on more than10 words)

2.Please fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.(no more than 5 words)

3.What is the main idea of Paragraph 3?(no more than 12 words)

4.List three benefits of saving early according to the text.( no more than 30 words)

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5.According to the passage, what do you think of saving?(no more than 20 words)

假设你是王明。近日，英语协会与校学生会联合发起了“强健身体，从我做起”的活动。作为学生会主席，请你就此写一封英文倡议书发表在校报英文版上，号召大家锻炼身体，保持健康。

要点如下：

1．强健的身体使我们精力充沛，并能抵御疾病；

2．充分利用不同的时间做运动；

3．参加不同形式的体育活动并且坚持下去。

注意：1.词数：120～150；

2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3．开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

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The Students’ Union

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