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         You know that eating a sensible diet and getting plenty of exercise help make your body healthy and strong. But do you know that there are ways to make your brain healthier and smarter? Here are seven steps toward a smarter brain.

Limit your TV viewing

Never spend too much time on TV viewing, for it n__1.__ very little brain activities. Your brain will become weak just as your muscles do. If you do watch TV, choose something educational and meaningful.

Travel

Travelling to a____2.__ country forces you to see and do things in a fresh way, bringing stimulation to the brain. Learn a new language

Learning a new language involves different learning methods. Learning a language sharpens your brain and helps prevent memory p___3.___ that you may meet in later years.

Read often

As you read, take the time to look up people or places that aren’t familiar. Reading makes your vocabulary much l___4.__ if you always search for words and definitions that you don’t know. Each week, choose an animal, a bird or fish, and read everything you can about it. Stretch your brain as you become an expert on the subject.

Calculate w_____5.___ you shop

As you put things in your grocery cart, total everything in your head. See how close you get to the actual total.

Use your non-dominant（不占优势的）hand

If you are right-handed, use your left hand for everyday activities, or use your right hand if you are left-handed. Doing familiar things in a different way will make your brain c____6.__ new neural （神经）networks.

Wechat（微信）!

Read messages from people who has different interests. And some say that learning to express y____7.___ in just 100 words is a great brain challenge.

Have a try and do these every day. Little by little you can get into the habit of challenging your brain, and make your brain smarter!

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

This is an old English saying (谚语). It means that we should go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning. If we do, we shall be healthy. We shall also be rich and clever.

Is this true? Perhaps it is. The body must have enough sleep. Children of your age need ten hours’ sleep every night. If you go to bed late, you can’t have enough sleep. Then you can’t think carefully and your homework will be wrong. You will not be wise and you may not become wealthy!

Some people go to bed late at night and get up late in the morning. This is not good for them. We should sleep at night when it is dark. The dark helps us sleep well. When the daylight comes, we should get up. This is the time for exercise. If the body is not used, it will become weak. Exercise keeps it strong.

Exercise helps the blood (血液) to move around inside the body. Blood takes nutrition (营养) to all parts of our bodies. The brains (大脑) in our heads also need blood. We think with our brains. If we keep our bodies healthy, and take exercise, we can think better!

Our bodies also need air to breathe (呼吸). Without air we will die. Get up early in the morning and we can have plenty of clean, fresh air. That will keep us healthy and happy.

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1.The old English saying tells us _______.

A. how to make more money

B. when we should get up

C. it is important to go to bed and get up early

D. to stay up late

2.A child needs at least _______ hours’ sleep every night.

A. 7????????????? ????????????? B. 8????????????? ????????????? C. 9????????????? ????????????? D. 10

3.If you want to make your body strong, you should _______.

A. exercise often????????????? ????????????? ????????????? B. have enough sleep

C. go to bed early????????????? ????????????? ????????????? D. get up early

4._______ provides nutrition for our brains.

A. Air????????????? B. Blood????????????? C. Exercise????????????? D. Sleep

5.Which of the following statements is Not true?

A. Enough sleep makes you think carefully.

B. The more sleep you have, the cleverer you are.

C. Dark is good for sleeping.

D. People will die without air.

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Nowadays more and more people are worrying about their health. But how to keep healthy？Different people may give different answers to this question. In my opinion, it is important to do the following.

First, we should take exercise every day. Plenty of exercise helps us build a strong body and makes us work better. That is why more and more people are becoming active in different kinds of sports and exercises. In morning many people get up early and take exercise. Some practice running while others walk or dance to music. In the afternoon, there are also many people doing sports. Some play basketball or volleyball, others play football or badminton.

Second, have a healthy diet. Over-eat or too little food is very bad for our health. We should not eat too much or too little for every meal. We should eat healthy food, such as all sorts of grain, green vegetable and fruit.?

Third, give up bad habits like smoking and drinking. Because they are also bad for people’s health.

All above are my thoughts about keeping healthy. If we can do as them, we will become healthier and stronger.

The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in downtown Seattle, Washington, in the United States. It was a small coffee shop that roasted its own coffee beans. The coffee shop’s business did well, and by 1981 there were three more Starbucks stores in Seattle.

    Things really began to change for the company in 1981. That year, Howard Schultz met the three men who ran(经营) Starbucks. Schultz worked in New York for a company that made kitchen equipment. He noticed that Starbucks ordered a large number of special coffee makers, and he was curious about the company. Schultz went to Seattle to see what Starbucks did, and he liked what he saw. He wanted to become part of the company. In 1982, the original(原先的) Starbucks owners hired Schultz as the company’s head of marketing.

    In 1983, Schultz travelled to Italy. The unique atmosphere of the coffee bars there caught his eye. To Schultz it seemed that Italians spent their daily lives in three places: home, work and coffee bars. His experience in Italy gave Schultz a new idea for Starbucks back in Seattle.

    Schultz created an atmosphere for Starbucks coffee shops that was comfortable, and customers everywhere seemed to like it. Between 1987 and 1992, Starbucks opened 150 new stores—and that was only the beginning. In fact, by the year 2000, three new Starbucks stores opened somewhere around the world every day!

Today, Starbucks has thousands of stores, including stores in twenty-six countries. One thing that helps make Starbucks succeed in cities outside the United States is the way Starbucks works with local stores and restaurants. By working together with a store already in the city, Starbucks gets an understanding of customers in the city. This understanding helps Starbucks open stores in the right locations for their customers.

11．What is the main idea of this passage?

　　A．How Starbucks has grown     

B．What Starbucks makes．

　　C．Starbucks’customers．       

D．How Starbucks makes its coffee．

12．Which is true about Starbucks’first ten years of business?

　　A．It grew very quickly．       

B．It was run by Howard Schultz．

　　C．It made special coffee makers．  

D．It was a small company．

13．Who is Howard Schultz?

　　A．A coffee seller in New York．

　　B．An Italian coffee maker

　　C．The man who changed the company．

　　D．One of the original owners of the company．

14. How many new Starbucks stores probably opened in the year 2000 around the world?

　A.Three.   B.About1095.   C.Two thousand.  D. Thirty-six.

15．What helps Starbucks succeed in places outside the United States?

　　A．Opening restaurants in just a few locations each year．

　　B．Only selling locally produced coffee beans．

　　C．working with other major coffee-making companies．

　　D．Learning about local customers．