Let’s drink a tea (P4)

A. To promote China’s tea bag art.

B. To introduce the Chinese art of enjoying tea.

C. To explain how tea influences culture in China.

D. To introduce the etiquette around sharing tea with guests.

A. Her fashion sense.           B. Her social circle.

C. Her Chinese heritage.

D. Her fascination with tea.

A. To appreciate tea, you have to observe a tea ceremony.

B. Green tea is more common in China than other kinds of tea.

C. Popular as tea is in China, tea varies from area to area.

D. People from different social classes drink tea in different ways.

A. tea is beneficial in many different ways

B. people from different regions enjoy similar types of tea

C. people who love tea have a lot in common

D. no matter what their social status is, all kinds of people enjoy tea

 

Key:

1. B。本文主要介绍的是中国的品茶文化，所以B项正确。

2. D。由第三段的Omori says her success is down to her Asian heritage and love of a good cup of tea.可知选项里只有D项符合题意。C项Chinese错误，文章中只提到了她是亚洲血统。

3. C。由第六段“But the fact is you don’t need a tea ceremony to appreciate tea.”可知A项错误；B项文中没有提及；由第八段“Tea in China is like wine in France - every region, with its different climate and different soil, produces a different type of tea. ”可知C项正确；文中提到了社会各阶层的人都爱喝茶，但是没有比较他们喝茶方式的差异，所以D项不对。

4. D。由第七段这句话之后的话可知，社会各阶层的人都喜爱喝茶，所以D项正确。

 

Study accuses fast food suppliers (P4)

 

It’s no secret that kids like fast food. ________ – so much that some companies have increased their marketing efforts in the past couple of years, says a report published last Monday by Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity.

________. For example, it found that unhealthy foods reign (主宰) on children’s menus. ________, only a dozen met the nutritional standards the researchers set for preschoolers, and 15 met the criteria for teenagers.

To achieve saturation (渗透) of advertising, fast food restaurants spent more than $4.2 billion on marketing and advertising last year, with $660 million on marketing exclusively (专门) to young people. At these rates, children and adolescents see more advertisements for fast food than for any other kind of food.

________, the report found that French fries are served with kids’ meals 86% of the time, and soft drinks at least 55% of the time.

US first lady Michelle Obama has called on the companies to limit their marketing campaigns directed at children. “As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, to raise my kids,” she said. “________, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined (破坏) by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.”

A. And these kids have huge control over the flow of parents’ spending

B. But we have to ask ourselves

C. And fast food likes kids

D. The study doesn’t show fast food companies in the best light

E. Though they might not have much money to spend

F. Out of 3,039 likely meal combinations

G. Despite advertisements that show healthy options

Key: 1-5 CDFGB

 

Life can thrive on arsenic (P5)

A. amazed or pleased by

B. concerned or puzzled by

C. astonished or doubtful about

D. inspired or challenged by

A. after she had discovered that some cells had mistaken arsenic for phosphorus

B. after she had compared the six main elements that all Earth life forms are based on

C. when she found an interesting organism in California’s Mono Lake

D. when she thought that the similarities between arsenic and phosphorus might be worth researching

A. In her experiment, Wolfe-Simon put specially collected mud in a natural environment.

B. Wolfe-Simon made sure that the mud remained in the natural lake water all through the experiment.

C. There might be other organisms that live on arsenic.

D. Arsenic is the only element in GFAJ-1.

A. discoveries are often made by chance

B. scientists often need to think in imaginative ways about their work

C. scientists are usually confident of their suppositions

D. phosphorus can take the place of arsenic and the other way around

 

Key:

1. A。文中提到的科学家对这个研究的态度不是惊讶(surprised)就是高兴(delightful)，其他态度都没有体现。所以A正确。

2. D。根据Wolfe-Simon had the idea that arsenic might be able to stand in for phosphorus because it is located directly below phosphorus on the periodic table of elements and behaves similarly. 可知D正确。

3. C。因为以前只以为有六种元素能维持生命，而现在多了一种元素，所以这种可能性很大。其他的错在natural environment，或者natural lake water。

4. B。从Wolfe-Simon开始她的实验，大胆的假设可判断B正确。

 

‘He was a good dad to me’ (P6)

A. his son died as a result of his carelessness

B. he was too sad to deal with his broken family

C. his son didn’t become a special person

D. he had failed to become a successful artist

A. showed the picture on a surface

B. gave all the attention to something

C. thought carefully about something

D. predicted a result with enough information

A. The author didn’t expect the son to be so kind.

B. The author finally found Al to be a complete failure.

C. It was Al’s fault that his wife decided to leave him.

D. Al and his wife had tried everything to save the elder son.

A. Don’t judge a person by their possessions.

B. A failed father can have a successful son.

C. A loving father will make his child kind and caring.

D. It’s important to say, “I love you” to your family.

 

Key:

1. B。C、D项都是错误的，A项不全面。Al酗酒既是因为儿子因自己的疏忽而死，也因为妻子离开他，家庭破碎。

2. C。reflect深思。

3. A。作者以为一个酒鬼的儿子可能会很糟糕。

4. C。文章的主旨是父亲虽然是个酒鬼，但对儿子的爱却没有打折。