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Are you trying to live a 1 life? The following tips may sound strange, but they can 2 help you.
Exercise when you are tired
After a long and tiring day of study, an offer to exercise might not sound like 3 good idea, but it should. In fact, physical 4 can provide you with the missing energy. Research shows that exercising 5 just 30 minutes can make you feel good!
Write by hand to help the brain be active
Although writing something using a computer is faster, it is much 6 to remember the whole thing by 7 it down by hand. When you read a handwritten text, naturally it’s easier for your brains to remember the information.
Spare more time for yourself
By sparing the time for yourself and just being alone for a while, you can have a chance to think and get to know 8 better. And you won’t behave impulsively ( 易冲动地 ).
Drink hot drinks on a hot day
What cools more on a hot summer morning, cold water 9 hot water? A study shows that the hot water does make people 10 cooler. When you are drinking something hot, the body will feel the change in temperature and increase the perspiration( 流汗 ), which helps you cool down!
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6. _____ 7. _____ 8. _____ 9. _____ 10._____
Once, two men were sick in hospital. They were in the same room. One man could sit up on his bed for an hour each afternoon. His bed was next to the room’s only window. The other man had to spend all of his time lying on the bed. Every afternoon when the man by the window sat up, he would describe to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. “There is a lovely lake in the park. Ducks and swans are playing on the water while children are sailing their model boats.” As the man described all these, the other man lying on the bed would close his eyes and imagine the beautiful scene ( 风景 ).
Days and weeks passed. One morning, the man by the window died. Then the other man moved to the bed by the window. He took his first look at the real world outside. He tried his best to find the beautiful scene, but it was just a blank 空白的 ) wall!
The man asked the nurse why his roommate described such wonderful things outside this window. The nurse told the man his roommate was blind and could not even see the wall.
（） 1. How many windows were there in the room?
A. Only one.B. Two.
C. None.D. We don’t know.
（） 2. What did the man by the window do when he sat up?
A. He enjoyed the beautiful things outside the window.
B. He kept quiet because of illness.
C. He described to his roommate the beautiful things.
D. He played games with his roommate.
（） 3. In the real world, there was (were) _____ outside the window.
A. just a blank wall B. a park with a lovely lake
C. many children D. many young lovers
（） 4. The underlined word “blind” in the last paragraph means “____” in Chinese.
A. 不明事理的 B. 失明的 C. 愚蠢的 D. 没有眼光的
（） 5. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The man by the window couldn’t see anything.
B. The other man wasn’t a blind man.
C. The man by the window died in the room.
D. There was a park outside the window.
Nowadays, more and more people are becoming interested in going abroad for a travel.Traveling is so fun for most of us because we can see how people in other parts of the world live. One thing travelers don’t often think about before traveling is how other cultures take a bath. Bathrooms in many countries may be different from the kind you are used to.
In the United States, most people take a shower once a day in the morning. The showerhead is usually fixed on the wall and cannot be moved. The bather simply stands under the water, gets wet, scrubs ( 擦洗 ) with soap and often a washcloth, and then washes off.
It is important to remember that when you take a shower or bath in the United States, you should be careful to keep the water inside the bathtub ( 浴缸 ). Unlike bathrooms in many other countries, there is no drain ( 下水道 ) in the floor. If water gets on the floor, it canno go anywhere and must be cleaned up with a towel or mop ( 拖把 ). Even worse, it can also damage the floor. So you should really be very careful
1. Why is traveling so fun nowadays? ______________________
2. What do we know about the showerheads in the USA? ______________________
3. Why should you keep the water inside the bathtub in the United States?
____________________________________________
4. What do Americans do if water gets on the floor while taking a bath
____________________________________________
5. What is the main idea of the passage? ______________________
1. physical activity 体育活动
2. write by hand 用手写
3. naturally adv. 自然地
4. spare more time 抽出更多时间
5. handwritten text 手写的文本
6. provide sb. with energy 为某人提供能量
7. describe sth. to sb. 向某人描述某事
8. beautiful scene 优美的风景
9. take one’s first look at ... 看第一眼……
10. blank adj. 空白的
11. nowadays adv. 如今
12. take a bath 洗澡
13. be used to ... 习惯于……
14. take a shower 洗淋浴
15. washcloth n. 浴巾
16. clean up 清洁，打扫