Once ______ from space, the Great Wall is till great in sight.

A. seeing B. to see  C. seen    D. saw

— ________ David and Vicky ________ married?

— For about three years.

A. How long were; being      B. How long have; got

C. How long have; been     D. How long did; get

One of the most widely accepted, commonly repeated assumptions (假设) in our culture is that if you exercise, you will lose weight. I exercise all the time, but I still have gut fat that hangs over my belt when I sit. Why isn’t all the exercise getting rid of it?

It’s a question many of us could ask. More than 45 million Americans now belong to a health club, up from 23 million in 1993. We spend some $19 billion a year on gym memberships. Of course, some people join and never go. Still, as one major study — the Minnesota Heart Survey — found, more of us at least say we exercise regularly.

And yet obesity (肥胖) figures have risen sharply in the same period: a third of Americans are obese, and another third count as overweight by the Federal Government’s definition. Yes, it’s entirely possible that those of us who regularly go to the gym would weigh even more if we exercised less. But like many other people, I get hungry after I exercise, so I often eat more on the days I work out than on the days I don’t. Could exercise actually be keeping me from losing weight?

The popular belief that exercise is essential for weight control is actually fairly new. As recently as the 1960s, doctors routinely advised against too much exercise, particularly for older adults who could injure themselves. Today doctors encourage even their oldest patients to exercise, which is sound advice for many reasons: People who regularly exercise are at significantly lower risk for all manner of diseases — those of the heart in particular. They less often develop cancer and many other illnesses. But the past few years of obesity research show that the role of exercise in weight loss has been wildly over-evaluated.

“In general, for weight loss, exercise is pretty useless,” says Eric Ravussin, exercise researcher at Louisiana State University. Many recent studies have found that exercise isn’t as important in helping people lose weight as you hear so regularly in gym advertisements or on shows like The Biggest Loser — or, for that matter, from magazines like this one.

The basic problem is that while it’s true that exercise burns calories and that you must burn calories to lose weight, exercise has another effect: it can make one hungry. That causes us to eat more, which in turn can negate (使无效) the weight-loss benefits we just gained. Exercise, in other words, isn’t necessarily helping us lose weight. It may even be making it harder.

From the passage we learn that ____.

A. some Americans join a health club but never go there  

B. the number of overweight people has doubled since 1993

C. more than 45 million Americans now go to the gym regularly

D. Americans waste too much money each year on sports

According to the passage, exercise ____.

A. has long been believed to be good for older adults

B. is not properly advertised as an effective way to lose weight

C. was first recognized as an effective way to lose weight in the 1960s

D. is less effective in preventing heart disease than what doctors believe

According to the writer, people might gain weight because ____.

A. they have the habit of going to the gym regularly

B. they eat the same food when they do not exercise

C. they exercise less than required by doctors

D. they eat more after they exercise

What may be the best title for this passage?

A. Overweight Is Not Good for Your Health

B. Exercise Won’t Make You Thin 

C. Gym Is Part of American Lifestyle      

D. Obesity Is a Social Problem in America        

A truly rich man is a person _______ children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

  A. whose                  B. that                          C. whom                      D. who

More high-rise buildings are being built now even in some small cities      

space.

A. in search of     B. in place of     C. for lack of    D. for fear of

People often find themselves caught in such a _____ as “whether…or not…”.

   A. dilemma                    B. endeavor           C. fault                 D. survival

Not a single word_______ when _______about his late mother.

A. he said, asked                    B. did he say, asked

C. he said, asking                   D. did he say, asking

假定你是陈华，现在美国读书。请你根据你的朋友兰英的要求，给她写一封回信，告诉她有关美国学生学习生活的情况。下面是书信的内容：

1、在美国，孩子六岁开始上学；在一些州,要求学生校一直必须一直读到十六岁；大多数学生十七、八岁才毕业；

2、现在多半的高中毕业生都要上大学；

3、为了在经济上独立，几乎一半的大学生一边读书一边做兼职工作，诸如当保姆、除草坪、送报纸、年幼一点的卖报或者洗车等；

4、美国孩子还常常走进自然，到课堂外去学习。

[写作要求]

1、词数：100词左右（不包括已经给出的部分）；

2、内容应包括上述要点，但不要逐字翻译；可适当增加信息；

3、句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

Dear Chen Hua,

I received your letter yesterday. ____________________________________________

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                                                           Love from,

                                                                   Lan Ying

____, the more expensive the camera, the better its quality.

A. General speaking               B. Speaking general   

C. Generally speaking             D. Speaking generally

I’ll remind him_______ what he has promised to us so that he won’t forget it.

A. about       B. in       C. of       D. in