A Reading is the key to success in all school subjects. With a bit of creativity, you can help your child enjoy reading more, and encourage him to do more! Buy or borrow a lot of “fun” books. Choose books that are slightly below his level of reading ability. Don’t forget what your child likes to do when choosing books for him. Don’t comment about the books. Simply leave the books lying on the table where your child is sure to see them. Computer games are not as harmful as most parents usually think them to be. Instead, you should take advantage of your child’s love of computer games to purchase those that require a lot of reading and avoid those that are simply computerized video games. Buy your child a bedside reading lamp, or a tiny book light. Tell him that from now on, he must be in bed by a specific time (say 8:30 and that he can either sleep or read. Most kids will do anything else rather than go to sleep, so there’s a chance you’ll create a new bedtime reading habit. Any children will read when they are sitting alone having a snack, or when they have a few minutes of unplanned free time. Put a box of books and magazines near the kitchen table so that reading material is accessible. Often, once children learn to read independently, parents stop reading to them. This change of routine causes great sadness to a child who has come to love falling asleep as you read. Even a teenager will enjoy being read to if you pick books that interest him. Select books together, and make sure they’re ones you enjoy as well, so your enjoyment will come through as you read to them. 1. To make children become interested in reading, parents should _______. A. choose the interesting books for children to read B. tell them what they can learn from these books C. choose books based on parents’ interest D. always read books together with them 2. Which of the following is NOT what parents are advised to do? A. Pick the right computer games. B. Read to children when possible. C. Have reading material available. D. Reduce children’s sleeping time. 3. What attitude do most parents hold towards children playing computergames? A. Negative. B. Doubtful. C. Supportive. D. Neutral (中立的. 4. The main idea of the passage is to ________. A. help children succeed in school subjects B. teach parents how to encourage children to read 第1页，共10页
C. remind parents of the importance of reading D. give parents advice on how to educate children B Do you live in a city where looking up the air quality forecast is just as important as checking the weather forecast for the day? Many places around the world have terrible pollution problems. But now new research suggests that we might be able to protect ourselves naturally and easily— simply by taking vitamin B. The study was conducted by a team of international researchers. Their focus was on a pollutant known as PM2.5. Its size, approximately l/40th the width of a human hair, makes it particularly dangerous because it is readily inhaled and small enough to spread through the body via the blood. This can cause damage to the lungs if PM2.5 is being breathed in regularly. The current experiment involved subjects being exposed to clean air and a placebo(安慰剂 to record baseline responses. They were given the placebo for four weeks, then exposed through a face mask to air from a highly polluted area in downtown Toronto. The researchers measured methylation (甲基化 changes to DNA; the damage increased in each participant. However, in the repeated experiment, when the volunteers were given a vitamin supplement containing 1 milligram of vitamin B12, 50 mg of vitamin B6, and 2.5 mg of folic acid daily for four weeks, it reduced the damage to the DNA by a range of 28 to 76 percent. The results indicate how prevention at an individual level could be used to fight the harmful effects of PM2.5. However, researchers stressed that research was in its early stages. Future studies, especially in heavily polluted areas, are urgently needed and they’ll finally develop preventive measures using B vitamins to prevent the health effects of air pollution. 5. How does the author introduce the current experiment? A. By giving examples. B. By comparing results. C. By analyzing causes. D. By describing effects. 6.What does the underlined word “inhaled” in Paragraph 1 refer to? A. discovered. B. smelt. C. breathed. D. approached. 7. What can be the best title of the text? A. Vitamin B Benefits People Most B. Air Quality Forecast Is Extremely Important C. PM2.5 Is Most Deadly D. Vitamin B Offers Air Pollution Protection 8. What can we learn about the researchers in the last paragraph? A. They’ll soon find more ways to test B vitamins. B. They regretted not using enough volunteers. C. They’ll confirm the findings in highly polluted areas. D. They warned people of heavy pollution. C The Intelligent Transport team at Newcastle University have turned an electric car into a mobile laboratory named"DriveLAB"in order to understand the challenges faced by older drivers and to discover where the key stress points are．
Research shows that giving up driving is one of the key reasons for a fall in health and well-being among older people，leading to them becoming more isolatedand inactive． （隔绝）第2页，共10页
