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  What would you think if you went back to school on Monday and there were no desks or chairs in your classroom?

  That's what some fourth-and-fifth-graders at a school in Minnesota discovered earlier this year when they took part in a research project to see if changing their classrooms would make them more active.

  Researchers from the Mayo Clinic were concerned about reports that as many as half of American kids could be seriously overweight - or obese - by the year 2010.So they set up a different kind of classroom, which you might see in the future.

  Instead of desks, the Elton Hills Elementary students had adjustable work stations where they could stand, kneel on mats or sit on big exercise balls.Students were given laptops and iPods that allowed them to move and learn at the same time.

  Sensors(傳感器)were attached to the kids' legs to calculate how many calories students burned in their new set-up.

  Their typical school day was probably not anything like yours.One group of students downloaded an audio file(有聲文件)of their teacher reading a book; they listened to it while walking for exercise.Another group took a spelling test by listening to their iPods.

  Some students liked the freedom, but others missed the traditional classroom.

  "I don't like standing up," Mariah Matrious said."My legs get tired, and I like sitting down."

  So, did the experiment work? Researchers still are studying the data, but early results indicate that the kids did move around more in the new classroom.

  "It showed us that, given the opportunity to move, kids will move," said researcher Lorraine Lanningham-Foster.

  That's important because studies have shown that even simple movement - climbing stairs instead of taking an elevator(電梯), for example, or washing dishes by hand instead of loading the dishwasher - can be as important as formal exercise when it comes to controlling one's weight.

(1)

The school in Minnesota carried out the research ________.

[  ]

A.

to punish the badly performed students

B.

to prevent children from being too fat

C.

to spare a lot of money for the state

D.

to meet the needs of different children

(2)

The newly designed classrooms are different from the traditional ones EXCEPT that ________.

[  ]

A.

there were no desks and chairs

B.

the students can move and learn at the same time

C.

students in different groups are given different tasks

D.

teachers don't necessarily instruct the students

(3)

According to Lorraine Lanningham-Foster, ________.

[  ]

A.

the research got some expected results

B.

the experiment needs further changes

C.

not everyone liked the freedom of this new style

D.

The students should be taught without classrooms

(4)

What would be the best title for the text?

[  ]

A.

No Desks or Chairs in the Classroom

B.

New Classrooms in the Future

C.

School Takes a Stand Against Obesity

D.

Washing dishes by hand in the Classroom

答案:1.B;2.D;3.A;4.C;
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  To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up.For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪惡的).So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion.Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans.

  What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地獄).What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits.Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch.

  Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet.In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”.

  But in the end tomatoes carried the day.The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead.”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted.”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato.Some people fainted.But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory.

(1)

The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________.

[  ]

A.

it made Christive evil

B.

it was the apple of Eden

C.

it came from a forbidden land

D.

it was religiously unacceptable

(2)

What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

[  ]

A.

The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down

B.

There was little pregress in the study of the tomato

C.

The tomato was still refused in most western countries

D.

Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato

(3)

What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?

[  ]

A.

To manke imself a hero

B.

To remove people's fear of the tomaoto

C.

To speed up the popularityt of the tomato

D.

To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory

(4)

What is the main purpose of the passage?

[  ]

A.

To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato

B.

To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato

C.

To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato

D.

To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence

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