HOUSTON (Reuters) — Houston tops a U.S. magazine’s annual fattest cities list for the fourth time in five years, with four other Texas cities in the top 25.

　　Fast food restaurants — Houston has twice the national average number — are partly to blame for the dishonor, Men’s Fitness editor-in-chief Neal Boulton said.

　　“Americans work long hours, don’t take vacations, and when they’re faced with the worst food choices, they indulge (沉溺于) in those,” he said.

　　High humidity, poor air quality and some of the nation’s longest commute (每天去上班的路程) times also helped Texas’ most populous city unseat Detroit, the 2003 heavy weight champion, the magazine said.

　　Houston Mayor Bill White, who has worked with a major food company to develop healthy food products and the city’s public schools to improve lunch menus, called the report “mostly ungrounded and nonsense.”

　　“On the other hand, it calls attention to real issues the mayor is trying to deal with,” his spokesman, Frank Michel, said.

　　The magazine said it looked at factors such as the number and types of restaurants, park space, air quality, weather and the number of health clubs.

　　Philadelphia, Detroit, Memphis, Tennessee, and Chicago followed Houston on the seventh edition of the fat list. Texas cities Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth and El Paso were in the top 14, which Boulton said was no surprise.

　　“It’s pure big indulgence, just living big, and that’s part of the culture,” said Boulton.

　　Seattle ranked as the fittest city. Austin and Arlington, a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, were the only Texas cities on the fit list. Austin was 19th and Arlington 22nd out of 25.

What decides the magazine’s annual fattest list?

       A. The size of fat population.       B. The number of fast food restaurants.

       C. The economic growth rate of the state.    D. Things related to unhealthy ways of life.

Which city topped 2003 fattest cities list?

　    A. Houston.         B. Dallas.          C. Detroit.   D. Philadelphia.

By saying “l(fā)iving big” (in Paragraph 9), Boulton means people _________.

       A. are growing fatter                B. are living wastefully

　    C. eat too many fatty foods           D. are spending too much time working

Which of the following is best supported by the text?

       A. Texas has the most fat cities in the U.S.

       B. Bill White is happy with the newspaper report.

       C. People in Texas are the most hardworking in the U.S.

       D. Most school children in Houston have weight problems.

 ---- Do you _____ any difficulty ______ the subject ?

  ------ Yes. It’s too hard for me.

A. take; to understand          B. have; in understanding

C. take; understanding          D. have; to understand

VII． 書面表達(dá)10%

假設(shè)你是李華， 最近國(guó)內(nèi)一家英文報(bào)紙正在討論北京動(dòng)物園是否應(yīng)遷出市區(qū)。以下是你所在班級(jí)討論的情況。請(qǐng)你給該報(bào)寫一封信，反應(yīng)討論結(jié)果。

贊成遷出理由：1）游客多，交通堵塞       

2）郊區(qū)環(huán)境好

反對(duì)遷出理由：1）建于1906年，中外聞名   2）搬遷易造成動(dòng)物死亡          

注意：1）詞數(shù)80-100左右，信的開頭已為你寫好。

   2）可根據(jù)內(nèi)容要點(diǎn)適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫。

         3）參考詞匯： 在郊區(qū)---in the suburbs       

                                                                                                                June 3, 2010

Dear Edior,                                

Recently, our class have had a heated discussion about_ whether the Beijing Zoo should be moved out of the city.    ____                                                                    

 _____ is known to us all, Yao Ming is an iconic( 偶像的) figure of Chinese basketball .

A. What      B. As         C. It        D. which

______ production going up by 60%, the company had another excellent year.

A. As                  B. For   ?             C. With             D. Though?

VI. 短文改錯(cuò)

找出下面一段文章中的錯(cuò)處并改正。如該行缺一詞，在文中缺詞處標(biāo)上“  ”  ，并在相應(yīng)的橫線上寫上正確的詞語；如該行多一詞，在文中用斜線劃掉多余的詞，并在相應(yīng)的橫線上寫上該詞，用斜線劃去；如該行錯(cuò)一詞，在文中用橫線標(biāo)出，再在相應(yīng)的橫線上寫上正確的詞語。如該行無錯(cuò)，在相應(yīng)的橫線上打上“  ” 。

示例：

Betty wants to be  nurse and works with sick people        a       

who need her helps.                                 help     

Last summer Betty  had  broke her leg.                had     

The pain was very great and she couldn’t walk.                    

  The telephone rang and I picked out the receiver(話筒). “Hello,”   69.____________

I said.  “Hello,” said the voice. “Bill here, is Betty there?”         70.____________

“I’m sorry,” I said, “You have got the wrong number.”             71.____________

A few seconds late, the telephone rang again. Just                 72.____________

as I expected he was Bill, “You have made a mistake again.”        73.____________

I explained. The telephone rang a third time. This made I           74.____________

angry. I speak in a big voice, “Hello, Bill, Betty here.”             75._____________

For a moment there was a dead silent. Then someone said,         76._____________

“What’s the wrong with you, Tom?” It was my mother.            77._____________

I could do anything but say sorry to my mother.                  78_____________

22. __________unexpected advice they have given us!

A. What               B. what an            C. How          D. How an

 Rome was not built in a day. You should set ____ goals and work hard to achieve them.

A. alternative     B. considerable        C. subjective        D. realistic

--Where have you been?  

---I got caught in traffic, otherwise I _______ here earlier.

A. would be                  B. have been                 C. had been                  D. would have been

________ from Milan Trenc’s novel, the film Night at the Museum brings to life a world

where dinosaurs wander the earth.

A. Adapted         B. Adapting               C. Having adapted                D. To be adapted