READING NO. 4

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     Not all people like to work but everyone likes to play. All over the world men and women and boys and girls enjoy sports. Since the days of long ago, adults(成人) and children have called their friends together to spend hours, even days, playing games.

     Sports help people to live happily. They help to keep people healthy and feeling good. When they are playing games, people move a lot. This is good for their health. Having fun with their friends makes them happy.

     Many people enjoy sports by watching others play. In small towns, groups of people meet to watch the bicycle races(比賽) or the soccer games. In the big cities, thousands buy tickets to see a basketball game or a baseball game.

     Games and sports often grow out of the work people do. Hunting and fishing, for example, are work for many people who must get their food this way. But for other people they are sports. In Portugal(葡萄牙), many people work to catch fish. They fish from their boats, and sometimes they use their boats for racing.(比賽)

     Sports today not only make us healthy but also happy. And they won't cost us too much. A cheap basketball is just about everything for a few good friends to spend an afternoon together. How nice it is to play sports!

_____  1. Which about sports is not right?   (1. Sports are fun.          2. People can play

sports for hours or even for days.       3. Sports can't make us live longer.    

 4. People often move a lot when playing sports.)

_____  2. Which is correct?    (1. Sports are only enjoyed by young men and women and

boys and girls.   2. Sports often have something to do with work.   3. People can

only enjoy sports by playing them.    4. Sports help people to live happily

because they are good for money.)

_____  3. People in Portugal (1. like to fish and play sports at the same time.   2. often go

 fishing and watching sports at the same time.      3. make their skills(技巧) on

 the boats a sport.        4  make their boats good for racing.)

_____  4. Which is correct?    (1. Hunting was once a skill to get food.      2. It is not fun

 to watch others play sports.        3. People often pay to watch a baseball game in

 small towns.      4. Some people may not like to work, but all people like to play.)

_____  5. Which of the followings is not a sport?   (1. Kong-fu(功夫) fighting.         

2. Fishing.       3. mountain climbing.   4. Fixing radios.)

Reading (II)

    A habit is something we do very often. We do not think when we are doing it. We can have good habits or bad habits. There is an old English saying,

         Early to bed, early to rise(起床),

         Makes a man healthy, wealthy(富有) and wise(聰明).

    Have you heard it before? It means that we must go to bed early and get up early in the morning. If we do, we shall be healthy. We shall also be rich and smart.

    Is this true? Maybe it is. The body must have enough sleep. Children of your age need eight hours' sleep every night. If you do not go to bed early, you cannot have enough sleep. Then you cannot think right and you cannot do you work right. You will not be smart and you may not become rich.

    Some people go to bed late at night and get up late in the morning. This is not good for them. We must sleep at night when it is dark(暗的). In this way, our body can get good rest without being bothered by the light or the noise caused(造成) by people around. Sleeping is something we do every day. That is why we must have a good sleeping habit.

______ 1. This passage(短文) is about (1. habits   2. sleeping habits   3. having good habits

    4. sleeping).

______ 2. A habit is something (1. happening to us every day          2. living inside us

        3. we do every night in sleep     4. we can control(控制). )

______ 3. Going to bed early has nothing to do with (1. being rich      2. thinking right 

  3. being healthy      4. being a girl or a boy).

______ 4. Why shouldn't we sleep at day time? Because (1. we can't get enough sleep 

  2. it may be too bright(亮) for us to fall asleep  3. the air is not healthy  

  4. people will not like you).

______ 5. When can't we think right?  It is when (1. we get enough sleep      

2. we become healthy and wealthy    3. we don't get enough sleep   

4. we go to bed early and get up early)

ANS: (I)  1. 32344

ANS: (II)  1. 22423