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This is not a diet (减肥食谱) or a hard ~exercise program. Nobody can stick to those for long. Instead, it's a simple way to make weight loss a natural part of the life you already live. And guess what? It's fun! You don't have to give up the foods you love or do regular exercises. It's about balancing calories(平衡卡路里) in tiny ways that add up to big benefits (好处). You just use some tricks the \thin\people do. Pick the ones you like, stick with them, and you'll lose weight and be strong!
Talk it UP. Every time you pick up the phone, stand up and walk around. Heavy people sit on average two and h half hours more every day than thin people, according to a study.
Get face time. We use e-mail so much that we've forgotten what our colleagues look like. Pick a colleague or two who sit farthest from you: and deliver 10 of those daily messages in person. And go out of your way: go to a bathroom or a copy machine on another floor and take the stairs, of course.
Think about your drink. Consider beer or wine instead of a frozen drink. A glass of regular beer has 140 calories and a serving of wine has 126 calories, while a strawberry daiquiri has about 300 and a margarita 340. Reduce a total of 100 calories each day and you'll be able to lose about 10 pounds in a year. This is really not difficult to do.
4. What is mainly talked about in the passage? A. How to do exercises daily. B. How to lose weight easily. C. How to work comfortably. D: How to eat and drink regularly. 答案：B
解析：了解文章的结构和主题，再对四个选项进行排除。 第五篇
Among the few scientists who have had a great effect on science and history, Albert Einstein is perhaps the greatest. An American university president once commented that Einstein had created a new view of the universe. His theory has completely changed the way
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scientists understand time and space, Now, more and more people agree that the universe is something complicated than what they have ever thought before.
Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. By 1914, young Einstein, internationally famous, became a professor at an institute in Berlin. He had few duties, little teaching and unlimited opportunities for study. However, his peaceful life was soon broken by the First World War.
Einstein hated violence. He was deeply affected by the war; he sat unhappily in his office doing little and lost interest in his research. Only when peace came in 1918 was he able to get back to work.
In the years following the First World War, people showered honors upon him. He became the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Theoretical Physics. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics and was greatly honored and respected in Germany. However, his life was again disrupted. The Second World War broke out and Einstein had to move to the US, where he lived until his death in 1955.
5. The first paragraph is mainly about ____. A. the secret of the universe B. Einstein’s great influence C. an American college president D. the difficulty of Einstein’s theory 答案：B
解析：找出关键词，用排除法和逻辑推理。
4. 词意判断题专讲专练： 第一篇
In 2000, with little but a bar and a church left to make it a destination, tiny St. James, Nebraska, was taken off state highway maps. Then the church closed, and the small farm village in the state's northeast corner looked set to just disappear. Thanks to five devoted women, it didn't.
In May 2001, after meeting with staff from the Center for Rural Affairs, the friends--Louise Guy, Vicky Koch, Jeanette Pinkelman, Mary Rose Pinkelman and Violet
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Pinkelman--opened a weekend market for vendors (小商贩) to sell handcrafts and local food.
\felt like, what can we do to bring the community together?\says Mary Rose Pinkelman. \which, though closed for nearly 40 years, had been well maintained. The first weekend, 16 vendors took over an old classroom. The result was an instant hit. Today, the market draws up t0 70 vendors--who sell such items as homemade jellies, baked goods, hand-woven rugs, and farm-grown produce--and what Pinkelman calls an unexpected number of visitors. In the process, the market has made St. James a destination again, putting it back on the state road map.
1. What does the underlined phrase \A. A fast blow. B. A sudden beat. C. A big strike. D. A quick success. 答案：D
解析：在文章中找出词组出现的部分，通过和对上下文进行逻辑推理和使用排除法得出答案。 第二篇
Joseph Lemasolai wrote a book about his life. His people, The Maasai, are nomads, meaning they do not stay in one place for long. They move their villages in search of good grass and fresh water for their cattle. 39“The cow is the centerpiece of pretty much everything we do,” Joseph explains. “That’s why we move. We could not be nomads without cattle. You can’t move for nothing- you can’t just walk around!”
When he was very young, 40Joseph spent much of his time looking after his family’s cattle, taking them to food and water and watching out for lions. He played on the grassland with his friends.
When Joseph was about six years old, he left his family to attend a boarding school. There, Joseph faced difficulties much like other children do. He was laughed at because he was fat. He got into trouble daily with his teachers.
But Joseph also faced difficulty most children do not. 41“Every time school closed for
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vacation, I had to find my way home,” Joseph says. “That was ones of the hardest things: The village might be 5 miles away, or it might be 50. Sometimes I wouldn’t know exactly where my family was. I had to search for them.”
Joseph later attended high school in a city. After graduation, he went to college. Finally, he became a social studies teacher, and now he is teaching seventh graders at a school.
Every summer, Joseph travels back to the grassland to visit his mother, brothers, and friends. 42And he takes a group of students with him to see both the beauty and the difficulty of growing up in the part of the country. “ I like to show them the other side of the coin,” Joseph says.
2. The word “centerpiece” in Paragraph 1 means “________”. A. the reason of moving B. the things already done C. the most important part D. the animal in the middle 答案：C
解析：了解文章的主题，在相应的段落中用对词法和逻辑推理，再对四个选项进行排除。 第三篇
By the time she got the box open, Nancy was so excited that she could hardly contain herself. Eagerly she removed the cotton surrounding the small object inside the box, and held it up to the light. It glittered and sparkled--- made alive by the bright sunlight pouring through the window.
Nancy turned the object slowly in her hands, first this way and then that way. It continued to sparkle and shine as if it had a light of its own. She cried out in delight. Her diamond engagement ring had been found and returned to her, just as the woman on the phone had promised.
For two weeks, Nancy almost collapsed after losing the ring on the subway. She had placed ads in the newspapers and on the radio, offering a reward for the return of the ring. And, she had almost given up hope when the phone call came.
A kind, elderly female voice informed her that she had found the ring between seat cushions.
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