阅读填空题专练

阅读填空题专练

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Section A (10 marks)

A bicycle helmet is a helmet intended to be worn while riding a bicycle ．They are designed to reduce impacts to the skull(头颅骨) of a cyclist in falls ．However, there is a debate on whether helmets are useful for road cyclists ．

The World Health Organization promotes the use of helmets as a strategy for preventing people' s heads from being injured by bicycle crashes or falls ．Use of cycling helmets is supported by numerous groups in the United States. US-based cycling activist John Forester suggests that helmet wearing could prevent 300 deaths a year in the United States out of a total of 1530 preventable deaths ．Public Health Law Research reports that there is enough evidence to establish that bicycle helmet laws are an effective public health intervention(干涉)aimed to reduce the number of head-related deaths ．Received opinion in some countries is that bicycle helmets are useful and that every cyclist should wear one. Professional bodies elsewhere have agreed, such as the Swiss Council for Accident Prevention ．

Mayer Hillman, a transport and road safety analyst from the UK, does not support the use of helmets, reasoning that they are of very limited value in the event of a collision （碰撞） with a car. He compares it to drawing conclusions on whether it is worthwhile to buy lottery tickets. Cyclists' representative groups complain that focus on helmets diverts(转移) attention from other issues which are much more important for improving bicycle safety, such as road danger reduction ．The UK's largest cyclists' organization, the CTC, believes that the "overall health effects of compulsory helmets are negative.'' The same report estimated(估计) that universal helmet use would save the life of one child aged 0 to 15 each year ．

Up to now, the debate is with no consensus （共识）, but an organization has published a review of studies in 2011, saying there is a good deal of evidence that those wearing a helmet are

Nowadays ，send their children abroad to receive education than let them be educated in China.

As every coin has two sides，studying abroad is not an exception (例外)．There are advantages for people to attend schools abroad. In the first place，he can use the foreign language in his daily life so that his ability in the second language may be greatly improved，as it is obvious that there is no better chance to improve the second language than living in the country where it is spoken. While studying in a foreign country，he will most likely meet many others from overseas and it is possible to make friends from all over the world. This is not only exciting on the social level，but could lead to important overseas contacts in his career as well. He can get familiar with the latest knowledge in science and make use of the first-rate facilities available. In this way, there is every chance that he is able to widen his horizon and broaden his mind.

Of course，attending schools abroad may bring about a series of problems. The most serious problem is language barrier．Most of the students who go abroad don’t have enough skills in the language spoken there. As a result，on arriving there，they will find it difficult to understand what the teachers say. Besides，for lack of knowledge of the customs of the local people，they may constantly run into trouble in dealing with various situations.

In conclusion，given an opportunity to attend a school abroad，one must consider both sides of the factors carefully before making up his mind.

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Will it matter if you don't take your breakfast? Recently a test was given in the United States. Those tested included people of different ages, from 12 to 83. During the experiment, these people were given all kinds of breakfasts, and sometimes they got no breakfast at all. Special test were set up to see how well their bodies worked when they had eaten a certain kind of breakfast. The result shows that if a person eats a proper breakfast, he or she will work with better effect than if he or she has no breakfast, you will not lose weight. This fact appears to be especially true if a person works with his brains. If a student eats fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, he will learn more quickly and listen with more attention in class. Contrary(相反) to what many people believe, if you don't eat breakfast, you will not lose weight. This is because people become so hungry at noon that they eat too much for lunch, and end up gaining weight instead of losing. You will probably lose more weight if you reduce your other meals.