Many Americans are trying to lose weight．Some eat less rood and hardly have any fats or sweets．Others do running,  1  with machines, take medicine, or even have operations．So you can see losing weight is  2  work, and it also costs a lot of money．

But  3  do so many people in the US want to lose weight? Because they worry about their 4 ．For many people, looking nice means being thin．Other people worry about their health as many  5  say overweight is not good．

Most people want to find a faster and easier way to  6  fat, and books of this kind are very popular．These books  7  people how to lose weight．Each year a lot of new books like these are written．Each one says it can  8  help people take fat away．

Losing weight can be  9 ．Some overweight people go to health centers, like La Costa in California．Men and women  10  several hundred dollars a day at these health centers．So in the United States, losing weight may mean losing money, too．

1．A．work                      B．run                      C．exercise                       D．experience

2．A．easy                           B．hard                     C．useful                   D．helpless

3．A．why                           B．how                 C．when                    D．where

4．A．money                    B．health                  C．looks                     D．bodies

5．A．officials                  B．parents                 C．teachers                       D．doctors

6．A．fix up                     B．put on                  C．take off                  D．stay away

7．A．make                      B．a(chǎn)sk                      C．lead                      D．tell

8．A．never                      B．hardly                   C．just                       D．easily

9．A．cheap                     B．expensive             C．important              D．necessary

10．A．pay                       B．lose                       C．make                    D．waste

George and Betty didn’t have much money, but they wanted to buy a car. Betty didn’t have a  36  , so she was always finding ways to save money.
She  37   vegetables in her garden so that she wouldn’t have to buy any. She made sandwiches for George to  38   to work so that he wouldn’t have to buy his lunch.
Every day George took the bus to go to work and go home. It was not a long trip 39   the bus was slow because of the traffic.
One day, the traffic was even  40  than usual.
“I could run faster than this bus!” thought George.
The next day   41  work he decided to have a try. He went to the bus stop but didn’t take the bus. He ran along beside it on the sidewalk. He had to run quite fast to 42  the bus.
He arrived home. Betty was  43  to see him panting (喘氣). She was worried. “What’s the matter?” she asked.
“I ran along beside the bus,” said George. “I saved two dollars and fifty cents without paying the fare.” He thought it would make Betty   44 , but it didn’t.
“ 45   didn’t you run beside a taxi?” she said. “You would have saved six dollars!”

  A mother planted many kinds of vegetables in her garden．One day，she said to her  31  ，“Betty，come here．Look at all these little yellow marks on the  32  of the cabbages．They are eggs of a kind of insect(蟲(chóng)子)．They are very beautiful but very bad for cabbages．This afternoon you must  33  all the eggs on the leaves and kill them．In this way，you will help us have  34  ，greener and bigger cabbages．”

    Betty didn’t think she should do it  35  and in the end she forgot all about it．The mother fell ill for a few days and  36  work in her gardern. When she was well，she took Betty with her to the garden to see the cabbages．To  37  surprise，the insects had eaten every leaf。When Betty saw this，she began to  38  ．Then her mother said to her．“We should never put off what we have to do today till  39  ．And you must learn to deal with the bad things while they are small，  40  it will turn into a big problem．”

(  )31．A．son                            B. mother                          C．daughter

(  )32．A.  trees                          B. leaves                           C．grass

(  )33．A．find                         B. eat                                C．fly

(  )34．A．worse                      B．better                          C. thinner

(  )35．A.  at most                   B．a(chǎn)t last                          C．a(chǎn)t once

(  )36．A．must                       B. couldn’t                        C. need

(  )37．A.  my                         B.  their                           C．his

(  )38．A．cry                          B．wait                            C．run

(  )39．A.  yesterday                B. today                               C.  tomorrow

(  )40．A. but                           B. or                                 C．a(chǎn)nd

Jim Green is a student in No.5 Middle school. He does a part-time (業(yè)余的)  36  because he needs some  37  . He works in a supermarket after  38  from Monday to Friday and all   39   on Saturday. He helps people look after their kids and he works with  40  kids. He thinks it is great  41 .After school, he  42  a bus to the supermarket. He  43  there at about 4:30. He works  44  4:30 to 8:30. He  45  home at 9:00. Jim likes his job very much.

A thousand years ago Hong Kong was covered by a thick forest. As more and more people came to 1 in Hong Kong, these trees were cut down and burnt. Now there is 2 forest left, though there are still some small areas covered in trees．We call these woods.

Elephants, tigers and many 3 animals were living in the thick forest. When people came to live in Hong Kong, the 4 began to die out. Early farmers grew rice and 5 pigs and chickens in the valleys. They cut down the trees and burnt them. They needed 6 to keep themselves warm in winter, to cook their food and to keep away the dangerous animals. Elephants quickly disappeared because there was not enough food for them.  7 did most of the wolves and tigers. Monkeys and many other animals soon 8 in the same way.

You might think that there are no longer any animals in Hong Kong 9 in the zoos. But there are still about 36 different animals 10 there. One of the most interesting of Hong Kong's animals is the barking deer.