牛津深圳版九年级英语（上）Unit6 Healthy diet同步练习

    There are many differences between Chinese and Western eating habits. In the West, everyone has their own 1of food. But in China the dishes are  2  on the table and everyone shares. If you are being treated by a Chinese host, there must be3 food prepared for you. Chinese are very  4 of their culture and will do their best to show their hospitality （好客）.

And sometimes the Chinese host uses his/her 5 to put food in your bowl or plate. This is a sign of politeness. The proper thing to do would be to eat the whatever-it-is and say how 6 it is. If you feel uncomfortable with this, you can just say a polite "Thanks” and leave the food there. Don't 7 your chopsticks upright into the rice bowl. Instead, lay （放置） them on your dish. The reason for this is that when somebody 8, the shrine （神祠） has a bowl of sand or rice with two chopsticks which are stuck upright in it. It is impolite to set the teapot down where the spout （壶嘴） is facing 9 somebody. The spout should always be directed to where nobody is sitting, usually just outward （向外） from the table.

    Don't hit on your bowl with your chopsticks. Beggars （乞丐） hit on their bowls, so this is not polite. Also, when the food is coming too  10 in a restaurant, people will tap their bowls. If you are in someone's home, it is like off ending the cook.

A

    Paragraph 1: Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of foods people need. They say that there are several kinds of foods that people should eat every day. They are:（1）green and yellow vegetables of all kinds;（2）citrus（柑橘）fruits and tomatoes;（3）potatoes and other fruits and vegetables;（4）meat of all kinds，fish and eggs;（5）milk and foods made from milk; （6） bread or cereal（谷类食物）, rice is also in this kind of food;（7）butter, or something like butter.

    Paragraph 2: People in different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn't matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked. It doesn't matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o'clock in theafternoon or at eleven o'clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.

    Paragraph 3: There are two problems, then,in feeding the large number of people in the earth. The first is to find some ways to feed the world's population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of foods to make them grow to be strong and healthy.

 B

    Will it matter if you don't take your breakfast? A short time ago, a test was given in the United States. People of different ages, from 12 to 83, were asked to have a test. During the test, these people were given all kinds of breakfast, and sometimes they got no breakfast at all. Scientists wanted to see how well their bodies worked when they had eaten different kinds of breakfast

     The results show that if a person eats a right breakfast, he or she will work better than the person who has no breakfast. If a student has fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, he or she will learn more quickly and listen more carefully.

     The result is opposite to what some people think. Having no breakfast will not help you lose weight.This is because people become so hungry at noon that they eat too much for lunch. They will gain weight(增加体重) instead of losing it. You will lose more weight if you reduce your other meals.

    Nowadays more and more people in the world are getting fatter, which troubles them a lot. In the past 25 years, the number of the people with obesity （肥胖症）in Europe has grown fast. Experts say that it has a lot to do with our eating habits.

    Our eating habits are very important for good health and a strong body.①Most of us prefer eating sweets and ice cream to eating meat and rice. Sweets and ice cream are not bad for us if we eat them at the end of a meal. If we eat them before a meal, they may take away our appetite（食欲）.

②It's important for us to eat our meals at the same time each day. When we feel worried or excited, we may not want to eat. A long time ago, in England, some judges often decided whether a man was telling the truth by giving him some dry bread. If the man could not swallow the bread, it meant that he wasn't telling the truth.A man who is worrying about something has difficulty in swallowing anything dry, because he loses his appetite.

Alice:Hello?

Susan:Hello.  

Alice:Yes, it is.

Susan:  Would you like to go to the bookstore with me tomorrow? I'd like to buy some books.

Alice:Sorry. I don't need any books. I can read books on the Internet.

Susan:Yes, but you can't always read on the computer. 

Alice:Oh, I see.

Susan:And in the bookstore we can find many wonderful books.

Alice:OK. I'll go with you. 

Susan:What about three o'clock tomorrow afternoon?  

Alice:Great. See you then.

Susan:See you.

     Michael Leung,a famous TV host (主持人) in Hong Kong, wrote a letter to his son. It is not only  to children, but also good for all ages.The following are chosen his letter.

     Life is short. While you are it today, you'll realize you are at the end of it tomorrow. So the earlier you start to value your life, the you can enjoy it.

     You might not be successful you don't study hard, although a lot of successful people haven't  higher education.

      I don't expect you to support (供养) me for the rest of life, so I'm not going to do the same for you. You will be living on your own when you grow up.

     You can require yourself to be nice to others, you shouldn't expect the same from others.

     I've been buying the lottery (彩票) for almost twenty , but I'm still poor. I have never got the place even once. So you have to work hard to be successful. There is no free lunch in the world.

假如你是李丽，你的一位英国笔友Peter发来了e-mail，说他下星期来中国，他向你询问中国的餐桌礼仪，请你给他回一封e-mail，告诉他相关事宜。

要点：

1.让客人和长辈先吃每一道菜；

2.不要用筷子敲碗；

3.不要将手伸到饭桌对面（reach across）夹菜；

4.等大家都到齐了，才开始吃；

5.为主人的长寿、健康或成功干杯。

提示词：guest客人，elder长辈，tap敲，longevity长寿

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Yours,

Li Li