To adopt a healthy, realistic self-image, you should try to avoid ______.

A.appeal

B.adopt

C.annoy

D.agument

Adopt-A-Book at Leeds University Library

Is there a book that means a lot to you？ A book that has encouraged you？ A book that is of great value in the history of a subject you care about？ A book with some personal importance to you？ A work by Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Tolkien—or something only you would think of ？

If there is, there may well be a copy in Leeds University Library's Special Collections, and from as little as ￡25 you can Adopt-A-Book at Leeds. We will place a bookplate in the book recording your support for the Library. You can also adopt a book as a gift for someone else—perhaps to celebrate a special event, like a birthday or wedding.

Please help us to protect our rare (珍稀的) books and keep them safe for present and future users. Our copies of many of the most important works ever printed are kept in safe conditions and the collections are well known worldwide. They are consulted (参阅) by thousands of students and researchers visiting from all over the world, and you may have worked with the valuable works yourself during your studies. When you adopt a healthy book, you help us to revive (使复苏) another that's not so fit!

The writer uses questions at the beginning ______.

A．to show the value of works by Shakespeare, Newton and Tolkien

B．to show the popularity of the library with students and teachers

C．to draw readers' attention to the low price for adopting a book

D．to draw readers' attention to the Adopt-A-Book program.

C

Adopt-A-Book at Leeds University Library Is there a book that means a lot to you？ A book that has encouraged you？ A book that is of great value in the history of a subject you care about？ A book with some personal importance to you？ A work by Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Tolkien-or something only you would think of？ If there is, there may well be a copy in Leeds University Library ' s Special Collections, and from as little as￡ 25 you can Adopt-A-Book at Leeds. We will place a bookplate in the book re-cording your support for the Library. You can also adopt a book as a gift for someone else-per-haps to celebrate a special event, like a binhday or wedding.

Please help us to protect our rare (珍稀的) books and keep them safe for present and future users. Our copies of many of the most important works ever printed are kept in safe conditions and the collections are well known worldwide. They are consulted(参阅) by thousands of students and researchers visiting from all over the world, and you may have worked with the valuable works yourself during your studies. When you adopt a healthy book, you help us to revive(使复苏) an-other that ' s not so fit !

65. The writer uses questions at the beginning __________ .

[ A] to show the value of works by Shakespeare, Newton and Tolkien

[ B] to show the popularity of the library with students and teachers

[C] to draw readers ' attention to the low price for adopting a book

[D] to draw readers' attention to the Adopt-A-Book programme

Anti-Aging Secrets: Four Ways to Stay Young

1 The aging process is not easy for anyone. While some people accept getting older and do everything within their power to keep the mind and body active, others adopt a negative attitude and give in to the effects of aging. However, the key to feeling young is maintaining a young mental state. Moreover, simple lifestyle. changes can make you feel years younger.

2 Keeping the mind active is the best medicine against aging. Studies have shown that persons who remain active following retirement live longer. Brainpower and physical fitness go hand-in-hand When minds are sharpened or active, we are more likely to be physically active. Even if aging results in slight memory loss or a little confusion, brain exercises such as crossword puzzles (填字字谜) can improve memory.

3 Some persons are naturally introverted (内倾性格的) or shy, which can result in isolation. If you want to live a long life, avoid isolation. Maintaining healthy relationships has lasting benefits. Establishing strong relationships could lower blood pressure, promote relaxation, ease pain, and may even strengthen the immune system (免疫系统).

4 Too much stress can quickly age people. Completely ridding (使摆脱) our lives of stress is impossible. On the other hand, we can adopt simple techniques for better coping with life's problems, including reducing chaos, setting realistic goals, and relaxing.

5 If you think that you are old, you feel old Try to be cheerful and avoid developing a negative attitude towards life. Sometimes, this involves changing our association. Surrounding yourself with complainers will start to influence your attitude to life. We all experience hardships. Rather than focusing on the unpleasant, reflect on the positive things about life.

A. Avoid Isolation

B. Adopt a Positive Attitude to Life

C. Keep Your Mind Active

D. Maintain Balance

E. Accept Failure

F. Reduce Stress

Paragraph 2 ______

Foreign Adoptions

Madonna, as you might have heard, is in the process of adopting a baby from Malawi. The one-year-old boy named David was flown last month to London. The American pop music star and her husband have a home there. Madonna is married to film director Guy Ritchie and is the biological mother of two children.

Madonna recently gave millions of dollars to support efforts to help orphans(孤儿)in Malawi. The southern African country is one of the poorest nations in the world.

Madonna says she wants to give David a better life. But some people criticized her for adopting a child whose father is still alive; even if the father did agree to it. And some child psychologists said children do best if they are well cared for in their own homeland.

The adoption is not yet final. The Lilongwe High Court gave Madonna and her husband temporary custody of David on October twelfth. The court order is for eighteen months. During that period a social worker will report on how the boy is being cared for.

A committee of sixty-seven human rights groups in Malawi argued that adoption laws there normally bar international adoptions. The committee has brought a legal action to make sure if Madonna received special treatment.

Madonna says she did not. But she has supporters. They include Jane Aronson, an influential expert on adoptions and head of the World Orphans Foundation, She says Madonna is offering David a new life.

More than two thirds of people in the United States who adopt children from other countries are not famous. They are people like Miriam and John Baxter of Bethesda, Maryland. The Baxters have a biological daughter named Olivia. Olivia was almost eight when her new brother, Matthew, arrived. The Baxters adopted Matthew from an orphanage(孤儿院) in South Korea.

They had thought about adopting a baby from China. But their plans changed five years ago after the World Trade Center attack in New York. A nearby office where they needed to get a document to satisfy Chinese adoption requirements was closed temporarily.

Waiting for the office to re-open would have delayed the process another month. And the Baxters already faced a year of waiting.

Then they learned that it might be faster to try to adopt a child from South Korea. Miriam Baxter has a brother and sister who were adopted from there. And, in her words, "we wanted the child so much, we just could not wait any longer."

There are many older children in the United States who could be adopted. Finding permanent homes for them is difficult, especially if they have physical or emotional problems. People who want to adopt usually want a child who is healthy and very young.

In nineteen seventy-three, the Supreme Court ruled that women have a right to end unwanted pregnancies. So, for more and more Americans looking to adopt, the answer is to look in another country. The State Department approved immigrant visas for eight thousand foreign adopted children in nineteen eighty-nine. By last year the number was almost twenty-three thousand.

The Census Bureau says two and a half percent of all children in-the United States are adopted. Of those, about thirteen percent are foreign-born.

Years ago, few unmarried Americans or couples older than forty adopted babies. Today, it is much more common for single people to adopt. The same is true of older married couples and older singles. Some couples of the same sex also adopt children.

Adoption laws differ from state to state. People who want to adopt must show they can provide a safe and loving home. But sometimes they have to wait years until an adoption agency can find a child for them. So they might seek a private adoption—for example, by paying a woman to have a baby for them.

By some estimates, the avera

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

imated 90 percent of all illnesses may be preventable if individuals would make sound personal health choices based upon current medical knowledge. We all enjoy our freedom of choice and do not like to see it restricted when it is within the legal and moral boundaries of society. The structure of American society allows us to make almost all our own personal decisions that may concern our health. If we so desire, we can smoke, drink excessively, refuse to wear seat belts, eat whatever foods we want, and live a completely sedentary life-style. without any exercise. The freedom to make such personal decisions is a fundamental aspect of our society, although the wisdom of these decisions can be questioned. Personal choices relative to health often cause a difficulty. As one example, a teenager may know the facts relative to smoking cigarettes and health but may be pressured by friends into believing it is file socially accepted thing to do.

A multitude of factors, both inherited and environmental, influence the development of health-related behaviors, and it is beyond the scope of this text to discuss all these factors as they may affect any given individual. However, the decision to adopt a particular health-related behavior. is usually one of personal choices. There are healthy choices and there are unhealthy choices. In discussing the morals of personal choice, Fries and Crapo drew a comparison. They suggest that to knowingly give oneself over to a behavior. that has a statistical probability of shortening life is similar to attempting suicide. Thus, for those individuals who are interested in preserving both the quality and quantity of life, personal health choices should reflect those behaviors that are associated with a statistical probability of increased vitality and longevity.

The concept of personal choice concerning health is important because

A．personal health choices help cure most illnesses.

B．it helps raise the level of our medical knowledge.

C．it is essential to personal freedom in American society.

D．wrong decisions could lead to poor health.

Most American people who adopt foreign-born children are not famous.

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

[A] adopt

[B] develop

[C] establish

[D] improve

A.splash

B.resist

C.adopt

D.occupy