If you can improve your price by 3%，we shall be prepared to（）for 5，000 metric tons.

A:book with you an order B:book your order C:be in the market D:place a order with you

People need to be active to be healthy. Our modern lifestyle and all the conveniences we’ve become used to have made us keep a long time sitting, such as sitting around in front of the TV or the computer, riding in the ear for even a short trip to the store and using elevators instead of stairs. That’s dangerous for our health. Physical inactivity is as dangerous to our health as smoking!
Add up your activities during the day in periods of at least 10 minutes each. Start slowly...and build up. If you’re already doing some light activities move up to more moderate ones. A little is good, but more is better if you want to achieve health benefits.
Scientists say accumulate 60 minutes of physical activity every day to stay healthy or improve your health. Time needed depends on effort—as you progress to moderate activities, you can cut down to thirty minutes, four days a week.
Physical activity doesn’t have to be very hard to improve your health. This goal can be reached by building physical activities into your daily routine. Just add up in periods of at least ten minutes each throughout the day. After three months of regular physical activity, you will notice a difference—people often say getting started is the hardest part.

You can improve your health （　）

A:relaxing and keeping cool B:spending longer hours in activities C:eating less and less during short periods of time D:integrating physical activity into your timetable

Welcome to Language upon Thames. This brochure has been designed to give you an overview of our Language School and the courses we offer. If you have some additional questions please do not hesitate to contact us for more information.
At Language upon Thames, we feel it is important to be flexible, in order that students can decide what period of study suits them best.
Small Group General English Courses
These courses are aimed at students who wish to improve their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills and are offered at the following levels.
BEGINNERS
ELEMENTARY(初级)
PRE- 1NTERMEDLATE
UPPER-INTERMEDLATE
Studying one of the above courses will enable you to use English more confidently and competently on a daily basis.
Try our free online test to see which level you are at--CLICK HERE.
Exam Courses
These courses are aimed at students who wish to gain academic qualifications in English and are offered at the following levels :
University of Cambridge exams:
ADVANCED 1 -- FCE (First certificate)
ADVANCED 2 -- CAE (Advanced)
ADVANCED 3 -- CPE (Proficiency)
Studying one of the above courses will enable you to continue your education or enter university in this country. (Students wishing to gain admission to a British university are normally required to have the Cambridge Proficiency Certificate.)
Speaking, Listening & Pronunciation
This course builds on communicative confidence and competence and is aimed at students who wish to develop the important skills of speaking and listening.
Emphasis is also placed on pronunciation, with activities designed to meet the needs of students of different nationalities, who need to focus on different areas.
CLICK HERE to register for a General English course.
Other Languages
At Language upon Thames we offer a wide range of cafeterias, restaurants, shops and bars. Most importantly, we have foreign language classes of French, Japanese, German, Spanish and Italian during the day, evening or on a one-to-one basis.

What does this passage mainly talk about（　）

A:English courses. B:Ways to improve students’ English. C:The best way to improve your skills. D:The importance of English.

People need to be active to be healthy. Our modem lifestyle and all the conveniences we’ve become used to have made us sitting much of the time - and that’s dangerous for our health. Sitting around in front of the TV or the computer, riding in the car for even a short trip to the store and using elevators instead of stairs, all contribute to our inactivity. Physical inactivity is as dangerous to our health as smoking!
Add up your activities during the day in periods of at least 10 minutes each. Start slowly ... and build up. If you’re already doing some light activities move up to more moderate ones. A little is good, but more is better if you want to achieve health benefits.
Scientists say add up 60 minutes of physical activity every day to stay healthy or improve your health. Time needed depends on effort - as you progress to moderate activities, you can cut down to thirty minutes, four days a week.
Physical activity doesn’t have to be very hard to improve your health. This goal can be reached by building physical activities into your daily routine. Just add up in periods of at least ten minutes each throughout the day. After three months of regular physical activity, you will notice a difference - people often say getting started is the hardest part.
(From Handbook for Canada’s Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living p. 4. Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology, Ottawa, Ontario, 1998)

You can improve your health by （　）

A:bringing physical activity into your timetable B:eating less and less during short periods of time C:relaxing and keeping cool D:getting as many activities as you can

Have you ever argued with your loved ones over simple misunderstandings (误解) Little wonder. We olden believe we’re more skillful in getting our point across than we actually are, according to Boza Keysar, a professor at the University of Chicago. In his recent study, speakers tried to express their meanings using unclear sentences. Speakers who thought listeners understood were wrong nearly half the time. Here’s some good advice to reduce misunderstanding:
(1) Don’t trust what you see from the listener. Listeners often nod, look at you or say "uhhuh" to be polite or move the conversation along. But it’ s easy to consider these as signs of understanding.
(2) Train the editor(编辑) in your head. If you say, "Beth discusses her problems with her husband," it’ s not clear whether she’ s talking to her husband or about him. Try instead, "Beth talks to her husband about her problems. " or "Beth talks to others about the problems with her husband. "
(3) Ask listeners to repeat your message. Introduce your request by saying "I want to be sure I said that right. " Questions like "How does that sound" or "Does that make sense" may also work.
(4) Listen well. When on the receiving end, ask questions to be sure you’ re on the same page. After all, it isn’t just the speaker’s job to make his speech understood.

In the last paragraph, the words "you’re on the same page" mean that（　）

A:you’ re following the speaker closely B:you’ re reading the same page as the speaker does C:you should know which page the speaker refers to D:your story is written on the same page as the speaker’s

People need to be active to be healthy. Our modem lifestyle and all the conveniences we’ve become used to have made us sitting much of the time - and that’s dangerous for our health. Sitting around in front of the TV or the computer, riding in the car for even a short trip to the store and using elevators instead of stairs, all contribute to our inactivity. Physical inactivity is as dangerous to our health as smoking!
Add up your activities during the day in periods of at least 10 minutes each. Start slowly ... and build up. If you’re already doing some light activities move up to more moderate ones. A little is good, but more is better if you want to achieve health benefits.
Scientists say add up 60 minutes of physical activity every day to stay healthy or improve your health. Time needed depends on effort - as you progress to moderate activities, you can cut down to thirty minutes, four days a week.
Physical activity doesn’t have to be very hard to improve your health. This goal can be reached by building physical activities into your daily routine. Just add up in periods of at least ten minutes each throughout the day. After three months of regular physical activity, you will notice a difference - people often say getting started is the hardest part.
(From Handbook for Canada’s Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living p. 4. Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology, Ottawa, Ontario, 1998)

You can improve your health by（）

A:bringing physical activity into your timetable B:eating less and less during short periods of time C:relaxing and keeping cool D:getting as many activities as you can

If your BMI or waist circumference is above the healthy range you’ re at increased risk of diabetes, Cardiovascular disease and certain cancers such as colon, prostate and breast cancer. You’re also more likely to experience joint problems and back pain, and may find you become breathless and have difficulty sleeping. The more weight you gain, the more severe these problems may become.
Losing weight depends on energy balance. If you consume more energy from food and drink than you burn through maintaining your body’ s functions and physical activity, you’ll gain weight. Cutting calories by reducing how much you eat and drink, and increasing how much physicalactivity you do will make you lose weight. If you reduce your daily energy intake to around 500 calories (kcal) below your energy requirements ,you’ll lose about 0.5kg a week. This is a sensiblerate of weight loss.
Before you start making changes to your lifestyle, it’ s important to ask yourself if this is the right time. The reasons you decide to lose weight will be personal to you. You might find you’ re more successful if you choose a relatively calm time in your life to start. Whatever you decide, make sure you’ re feeling positive and ready for the challenge.
Set achievable goals. Aim to lose about five to ten percent of your initial body weight over a few months. Research shows this kind of weight loss is achievable and will improve your health. Once you’ ve reached your goal, congratulate yourself and set another five per cent weight loss target. This way, you’ll feel good about achieving small steps, rather than getting clown because it’ s taking you so long to lose a large amount of weight.
You may lose more weight in some weeks than in others, but as long as your weight continues to decrease overall there’ s no need to worry. If your weight stays the same for a week or two, don’ t aband on all you’ ve achieved. Instead, focus on the amount and type of food you’ re eating andtry to be a little more active.
In paragraph 4, by saying "Set achievable goals", the writer means

A:once you’ ve reached your first goal, set a higher weight loss target. B:lose about 5% to 10% of your initial weight over a few months, and then another 5%. C:lose a large amount of weight over a few months. D:achieve small steps in weight losing at first, and then big steps.

If your BMI or waist circumference is above the healthy range you’ re at increased risk of diabetes, Cardiovascular disease and certain cancers such as colon, prostate and breast cancer. You’re also more likely to experience joint problems and back pain, and may find you become breathless and have difficulty sleeping. The more weight you gain, the more severe these problems may become.
Losing weight depends on energy balance. If you consume more energy from food and drink than you burn through maintaining your body’ s functions and physical activity, you’ll gain weight. Cutting calories by reducing how much you eat and drink, and increasing how much physicalactivity you do will make you lose weight. If you reduce your daily energy intake to around 500 calories (kcal) below your energy requirements ,you’ll lose about 0.5kg a week. This is a sensiblerate of weight loss.
Before you start making changes to your lifestyle, it’ s important to ask yourself if this is the right time. The reasons you decide to lose weight will be personal to you. You might find you’ re more successful if you choose a relatively calm time in your life to start. Whatever you decide, make sure you’ re feeling positive and ready for the challenge.
Set achievable goals. Aim to lose about five to ten percent of your initial body weight over a few months. Research shows this kind of weight loss is achievable and will improve your health. Once you’ ve reached your goal, congratulate yourself and set another five per cent weight loss target. This way, you’ll feel good about achieving small steps, rather than getting clown because it’ s taking you so long to lose a large amount of weight.
You may lose more weight in some weeks than in others, but as long as your weight continues to decrease overall there’ s no need to worry. If your weight stays the same for a week or two, don’ t aband on all you’ ve achieved. Instead, focus on the amount and type of food you’ re eating andtry to be a little more active.
If your weight stays the same for a week or two, you should not

A:give up your plan. B:focus on the type of food you’ re eating. C:continue to lose weight. D:try to do more activeties.

If your BMI or waist circumference is above the healthy range you’ re at increased risk of diabetes, Cardiovascular disease and certain cancers such as colon, prostate and breast cancer. You’re also more likely to experience joint problems and back pain, and may find you become breathless and have difficulty sleeping. The more weight you gain, the more severe these problems may become.
Losing weight depends on energy balance. If you consume more energy from food and drink than you burn through maintaining your body’ s functions and physical activity, you’ll gain weight. Cutting calories by reducing how much you eat and drink, and increasing how much physicalactivity you do will make you lose weight. If you reduce your daily energy intake to around 500 calories (kcal) below your energy requirements ,you’ll lose about 0.5kg a week. This is a sensiblerate of weight loss.
Before you start making changes to your lifestyle, it’ s important to ask yourself if this is the right time. The reasons you decide to lose weight will be personal to you. You might find you’ re more successful if you choose a relatively calm time in your life to start. Whatever you decide, make sure you’ re feeling positive and ready for the challenge.
Set achievable goals. Aim to lose about five to ten percent of your initial body weight over a few months. Research shows this kind of weight loss is achievable and will improve your health. Once you’ ve reached your goal, congratulate yourself and set another five per cent weight loss target. This way, you’ll feel good about achieving small steps, rather than getting clown because it’ s taking you so long to lose a large amount of weight.
You may lose more weight in some weeks than in others, but as long as your weight continues to decrease overall there’ s no need to worry. If your weight stays the same for a week or two, don’ t aband on all you’ ve achieved. Instead, focus on the amount and type of food you’ re eating andtry to be a little more active.
According to this article, which of the following is NOT tree for losing weight

A:Losing weight depends on energy balance. B:Setting achievable goals will improve your health. C:Finding a good reason before you begin to lose weight is necessary. D:Choosing a relatively calm time in your life to start is better.

第二篇 　　 Declining Interest in Developing Foreign Language Skills 　　Australians’ foreign language skills are declining, Voice of America has reported. New figures show that only 13 percent of high school graduates can speak a foreign language. But four decades ago, 40 percent had foreign language skills. 　　Professor Elise Tipton, from the University of Sydney, says increasingly students do not feel the need to learn another language to boost their career. She believes that Australia’s economic boom, which is driven by red-hot demand for its minerals, is helping mask serious deficiencies (缺陷) in its language skills 　　Australia does business very successfully in English with most of its trading partners. But as the world’s economic power shifts to emerging regions such as Asia, its language gap could soon be exposed. According to the new figures, less than 6.5 percent of high school graduates are proficient in an Asian language. Academics worry that this means Australia will increasingly be isolated from its economically important Asian neighbors. Dilip Dutta, from the economics and business faculty at Sydney University, says language skills can enhance trading opportunities. If Australians want to trade with Asian countries, it is very important for them to learn the language that will help them to get closer to the culture. 　　But students have different opinions about Asian language learning. Pippa McCowage, a 22-year-old Australian student, says many young Australians have a half-hearted approach to foreign languages, and the language curriculum is often weak. "While we’re encouraged in high school to learn another language, it’s not really apparent to me as a realistic expectation that you will have to speak it," said McCowage. "For example, I learned Japanese in high school. When I went on an exchange in Year 10, I found that the Japanese students of my age had a much greater proficiency in English than I did in Japanese. So in that sense, it almost discourages you." 　　At present, about 70 percent of Australia’s major exports go to Asia and the Australian government has been keen on developing closer economic and diplomatic ties with Asia. Academics say that, as Asia becomes one of the world’s economic　powerhouses (经济体), Australia needs to improve its language skills if it is to take full advantage of the business opportunities on its doorstep. What does Dilip Dutta think language skills can do?

A:Improve your relation with your partner. B:Help settle international conflicts. C:Remove barriers in negotiations. D:Increase trading opportunities