Waiter, “It is a noodle dish where the noodles are mixed with vegetables, meats and a sauce.” The waiter said it was a noodle dish where the noodles ______ mixed with vegetables, meats, and a sauce.

Until recently the halls of North High in Minneapolis were lined with vending machines where students could buy soda pop and other sugary drinks, as they can in most other high schools in the nation. But with rates of childhood obesity sky-rocketing, the Minneapolis school district worried about pushing pop. The district needed a way to keep its lucrative vending contract with Coca-Cola while steering kids toward more healthful beverages.

Bryan Bass, North's assistant principal, took the challenge. He stocked 12 of North's 16 vending machines only with water, priced at 75 cents a bottle. Three machines dispensed juice and sports drinks for $1. Only one sold soft drinks, at $1.25 per can. "We located the water machines strategically outside our buildings, so when you come out of a classroom what you see is a water machine." says Bass. "We also decided to allow water in classrooms but not juice or pop." The result? Profits from the vending machines nearly tripled, from $4,500 to $11,000 in two years. They're now in their third year, and Bass says, "Water has become 'cool'."

North's success demonstrates what many obesity experts and parents believe; Kids will learn to make healthful food and drink choices if they have access to them and are motivated to do so. "Price is a powerful motivator," says Simone French of the University of Minnesota, an expert on school-based obesity prevention. She's impressed with North's efforts, but she says the problem is implementing these strategies throughout society. "Obesity is the biggest health issue facing kids, and we've got to do more."

How to do more was outlined last week in the Institute of Medicine's 460-page action plan, mandated by Congress, on "Preventing Childhood Obesity." Chaired by Emory University's Jeffrey Koplan, the plan is the first comprehensive look at childhood obesity and what government, industry, schools, communities, families, and medical professionals can do to reduce its impact. "I think this is similar in importance to the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health in 1964," Koplan says. That landmark document led to the health warning on cigarette packages and a ban on cigarette advertising on TV.

In most American high schools, selling soft drinks is ______.

A．encouraged

B．allowed

C．unlawful

D．unprofitable

Language is, and should be, a livingthing, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expression. Butthere isa vital distinction between good developments, which add to the language,enabling us to say things wecould not say before, and bad developments, whichsubtract from the language by rendering it less precise. Avivacious, colorfuluse of words is not to be confused with mere slovenliness. The kind ofslovenliness in whichsome professionals deliberately indulge is perhaps akin tothe cult (迷信). of theunfinished work, which haseroded most of the arts in our time. And the trueanswer to it is the same that art is enhanced, not hindered, bydiscipline. Youcannot carve satisfactorily in butter.

The corruption of written English hasbeen accompanied by an even sharper decline in the standard of spoken　English. We speak very much less well than wascommon among educated Englishmen a generation or two ago.

The modem theatre has played a baneful (有害的) part in dimming our appreciation oflanguage. Instead ofthe immensely articulate dialogue of, for example, Shaw(who was also very insistent on good pronunciation.,audiences are now subjectedto streams of barely literate trivia, often designed, only too well, toexhibit'laek ofcommunication', and larded (夹杂). with theobscenities (下流的话). and grammatical errors of theintellectually impoverished. Emily Post once advised her readers: "Thetheatre is the best possible place to hear correctly-enunciated speech. "Alas, no more. One young actress was recently reported to be taking lessons inhow to speakbadly, so that she should fit in better.

But the BBC is the worst traitor. Aideryears of very successfully helping to raise the general standard ofspokenEnglish, it suddenly went into reverse. As the head of the Pronunciation Unitcoyly (含蓄地). put it, "In the1960s the BBC opened thefield to a much wider range of speakers." To hear a BBC disc jockeytalking to thelatest ape-like pop idol is a truly shocking experience of verbalsqualor. And the prospect seems to be of evenworse to come. School teachers areactively encouraged to ignore little Johnny's incoherent grammar,atrociousspelling and haphazard punctuation, because worrying about such thingsmight inhibit his creative genius.

61、The writer relateslinguistic slovenliness to tendencies in the arts today in that they both_________

A.occasionally aim at acertain fluidity

B.appear to shunperfection

C.from time to time showregard for the finishing touch

D.make use of economical shortcuts

62、"Art is enhanced, nothindered, by discipline" (Lines 6-7, Paragraph 1 ) means_________

A.an artist's work will befiner if he observes certain aesthetic standards

B.an unfinished work is boundto be comparatively inferior

C.the skill of certain artistsconceals their slovenliness

D.artistic expression isinhibited by too many rules

63、Many modem plays, theauthor finds, frequently contain speech which _________

A.is incoherent andlinguistically objectionable

B.is far too ungrammatical formost people to follow

C.unintentionally shocks theaudience

D.tries to hide the author'sintellectual inadequacies

64、The author says that thestandard of the spoken English of BBC _________

A.is the worst among allbroadcasting networks

B.has taken a turn for theworse since the 1960s

C.has raised English-speakingup to a new level

D.is terrible because of a fewpopular disc jockeys

65、Teachers are likely tooverlook the linguistic lapses in their pupils since_________

A.they find that children nolonger respond to this kind of discipline nowadays

B.they fear the children maybecome less coherent

C.more importance is nowattached to oral expression

D.the children may bediscouraged from expressing their ideas

A．European immigrants flooded into the city.

B．More and more rushed there for gold.

C．It became a resting place for US soldiers.

D．The Darling Harbor redevelopment project boosted the expansion.

Questions61-65are based on the followingpassage.

Language is, and should be, a livingthing, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expression. Butthere isa vital distinction between good developments, which add to the language,enabling us to say things wecould not say before, and bad developments, whichsubtract from the language by rendering it less precise. Avivacious, colorfuluse of words is not to be confused with mere slovenliness. The kind ofslovenliness in whichsome professionals deliberately indulge is perhaps akin tothe cult (迷信). of theunfinished work, which haseroded most of the arts in our time. And the trueanswer to it is the same that art is enhanced, not hindered, bydiscipline. Youcannot carve satisfactorily in butter.

The corruption of written English hasbeen accompanied by an even sharper decline in the standard of spoken

English. We speak very much less well than wascommon among educated Englishmen a generation or two ago.

The modem theatre has played a baneful (有害的) part in dimming our appreciation oflanguage. Instead ofthe immensely articulate dialogue of, for example, Shaw(who was also very insistent on good pronunciation.,audiences are now subjectedto streams of barely literate trivia, often designed, only too well, toexhibit'laek ofcommunication', and larded (夹杂. with theobscenities (下流的话). and grammatical errors of theintellectually impoverished. Emily Post once advised her readers: "Thetheatre is the best possible place to hear correctly-enunciated speech. "Alas, no more. One young actress was recently reported to be taking lessons inhow to speakbadly, so that she should fit in better.

But the BBC is the worst traitor. Aideryears of very successfully helping to raise the general standard ofspokenEnglish, it suddenly went into reverse. As the head of the Pronunciation Unitcoyly (含蓄地). put it, "In the1960s the BBC opened thefield to a much wider range of speakers." To hear a BBC disc jockeytalking to thelatest ape-like pop idol is a truly shocking experience of verbalsqualor. And the prospect seems to be of evenworse to come. School teachers areactively encouraged to ignore little Johnny's incoherent grammar,atrociousspelling and haphazard punctuation, because worrying about such thingsmight inhibit his creative genius.

61、The writer relateslinguistic slovenliness to tendencies in the arts today in that they both_________

A.occasionally aim at acertain fluidity

B.appear to shunperfection

C.from time to time showregard for the finishing touch

D.make use of economical shortcuts

62、"Art is enhanced, nothindered, by discipline" (Lines 6-7, Paragraph 1 ) means_________

A.an artist's work will befiner if he observes certain aesthetic standards

B.an unfinished work is boundto be comparatively inferior

C.the skill of certain artistsconceals their slovenliness

D.artistic expression isinhibited by too many rules

63、Many modem plays, theauthor finds, frequently contain speech which _________

A.is incoherent andlinguistically objectionable

B.is far too ungrammatical formost people to follow

C.unintentionally shocks theaudience

D.tries to hide the author'sintellectual inadequacies

64、The author says that thestandard of the spoken English of BBC _________

A.is the worst among allbroadcasting networks

B.has taken a turn for theworse since the 1960s

C.has raised English-speakingup to a new level

D.is terrible because of a fewpopular disc jockeys

65、Teachers are likely tooverlook the linguistic lapses in their pupils since_________

A.they find that children nolonger respond to this kind of discipline nowadays

B.they fear the children maybecome less coherent

C.more importance is nowattached to oral expression

D.the children may bediscouraged from expressing their ideas