【導(dǎo)讀】evening?3.Oh,sorrytobotheryou.C.That’sgood.6.MayIhelpyou,madam?A.Sure.Hereyouare.8.Well,Mary,howareyou?11.Niceweather,isn’tit?A.Whynot?Agoodidea. 15.What’stheproblem,Harry?E.D.Who‘sspeaking?H. ayIhelpyou,madam?A.Whynot?AgoodideaW. hatwouldyoulike,teaorcoffee?B.Coffee,pleaseW. --(Isthatso)?

　　

【正文】 r to improve the nation39。s health. But the new study suggests the Government should encourage more people_to exereised_. Although intermational travel is usually an excitting and pleasant experience, travellers should take steps to ensure that their health does mot suffer either from their time on the air or from their time abroad. Before you go, check with your doctor or local travel clinic _which_injections are necessary for the areas you are travelling to . Allow sufficient time to have these injections before you leave because they may take time to bee effective. Be sure that the information on health is uptodate. Check on the Inter if you are mot sure. Don39。t go to bed late the day before you fly. Your body has a natural daily sleep pattern. It takes time to adjust to a new time zone. There are many different effects _ of jet lag: you may not be able to sleep, you may mot want to eat or you may feel sick and tired. You may not be able to concentrate for some days after you arrive. There are several things you can do to lessen the effects of jet lag: Do your best to relax during the flight。 Sleep as much as you can on the flight. Use a mild sleeping pill if necessary。 Drink as much water as you can。 Don39。t drink alcohol and caffeine。 Take mild sleeping pills for the first few days in the new time zone if you need them. Molly Wilson had been a dancer and a mother for many years when she deeided to sail round the world to raise money for charity. As a child she had trained as a ballet dancer, but at 15 she had grown too tall for classical ballet, so she became a member of a pop dance team. She got married , and after she had children she retired from show business to bring Them up. They grew up, and when they were 18 they left home. She says, When I decided to do the roundtheworld race, my husband thought I was bored because the children dad left home. He was also worried because 1 had mever sailed before I was not bored, but I had some people who told me about the race. They had taken part in it, but they had only done one section, say, from New Zealand to Australia. Iwanted to do the whole tenmonth journey. There are advantages and disadvantages to Both Asian and Western educational methods. For example, one advantage to the education in Japan is that students there learn much more math and science than American students. They also study more hours each day than Americans do. The study is difficult, but it prepares students for a society that values discipline and selfcontrol. There is, however, a disadvantage. Memorization is an important learning method in Japanese schools, yet many students say that after an exam, they fet much of the information that they have memorized. The advantage to the education in North America, on the other hand, is that students learn to think by themselves. The system prepares them for a society that values new ideas. There is, however, a disadvantage. When students graduate from high school, they haven‘t memorized as many basic rules and facts as students in other countries have More and more people haveto install burglar alarms in their houses if they want to get insurance. Insurance panies have been asking people in certain areas to install the alarms before they will give them insurance for the fast year. This is due to increasing crime in some parts of the country. This can be a problem for people who are struggling to make ( 不填 ) ends meet. The alarms, which can be very expensive, need to be installed by an electrician. It is estimated that 20% of homes have alarms installed, and that another 20% of people plan to have them installed but have not installed them yet . The insurance panies told people to install the alarms on all doors and windows. Peter Blake is a successful businessman, but he used to be very poor. He had nowhere to live and Was working in a pub when he decided to start his own business. Peter had always (4) been interested in plants and flowers, so he decided to set up a pany which cared for the plants in big offices. At first he worked on his. own, but soon he took（不填） two people to help him. The pany has been growing .on for the last ten years. Peter is now very rich, . but he plains that now he doesn‘t work with plants but with a puter every day! Traffic in India means a mixture of all kinds of vehicles on the road. About 700,000 new cars have been sold in India in the last twelve months, and about twice that many used cars have been traded. The country39。s 35 million motorcycles and scooters make it the world39。s largest twowheel market. But because there are still big differences had been sold people39。s ines, the roads are full of a whole variety of over, lots of them not motorised. A ride bikes a taxi driver in New Delhi gives a flavour of a typical Indianstyle traffic with all kinds of vehicle held up in city streets or in long lines after narrow country lanes. Cars, lorries and buses back up behind a cart in by one animal or another. India has everything on the roads, the taxi driver says. You have to to pull for pedestrians, bicycles, carts, cows, donkeys and even elephants. Three things watch out to drive here, a horn, brakes and good luck. Just then we were stopped are remended a young boy and his cow. Given the hazards, it39。s not surprising that special ceremonies are held for new car owners in which the steering wheel and the driver are both blessed. Most workers spend eight hours on the job a day on . workdays . They work because they need money for necessities. They spend about one third of their lives at work, but hate it. By contrast, some people actually enjoy work. The