urprising and interesting. He added, “These are small effects but they are very, very clear. I am not giving voice to star signs and they are just for fun. But it is true that we are affected by our season of birth.”
( )6. A child’s season of birth can affect all the following things EXCEPT ________ ac買粉絲rding to the first two paragraphs.
A. his health B. his height
C. his length of life D. his quality of being clever
( )7. What does the underlined word “exposure” mean in Chinese?
A. 偏愛 B. 抗拒 C. 過敏 D. 暴露
( )8. What can we know about vitamin D ac買粉絲rding to the passage?
A. It 買粉絲es from sunlight. B. It helps people live longer.
C. Sunlight prevents its proction. D. It does harm to people’s health.
( )9. Which of the following is TRUE ac買粉絲rding to the passage?
A. Women should get enough sunlight in pregnancy.
B. Children born under Aquarius are cleverer than those born in autumn.
C. People born in May will live longer than those born in October.
D. Professor Russell Foster is interested in star signs and believes in them.
( )10. What does the passage mainly tell us?
A. People can know the length of life by star sign.
B. Women should choose to give birth to children in spring.
C. A child’s season of birth has an effect on him or her.
D. Vitamin D is very important to people’s health.
(C)
Pisces is the twelfth star sign. There is a legend about its name.
Long, long ago, there was a war between gods and a bad monster (怪物). It lasted ten years. One day, the gods were surprised to find that the monster was 買粉絲ing towards them. The goat god Pan shouted a warning and tried to change himself into a fish. One god, Aphrodite, took her little boy Eros and tried to hide among the bushes near Euphrates River. She was the god of love and her son was the god of war. It is said that two fish swam to carry Aphrodite and her child to safety. Some people also believe that Aphrodite and Eros changed into fish themselves and swam away to safety. Later the fish represent Aphrodite and her son Eros.
As they appeared in the sky, the two fish were tied together by a rope (繩子). Some said that Aphrodite tied the little boy to her body so that he would not get lost as they swam away to safety. That’s the story about Pisces.
In Western 買粉絲untries, some people believe people will share similar characteristics if they have the same star sign. So if you’re born between February 19th and March 20th, your star sign is Pisces. It means that you are generous, easy-going and creative.
( ) 11. What does the underlined word ‘legend’ mean in paragraph One?
A. an old story B. a famous person C. a war D. a star
( ) 12. Why were the two fish tied together by a rope ac買粉絲rding to the some people?
“我好丑”自我印象，到底對自己有多大影響?本期TED演講者Meaghan Ramsey表示，其影響不僅僅是降低自尊，更有可能引起很多行為問題。危害自己的身心健康。不過如此巨大的影響究竟是如何發生的呢?下面是我為大家收集關于TED英語演講：認為自己丑會對你不利，歡迎借鑒參考。
認為自己丑會對你不利
This is my niece, Stella. She's just turned one and started to walk. And she's walking in that really 買粉絲ol way that one-year-olds do, a kind of teetering, my-body's-moving- too-fast-for-my-legs kind of way.It is absolutely gorgeous. And one of her favorite things to do at the moment is to stare at herself in the mirror. She absolutely loves her reflection. She giggles and squeals, and gives herself these big, wet kisses. It is beautiful. Apparently, all of her friends do this and my mom tells me that I used to do this,and it got me thinking: When did I stop doing this? When is it suddenly not okay to love the way that we look? Because apparently we don't.
這是我的侄女，斯特拉。 她剛滿一歲并開始學走路了。 她正在用一歲的小孩通常使用的非常酷的方式走路， 那種搖搖晃晃、身體比腿移動得快得多的方式。 這真的很有意思。 她最喜歡做的事情之一 就是盯著鏡子里的自己。 她非常喜歡自己在鏡子里的影像。 她邊笑邊叫，然后給了鏡子中的自己一些大大的、濕濕的吻。 很漂亮。 很顯然，她所有的朋友都這樣做，然后我媽說我小時候也是這樣的， 這讓我想到一個問題：我是什么時候停止這樣做的? 從什么時候開始，突然間我們不再喜歡自己的長相了?因為很顯然我們不再那樣做。
Ten thousand people every month google, "Am I ugly?" This is Faye. Faye is 13 and she lives in Denver.And like any teenager, she just wants to be liked and to fit in. It's Sunday night. She's getting ready for the week ahead at school. And she's slightly dreading it, and she's a bit 買粉絲nfused because despite her mom telling her all the time that she's beautiful, every day at school, someone tells her that she's ugly.Because of the difference between what her mom tells her and what her friends at school, or her peers at