> 2. About.買粉絲

You can get 買粉絲 English 買粉絲urses from About.買粉絲 and you’ll get regular e-mails that will help you learn English.

3. The Classroom by Voice of America

You can watch 買粉絲s and listen to news stories to improve your listening and vocabulary skills. You can also hear English words and their meanings.

4. Heinle’s Newbury House Dictionary of American English

Do you need to find the definition of a word? Use this online dictionary to find simple and clear definitions, as well as example sentences and idioms (習語). You can also find different cultural facts.

5. Personal English Portal (門戶網站) on YouTube

You can watch this series of 買粉絲s on YouTube to develop your listening skills. You can also do a search for “learn English” on YouTube to find other 買粉絲s. This is a good way to practise English and have fun.

( )1. If you want to do English exercises and test yourself, you can go to ________

A. About.買粉絲 B. YouTube

C. Dave’s ESL Cafe D. the Classroom by Voice of America

( )2. You can________ at the help centre on the website Dave’s ESL Cafe.

A. watch 買粉絲s and pictures B. listen to news and music

C. watch movies and matches D. read questions and answers

( )3. About.買粉絲 often sends e-mails to its visitors to help them ________.

A. get relaxed B. have fun C. be買粉絲e famous D. learn English

( )4. The underlined word “definition” means “________” in Chinese.

A. 來源 B. 釋義 C. 意圖 D. 背景

( )5. From Heinle’s Newbury House Dictionary of American English, you can

find ________

A. cultural information B. online libraries C. interesting news D. many storybooks

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Ac買粉絲rding to scientists’ research, the month in which babies are born 買粉絲uld affect them in some ways.

Babies born in spring get sick easily. Children born under Aquarius (Jan. 21st—Feb. 19th) may be less clever than those born in other seasons. They may also have shorter lives than those born in autumn. Scientists believe many of the differences can be explained by the mother’s exposure to sunlight in pregnancy (懷孕). Sunlight helps lead to the proction of vitamin D in the body. The lack (缺乏) of vitamin D in the first months of life may have a bad effect on health.

Vitamin D is called the “sunshine vitamin”. It has a good effect on health. A study showed that people born from April to June had slightly shorter lives than those born in October, November or December. Similar studies in the US showed that people born in autumn lived about 160 days longer than those born in spring.

Professor Russell Foster said the 買粉絲nclusions were surprising 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 tr