【浙江英语·七年级下册】2024年期中提分精炼：阅读理解（人与自我）

You can see nothing without your eyes. It's important for you to take good care of your eyes.

★ Eat lots of vegetables and fish!Eating carrots can help you get more vitamin A.And it's really helpful in keeping your eyes healthy.Broccoli and sweet peppers are also good for your eyes. They have lots of vitamin C.Fish is goodyou're your eyes,too.There are many different kinds of vitamins in it.

★Put pieces of a cucumber(黄瓜)on your eyes.Close your eyes and put them on your eyes for 10 minutes before going to bed at night.

You can also use green tea bags.

★ Try not to look at your computer or smart-phone screen(屏幕) for too long,or your eyes will be tired or feel dry.Try to blink every 20 seconds(秒) while you are looking at your computer or smartphone screen.

     ★    Here is a good way.Sit down,put your elbows(胳膊 肘)on your knees(膝盖),close your eyes and rest them in your hands. Let your hands cover your eyes for 10 seconds.Do it some times a day. 

Sometimes you may feel sad.It is normal.But what can you do when you feel sad in your life?The following ways may help you.

Write down your feelings(感受).You can use a notebook and write down your feelings when you are sad.Some people don't like speaking out their feelings.Keeping a diary(日记) is a good way to help you because the diary is like your good friend.It will listen to you and help you get better    ▲    When you feel sad,you can try to do other funny things to make you feel better.You can try watching a funny movie or reading some funny stories in a book.Taking a walk with your friends in the park is also great.

Have a good long cry(哭). You may want to cry when you're sad. In fact,crying is a useful way to get out of the bad feeling.After crying, you'll feel better.

A little mouse(老鼠) feels very terrible, because she can't find any food. She lives a bad life, She looks here and there, but she always has no food to eat, and she becomes very thin(瘦的). At last, the mouse finds a basket( 篮子), full of food. There is a small hole(洞)in the basket, and she can just get through(通过) the hole. she gets into the basket happily.

Then she starts to eat, She is so hungry that she eats a lot, and she becomes fat. After a while, she tries to get out of the basket, but she can't. She is too fat to get through the hole.

"Oh, how can I get out?" says the mouse.

Just then an old mouse comes along, and he sees the little mouse.

"Greedy(贪婪的) mouse," says the old mouse, "if you want to get out of the basket, you have to wait to become thin again in the basket." Then he leaves.

Jay is a middle school student, but he is not happy every day. He stays at school from Monday to Saturday. At school there are a lot of rules. He has to wear his school uniform every day. He has to get up at 6: 10 in the morning. Jay doesn't like sports, but he has to do morning exercise every day. In the classroom, he can't listen to music, talk loudly(大声地)or eat snacks(小吃), He has to do lots of homework every day.

Jay can go back home on Sunday, but he still doesn't have fun because his parents ask him to do lots of things. He can't meet friends on Sunday. He has to get up early on Sunday morning to practice English, then he has to make the bed, clean the room and wash clothes. In the afternoon he has to go to the Children's Palace(少年宫)to learn drawing. He can't watch TV because he has to do homework in the evening. So Jay thinks he never has fun.

China sends its first astronaut, Yang Liwei, into space in 2003. Now, Zhai Zhigang. Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu are doing the Shenzhou XⅢ mission in space. Do you want to be an astronaut like them?

Keep healthy

To be an astronaut, you need to be very healthy. You have to see clearly and it is important for you not to have some small problems. For example, a bad tooth could get worse in space.

Be strong

In China, you must be good at flying planes before you can be an astronaut. You must fly over 600 hours safely. What's more, you need to make your body strong like players by running. swimming and doing other sports. Because you will wear a 200﹣kilo coat and do work underwater for six or seven hours with no food and drinks. This is like going on a spacewalk.

Learn science

Knowledgeis important as well. Astronauts take 60 subjects to get ready for a mission, such as math, English, art, geography and many more. So they will know what to do when there are accidents in the mission.

Do you know?

Though you are really great to be an astronaut, maybe you will never go to space. In the Shenzhou XⅢ mission, for example, only three astronauts can go into space. There are another 13 astronauts that can't go, but they are still important to the space programme.