浙江省嘉兴市2020-2021学年八年级上学期英语第一次素质检测（含听力材料）

    About 70,000,000 Americans are trying to lose weight. That is almost 1 out of every 3 people in the United States. Some people eat1food and they hardly have any fats or sweets. Others do running, exercise with machines, take medicine, or even have operations.2you can see losing weight is3work, and it will also cost a lot of money. But4do so many people in the United States want to lose weight? Many people in the United States worry about their look of the body. For many people, looking nice also means to be 5. Other people worry about their health as many doctors 6overweight is not good.

    Most people want to find a (an) 7way to take off fat, and books of this kind are very popular. These books tell people how to lose weight. Each year a lot of new books like these are 8. Each one says it can easily help people take fat away.

    Losing weight can be 9. Some overweight people go to health centres, like La Costa in California. Men and women 10several hundred dollars a day at these health centres. People live there for one week or two, 11exercise, eating different foods. Meals there may be just a little. All these work is for losing weight. 124 days on the programme, one woman called Mrs. Warren lost 5 pounds (2.27kg). At $ 400 a day, she spent $ 320 to lose each pound. But she said she was still 13 to do so. Health centres, books, medicines, operations, running and exercise machines all 14a lot of money. So in the United States, losing weight may mean losing15too.

    Nowadays many people go abroad. Then they must learn some customs about the country because different countries have different customs. In order to learn more about customs, the Culture Palace has invited some foreign speakers to give us speeches. Here is the timetable.