When he was fourteen, his ambition was to run a pub, just like his dad.
Another special project is Jamie's Ministry of Food which he started in 2008. There are two aims: firstly, to teach people how to cook healthy, affordable food instead of eating fast food; secondly, to set up the Pass It On scheme: encouraging each person to pass on a recipe they learned to four other people.
It's not only adults, but children, too. Jamie's School Dinners, one of Jamie's best-known projects, tried to improve food in schools and encourage children to eat well. It was difficult to convince some of the children, but in the end, many schools improved their menus.
So, what's Jamie going to do next? Well, whatever it is, one thing is for sure, I'm not going to miss it!
A.And my children are going to eat their vegetables now. |
B.I heard recently that she is going to teach people to cook. |
C.Those four people then teach four more people, and so on. |
D.I'm going to cook for my friends and take time to eat good food. |
E.Jamie's first project, Fifteen, in 2002, aimed to help young people. |
F.But in the last twenty years, chef Jamie Oliver has achieved far more. |
G.But the project worked and Lloyd got a job as a chef in a top restaurant. |
When asked about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, an absolute delight, which seems to get rarer the older we get.
For kids, happiness has a magical quality. Their delight at winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved (毫无掩饰的).
In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it's conditional on such things as excitement, love and popularity. I can still recall the excitement of being invited to dance with the most attractive boy at the school party.
In adulthood the things that bring deep joy—love, marriage, birth—also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. For adults, happiness is complicated (复杂的) .
My definition of happiness is “the capacity for enjoyment”. The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It’s easy to overlook the pleasure we get from the company of friends, the freedom to live where we please, and even good health.
I experienced my little moments of pleasure yesterday. First I was overjoyed when I shut the last lunch-box and had the house to myself. Then I spent an uninterrupted morning writing, which I love. When the kids and my husband came home, I enjoyed their noise after the quiet of the day.
Psychologists tell us that to be happy we need a mix of enjoyable leisure time and satisfying work. I don’t think that my grandmother, who raised 14 children, had much of either. She did have a network of close friends and family, and maybe this is what satisfied her.
We, however, with so many choices and such pressure to succeed in every area, have turned happiness into one more thing we’ve got to have. We’re so self-conscious about our “right” to it that it’s making us miserable. So we chase it and equal it with wealth and success, without noticing that the people who have those things aren’t necessarily happier.
Happiness isn’t about what happens to us—it’s about how we see what happens to us. It’s the skillful way of finding a positive for every negative. It’s not wishing for what we don’t have, but enjoying what we do possess.
【小题1】As one grows older, one ______.
A.tends to believe responsibility means happiness |
B.associates his/her happiness less with others |
C.will take fewer risks in pursuing happiness |
D.feels it harder to experience happiness |
A.She cares little about her own health. |
B.She is easily satisfied by things in daily life. |
C.She enjoys the freedom of traveling. |
D.She prefers getting pleasure from housework. |
A.pay too much attention to their right to happiness |
B.consider pressure something blocking their way |
C.are at a loss to make correct choices |
D.are more likely to be happy |
A.God helps those who help themselves. |
B.Each man is the master of his own fate. |
C.Happy is he who is content. |
D.Success leads to happiness. |
Scientists have long debated (辩论) the best diet for health. But now some experts believe that it’s not just what we eat that’s important for good health, but when we eat it. When our diet habit matches the biological clock well, our body can work at its best. Breaking the rule—by eating late meals or having midnight snacks, for example—could lead to weight gain and metabolic (新陈代谢的) trouble.
Many people, however, eat from the time when they wake up until shortly before they go to bed. Studies show that the average person starts with something like milk and coffee shortly after rising and ends with a glass of wine, a late-night meal or a handful of chips, nuts or some other snacks shortly before bed. That habit of eating is against our biological rule.
Scientists have long known that the human body has a master clock in the brain, which controls our sleep-wake cycles in response to bright light exposure (暴露). A couple of decades ago, researchers discovered that there is not just one clock in the body but a collection of them. Every organ has a clock that controls its daily cycle of activities. Studies show that in every organ, thousands of genes (基因) are turned on and turned off at almost the same time every day.
We’ve lived on this planet for thousands of years, and while many things have changed, there has always been one constant: Every single day the sun rises and at night it falls. We’re designed to have 24-hour systems in our body. They exist because, just like our brains need to go to sleep each night to repair and reset themselves, every organ needs to have time to repair and reset itself as well.
【小题1】What should we do to follow the rule according to Paragraph 1?A.Eat a low-fat and low-sugar diet. | B.Avoid eating too much. |
C.Keep hungry if necessary. | D.Try early meals for the night. |
A.People’s unhealthy eating habits. | B.Busy lifestyle of an ordinary person. |
C.Behavior against the biological clock. | D.People’s preference for a balanced diet. |
A.The most useful one is in the brain. | B.They are influenced by what we eat. |
C.All the clocks work at the same time. | D.They control the activities of each organ. |
A.Be Careful of What You Eat | B.Choose A Proper Time to Eat |
C.Reset the Clocks in Your Body | D.Select the Best Diet Habit |
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