Passage 4
【阅读导读】本文主要介绍了中国人喜欢喝热水的几个原因。
Do you like to drink hot water? Compared with (与……比较) people in most other countries, Chinese people 1 like to drink warm water. Do you know why?
In the old days, people drank water from the 2. The bacteria(细菌) in it could make them 3. Ancient people around the world used different 4 to kill the bacteria in the water. For the Chinese, they thought drinking boiled water was the easiest way to 5 themselves from the harmful bacteria.
What's more, in traditional Chinese 6, "yin" and "yang" mean cold and hot energy. It was believed that the power of your body 7 "yang". And drinking hot water could nourish(滋养) the "yang" energy. That's 8 traditional Chinese doctors always suggest people should not drink cold water.
Besides this, before people in northern China had central heating(中央供暖), it was 9 for them to prevent the cold in winter. Drinking hot water helped them keep warm. Another reason is that since the early 20th century, the Chinese government has 10 people to drink more warm water. It has also helped the Chinese to form this special habit.
()1. A. only B. really C. exactly D. hardly
()2. A. river B. desert C. moon D. fridge
()3. A. healthy B. strong C. clever D. sick
()4. A. ways B. tasks C. tools D. objects
()5. A. turn B. help C. protect D. stop
()6. A. medicine B. art C. music D. manner
()7. A. cut off B. took off C. learnt from D. came from
()8. A. how B. why C. which D. what
()9. A. easy B. wrong C. hard D. common
()10. A. allowed B. planned C. warned D. encouraged
你有哪些健康的生活习惯？

1~5 BADAC 6~10 ADBCD
I drink plenty of water every day, go to bed early and get up early, and do some simple exercises regularly.（我每天喝大量的水，早睡早起，并且定期做一些简单的运动。）