On Hoxton Street in East London there is a very special children’s writing and mentoring(辅导) center called the Ministry of Stories, which is fronted by its shop , Hoxton Street Monster(怪兽) Supplies, where you can expect to find monster food. The store raises funds for this very special program that fires children’s imagination.
The youth aged 8 to 18 enter the Ministry, through a secret door that is designed to open a world of opportunity by encouraging a love for writing. The organization believes that, “Writing increases self-respect, improves communication and can change lives.” That’s because writing allows children’s voices to be heard.
This year, the workshop is celebrating 10 years of helping children discover a love for writing through creative programs. Founded by Lucy Macnab, Ben Payne and best-selling author Nick Hornby, the organization works with around 1,000 children per year participating in schools, and community programs across Hackney, Islington, and Tower Hamlets. It now has over 400 volunteers and runs its program free of charge for the youth of the areas.
“Through a range of creative writing programs, and one-to-one mentoring, we aim to help young people find their own qualities that can be developed,” Macnab told The Telegraph. “We build confidence, self-respect, and communication skills in both workshops for schools and out of school writing clubs.”
One 10-year participant, Nmeso, said that the weekly after-school club he attends at the Ministry has helped him grow his imagination and improve his academic performance. In fact, he was able to move up a grade in school. What’s even more remarkable is that Nmeso has had a story he wrote published ── along with other writers in the program ──titled Andre Has a Hard Time .This is Nmeso’s success story.
1. What is the function of Hoxton Street Monster Supplies?| A．Advertising the mentoring center. |
| B．Supporting the Ministry of Stories. |
| C．Attracting young children to come. |
| D．Arousing children's interest in food. |
| A．To prove the program is popular. |
| B．To suggest writing is vital for children. |
| C．To attract readers’ attention to the center. |
| D．To show the value of running the program. |
| A．To give the children a better future. |
| B．To help discover the children’s potential. |
| C．To help the children express opinions. |
| D．To develop the children’s writing skills. |
| A．He is ten years old this year. |
| B．He’s got his own book published. |
| C．He has benefitted a lot from the program. |
| D．He becomes very famous as a young writer. |
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【推荐1】Most people suffer from what is known as “Just-me-ism”. What is that? Well, say you leave the tap running while you brush your teeth, leave a light on when you go out or you drop a piece of litter (垃圾) and can’t be bothered to pick it up. You know that all those things are wrong. But so what? “What difference can it possibly make?” you say to yourself. There are millions of people in the world and I’m just me. How can it matter if I leave one little tap running, one little light on or leave a little piece of litter on the road? “And anyway, no one will know,” Of course, it wouldn’t matter if there were just a few people in the world. But just think of all the millions of people saying to themselves: “It doesn’t matter. It’s just me. And, anyway, no one knows.” Millions of gallons of water would be wasted; millions of lights would be left on; millions of pieces of litter would be dropped. And all of this would be very harmful.
To inspire young people to take action for the environment, animals and their community, Roots & Shoots was established. This institute was set up in the early 1990s by Dr. Jane Goodall, a scientist who’s the world’s best-known expert on wild chimpanzees (黑猩猩). In addition to her research, she has been whole-heartedly committed to environmental protection, the whole purpose of Roots & Shoots is to educate young people, from preschoolers to university students, so they can help to build a future that is secure and live together in peace with nature. The organization is called Roots & Shoots because roots (根) move slowly under the ground to make a firm (坚实的) foundation, and shoots seem small and weak, but they can break open brick walls to reach the light. The roots and shoots are you, your friends and young people all around the world. Hundreds and thousands of roots and shoots can solve the problems, change the world and make it a better place to live in.
Do you think you help to make the world a better place when you make a sad person smile, when you make a dog wag (摇摆) its tail, and when you water a thirsty plant? One cheered-up person, one happy dog, one flowering plant, and you. That’s what Roots & Shoots is all about: the value and importance of each individual — human, animal or plant. Dr. Jane Goodall believes that the most important thing is that: “Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. You get to choose: Do you want to use your life to make the world a better place for people, animals and the environment? Do you want to make Roots & Shoots rooted in everyone’s heart? Do you want to be a part of a community for a shared future? You cannot be absent.”
1. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 probably mean?| A．I can do whatever I like and nobody knows. |
| B．I’m unique and no one realizes it. |
| C．I’m lonely. And, no one in the world knows me. |
| D．This is who I am. And, I don’t want people to know me. |
| A．establish Roots & Shoots |
| B．educate people to build a safer future |
| C．commit to environmental protection |
| D．guide young people to create a future in harmony with nature |
| A．All the people. | B．The youth. | C．Adults. | D．Our friends. |
| A．Wait-and-see. | B．Skeptical. | C．Admiring. | D．Encouraging. |
| A．To introduce Roots & Shoots. |
| B．To point out the disadvantages of “Just-me-ism”. |
| C．To call on young people to join Roots & Shoots. |
| D．To call people to pay more attention to animals and plants. |
【推荐2】Reggie Carrillo is an environmental activist who lives in the Southwestern U.S. city of Phoenix, Arizona. He recently said that climate change affects the temperatures of city neighborhoods. “To understand climate change, to understand the urban heat island effect, you have to understand the history,” said Carrillo. He wants to share his knowledge with his neighbors to cool his community.
In Phoenix, some neighborhoods do not have many trees and open spaces. Temperatures are as much as seven degrees Celsius higher than in other areas of Phoenix with more trees. Those parts of the city were built with mostly roads and buildings but not much green space. That has helped create what Carrillo and others call an “urban heat island”.
Carrillo has learned about the city’s history by attending the Urban Heat Leadership Academy run by groups trying to conserve natural resources. It gets involved in cities like Phoenix and Atlanta, Georgia by planting trees and building community gardens.
The academy helps teach people like Carrillo about why their living areas are so hot. It also teaches them how to organize activities that will help cool things down. It is making public art to teach people about climate change and is giving out small trees for people to plant.
In Phoenix, Carrillo has learned that people who live in poor parts of the city often sleep with their windows closed on hot nights because they are worried about crime. He said “the rest of us need to know what people experience” so organizations like this can “combat the problem.” Carrillo hopes to build a walking area that will be known as a “cool corridor”, a place that has local plants that can help reduce temperatures.
Summer temperatures in Phoenix can be dangerous. Last summer, the highest temperature was over 46 degrees Celsius. The heat was blamed for over 300 deaths. So they are planting fruit trees including peaches, apples and oranges to get enough food in another part of Phoenix each day. What a great project!
1. What caused “urban heat island” in Phoenix?| A．Too many trees were cut down. |
| B．Not enough green space was left. |
| C．The ground temperature rose too quickly. |
| D．People destroyed natural resources randomly. |
| A．Donating trees to his neighborhood. |
| B．Building several gardens by himself. |
| C．Enriching people’s knowledge on heat island. |
| D．Founding the Urban heat Leadership Academy. |
| A．The poor parts of Phoenix are not safe to live in. |
| B．The city Phoenix is filled with violence and crime. |
| C．A cool corridor is built in order to beautify the city. |
| D．A walking area is a place where people plant local trees. |
| A．Phoenix City, hot or cool? |
| B．Temperature, dangerous or not? |
| C．Carrillo, the hero of Phoenix |
| D．Plants, the cooler of Phoenix |
【推荐3】Sewing can be fun and creative. But have you ever thought that a sewing machine can also mean the world to many people around the globe that use it as their main source of income?
When Margaret Jankowski discovered this, she decided to found The Sewing Machine Project, an organization that collects donated used machines and redistributes them in remote places like Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Guam, and Kosovo. It also aims to help those in Detroit and New Orleans.
In 2004,when a tsunami (海啸) hit Sri Lanka, Margaret was deeply touched by the story of a particular woman. After the village she lived in was destroyed by the natural disaster, she lost everything, including her sewing machine, her approach to future earnings. This story made Margaret decide to collect used sewing machines and send them to Sri Lanka. After attending a local news program where she presented her idea, she started receiving scores of sewing machines.
The Sewing Machine Project covers a basic yet necessary need of many impoverished people around the world. For them, sewing can be a tool for survival. Whether in a factory or at home, a sewing machine can be the door to brighter financial opportunities. A sewing machine can also enable many to preserve their cultural identity. After Hurricane Katrina occurred in 2005, a community of New Orleans that wears skillfully-made suits for their own traditional festival lost many of their sewing machines. Since then, the non-profit organization has distributed hundreds of machines among the creators of the costumes, helping them maintain their tradition as well as their income.
1. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?| A．Destruction of the 2004 tsunami. | B．The experience of Margaret in 2004. |
| C．The story of a woman in Sri Lanka. | D．Inspiration for the project. |
| A．Disabled. | B．Exhausted. | C．Poor. | D．Pessimistic. |
| A．To highlight its cultural identity. |
| B．To prove the importance of keeping traditions. |
| C．To explain the project’s achievement. |
| D．To show the project’s contribution to traditions. |
【推荐1】The British are the most voracious(如饥似渴的) newspaper readers in the world.
They read newspapers at breakfast; they walk to the bus reading a newspaper; they read a newspaper on bus, as they go to work; and on the way back home, after work, they are engaged in reading an evening newspaper.
There are many “morning papers”, both national and provincial. The most famous is The Times. Different from what many foreigners believe, this is not a government newspaper. The various newspapers usually have their own views of the Communist Morning Star. The Labor Party and the Trades Union Congress no longer have a daily newspaper to represent them.
Bold headlines and a variety of photographs are features of the British press. Some newspapers, such as the sober Daily Telegraph and The Times, use photographs sparingly(节省). The more “popular” newspapers, using the small or “tabloid”(小报) format, such as the Daily Express, the Mail, the Daily Mirror and the Sun, use pictures extensively and also run strip cartoons and humorous drawings, some of which present striking pictorial comment on politics.
Besides offering features common to newspapers all over the world, British newspapers specialize in pages devoted to criticism of the arts and a woman's page. One feature found in many foreign newspapers is missing in British papers: the serial(连载).
Nearly all papers pay special attention to the reporting of sports and athletics. The evening newspapers are often bought because the buyer wants to know the winner of a race, or to get good tip for a race that is still to be run. There is no censorship(审查) of the press in Britain (except in wartime), though of course all newspapers—like private persons—are responsible for what they publish, and can be sued for libel(为诽谤而被起诉), for publishing articles that go beyond the bounds of decency(正派), or for ignorance of court. (e.g. calling a man a murderer while he is still being tried. Such cases are not often)
1. Which of the following does NOT serve as an evidence(证据) that the British are the great newspaper readers?| A．They read newspapers at breakfast. | B．They read newspapers at work. |
| C．They read newspapers on bus. | D．They read newspapers on the way back home. |
| A．The Times is an organ (喉舌) of the government |
| B．The Times has its own views on politics |
| C．The Times is the most famous newspaper in the world |
| D．The Times pays too much attention to the reporting of political events |
| A．bold headlines | B．various kinds of photographs |
| C．striking pictorial comment on politics | D．both A and B |
| A．Englishmen always take every possible chance to read newspapers. |
| B．In Britain, newspapers must be carefully examined by the authorities(局) before their publication for fear that they present anything offensive. |
| C．Few British newspapers publish libelous articles. |
| D．The Times is one of the world-famous newspapers. |
【推荐2】The Norwegian novelist, poet and playwright Jon Fosse was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Oct 5, “for his innovative plays and prose (散文) which give voice to the unsayable,” in the words of the prize committee.
Born in 1959 in Haugesund, Fosse grew up on a small farm in western Norway. He started writing poems and stories at the age of 12. But it was his plays that made him famous. Now, his 40-some plays have been published.
Unlike many traditional plays that focus on plots, characters and conflicts, Fosse’s works instead present “tension (紧张) of emotions”, noted The Paper. To create such an atmosphere, the language Fosse uses is unique and brief. The chairman of the Nobel literature committee praised “Fosse’s sensitive language, which probes the limits of words”. Through his works, Fosse carefully explores deep themes like aging, love, death and art. For example, his first play Someone Is Going to Come tells the story of a man and a woman who seek solitude (独处) in a remote seaside home while the novel Morning and Evening traces a character’s life from birth to death. When asked what he aims to convey to readers through his writing, Fosse said he hopes to show a feeling of peace. “I hope they can find a kind of peace in, or from, my writing,” he said in a statement sent through his Norwegian publisher.
Fosse’s unique style has helped him win many prizes and international recognition. In 2010, Fosse won the International Ibsen Award. The prize committee commented, like all important writers of drama, Fosse forces the theater and its audiences to think in new ways. He is the poet of the unknown.”
1. What do we know about Jon Fosse?| A．He was known for his poems. | B．He grew up in a small village. |
| C．He won a grand prize in literature. | D．He published his plays at young age. |
| A．They focus on conflicts. | B．They explore war theme. |
| C．They use seaside settings. | D．They show tense feelings. |
| A．He enjoyed being a poet. | B．He gained worldwide fame. |
| C．He had readers imagine more. | D．He had a strange writing style. |
| A．People. | B．Entertainment. |
| C．Education. | D．History. |
【推荐3】Boredom is such a large part of day-to-day existence. Perhaps because it’s common in our lives, scientists have been slow to explore it. John Eastwood is one of the first scholars to take an interest.
One of the most common false views is that “only boring people get bored”. Yet as Eastwood set about exploring the reasons for boredom, he found that there are two distinct types of personality that tend to suffer from the feeling of boredom, and neither are particularly dull themselves.
Boredom often goes among people who are constantly looking for new experiences. For these people, the steady path of life just isn’t enough to hold their attention. The second kind of bored people have almost exactly the opposite problem: the world is a fearful place, and so they try not to step outside their comfort zone. While this might offer some comfort, they are not always satisfied with the safety it offers and boredom results.
Emotions should evolve for our benefit. “The very fact that boredom is a daily experience suggests it should be doing something useful,” says Heather Lench at Texas A$M University. Feelings like fear help us avoid danger, after all, while sadness might help prevent future mistakes. So, if true, what does boredom achieve?
Reviewing the evidence so far, Lench suspects that it lies behind one of our most important characters---curiosity. Boredom, she says, pushes us to try to seek new goals or explore new ideas which stimulate innovation (激发创新).
Eastwood is less enthusiastic about boredom’s benefits, but admits we should be cautious about looking for an immediate escape. “The feeling is so disgusting that people rush to remove it,” he says.“I’m not going to join that war on boredom and come up with a cure, because we need to listen to the emotion and ask what it is trying to tell us to do.”
1. What does John Eastwood’s study mainly focus on?| A．Why people get bored | B．The benefits of boredom |
| C．How to deal with boredom | D．The types of boredom |
| A．would help us avoid mistakes |
| B．cannot be cured for the moment |
| C．might be good for our creativity |
| D．could make us get tired and lose focus |
| A．Curious | B．Optimistic |
| C．Objective | D．Uninterested |
| A．Easier said than done | B．Hard work never killed a man |
| C．Practice makes perfect | D．Every coin has two sides |
【推荐1】In the spring of 1878, Vincent Van Gogh turned 25. As he looked back over his short life, the Dutchman found little to celebrate among the efforts of his career: By middle-class standards, he was a failure. After a couple of dead end teaching jobs in England, as well as a short, forgettable period working in a bookshop in Dordrecht, he moved to Amsterdam to become a minister of religion, following in his father's footsteps. At the end of 1878, he set off for the depressed coal-mining district of the Borinage, determined to establish himself as a preacher (牧师) to the working class.
There, he lived in a humble hut, gave away much of his money and changed his smart clothes for the practical work-wear of the“Borins”. However, his inability to connect with the local coal miners frustrated him: he couldn't make head or tail of their quick-fire regional dialect known as‘Walloon French', while they were puzzled by his own attempts at French, which to their ears sounded overly formal. In July 1879, he received another blow: the authorities ended his trial religious appointment.
Yet it was at this rock-bottom moment that Van Gogh, now 26, started to draw. He felt sympathy for the working-class miners. For the first time in his life, middle-class Van Gogh was friends with poor, working-class people. The people were poor and illiterate, and their work was hard and dangerous. Yet for Van Gogh, there was some kind of bigger truth in their simple way of life. After he became an artist, he chose to find his subject matter (创作题材) there.
Like artists that he admired, such as Jean-Francois Millet, he wanted to portray the life of working-class people, and he remained interested in doing so certainly for the first half of his career. However, few works from Van Gogh's Borinage period survived, because the artist burned most of them. As he revealed in a letter to a friend, he felt they were too awkward or related to an uncertain time when he was still developing his own style and artistic voice. Yet, the time that Van Gogh spent in the Borinage was crucial for his development as an artist, because it laid foundations upon which he could build as a painter.
1. What can we know about Van Gogh from Paragraph 1?| A．He achieved a lot as a teacher. | B．He was an assistant to his father. |
| C．He tried many jobs but in vain. | D．He was a working-class man. |
| A．Because of his smart dressing style. | B．Because of his poor pronunciation. |
| C．Because of the great wealth gap. | D．Because of the language barrier. |
| A．His hatred for miners' hard work. | B．His sincere concern for the miners. |
| C．His eagerness to succeed in art. | D．His failure to be a preacher there. |
| A．His miner-themed paintings were an instant success. |
| B．His love for working -class people lasted all his life. |
| C．He burned his works due to his unheard artistic voice. |
| D．His days in Borinage paved the way for his art career. |
【推荐2】I’m a student in my third year at Robert Gordon University, but I also work 35 hours a week at Sainsbury’s to make ends meet.
I constantly have to force myself to stay awake, and to be alert, whatever it takes. The work I do at Sainsbury’s is very physical like stacking shelves. I am lucky because the amount I lift at work is nothing compared with the weight I lift in the gym. I know I have the strength to bear it.
I am originally from Nigeria. I came here when I was seven. Money was always tight. My parents gave me everything I needed, but there was no money for luxuries. I worked hard at school though and, with the help of professors, I got the best A-level grades in my class.
Unfortunately, though I had applied for “settled” British residential status the Home Office waited until I was in sixth form to approve my application. That meant I was not eligible for a student loan. The only way I could afford to go to university was that I got a job that would pay for all my living costs and my parents paid for my tuition fees.
I don’t have much time to socialize because of my job. Ideally, Id like to have more time to study so I can excel at my course. Yes, I have a lot on my plate, but working hard isnt new for me. Growing up, my parents cultivated in me the importance of working hard for what I want in life.
My dream is to get a job in the NHS. But now, Im just focused on trying to get the best grades I can. Whenever I find life hard, I tell myself this is about my future.
1. Why does the author work long hours and sometimes overtime every week?| A．To pay for his own living expenses | B．To pay for his tuition fees |
| C．To prove his ability to earn money | D．To help his parents pay off the debts |
| A．Responsible. | B．Anxious. |
| C．Qualified. | D．Accessible. |
| A．Persistent. | B．Diligent. |
| C．Sociable. | D．Ambitious. |
| A．Actions speak louder than words. | B．God help those who help themselves. |
| C．A penny saved is a penny earned. | D．Where there is life, there is hope. |
【推荐3】China will give the green light to Internet medical services conducted by medical institutions as part of a broader push to promote Internet Plus Healthcare, which was decided at a State Council executive meeting held by Premier Li Keqiang.
Medical institutions will be allowed to provide online diagnostic services for patients with common and chronic diseases in their followup visits to their doctors. The top levels of hospitals will be encouraged to provide online services, including consultations (会诊), reservations and test result inquiries.
As China joins the ranks of middleincome countries, the demand for health services has increased accordingly. Internet Plus Healthcare can help reduce the problem of inaccessible and expensive public health services that have long been a big concern for the general public.
One decision coming out of the meeting says the intelligent review of health insurance will be applied and that the onestop settlement will be advanced. The realtime sharing of prescription and drug retail sales will be explored as well.
“We must waste no time in pushing forward the measures once the decision is made，” Li said. “In recent years, toplevel hospitals in major cities have seen steady increases in the number of patients. Medical bills have become a heavy burden on families and highend medical resources still fall short of meeting the growing demand of the public.”
To solve the problem, a twopronged (双管齐下的) approach must be taken. One is to establish medical partnerships to strengthen cooperation between major hospitals and community clinics. The other is to bring forward Internet Plus Healthcare to promote the sharing of quality medical resources.
The government will see to it that longdistance healthcare services cover all countylevel hospitals. So more efforts will be made to ensure that highspeed broadband network will be extended to cover medical institutions in urban and rural areas. Dedicated Internet access services will be set up to meet the needs for longdistance healthcare services.
1. According to the text, which of the following services won't a patient enjoy online?| A．Asking doctors for advice after the test. |
| B．Receiving a medical operation. |
| C．Knowing their situation about the disease. |
| D．Making an appointment with a doctor in advance. |
| A．The improvement of people's life quality. |
| B．The recognition of health insurance. |
| C．The expense of medical care. |
| D．The inconvenience of hospital equipment. |
| A．The bills are impossible to afford. |
| B．The measures are perfectly worked out. |
| C．The situations need urgent improvement. |
| D．The hospitals are unwilling to admit patients. |
| A．Modern Hospitals |
| B．Wide Applications of Internet Medical Services |
| C．No More Burden for General People |
| D．Online Healthcare on Its Way |
【推荐1】There are probably no people on Earth who like to gossip as much as the British. If prying into (打探) other’s lives were an Olympic sport, then Team GB would surely take the gold medal.
And when the British can’t watch the lives of real people, they have another source of entertainment to fall back on — the soap opera. British soap operas are very different to US TV dramas. For one, they are normally longer running. The two most popular, Coronation Street and East-enders, have been running for 48 and 24 years respectively. Both are broadcast several times a week, so remarkably there have been more than 7,000 episodes of Coronation Street.
The most obvious difference is that, unlike US dramas, the British soap operas focus on the real world. There is little glamour (魅力), the stars are rarely rich, and they normally have boring jobs. Perhaps the appeal is that the lives of the characters often mirror the lives of the audience — but with some drama added. This means the viewer can relate to the characters and feel the pain and happiness they go through on the show.
Because these soap operas last for decades, the cast is ever changing. The shows rarely focus on one or two main characters. Like the real world, people come and go all the time. However, there are exceptions. Coronation Street’s William Roach, 76, has played the role of Ken Barlow since the very first episode of the show in 1960, and he is still a regular.
The choice of which soap opera you follow is often cultural: People from the north of British tend to watch Coronation Street as it is set in Manchester. People from the south generally prefer East-enders, which is set in the east of London. The show is generally considered grittier and is aimed at a younger audience.
1. What is the main difference between American dramas and British soap operas?| A．American dramas are longer. |
| B．British soap operas are longer. |
| C．American dramas deal with dangerous things. |
| D．British soap operas deal with real people. |
| A．They can find their own life from the operas. |
| B．They can enjoy the operas in their free time. |
| C．They can watch the operas for many years. |
| D．They care about the fate of the characters in the operas. |
| A．plays |
| B．pages |
| C．issues |
| D．parts |
| A．the characters play the same role for a long time. |
| B．the characters in the play often change |
| C．people don’t know what will happen next |
| D．there is only one or two characters in them |
【推荐2】A number of studies show that sports and other physical activities can contribute to the development of self-esteem (a feeling of pride in oneself). For example, Canadian scientists found that sixth-grade students who were more physically active had considerably higher levels of self-esteem. A study in Switzerland found that teenagers who took part in sports clubs were healthier, including being better socially adjusted, feeling less anxious, and generally being happier about their lives. Similar findings were reported in a study of Latino students, where participation in school sport was found to be greatly associated with self-esteem.
There seems little doubt that part of the potency (潜能) of sports lies in their social setting. There are a lot of facts showing the importance of social connectedness (关联性) for healthy child and teenager development, and sports offer a popular and engaging setting for social interactions. Involvement in team sports has been positively associated with social acceptance and a sense of belonging, especially where such involvement is characterized by positive coaching, progressive skill development, and peer support.
But, the social setting of sports can exclude as well as include. There is now evidence that boys’ and girls’ experiences of sports can be very different, and this can affect the contribution they can make to the self-esteem of players. Peer acceptance seems to be an important factor in determining the relationship between sport participation and self-esteem, and girls can be particularly sensitive to negative judgments. And studies have found that many ‘girly’ boys and girls benefit most from non-competitive physical activities.
So, a note of caution ought to be sounded in case sports are considered to be a cure. Much of the literature on the most positive psychological (心理的) outcomes associated with childhood and youth sports stress the absolute importance of positive experiences. It will surprise no one that bullying, excluding or abuse experiences will harm, rather than support the development of self-esteem, and well-being in general. Sadly, it will also not be a shock to learn that many children’s introductions to sports are far from improving the quality of life.
The great developmental psychologist Jean Piaget argued that the foundations of self-esteem were laid between the ages of about 6 and 11 years of age. Importantly, this is also the time when children are most likely to be introduced to sports. We should know the importance of positive early sporting experiences for the development of both self-esteem and on-going participation in sports and other physical activities. Teachers, coaches, and parents have a responsibility to ensure that these experiences ‘catch’ as many children as possible, and for this to happen they need to remember ‘the principles of child development’: Children are not mini-adults.
Problems arise when adults forget these principles, and kid themselves into thinking that they are coaching future Olympians or Super stars. Unluckily, evidence suggests that talented children are most likely to stand out when they are given time to develop, to play, and to remain children.
Children are not miniature adults, and their enjoyment of sports (and their self-esteem) can suffer when adults forget this!
1. Studies in Switzerland and Latino showed teenagers who often join in sports _____.| A．build self-esteem earlier |
| B．have more good experiences |
| C．are more sensitive to judgments |
| D．are healthier both physically and mentally |
| A．positive | B．critical |
| C．uncertain | D．tolerant |
| A．will be happier about their lives |
| B．are more likely to be attracted by competitive sports |
| C．should be treated by coaches and parents as super stars |
| D．will build self-esteem if given positive comment and support |
| A．Children Should Take Part in Sports |
| B．Sports Offer You a Better Teenage Life |
| C．Sports Experience and Building Self-Esteem |
| D．People Should Treat Teenagers Like Miniature Adults |
Airline  Route Chiang Mai—Luang PrabangDay 2,3,5,7 Flight QV 645 Dep. 15: 05 Arr. 16: 05 Airfare (机票费用)5,090THB | Airline  Route Chiang Mai—PhuketDay 2,3,5,7 Flight TC 129 Dep. 12:35 Arr. 14: 30 Airfare 3,590 THB |
Airline  Route Chiang Mai—Koh SamuiDay Daily Flight PG 242 Dep. 9:55 Arr. 11:40 Airfare 5,090 THB | Airline  Route Phuket—BaliDay Daily Flight FD 3942 Dep. 6:30 Arr. 11:10 Airfare 11,391 THB |
Note: The days of the week are:
1. Monday 2. Tuesday 3. Wednesday 4. Thursday
5. Friday 6. Saturday 7. Sunday
（Dep.= departure 出发 Arr.=arrival 到达）
1. How long does it take to fly from Chiang Mai to Phuket?| A．less than 1 hour. | B．About 1 hour. |
| C．One and a half hours. | D．About 2 hours. |
| A．Monday | B．Thursday | C．Friday | D．Saturday |
| A．QV 645. | B．TG 129. | C．PG 242. | D．FD 3942. |
| A．3, 590 THB. | B．5, 090 THB. | C．9,050THB. | D．11, 391 THB. |
