Training “smart” is more important than the amount of daily practice.
Too often an athlete believes that the more he or she practices, the more proficient he/she will become.
Setting performance goals is beneficial for a number of reasons.
A.It is not always the case. |
B.However, such training is ineffective. |
C.It reduces boredom and increases motivation. |
D.Thus, practice becomes more focused and efficient. |
E.It means that the athlete does not need to waste time. |
F.Firstly, it requires less patience and boosts confidence. |
G.Typically, they will experience burn-out, exhaustion, and increased injuries. |
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【推荐1】In the final of the 1985 world open squash(壁球) championship, Pakistan's Jahangir Khan defeated New Zealand's Ross Norman and won the championship. That decisive victory made Khan the first man ever to win the world open squashcrown five times in a row.“Jahangir Khan,” says British sports commentator Richard Eaton, “is the world champion of world champions.”
Until recently,Khan's achievements would have stirred few people, for squash was largely an elitist(精英)male preserve. No longer. During the past decade, the game has boomed worldwide, and is now a sport played by more than 20 million men and women in more than 100 countries. It is widely played in Australia,New Zealand, Europe and Southeast Asia, and is one of the fastest-growing sports in Canada. In Australia, nearly 500,000 people play squash regularly.
Squash has caught on because it's suited to busy lifestyles. It's easier for a beginner to play than tennis, and provided a good workout in just half an hour. At its higher reaches, though, squash stretches mind and body to their limits. It calls for speed, strength, a talent for delicate shot-making and, above all, a single-minded determination to keep going.
Why is Jahangir Khan so superior in this flashing, high-speed game, perhaps the subtlest and most exhausting of all the racquet(球拍) sports? For one thing, he's superbly built: 1.78 metres tall,67 kilos, with arms, chest and legs that are rock-hard and wrists like steel. His ancestry helps, too. Khan's ancestors were Pathans. Pathans have a reputation for being trigger-happy, but Khan's relatives were far deadlier with squash racquets than with guns. His father, Roshan, uncles Hashim and Azam and cousin Mohibullah dominated world squash in the 1950s and 1960s.
But Khan's most precious quality is an extraordinary desire to excel. “Squash has more naturally gifted players,” admits his coach, Rahmat Khan, “but no one who works as hard, no one else who,even when on top, never lets up.”
1. Why is Jahangir Khan referred to as “the world champion of world champions”?A.He defeated New Zealand's Norman. |
B.He showed great excellence in squash. |
C.He was the first to win the championship. |
D.He won the squash championship in 1985. |
A.Excited. |
B.Disturbed. |
C.Absorbed. |
D.Bothered. |
A.It is a good substitute for tennis. |
B.It is a relaxing sport for all ages. |
C.It shows one's strength and talent. |
D.It fits in with the needs of modern life. |
A.His strong build. |
B.His strong will. |
C.His family's support. |
D.His talent in sports. |
【推荐2】For more than fifty years, athletes competing in the Olympic games have often been cheered on by either a furry or feathered friend. The Olympic mascot—a cartoonish representation of the host city’s culture and history is so important, and designs are often selected and finalized years before the Games take place. According to the International Olympic Committee(IOC) the role of these things is to help spread a “festive atmosphere” and embody the spirit of the event.
Over the decades, the world has welcomed snowmen, sasquatches, cowboy-hat-wearing bears and aliens to the Olympic stage. The first mascot was created in 1968 by designer Aline Lafargue for the Grenoble Winter Games in France. Affectionately named “Shuss”, the character consists of a two-toned head and lightning-bolt shaped leg attached to skis. Despiteholding the title of first ever mascot. Lafargue created and submitted her design for Shuss in just one night.
To find a worthy representative, each host country will typically organize a submission contest. In 2014 a competition held by Russia in anticipation for the Sochi Winter Games received more than 24.000 drawings. The winners a trio of arctic mammals were selected by a public vote with the results broadcast on Russian TV. But this hasn’t always been the case: For the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic, one of the first Olympic events to be heavily influenced by corporate financing, Disney won the private bid for mascot design.
Since these creatures are also important to official merchandise (指定商品), cuteness and cuddliness have long been key standards for any mascot’s success. Merchandise of Beijing’s round panda mascot Bing Dwen Dwen for the 2022 Winter Games is already “selling like hotcakes”.
Character design becomes especially important when the Games coincide with a unique moment in history. For example, Sydney, Australia, the host country of the first Olympics of the millennium (千禧年), adopted three mascots for the first time in the Games’ history. The three anime-style cartoons, Syd, Olly and Millie, were named in reference to Sydney, Olympics and Millennium and T-shirts from this landmark Games are still circulating second-hand resale sites now.
1. What can we learn about the mascot from the first paragraph?A.It takes a short time to design. | B.It reflects the city’s culture and history. |
C.It reveals the spirit of the host city. | D.It can promote the city’s economic growth. |
A.Disney. | B.Millie. | C.Aline Lafargne. | D.Grenoble. |
A.Summarize the previous paragraphs. |
B.Introduce the origin of the Olympic mascot. |
C.Tell readers the features of a successful Olympic mascot. |
D.Provide some information about the 2022 Winter Games. |
A.The Olympic Game. | B.The mascot of the Olympic Game. |
C.The designer of the mascot. | D.The host city of the Olympic Game. |
【推荐3】Derek Redmond
It was the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992; the semi-final of the 400 metres. The sun was shining and the crowd were ready for a great race. The British athlete Derek Redmond was a top runner: he had a very good chance of winning a medal.
The race began. At first, Derek was running well. Then, after about 150 metres, he felt a pain in his leg. He fell down on one knee. He had a bad injury and couldn’t carry on. The other runners went past him and finished the race.
After about five seconds, Derek got up and started to run again, on one leg only. Some organizers tried to stop him but he kept going. The crowd stood up and started to clap. Then another man came onto the track—Derek’s father, Jim. His father put his arm around him and said, “Derek, you don’t have to do this.” Derek replied, Yes, I do. I have to finish.” And so together they walked the last 50 metres and crossed the line.
When he finally crossed the line, Derek was crying and 60, 000 people were cheering him.
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
In the summer of 2010, mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner was almost at the top of a mountain called K2 in Nepal. She was trying to climb the 8,611-metre mountain for the fifth time and this time she was climbing with her friend Fredrik Ericsson.
It was about 7 o’clock in the morning and it was snowing a little. The two climbers were getting ready to go up the last 400 metres. Fredrik was trying to tie some rope but he slipped and fell past Gerlinde. He fell 1,000 metres and was killed.
__▲__ K2 was now a very sad place for her, and she thought perhaps she would never climb the mountain.
But there was something very important that she wanted to do: K2 is one of 14 mountains in the world that are 8,000 metres or higher, and her dream was to climb them all.
So in August 2011 she went back to Nepal and K2, and tried again. This time, she got to the top. Her dream was complete.
1. What information is mentioned in the first story?A.The time Derek spent on the race. |
B.The person who crossed the line with Derek. |
C.The speed Derek ran for the first 150 meters. |
D.The names of the runners who went past Derek. |
A.Gerlinde went back to base-camp. |
B.Gerlinde went on climbing. |
C.Gerlinde tied some rope to the rocks. |
D.Gerlinde wanted to try again. |
A.They both came from Britain. |
B.They both failed the 400-metre race. |
C.They both had the dream to climb high mountains. |
D.They were both brave people who didn’t give up. |
A.The most important thing is to win the race. |
B.When things go wrong, we must stop at once. |
C.When we start something, we should try to finish. |
D.We shouldn’t start a race if we think we can’t win. |
【推荐1】It’s true that quite a few most respected scientific authorities have confirmed that the world is becoming hotter and hotter. There’s also strong evidence that humans are contributing to the warming. Countless recent reports have proved the same thing. For instance, a 2010 summary about the climate science by the Royal Society noted that: The global warming over the last half-century has been caused mainly by human activity.
You may not believe that humans could change the planet’s climate, but the basic science is well understood. Each year, billions of tons of greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere because of human activity. As has been known for years, these gases hold heat that would otherwise escape to space, wrapping the planet in an invisible blanket.
Of course, the earth’s climate has always been changing due to “natural” factors such as volcanic eruption or changes in solar, or cycles concerning the Earth’s going around the sun. According to the scientific research, however, the warming observed by now matches the pattern of warming we would expect from a build-up of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere — not the warming we would expect from other possible causes.
Even if scientists did discover another reasonable explanation for the warming recorded so far, that would give birth to a difficult question. As Robert Henson puts it: “If some newly discovered factor is to blame for the climate change, then why aren’t carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases producing the warming that basic physics tells us they should be?”
The only way to prove with 100% certainty that humans are responsible for global warming would be to run an experiment with two identical Earths — one with human influence and one without. That obviously isn’t possible, and so most scientists are careful not to state human influence as an absolute certainty.
1. The text is developed by ________.A.giving typical examples |
B.following the order of space |
C.comparing and finding differences |
D.analyzing a theory and arguing it |
A.volcanic eruption |
B.floods arid droughts |
C.changes in solar |
D.cycles concerning the Earth’s going around the sun |
A.exactly the same | B.totally different |
C.extremely important | D.partly independent |
A.Are Humans Definitely Causing Global Warming? |
B.Are All the Scientists Really Scientific? |
C.Where Is Global Warming Leading Us to? |
D.What’s the Relation of Global Warming and Greenhouse Gases? |
【推荐2】Advice to “sleep on it” could be well founded, scientists say. After a good night’s sleep a problem that couldn’t be solved the night before can often appear more manageable, although the evidence until now has been anecdotal. But researchers at the University of Luebek in Germany have designed an experiment that shows a good night’s sleep can improve insight and problem-solving.
“If you have some newly-got memories in your brain, sleep acts on these memories and restructures them, so that after sleep the insight into problem which you could not solve before increases,” said Dr. Jan Born, a neuroscientist, at the university. To test the theory, they taught volunteers two simple rules to help them turn a string of numbers into a new order. There was also a third, hidden rule, which could help them increase their speed in solving the problem. The researchers divided the volunteers into two groups: half were allowed to sleep after the training while the rest were forced to stay awake.
Dr. Jan Born and his team noticed that the group that had slept after the training were twice as likely to figure out the third rule as the other group. “Sleep helped,” Born said in a telephone interview. “The important thing is that you have to have a memory representation in your brain of the problem you want to solve and then you sleep, so it can act on the problem.
“But Born admitted that he and his team don’t know how restructuring of memories occurs or what governs it. Pierre Maquet and Perrine Ruby of the University of Liege in Belgium said the experimental evidence supports the anecdotal suggestions that sleep can help develop creative thinking. Although the role of sleep in human creativity will still be a mystery, the research gives people good reason to fully respect their periods of sleep, they added.
1. The underlined phrase “sleep on it” in Paragraph 1 probably means _____.A.to get as much sleep as possible |
B.to go on sleeping without being disturbed |
C.to delay deciding something until the next day |
D.to sleep till after the time you usually get up in the morning |
A.To test problem-solving ability in sleep. | B.To discover people’s insight during sleep. |
C.To prove a good sleep helps solve problems. | D.To discuss how to improve sleeping quality. |
A.Through comparison. | B.Through interviews. |
C.Through talks. | D.Through imagination. |
A.It helps scientists control memories. | B.It explains the role of sleep in human. |
C.It tells us the role of sleep is a mystery. | D.It shows sleep does good to creative thinking. |
【推荐3】Whether they are furry, feathered or scaly (多鳞的), the non-human members of your family help you in more ways that you knōw.
They keep you active. If you have a dog, chances are that you’re walking it at least 30minutes a day, and likely more — an activity that goes a long way towards keeping you fit.
They boost your immune system. Growing up indoors in disinfected spaces later causes our bodies to over-react to harmless substances, making us more allergic. As is often the case, pets have muddy paws, abundant furs and affection for licking (舔) us.
They lower your risk of a fatal heart attack. Researchers found that cat owners had a 30per cent lower risk of dying of a heart attack.
They help you manage a chronic disease.
A.They also improve your mental health |
B.They contribute a lot to our strong body |
C.With the considerate care from the owners |
D.Here are some ways that your pet pal benefits you |
E.With their regular tasks of feeding, walks and play |
F.They introduce more bacterial diversity that our body adapts to |
G.But you may wonder how it comes about without taking a cat for walks |