【推荐2】Grace Brown leads a busy school life. Apart from the many ________ subjects , the 14-year- old also sings in a choir and plays the piano.

The school day ________ from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., but Grace has so many ________ to attend that she has no ________ for P. E. classes. That’s why Grace has chosen to take P. E. classes on her ________ time. Her school has allowed her to try “virtual” P. E. For many subjects, tests and textbooks have become ________ on computers. Now, new ________ are also having an effect on P. E. Grace wears a fitness tracker called Fitbit on her arm while ________ She usually has her P. E. classes three times a week for 30 minutes each time. A program on her computer ________ her activity. Grace needs to ________ the data of her performance to her school every week.

“Virtual” P. E. is becoming more and more ________ among people, especially teenagers.________, P. E. teachers don’t guide their Fitbit-wearing students in real time. But they do lead the students work by ________ goals. The students can choose their ________ activities. Those who swim or dance all year round may easily ________ the workout requirements.

As for Grace, she has ________ light running and cycling to her days. Some schools, however, do not support this ________. “Physical activity is different from physical ________,” said a P. E teacher. “Physical activity is great for the ________. Everybody is moving. But in P. E. classes, students are taught not only how to ________ but also things like teamwork.”

【推荐3】Yang Xiuyun, 72.is addicted to running. A 10-kilometer run in the morning is like her first _______ of the day. Before her _______. Yang was a breeder(饲养员). At that time, she did not know what a marathon was, but now she has run nearly 40 marathons, not only _______ in China, but also in Helsinki. Finland.

“Life is like a marathon. I’m just racing against the _______.” said Yang, who has been running consistently for 22 years. The old lady has short hair and speaks as _______ as she runs.

When she retired, Yang _______ kidney stones(肾结石). The doctor said that if she did not have _______, she could only recover by talking medicine or exercising. One morning, Yang went out for a walk and _______ a group of runners, who ran together and _______ each other. Seeing Yang’s ________ look in her eyes, the runners warmly invited her to join. “At first. I was afraid that I would become a drag in this group of young people, but they ________ me with great enthusiasm.” From 5 kilometers running to 10 kilometers, 20 kilometers, and ________the full marathon, the distance that Yang measured with her feet became longer and longer. Besides, she ________ a group of friends.

Running day after day has also brought changes to Yang’s body and ________. To the doctor’s ________, her kidney stones, which were ________ the size of broad beans, disappeared after several years of running.

In 2011, Yang ________ for the Shanghai Marathon, but she was not satisfied after finishing in five hours. Since then, she found ________ running teaching videos to adjust her running movements. After five years of professional ________, she ran for four hours and 20 minutes. In 2019. Yang signed up for the Helsinki Marathon with her running friends. “Even after all these years, running continues to ________ me,” said Yang.

【推荐1】Anyone who has felt a moment of joy when a favorite song comes on the radio at just the right moment or cried along with a singer expressing heartache will understand the emotional power of music. Now, a growing body of scientific evidence demonstrates that music can be _________ too.

In a review of 400 research papers looking into the _________ of music, Daniel Levitin, a psychologist and neuroscientist at McGill University in Montreal, found that playing and listening to music had mental and physical health _________, including improving our immune systems and reducing stress.

One 2007 study from a team of Spanish researchers found that listening to music _________ surgery had the effect in reducing pre-operative anxiety. It’s a negative emotion which can affect pain after an operation and _________ time. Another study, conducted in 2018 in Barcelona’s Hospital del Mar, found that _________ participating in a music therapy (疗法) program experienced significant decreases in tiredness, anxiety and breathing difficulties, as well as an increase in feelings of well-being.

Music can have a huge effect on helping sick _________ too. Ruth Hunston is a music therapist in the “play department”at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, England, who helps give young patients back some sense of _________.

“When children are in the hospital, their worlds get much _________,” says Hunston. “They’re having so many things done to them and around them, but music allows them to create something themselves. I’ve had lots of babies in the hospital making sounds because I am __________ to them, and they want more.”

The parents also become part of the therapeutic process. “What’s really lovely is when you go in and you start to make music, and the children invite their parents to join,” she says. “There is this beautiful __________ between everyone. Sometimes I will __________ and just watch them play, laugh and have fun.”

Finding those __________ moments is the therapist’s role, but as music therapist Sarah Rose Black notes, people have been connecting with music for their whole lives—she is just helping them __________ it again at a time when they need it most. “We are born to be __________ people.”

【推荐2】You can hear a pin drop. It’s almost a dilemma among several long-time rivals. Can Babe pull it off? She _______the eighteenth hole, extends her arms for the downswing and—it's a hole in one! Babe, queen of the fairway (球道), has succeeded, and the crowd goes _______. Her fans rush forward, and there’s _______ and damage on the greens.

There’s a pity to this win _______ Babe, a co-founder of the LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association), was diagnosed with cancer at the height of her _______. Doctors said she’d never _______ again, but they should have known not to bet against this _______ woman. After thinking it over for about a split second, she _______ she wasn’t going to let a little thing like a serious illness _______ her athletic career. She had other fish to fry. She reached a(n) __________ with her husband and manager after undergoing surgery. She swore she’d keep the door open __________. Friends begged her to slow down. What did she have to prove? But Babe wasn’t __________ it. She won the Serbin Women’s Open Tournament: “The Babe’s here, who’s coming in second?”

When it comes to athletics, there is nothing she isn’t __________. She excels in baseball, swimming, diving, tennis, and bowling. Her __________ are legendary and practically countless. Most agree she’s the best woman athlete alive. Once she was __________ as the greatest female athlete of the half-century by the Associated Press, and she’s won a large number of other awards and lifetime achievement honors. No one __________ this lady with the incredible gifts and __________ heart of a champion.

Babe is no __________ woman. We’d be careless if we didn’t mention that Babe is working on her autobiography, due out next year. The girl has done plenty to __________ the ideals of women’s sports and won the __________ of millions.

【推荐3】We have been putting smart women on the couch for 40 years without making full use of their talent. Today the portion of top jobs that go to women is still _________ low. Why aren’t more women running things in America? It isn’t for lack of ambition or qualifications. The real _________ to getting more women to the top is the difficult issue of time commitment: Today’s top jobs in major organizations _________ 60-plus hours of work a week. Isn’t it too much?

But for businesses and reformers are serious about making their companies _________ for the large number of American talented women, here are three ways to handle it.

Re-think time. We can break away from the _________ that high-level work can be done only by people who work extra time. Maybe working time can be shortened by setting the right amount of work that needs to get done. Senior roles should actually be easier to adapt in this way because highly paid people have the desire to give up some _________ in order to work less.

Availability matters. It’s important to differ between availability and absolute time commitment. Many professional women would _________ agree to check email seven days a week and come to office, if necessary, for an intense project — so long as over the course of a year, the time devoted to work is more _________. Managers need to know that 24/7 availability is not the same thing as a 24/7 _________.

Quality is the goal, not quantity. Leaders need to create a __________ in which talented people are judged not by the quantity of their work, but by the quality of their __________. One who works 20 hours a week and who delivers exceptional results on a pro rata (摊派) basis should be qualified for __________ and viewed as a top performer.

“Devotion” may help talented women who can live with the way that top jobs require today— and if that’s their __________, give more power to them. But only a small percentage of women will choose this route. Until the rest of us get serious about __________ the present way that work gets done in American corporations, we can only complain about the __________ of it all while changing almost nothing.