Dr. Josefina has recently published a book, Vibrant at Any Age, based on her lifelong journey of self-improvement. Josefina, 71, is glad she didn't think about her age when she took up bodybuilding at age 59.
“I reinvent myself every ten years, and so I started my 60s as a bodybuilder and now I begin my 70s as a writer,” she said, “People limit themselves by age, which is very frustrating (沮丧). Age is a mindset.”
Dr. Josefina started bodybuilding at an age when most are considering retirement, though she was an athlete from an early age. As a child in Venezuela she took to gymnastics and later graduated with a physical education degree. She taught at Latin High School in Cambridge, for 16 years, while raising two daughters.
“I started bodybuilding when I met Steve Pfiester, a gym guy who knew I ran and practiced yoga. He invited me to his gym and offered to train me”, she said.
Dr. Josefina's photos are proof that she spends long hours taking care of her body. But she also develops her mind and spirit. On any given day, she gets up at 3:00 am to read books. At 4:30 am she's out of the door to walk three miles and run another three. This is followed by yoga and a swim at the beach while the sun rises. After writing in her journal and working on her book between 8 and 10 am, Dr. Josefina hits the gym for at least two hours.
Dr. Josefina's war on ageism has rubbed off on her two daughters, both in their early thirties. “They both take care of their bodies and minds. They're very proud of me. If you give them a good foundation as a parent, you know that they will always come back to their roots. I tried to remind myself of that during their difficult teen years.”
1. What's Dr. Josefina's opinion on age?| A．Age is a state of mind. | B．Age can't be hidden. |
| C．Every age has its pains and sorrows. | D．Age decides your career. |
| A．The need of her job. | B．Her early dream. |
| C．The desire to be a writer. | D．Steve Pfiester's influence. |
| A．Busy. | B．Dull. |
| C．Flexible. | D．Controversial. |
| A．She will return to the retirement. |
| B．She will set up a fitness foundation. |
| C．She often thinks of her teenage years. |
| D．She sets up an example to her daughters. |
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【推荐1】An 80yearold man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45yearold son.Suddenly a crow (乌鸦) landed on their window.
The father asked his son, “What is that？”
The son replied, “That is a crow.”
After a few minutes, the father asked his son for the second time, “What is this？”
The son said, “Father, I told you just now.It's a crow.”
After a little while, the father asked his son the same question for the third time, “What is this？”
This time, the son said to his father in a low and cold tone, “It's a crow, a crow.”
After a moment, the father yet again asked his son for the fourth time, “What is this？”
This time his son shouted at his father, “Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again? I have told you already, ‘IT IS A CROW’.Are you not able to understand this？”
A minute later the father went to his room and came back with a diary, which he had kept since his son was born.On opening a page, he asked his son to read that page.
Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa when a crow suddenly landed on the window edge.My son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied him 23 times that it was a crow.I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same question.I didn't at all feel angry, but instead felt affection for my son.
If your parents reach old age, do not look at them as a burden, but speak to them gently, and be kind to them.From today say this aloud, “I want to see my parents happy forever.They have cared for me ever since I was a little child.They have always showered me with love.I will take care of my old parents in the best way no matter how they behave.”
1. The writer mainly intends to_________.| A．tell us the function of a diary |
| B．call on us to love our parents |
| C．teach us what a crow is |
| D．introduce a pair of son and father |
| A．puzzlement | B．hatred (恨) |
| C．worry | D．love |
| A．eighty | B．three |
| C．thirtyeight | D．fortyfive |
Honesty is where a good friendship starts. Friends must be able to trust one another. If you don’t tell the truth, people usually find out. If a friend finds out that you haven’t been honest you may lose your friend’s trust. Good friends always count on one another to speak and act honestly.
Generosity means sharing and makes a friendship grow. You don’t have to give your ideas and feelings. These can be very valuable to friends. They tell your friends what is important to you. By sharing them you help your friend know you better.
Sooner or later everyone needs understanding and help with problems. Something may go wrong at school. Talking about the problem can make it easier to solve. Turning to a friend for help can be a first step in solving the problem. So to be a friend you must listen and understand. You must try to put yourself in your friend’s place so you can understand the problem better.
No two friendships are ever exactly alike. But all true friendships have three things in common. If you plan to keep your friends; you must practice honesty, generosity and understanding.
1. Some friendships don’t last long because __________.
| A．there are too many people who want to make friends |
| B．those who receive no friendship from others never give others friendships |
| C．those who give others friendship receive friendship from others |
| D．they don’t know friendship is something serious |
| A．something countable | B．the base of friendship |
| C．as important as money | D．more important than anything else |
| A．Always tell your friend the truth. |
| B．Sharing your mind with your friend is of great value. |
| C．Discussing your problems with your friend often helps to solve the problem. |
| D．A friend who gives you his lunch money is a true friend. |
| A．Turning to a friend for help |
| B．Thinking about it by ourselves |
| C．Making a plan |
| D．Talking about the problem |
| A．Honesty Is the Best Policy |
| B．A Friend In Need Is a Friend Indeed |
| C．How To Be a good Friend |
| D．Three Important Points In Life |
【推荐3】Several weeks ago, I pulled an old road map out of the glove box and passed it to my children. They had never seen the province of Ontario laid out like that before. They stared at the map, asking about all the towns, parks, and other landmarks we'd visited, and I pointed them out on the map.
Google Maps and GPS are modern wonders that have gotten me out of many confusing places, but paper maps still have a role to play in our lives. Most of us adults learned to read them out of necessity, but it's up to us to pass on that skill to children whose need may not be so obvious, but who still stand to benefit from it.
As Trevor Muir wrote in an article on this topic, "When kids learn how to create and use paper maps, they are doing more than just learning how to get around. They are actually developing fundamental skills that they will use for the rest of their lives. Map skills still belong in today's classroom. "
As a child I had National Geographic maps taped to my bedroom walls. This aroused my curiosity and imagination about those places and thus made me eager to remember my geography and history lessons because they were tied to places I'd "seen". Even now as a mother of four, I've also spared time to travel to many of the countries whose maps I studied as a child.
Additionally, in this fast-changing world, unexpected events can rapidly influence one's usual way of life. When GPS satellites or Internet connections are affected, this old-fashioned skill can get you out of a mess without requiring a smartphone. Last but not least, paper maps arouse "big picture" thinking, showing kids that there's a much bigger world out there and helping to direct them within it.
So, now is a good time to pull out those dusty old maps and lay them on the kitchen table.
1. How did the children react when they were given the paper map?| A．They showed great curiosity. |
| B．They seemed totally confused. |
| C．They considered it old-fashioned. |
| D．They found it less convenient than GPS. |
| A．The teaching focus in today's classroom. |
| B．The situations where paper maps are used. |
| C．The necessity of digital maps in the modem world. |
| D．The benefit of developing paper map skills for kids. |
| A．Internet connections are very reliable today. |
| B．GPS will sooner or later replace paper maps. |
| C．Paper maps provide kids with a grand vision. |
| D．Paper maps make people connected with each other. |
| A．Time to Teach Kids to Read Paper Maps. |
| B．How to Teach Kids about Different Kinds of Maps. |
| C．Time to Encourage Kids to Step into a Bigger World. |
| D．How to Teach Kids Fundamental Skills with Paper Maps. |
【推荐1】Sports can help you keep fit and get in touch with nature. However, whether you are on the mountains, in the waves, or on the grassland, you should be aware that your sport of choice might have great influence on the environment.
Some sports are resource-hungry (消耗资源). Golf, as you may know, eats up not only large areas of countryside, but also tons of water. Besides, all sorts of chemicals and huge amounts of energy are used to keep its courses (球场) in good condition. This causes major environmental effects. For example, in the dry regions of Portugal and Spain, golf is often held responsible for serious water shortage in some local areas.
There are many environment-friendly sports. Power walking is one of them that you could take up today. You don’t need any special equipment except a good pair of shoes, and you don’t have to worry about resources and your purse. Simple and free, power walking can also keep you fit. If you walk regularly, it will be good for your heart and bones. Experts say that 20 minutes of power walking daily can make you feel less anxious, sleep well and have better weight control.
Whatever sport you take up, you can make it greener by using environment-friendly equipment and buying products made from recycled materials. But the final goal should be “green gyms”. They are better replacements (代替物) for traditional health clubs and modern sports centers. Members of green gyms play sports outdoors, in the countryside or other open spaces. There is no special requirement for you to start your membership. And best of all, it’s free.
1. Which of the following is the author most probably support?| A．Cycling around a lake. |
| B．Motor racing in the desert. |
| C．Playing basketball in a gym. |
| D．Swimming in a sports center. |
| A．It pollutes the environment with all sorts of chemicals. |
| B．It needs water and other energy to keep its courses green. |
| C．It is very popular in Portugal and Spain. |
| D．It causes water shortages around the world. |
| A．It is environmentally-friendly. |
| B．It improves our health. |
| C．It is simple and free. |
| D．It can make you put on weight. |
| A．Resource-hungry sports. |
| B．Outdoors sports. |
| C．Environment-friendly sports. |
| D．Indoors sports. |
| A．To show us some major outdoor sports. |
| B．To encourage us to go in for green sports. |
| C．To discuss the influence of some popular sports. |
| D．To introduce some environmentally-friendly sports. |
We all need physical exercise. Exercise uses up the food we eat and keeps the body energetic. It works your muscles and makes your heart work hard so as to send blood to your muscles. So exercise makes your heart and muscles strong. Exercise also makes you feel refreshed. If you take regular exercise, you will stay happy and healthy.
Some Western countries, such as the United States, have problems with exercise. In the US, many people lack exercise because it is hard for them. People have to work from dawn till dusk, so they don’t have time to take exercise. They work in office buildings sitting in chairs all day long in front of computers. They cannot get much exercise sitting at desk passively.
Some Westerners can get exercise by walking from their homes to workplaces. However, the majority of people cannot do this. It is too far from their homes to their offices. They have no choice but to drive to work. In fact, some have to drive one or two hours to their offices. This is unfavorable in two ways. First, these people don’t have a chance to exercise because they are sitting in their cars for two to four hours each day. Second, driving is challenging especially in rush hours and calls for too much attention. It makes a person very tired. So when these people arrive home at night, they don’t have the desire to take exercise after work.
Today, many people in the West are overweight, which causes health problems for them. Doctors say exercise can help people both lose weight and improve their health. So many people are trying to get more exercise. But it takes time to change, and when people don’t see a difference right away, they will be discouraged and stop exercising.
Title | Westerners |
The | ● Keep your body ● Make you feel good. ● Help you stay healthy and happy if you exercise ● Help you lose weight and get your health |
| One | ● Some people at work are too |
| The difficulty those who drive to work have in exercising | ● Some live too ● After driving back at night, they are too |
| The wrong attitude to exercise some people have | ● Some would |
【推荐3】Is running a marathon (马拉松) under two hours possible? Will a human ever be able to run that fast? Now, the world record for the 42.195km (26.219 miles) distance is held by the Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge. His time of 2:01:39 hours was achieved at the Berlin Marathon of 2018.
But studies published in the past have come to the conclusion that running a marathon under 2 hours can be done. They even see a time of around 1:57 as the fastest a human can ever run. However, we may have to wait longer for this to happen.
To achieve an under two-hour marathon, an athlete would have to have the perfect body size and weight, the right running plans and of course, the right nutrition (营养). Today’s perfect runners come from Kenya and Ethiopia, countries that have dominated (占优势) long distance races for years. East African athletes have long legs and lungs that can take in lots of oxygen (氧). Training at high altitudes (海拔) gives them a strong heart. Ideal weather conditions with cool temperatures and no wind will also be needed to attempt such a mark. An extremely fast marathon would only be possible on flat city courses, like Berlin or London.
Since the beginning of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, athletes have tried to run long distance races as fast as possible. In 1900, the marathon world record was at around 3 hours. In the following 30 years, men were able to reach a mark of 2:30. But in the last 15 years, the world record has improved by only 3 minutes.
On the other side, some experts think that such fast performances will only be possible with the help of some medicine.
1. Why is the world record mentioned in Paragraph 1?| A．To show a human can run very fast. |
| B．To prove Eliud Kipchoge is the best. |
| C．To introduce the greatest success in the world. |
| D．To show an under two hour marathon hasn’t been achieved yet. |
| A．It requires too many things to fit together. |
| B．It isn’t easy to find right running plans. |
| C．Training a perfect runner takes a long time. |
| D．Kenyan and Ethiopian runners control marathons. |
| A．High altitudes. | B．Lots of oxygen. |
| C．A perfect environment. | D．Tall and strong runners. |
| A．Men will run faster and faster. |
| B．Men made the greatest progress in 1930. |
| C．Achieving shorter time became more difficult. |
| D．It’s impossible to break the marathon world record. |
【推荐1】You’ve likely heard of the Group of Seven, artists who travelled the remote landscapes of Ontario to capture their rough beauty by brush. But they weren’t the only artists who travelled rough and painted what they saw!
Fifty years before the Group of Seven. Frances Anne Hopkins was roughing it in a voyageur (船夫) canoe between Lachine (Montreal) and Fort William (Thunder Bay). She was born in England in 1838. She married Edward Hopkins, who worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company, and moved to Lachine, Canada.
In 1860, her husband was promoted to Chief Factor of Montreal, which led to the couple occasionally joining voyageurs on their journeys up the river, sometimes travelling all the way to Fort William by canoe. These trips would take weeks of rough living with the men who paddled the canoe. The couple travelled along the shores of the Mattawa River, where Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park is located today.
While the voyageurs paddled the canoe or set up camp, Hopkins would sketch (素描) what she saw. She documented the lives of voyageurs in her sketches in the same way we might take a photograph. Most of her paintings describing voyageurs were completed after she returned to London in 1870. Many of her works, such as Canoes in a Fog and Running a Rapid on the Mattawa River were displayed at the Royal Academy exhibition in England during her career.
By the time Frances Anne Hopkins began documenting the voyageurs’ lives, the need for them was declining. Faster travel methods such as trains and steamboats were becoming popular, and the demand for canoes was decreasing. However, one could argue that she arrived in the canoe just in time to capture the final years of the voyageurs before they could truly fade away.
1. Why did the author mention Group of Seven?| A．To show their achievements in art. | B．To attract the attention of art lovers. |
| C．To introduce the heroine of this article. | D．To prove their influence on other artists. |
| A．Her husband’s promotion. | B．Her love for travelling. |
| C．Her moving to new home. | D．Her interest in drawing. |
| A．Frances Anne Hopkins’ life. | B．Frances Anne Hopkins’ works. |
| C．Frances Anne Hopkins’ education. | D．Frances Anne Hopkins’ marriage. |
| A．Influencing the lives of voyageurs. | B．Changing the trends of travel methods. |
| C．Displaying her works at the Royal Academy. | D．Documenting the lives of voyageurs through art. |
【推荐2】The people of La Gomera can carry on long-distance conversations by whistling. For ordinary conversation they speak Spanish. But when they need to speak over a distance and ordinary speech is impossible, they use silbo, which is the name of whistled form of speech.
La Gomera is very mountainous. In spite of the island’s small size, walking from one place to another may be a slow and difficult job. That is why the silbo is so useful to the islanders there. A message can easily be whistled over a couple of miles, while to travel the same distance on foot might take an hour.
A good whistler can be heard and understood five miles away. His whistling can be heard even farther away when there is little or no wind. 1 was informed that the record is about nine miles. Anyone who has heard a first-class whistler will agree that this figure is quite possible.
A whistle doesn’t have all the changes of tone. To achieve changes, the whistler tries to perform the same movements with his teeth, mouth, tongue and throat that he would use as if he were actually talking. Of course he cannot move his lips during the whistling, so there is some difference. However, it is close enough. Each whistler has his own style of whistling, just as you would recognize him by the way he spoke. Anything that can be said in Spanish can be whistled and understood perfectly. This is true partly because the Spanish language has such a simple sound system. The silbo would not work nearly so well with English.
1. From the passage, we know silbo is .| A．a name of an island | B．a name of a mountain |
| C．a whistle language used at La Gomera | D．a whistle language used in Spain |
| A．they can’t have long-distance conversations without whistling |
| B．they want to save time |
| C．they live on a small island |
| D．the whistle sounds pleasant |
| A．1 mile away | B．2 miles away |
| C．4 miles away | D．5 miles away |
| A．each whistler has his own style of whistling |
| B．each whistler can make a tone of astonishing loudness |
| C．some whistlers do not use their fingers at all |
| D．there is nothing unusual about his whistling |
【推荐3】When my daughter Sara was in the fifth grade, she came to me with a problem. “Marcy hates me!” she cried. “Because Kathy is my friend, too. She wants me to be her friend and nobody else’s. You talk to Marcy. You tell her that I want to be her friend, but I can have other friends, too!”
Oh! I looked at her for a few moments, wondering how I got into this mess (困境), when suddenly an idea came to me.
Picking up two baskets from the living room, I explained, “When everyone is born, he or she has a little basket. This little one here is yours. The big one is mine. As you grow, so does the basket. You can see your little basket is inside mine because when you were born, there were too many things you couldn’t do for yourself. I did everything you couldn’t do on your own.”
She nodded.
“Well, as you grew older and began to do some things on your own, I began placing a few more things in your basket. When you learned to tie your shoes, that went in your basket.”
She said softly, “I can tie my own shoes.”
“Right. As you grow older, there will be more and more things you must do on your own.” As I spoke, I gradually took her basket out of mine and handed it to her. “You will finally carry your own basket with things only you can do.”
She looked up at me and said, “I understand. There are some things that I have to do by myself because they are in my basket.”
1. What was Sara’s problem?| A．She didn’t have a basket. | B．She didn’t want her own basket. |
| C．She couldn’t deal with her friendship. | D．Her mother was too hard on her. |
| A．Angry. | B．Crazy. | C．Proud. | D．Helpless. |
| A．gifts given by God when everyone is born | B．something that people use to keep vegetables |
| C．growing abilities as you grow up | D．friendship that needs repairing |
| A．would talk to Marcy herself | B．wouldn’t make friends with Kathy |
| C．was too young to deal with anything | D．managed to persuade her mother to help her |
