FIFA, soccer's governing body, will seek to expand the Women's World Cup from 24 to 32 teams and double the prize money.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino wants more teams for 2023, but knows FIFA must work quickly "We will discuss it as a matter of urgency and se if we can already decide to increase for 2023, in which case we should reopen the bidding process and allow everyone to have a chance to organize or maybe co-host for some of those who have been bidding already for a 24-team World Cup, ""Nothing is impossible and based on the success of the 2019 World Cup, of course we have to believe bigger and to do what we should have done already probably some time ago, "Gianni said before the July 7 final between the United States and the Netherlands. The U, S. women's team won 2:0, which helped the growth of women's soccer.
Gianni earlier prioritized（优先考虑）enlarging the Men's World Cup. He pushed for a jump from 32 to 48 teams for the 2026 World Cup that the United States co-hosts with Canada and Mexico. A bid to speed up the process of expansion for the 2022 tournament in Qatar failed in May. That event will see teams dividing a $440 million prize. In addition, club teams, meaning professional teams, that let their players participate in the Cup will receive a total of $S209 million.
However, women's teams earn much less for competing at the women's event. FIFA plans to double the prize money and will spend more to prepare players and pay clubs releasing players. Gianni said that share would total $100 million. Gianni said FIFA would double its spending on women's soccer to $1 billion. Later, he said that most of it will not be going directly to players. Most of the money would be reserved for soccer federations（联合会）to request for specific projects that would require approval from FIFA.
1. What's urgent for 2023 according to FIFA's president?| A．Deciding on who to bid for it. | B．Choosing a country to host it. |
| C．Reforming the bidding process. | D．Discussing whether more teams to attend. |
| A．It's a men's event. |
| B．It allows 32 teams to participate. |
| C．It contributes to the expansion of women's teams. |
| D．It doubles the prize for women players. |
| A．To encourage people to engage in soccer. |
| B．To arouse public concern for the Men's World Cup. |
| C．To show the importance of the Men's World Cup. |
| D．To stress the need to increase funds in women's teams. |
| A．It's compulsory for clubs to release players. |
| B．Women players will earn more than men. |
| C．FIFA attracts more attention to women's events. |
| D．FIFA will not reject soccer federations' proposal? |
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【推荐1】Chinese sprinter Su Bingtian made history in the Tokyo Olympics by setting the new Asian record for men’s 100m at 9.83 seconds in the semifinal and finishing sixth in the final at 9.98 seconds.
There used to be a wrong view that no Asian sprinter can finish 100m within 10 seconds. Su proved people wrong with his performance. “I never thought we couldn’t do it, but there were some problems with our understanding of training before. Now we can do it by finishing at 9.83 seconds. That’s the best proof to beat such wrong view,” said Su to China News Service (CNS).
Su believes scientific training plays a key role in his success. “I realize that running as much as possible does not necessarily help you run faster. Scientific training attaches more importance to the applying of techniques and requires you to do it right instead of doing it a lot. In that way, athletes can save more strength in training and recover faster,” said Su. According to Su, he did not understand some of the moves coaches asked him to do when he went to train abroad at the beginning. His coach made detailed research on Su’s condition based on “champion model” from the start before arranging specific training sessions for Su to work on. It took him years to realize the importance of scientific training. "That’s why I chose to change how I started off at the end of 2014 and gained a new running pace. And it played a key role in the process of making breakthrough, said Su.
When asked if there will be another “Su Bingtian” in the future, Su’s answer was “Yes, 100 percent.” “People in the future can definitely do what I can do. I’m looking forward to seeing they can do it better than me. All records are to be broken,” said Su.
1. According to Paragraph 2, what was the important meaning of Su’s achievement?| A．It beat the unfair view about Asian sprinter. |
| B．It proved that Su Bingtian is the best sprinter in Asia. |
| C．It showed our understanding of training should not be changed. |
| D．It told people Asian sprinters are better than those from western countries. |
| A．The determination Su had to be a champion. |
| B．The difficulty Su overcame when he did training. |
| C．The reason why Su used scientific training methods. |
| D．The result of Su’s applying some new training methods. |
| A．Su wanted to break more records in the future. |
| B．Su hoped that someone would do better than him. |
| C．Su thought that people would do the same as he did. |
| D．Su believed that nobody could do what he had done. |
| A．Determined and honest. | B．Hardworking and confident. |
| C．Responsible and clever. | D．Outgoing and adaptable. |
【推荐2】At 11, Xi Ni is already an experienced tennis player. Off the court, the sixth-grader from Wuxi, in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, speaks quietly and gently. But when it’s game time, she’s totally focused as she chases the ball, moving energetically across the court.
Despite an overall trend of declining health and athleticism (竞技热) among Chinese children, a growing number of young people are taking up tennis — a sport invented in the U.K. in 1873 that barely existed in China less than two decades ago.
Like many others, Ni began playing tennis in 2011, when China’s former world No. 2 female tennis player Li Na became the first from Asia to win the Grand Slam championship title at the French Open. Li’s success led to a domestic tennis fever. In that same year, Ni’s father and coach, Xi Zhiye, began training his then-5-year-old daughter.
“There was a surge in the number of Chinese teenagers starting to learn tennis that year — some of the parents thought the sport could be a possible future for their children,” said Xi. He quit his job in securities trading two years ago to focus on his daughter’s tennis training.
In the U.S., there’s no contradiction between sports and academic studies, but in China, it’s the reality.
Last year, Xi Ni won third place in the national Zheng Jie Cup teen tennis tournament. The 11-year-old is a short-distance runner and a soccer player on the school teams, but it’s her tennis ability cultivated over six years of intensive training that has won her the most medals.
“I like playing tennis. It helps me relax after school,” Ni told Sixth Tone. “I’m the only one at my school who plays tennis, but I don’t feel lonely — I make friends at different tournaments, and they’re all excellent tennis players.”
1. The first paragraph is mainly used to ____________.| A．praise Xi Ni | B．introduce the topic |
| C．show Xi Ni’s hobby | D．make a comment |
| A．In 2010. | B．In 2011. | C．In 2012. | D．In 2013. |
| A．Because he was tired of it. |
| B．Because the salary was low. |
| C．Because he wished to train Xi Ni attentively. |
| D．Because his daughter begged him to coach her. |
| A．Ni cares more for soccer. |
| B．In her age group, Ni is a top player. |
| C．Intensive training has brought her suffering. |
| D．Ni keeps turning to excellent players for help. |
【推荐3】Nowadays golf is a very popular game around the world and the golf course is usually Perfectly taken care of by the owners. When a golfer plays on any golf course, he or she expects the course has a lot of hazards（障碍区）like sands, woods, and ponds of water. There is one special golf course, though, where along with these hazards that stand still, the player must expect to compete against hundreds of moving hazards. The golf course is on Christmas Island. The island is an area of Australia in the Indian Ocean, the third largest ocean in the world, lying between Africa and Australia. The moving hazards are bright red, four-and-one-half-inch crabs, small creatures with five pairs of legs, carrying a shell.
Over 150 million of these brightly colored crabs live in the island’s rainforests. Every year, starting around November, the crabs migrate（迁徙）, that is, they leave the rainforest and make their way to the ocean. They arrive at the coast after one to three weeks. But the males return to the rainforest earlier than the females, who return about half a month later after producing up to 100,000 eggs.
On Christmas Island there is a golf course which was built on the crabs, migration route. During the migration season, there are hundreds of red crabs moving on the course. The rules of the Christmas Island Golf Club say that all players must treat the crabs as they would treat any other hazard. They cannot move them, and they must play around them. If a walking crab happens to knock a ball while it is on the green, hitting it into a hole, the ball is considered “in”.
The golfers must compete against a moving hazard, and actually so must the crabs. People have built roads that run through the crabs’ migration route. Unluckily, up to two million crabs are killed by passing vehicles every year. People are trying to reduce the number by putting up “Crab Crossing’’ signs and closing certain roads during the migration season.
1. What do we learn about the red crabs according to paragraph two?| A．They arrive in the rainforest in November. |
| B．They spend most of their year in the ocean. |
| C．The females spend two more weeks on the coast. |
| D．The males start to migrate earlier than the females. |
| A．can help protect the crabs |
| B．will attract more golf players |
| C．slow down the migration of the crabs |
| D．are designed to help improve the Golf skills |
| A．the crabs must face danger on the road |
| B．the crabs are quite perfect moving hazards |
| C．the crabs like competing against moving hazards as well |
| D．the crabs should choose the right route and season for migration |
| A．Funny Golf | B．Great Migration |
| C．Crab Crossing | D．Crab Hazards |
【推荐1】Biophilic design (亲生物设计) is a concept used within the building industry to increase people’s connection with the natural environment by using direct nature, indirect nature, space, and place conditions. It is argued that this idea has health, environmental, and economic benefits for building occupants (居住者) and urban environments, with few drawbacks. Although its name was coined in recent history, indicators of biophilic design have been seen in architecture from as far back as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Studies show that incorporating the natural environment into buildings can have a positive influence on physical and psychological well-being.
Studies by Roger S. Ulrich have consistently found physical health promoting outcomes associated with viewing nature scenes through windows. In his studies, he assessed patients' recovery from surgery. Half the patients had rooms with a view of green trees while the others saw a brick wall. Patients in the rooms with the nature view stayed in the hospital for fewer days and had a more positive recovery process in general than the patients who had a view of the wall. Similar results were found in a field study of office workers by Rachel Kaplan.
Additionally, children in low-income urban housing who had problems with learning because of being unable to pay attention to things for very long showed improved scores on a standardised measure of attention deficit disorder (注意力缺陷障碍) when they moved to houses with more outdoor natural vegetation.
From an economic aspect, people are likely to spend more on houses that have views of nature; buyers are willing to spend 7% more on homes with excellent scenery, 58% more on houses that look toward water, and 127% more on those that are next to water.
Appreciating natural beauty isn’t something that some people can enjoy and others can’t; it happen without effort or even conscious awareness. So the more our buildings can make use of our ancient sense beauty, the more likely they will support us psychologically and emotionally, as well as functionally.
1. What do we know about biophilic design?| A．It originated in Babylon. | B．It has no disadvantages. |
| C．It rarely uses indirect nature. | D．It enjoys a long history. |
| A．Including. | B．Transforming. | C．Pouring. | D．Folding. |
| A．By giving examples. | B．By conducting surveys. |
| C．By listing figures. | D．By analyzing causes. |
(I=Introduction; P=Point; Sp=Sub-point; C=Conclusion)
A． | B． | C． | D． |
【推荐2】Len Wuey Chew's look involves a layered mashup of skirt and scarf you might spot on fashion designer’s catwalk. The elderly woman shows a simple yet lively way of life.
On every bench in Portsmouth Square, Chinatown's outdoor living room, elderly people in bright clothes chat, play cards and practise Tai Chi. Fuchsia scarves top crocheted vests; paisley sweaters wrap formal striped shirts. Impishly stylish, this respectable crowd is “Chinatown Pretty”, in the words of a new hook devoted to their fashion style.
Valerie Luu, a writer, and Andrio Lo, a photographer, spotted their first “pretty grandma” six years ago. A blog and a photography show in a Chinatown alley followed. Their book collects portraits from six North American Chinatowns, including Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Oakland and Vancouver. But their heart remains in San Francisco, home of America’s oldest Chinatown.
Five thousand souls, a big part of them elderly, are crowded into 30 city blocks. Many immigrated from China long ago, have experienced war and revolution and now live on small incomes. Around a third live in poverty. Yet their neighborhood bursts with color. Chinatown resembles an operatic senior center and the residents pay close attention to their clothes.
The eclectic outfits are practical. In the city's foggy, unpredictable climate, it pays to wear several layers. Beyond keeping warm, though, the fashions speak volumes about the enjoyment of living. Dressing beautifully on a tight budget is a matter of pride. “When you're young you don't have to are about fashion,” says Mr. Wu,82.a Chinatown model, “But when you're old, you have to.”
Each article of clothing tells a story. Some were made in Hong Kong decades ago, others have been sewn at home, or were handed up or down. One lady sports a hot pink backpack over a tailored blue skirtiest. The styles may not be to everyone's taste. But as surrounding neighborhoods become ever more costly, this frugality and courage are a means of survival.
1. What is the third paragraph mainly about?| A．A new book “Chinatown Pretty”. | B．America's oldest Chinatown. |
| C．How “Chinatown Pretty” get attention. | D．What's the way of life in Chinatown. |
| A．It is a waste of money. | B．It is an expression of love for life. |
| C．It is showing off your wealth. | D．It is the ability to impress the world |
| A．Poor and pitiful. | B．Social and successful. |
| C．Fashionable and frugal. | D．Determined and discouraged. |
| A．We should care for elderly people. | B．Beauty has nothing to do with age. |
| C．Confidence is the key to success. | D．Be yourself regardless of what others say. |
【推荐3】An earthquake happens when two plates rub together. The earth plates travel in different directions and at a different speed. If one plate is slowly forced underneath the other，pressure(压力)builds up until the plates break apart. This process(过程)causes the ground to move. It is an earth-quake. In other words，earthquakes are the shaking of the earth’s surface caused by the earth’s rocky outer layer as a result of the energy stored within the earth. The strain within the rocks is suddenly released(释放).
The damage an earthquake causes depends on where it is and when it is happening. If an unpopulated region is struck, there will be low loss of life or property(财产). If it hits a large city，there may be many injuries and much destruction. Many of the areas at risk are largely populated now. Major earthquakes hitting those areas today could produce terrible damage.
Actually, there are several million small earthquakes every year. Large earthquakes, such as the 1964 Alaska earthquake that measured 9.2 on the Richter scale, caused millions of dollars in damage. In the last 500 years, millions of people have been killed by earthquakes around the world-including over 240,000 in the 1976 Tangshan earthquake in China.
A60-second or less earthquake can cause devastation that continues for years after the first tremor. In 1972, a series of severe earthquakes struck Managua, Nicaragua. Fifteen years later, the city still looked the way it had a week after the earthquake hit, because the country did not have the necessary money to rebuild it.
The shaking of the earth is sometimes not the greatest disaster. It is in the ensuing fires and floods that often the greatest damage occurs. In the 1906 earthquake, it was the fires caused after it that did the majority of the damage. An earthquake can also destroy dams high above a city or valleys, causing floods to sweep down and sweep away everything in their path.
1. Which of the following is the main idea of the first paragraph?| A．An earthquake comes from the inside of the earth. |
| B．The earth has great energy in storage. |
| C．How the earth plates move. |
| D．How an earthquake happens. |
| A．Causing too much heat and great damage. |
| B．Causing many injuries and much destruction. |
| C．Happening as a result of another event. |
| D．Happening suddenly and unexpectedly. |
| A．an earthquake doesn’t last long | B．the damage can last long |
| C．people in Managua suffered too much | D．Nicaragua is still a poor country |
