【推荐1】Why should girls play sports? You might say “to get exercise” and you’d be right. To have fun? That’s true, too.    1    

Girls who play sports do better in school.    2    . But research shows that girls who play sports do better in school than those who don’t. Exercise improves learning memory and concentration, which can give active girls an advantage in the classroom. 

Girls who play sports learn teamwork and goal-setting skills. Sports teaches valuable life skills. When you work with coaches, trainers, and teammates to win games and achieve goals, you’re learning how to be successful.    3    

Sports are good for a girl’s health. In addition to being fit and maintaining a healthy weight, girls who play sports are also less likely to smoke. And later in life, girls who exercise are less likely to get breast cancer.

Playing sports increases self-confidence. Girls who play sports feel better about themselves. Why?    4     And it helps girls keep a healthy weight and make new friends.

Exercise cuts the pressure. Playing sports can release stress and help you feel a little happier.    5     Friends can calm you down. And being on a team creates tight bonds between friends. It’s good to know your teammates will support you — both on and off the field!

A．Please take action to play games.

B．In fact, there are at least 5 more reasons.

C．Playing sports is good for your grades.

D．The brain chemicals released during exercise improve a person’s mood.

E．Those skills will serve you well at work and in family life.

F．It builds confidence when you know you can practice, improve, and achieve your goals.

G．You might think that playing sports will take up all the study time.

【推荐2】It seems that the Englishmen just cannot live without sports of some kind. A famous French humorist once said that this is because the English insist on behaving like children all their lives. Wherever you go in this country, you will see both children and grown-ups knocking a ball about with a stick or something, as if in Britain men shall always remain boys and women girls! Still, it can never be bad to get exercise, can it?

Taking all amateur(业余)and professional sports in Britain into consideration, there can be no doubt that football is at the top of the list. It is called soccer in the United States. The game originated(起源于)in Britain and was played in the Middle Ages or even earlier, though as an organized game, or “association football”, it dates only from the beginning of the 19th century.

The next is rugby, which is called “football” in the United States. It is a kind of football played by two teams of fifteen players than eleven. In rugby, an oval-shaped ball is used which can be handled as well as kicked. It is a pretty rough game.

In summer, cricket is the most popular sport. In fact, it has sometimes been called the English national game. Most foreigners find the game rather slow or even boring, but it enjoys great popularity among the British.

Tennis rates high on the list, too. It was introduced into England from France in the 15th century, but it was from England that it spread to practically every country in the world.

Table tennis, or “ping-pong”, surely is not played on a great scale as it is in China or Japan. Basketball and volleyball were introduced into Britain during the late 19th century from America and are gaining popularity. Horse-back riding, swimming, rowing and golf all attract a lot of people.

1. The main purpose of Paragraph l is to tell us that the English__________.

A．are all sports lovers	B．behave like children
C．like to kick a ball around	D．can remain young all their lives

2. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about football and rugby?

A．They differ in the shape of the ball.	B．They are played by different numbers of players.
C．They both can be handled.	D．They both can be kicked.

3. The game that was never played in Britain until the late 19th century is__________.

A．basketball

B．tennis

C．rugby

D．football

4. What would be the best title for this passage?

A．The Most Popular Sports	B．The English Sports
C．History of Sports	D．Sports in Britain

【推荐3】“Humans can develop certain abilities we aren’t born with by practicing animals’ movements,” the traditional Chinese Wushu lovers believed in the past — and still do today.

Chinese Five-Animal Exercises, also known as Wuqinxi, are the first complete set of qigong exercises following the movements of animals: monkeys, deer ( 鹿 ), birds, bears and tigers. They were created by one of the greatest doctors in Chinese history, Hua Tuo, more than 1,800 years ago.

The Five-Animal Exercises are well-designed to help blood circulation (循环), and let the energy go smoothly in the body so as to improve the health.

“ The bear movements are good for the stomach. The tiger movements can reduce the pain in the back. The deer movements help reduce the fat around the waist (腰). The bird movements can help keep our knees healthy and the monkey movements can be good for the heart.” said Hua Yi, the 59th inheritor (继承人) of Wuqinxi.

For those new learners, the first few exercises might not go well. You may find it hard to focus. Wear comfortable clothes, keep peaceful in your mind, try to move slowly... Little by little, you’ll feel more and more harmonious with nature. You may even feel you become a tiger or a deer, walking in the forest freely.

These exercises need no tools. You can search online for the videos and practice them at any time when you feel like relaxing your body and mind. Because it’s fun to practice and good for health, Five-Animal Exercises are becoming more and more popular in recent years, not only in China, but also in many other places of the world.

1. Why do people practice Five-Animal Exercises?

A．To fight against enemies	B．To protect wild animals
C．To improve the health	D．To make money

2. What may help a lot if your grandfather has a backache?

A．the bear movements	B．the tiger movements
C．the deer movements	D．the bird movements

3. What does the underlined word “harmonious” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A．和谐的

B．兴奋的

C．敬畏的

D．崇高的

4. What can we infer (推断) from the passage?

A．It’s easy to learn Wuqinxi even for beginners.

B．People should practice Wuqinxi on weekends.

C．Wuqinxi is becoming worldwide famous.

D．It’s difficult to learn Wuqinxi even for beginners.

【推荐1】If businesses are to get workers back into the office, finding ways to keep social distancing(社会隔离)will be important. An Israeli company thinks it can help, using smart sensors installed on workplace ceilings.

PointGrab developed its technology before COVID-19 to help workspace managers optimize(优化)how employees use office space. About the size of a smoke alarm, the sensors can record the exact number and location of people in buildings including offices, hotels and restaurants. One of the company's first clients was Deloitte, which installed the system at its London office last year. PointGrab s sensors were connected to screens in the building to show the availability（利用率)of desks and shared areas in real time. PointGrab CEO Doron Shachar says it was one of a series of innovations that helped Deloitte fit 30% more people into 3% less space.

Now to prevent the coronavirus spreading face to face, PointGrab has adapted the technology to some degree so the sensors can also monitor social distancing by keeping track of how far apart people are, and whether they're traveling in one direction around a building. Workspace managers can set up alarm for when two people are closer than two meters for more than 30 seconds, for example. The sensors have been included in the “six feet office” concept created by a company Cushman & Wakefield to encourage employees to practice social distancing. They are currently being used in this way at a university in the Netherlands, and at an innovation centre in Belgium. While the social distancing innovation is new, PointGrab has installed more than 10, 000 sensors for workspace optimization, including in the offices of Coca-Cola, Facebook and Dell.

Workers might not like the idea of being monitored, but PointGrab says no images or identifying features are recorded. Instead, each employee is represented as a dot on a screen. “The sensor does not violate people’s privacy,” Shachar says. This is extremely important in the workspace.

1. What were the sensors used to do before COVID-19?

A．To identify employees.	B．To record locations.
C．To keep track of employees.	D．To make better use of office space.

2. What does the underlined word “adapted” probably mean in Paragraph 3?

A．Introduced.	B．Adjusted.
C．Formed.	D．Boomed.

3. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．Smart sensors give away people’s privacy.

B．PointGrab is in good conditions.

C．Workers are in favor of the company management.

D．Worker appearance will not show clearly on the screen.

4. Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A．How we can get workers back into their office

B．How we can improve the employees’ efficiency

C．Smart sensors make office social distancing easier

D．Smart sensors are a key technological innovation

【推荐2】While Jennifer was at home taking an online exam for her business law class, a monitor（监控器）a few hundred miles away was watching her every move.

Using a web camera equipped in Jennifer's Los Angeles apartment, the monitor in Phoenix tracked how frequently her eyes moved from the computer screen and listened for the secret sounds of a possible helper in the room. Her Internet access was locked remotely to prevent Internet searches, and her typing style was analyzed to make sure she was who she said she was: Did she enter her student number at the same speed as she had in the past？ Or was she slowing down？

In the battle against cheating, this is the cutting edge and a key to encourage honesty in the booming field of online education. This technology gives trust to the entire system, to the institution and to online education in general. Only with solid measures against cheating, experts say, can Internet universities show that their exams and diplomas are valid — that students haven't searched the Internet to get the right answers.

Although online classes have existed for more than a decade, the concern over cheating has become sharper in the last year with the growth of "open online courses". Private colleges, public universities and corporations are jumping into the online education field, spending millions of dollars to attract potential students, while also taking steps to help guarantee honesty at a distance.

Aside from the web cameras, a number of other high-tech methods are becoming increasingly popular. Among them are programs that check students’ identities using personal information, such as the telephone numbers they once used.

Other programs can produce unique exams by drawing on a large list of questions and can recognize possible cheaters by analyzing whether difficult test questions are answered at the same speed as easy ones. As in many university classes, term papers are scanned against some large Internet data banks for cheating.

1. Why was Jennifer watched in an online exam?

A．To correct her typing mistakes.

B．To find her secrets in the room.

C．To keep her from dishonest deeds.

D．To prevent her from slowing down.

2. What does the underlined expression "cutting edge" in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．sharpening tool	B．advanced technique
C．effective rule	D．dividing line

3. How can some programs find out possible cheaters?

A．By scanning the Internet test questions.

B．By checking the question answering speed.

C．By producing a large number of questions.

D．By giving difficult test questions.

【推荐3】In the earliest stages of man’s development he had no more need of money than animals have. He was content with very simple forms of shelter, made his own rough tools and weapons and could provide food and clothing for himself and his family from natural materials around him. As he became more civilized, however, he began to want better shelter, more efficient tools and weapons, and more comfortable and more lasting clothing than could be provided by his own neighborhood or by the work of his own unskilled hands. For these things he had to turn to the skilled people such as smiths, leather workers or carpenters. It was then that the question of payment arose.

At first he got what he wanted by a simple process of exchange. The smith who had not the time to look after land or cattle was glad to take meat or grain from the farmer in exchange for an axe or a plough (犁). But as more and more goods which had no fixed exchange value came on the market, exchange became too complicated to be satisfactory. Another problem arose when those who made things wanted to get stocks of wood or leather, or iron, but had nothing to offer in exchange until their finished goods were ready.

Thus the difficulties of exchange led by degree to the invention of money. In some countries easily handled things like seeds or shells were given a certain value and farmer, instead of paying the smith for a new axe by giving him some meat or grain, gave him so many shells. If the smith had any shells left when he had bought his food, he could get stocks of the raw materials of his trade. In some countries quite large things such as cows or camels or even big flat stones were used for trade. Later, pieces of metal, bearing values according to the rarity (稀有) of the metal and the size of the pieces, or coins were used. Money as we know it had arrived.

1. What does the first paragraph mainly tell us?

A．Man needed little in the earliest stages.	B．Man preferred to make tools by himself.
C．How the simple process of exchange arose.	D．What the early man needed from others.

2. As men became more civilized they____.

A．all learnt to make by themselves the things needed

B．wanted better things than those they themselves could provide

C．had to travel a lot to look for what they wanted

D．no longer provided food and clothing for themselves

3. Exchange of goods became difficult because______.

A．man became more civilized

B．there was not a marketplace for farmers and smiths to exchange their goods

C．farmers hadn’t enough grain or meat to provide for skilled workers

D．more and more goods which had no fixed exchange values appeared on the market.

4. Money was not used until_________.

A．the exchange of one for another became too complicated

B．paper was invented

C．people practiced a simple process of exchange

D．nothing could be offered in exchange