“I’ve always been quite confident myself,” Leah Williamson tells The Week Junior, “but more shy than people realise.”
Williamson is the captain of the England women’s football team, the Lionesses, who won the Euro 2022 tournament (联赛). However, reaching such heights hasn’t always been easy and she’s had to learn how to believe in herself. Using her own experiences, she has written a book with journalist Susan, called You Have the Power: Find Your Strength and Believe You Can, to encourage young people.
Football has always been a big part of Williamson’s life, ever since she started playing at the age of six. She says, “It’s probably the one thing in my life that I’ve been truly passionate about the whole time.” Her family loved it too, and were divided between supporting Hotspur and Arsenal—rival (竞争对手) clubs in north London. When she was a child, her family encouraged Williamson not to be scared, even if it felt intimidating to take part in a sport that was mostly played by boys. By teaching her important lessons, such as how to have faith in herself, her family helped her to grow.
She hopes she can encourage readers to achieve their dreams—football-related or not. “I’m not trying to make everybody that reads this book the next best footballer in the world,” she says. “I’m just trying to give them a sense of how amazing it feels to look at yourself and be proud.”
You Have the Power: Find Your Strength and Believe You Can is out in bookshops now.
1. What do we know about Williamson?| A．She wrote a book on her own. | B．She won the World 2022 tournament. |
| C．Her book was based on her experiences. | D．It was easy for her to win football games. |
| A．They taught her how to play football. |
| B．They encouraged her to be brave and confident. |
| C．They loved and supported the same football team. |
| D．They showed her the significance of playing football. |
| A．Frightening. | B．Inspiring. | C．Puzzling. | D．Embarrassing. |
| A．To inspire readers to achieve their dreams. |
| B．To attract more young people to play football. |
| C．To tell readers some information about football. |
| D．To introduce a female football player and her book |
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【推荐1】Riding a bike and often wearing a blue hat, John Butler, an 84-year-old former farmer from Derbyshire, England, has become a spiritual (精神的) guide to a growing number of devoted fans.
Butler, an early advocate of organic farming, is a long-time follower of meditation (冥想). As part of his spiritual journey, he began recording inspiring messages in the hope of sharing the lessons he’d learned with others.
The peaceful tone, calming presence, a voice like a warm glass of milk, in which Butler delivered his plain view of life online, soon struck a chord(引起共鸣) with a rising number of people struggling to free themselves from the day-to-day anxiety caused by COVID-19.
Butler became famous in a 2016 BBC interview. After the interview, he was picked out by members of the Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) community as someone worth attention not just for what he said, but for the manner in which he said it. Since then, this senior’s popularity has grown.
Having always considered himself something of a “misfit (格格不入的人)” in society, Butler was much more surprised by his popularity than anyone else. Before his ongoing video project, Butler said he had never heard of YouTube and had little knowledge of the Internet. But Butler feels lucky to be able to provide a good influence for people just doing their best to deal with modern-day life.
“So many people have this problem, and because they naturally seek some sort of balance, they look for rest or peace, don’t they?” Butler told the BBC.
1. What can we learn about Butler from Paragraph 2?| A．He is a tour guide with many fans. |
| B．He is an expert on organic farming. |
| C．He wants to be famous on the Internet. |
| D．He enjoys thinking carefully and deeply. |
| A．His inspiring life experience. |
| B．His good performance in an interview. |
| C．His efforts to promote organic farming. |
| D．His unique way of delivering opinions on life. |
| A．He was an outsider of YouTube. |
| B．He felt out of place in society. |
| C．Many people were struggling with their lives. |
| D．Many people showed great interest in his video project. |
| A．Butler’s road to success |
| B．The wisdom of an old man |
| C．Deal with problems in life peacefully |
| D．A farmer becomes a star on the Internet |
【推荐2】Sallows, the owner of a barbershop(理发店), designed a wheelchair-accessible barber chair, which was brought to reality by the engineers in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. They have developed the device that will help individuals with physical disabilities have a more tailored, comfortable and safe experience at the barbershop. “It’s a barber chair—that was the first concept,” said Sallows. “But now we are in the process of creating, developing, and applying new technologies for applications in multiple settings such as dentist chairs or stadium seats,” said Sallows.
Sallows worked in a hospital as a certified therapist(治疗专家)for nearly 20 years. He enjoyed his career but decided to learn a trade. “I want something in the wheelhouse of therapists,” said Sallows. “I need something fulfilling, so I think barbering.” In one way, some may see it as a big career change, but Sallows says he is still a therapist. “I joke, I say I’ve gone from therapy to ‘hairapy’,” said Sallows. “Barbering gives me that therapeutic kind of environment that allows me to still talk. People know me as a therapist when they come in, not only as a barber, and so, just the conversations are really cool.”
Sallows learned that a barbershop proved complex for clients in wheelchairs. Having one’s hair washed or getting a close shave often means being physically lifted out of the wheelchair and into a barber chair—an experience that is both difficult and embarrassing. So Sallows, with the help of the UPMC, has created the barber chair that lifts and tips a wheelchair back safely and comfortably. The user rolls onto the barber chair and is raised one or two feet, much like what one would see in a car shop. Sallows hopes that the device will provide clients with the kind of service people have come to appreciate at a barbershop.
1. What is Sallows’s achievement?| A．He was named as the best therapist. |
| B．He became an engineer of the UPMC. |
| C．He created tailored and comfortable dentist chairs. |
| D．He designed a barber chair for the wheelchair-bound. |
| A．He could talk to cool clients. | B．He was eager to make a fortune. |
| C．He could use his former experience. | D．He wanted to start a different career. |
| A．Cooperative and generous. | B．Innovative and caring. |
| C．Talented and competitive. | D．Modest and competent. |
| A．A Tailored Cut | B．A Flexible Wheelchair |
| C．A Skilled Barber | D．A Special Barbershop |
【推荐3】Recently, homeless people across Chicago faced freezing to death if they couldn’t find shelter for the night. Thankfully, one local woman refused to let that happen.
In late January of 2021, Chicago experienced some of the coldest temperatures that the city has seen in decades. Sadly, more than 100 homeless people were left outside directly exposed to the deadly environment.
Candice Payne was lucky enough to have a shelter from the dangerous conditions. However, she couldn’t stop thinking about the homeless people in the area who had nowhere to go. Payne started brainstorming different ways she could possibly help. At last, she decided to see if there were any rooms available at local hotels that she could purchase for the people on the street.
However, many of the local hotels refused to allow her to pay for the rooms. “No one wanted them, but one hotel, the Amber Inn, that was nice enough to allow me to buy the rooms,” Payne told TODAY.
According to Payne, each room cost $70 per night. Without hesitating, she purchased 30 rooms for the night with her credit card. She then reached out to strangers, asking if anyone would like to help out with paying for more rooms. Strangers donated money, which helped Payne pay for a total of 60 rooms for five nights.
Payne’s selfless act made news across the country, however, she insisted she never did it for attention. “I am a regular persons,” said Payne, who spent thousands of dollars of her own money helping complete strangers. “It all sounded like a rich person did this, but I’m just a little black girl from the South Side. I thought it was impossible, but after seeing this and seeing people from all around the world, that just tells me it’s possible. We can all do this together.”
1. How much did Payne pay the Amber Inn for the rooms in total?| A．$2,100. | B．$4,200. | C．$21,000. | D．$10,500. |
| A．Kind and generous. | B．Wealthy and friendly. |
| C．Determined and honest. | D．Ambitious and faithful. |
| A．The Homeless Suffered the Extreme Cold |
| B．Chicago Experienced the Coldest Temperatures |
| C．Volunteers Called on People to Help the Homeless |
| D．Chicago Woman Tried Hard to Save the Homeless |
| A．A lab report. | B．A news report. |
| C．An advertisement. | D．A science fiction. |
【推荐1】Johan Clarey tends not to be in much of a rush when it comes to anything other than speeding down a hill on skis. Add Olympic success to the list of things he’s waited for.
The Frenchman, who turned 41 in January, became the oldest man to win an Olympic medal in Alpine skiing in history when he claimed a silver behind Beat Feuz of Switzerland in the downhill at the Beijing Olympic Winter Games, breaking Bode Miller’s record by five years.
“Everything came late in my life. Since I was a young boy, that’s what my mother said,” Clarey said. “I take extra time to do everything — walking, speaking and everything. Apparently, my career started quite the same.”
This was Clarey’s fourth Olympics and realistically his last chance of being on the podium (领奖台) at the Olympics. “I took a lot of risks. I knew I had only one chance left in my career to get a medal in the Olympics,” he said. “And when I was going down, I knew I made a good run, but you never know in downhill skiing. Sometimes you’re fast, but sometimes you’re not. You never know why. But today was fast.” This was only Clarey’s second medal at a major championship; he also took home a silver in the super-G at the 2019 world championships.
And this big moment almost didn’t happen: Clarey had considered retirement. He said he’s been having doubts about whether to continue competing for six years. The Frenchman said, “At 35, I said to myself, You have to do one year by one year.” That, he says now, was “a good choice”, because he has the medal to prove it. Clarey is still not quite ready to quit. He will turn his attention back to the World Cup circuit.
1. What do we know about Clarey as a boy?| A．He was gifted in snow sports. | B．He preferred skiing to other sports. |
| C．He got an early start on his future career. | D．He seemed to mature later than his peers. |
| A．He won the championship in Alpine skiing. |
| B．He competed in Alpine skiing for the first time. |
| C．He won his first Olympic medal in Alpine skiing. |
| D．He was the first Frenchmen to medal in Alpine skiing. |
| A．It was rewarding. | B．It was too costly. | C．It was a joke. | D．It was a coincidence. |
| A．Actions speak louder than words. | B．Ups and downs make one strong. |
| C．The early bird catches the worm. | D．Determination is the key to success. |
【推荐2】TOKYO, July 25 (Reuters) — Five years before Simone Biles was born, Oksana Chusovitina was already an Olympic gold medalist in a sport whose brightest stars often retired early, their bodies stricken by years of training.
At 46, the Uzbek gymnast has overcome all kinds of difficulties to compete at her eighth Olympic Games in Tokyo but following the opening day of the women’s competition, she bid a tearful farewell after falling to enter the vault (跳马) final. Due to the COVID-19, Chusovitina missed being give an exciting farewell from thousands of cheering fans but she was nevertheless moved by the big hand she received on Sunday from the coaches and follow gymnast who hailed her.
“These were tears of joy because so many people were supporting me,” sad Chusovitina, adding that she would have loved to have ended her career in the presence of spectators (观众). “I had been preparing for things to end here, but it’s impossible to be fully ready for ending your career, ”she said.
Chusovitina become the Soviet all-around champion at 13 and the world champion on floor in 1991. She won gold in the team event at the 1992 Barcelona Games and silver in the vault in Beijing 16 years later. She later competed for Germany, where she moved to seek treatment for her son’s leukaemia (白血病), before returning to compete for Uzbekistan.
Chusovitina said her career had been fueled by an intense passion for gymnastics. At the 2012 London Olympics she had announced her retirement, only to change her mind just 24 hours later. “There is no secret,” said the Uzbek, who had made it into the vault final at the Rio Olympics five years ago. “I just love gymnastics and no one ever forced me to do it. I do it with pleasure.”
1. How many Olympic Games did Chusovitina enter in her career?| A．6. | B．8. | C．13. | D．11. |
| A．China. | B．Soviet. | C．Germany. | D．Uzbekistan. |
| A．She got silver medal in Beijing Olympics. |
| B．She won gold in the 1992 Olympic Games. |
| C．She moved to Germany for her son’s illness. |
| D．She retired with many cheering fans on the scene. |
| A．She got championship in Brazil. |
| B．She was forced to enter gymnastics. |
| C．She showed great passion for gymnastics. |
| D．She retired in London Olympics completely. |
【推荐3】Have you ever had a childhood hero? I mean a real person that changes the way you think, that influences you to be better at something?
Roger is a famous tennis player, in case you have been living under a rock these past fifteen years. He is considered the best tennis player in the history of the sport. And he is still strong. At the ripe old age of 37, he could have easily retired from the sport and lived a comfortable life he wanted.
You might not agree with me when I say tennis is one of the hardest sports in the world. But hear me out. Physically speaking, there are plenty of sports that are equally as challenging as tennis. Many also require mental strength.
| A．Let's put it this way. |
| B．Nothing beats going to a live tennis game. |
| C．Have you ever dreamed of becoming a hero? |
| D．Sports do good to physical and mental development. |
| E．But he has been pushing himself past his own limits. |
| F．However, few require a combination of the two in a match. |
| G．Roger Federer was my hero, is my hero, and will be my hero. |
