The Best Ways to Get Good at Any Sport
If sports are something that interests you, it stands to reason that you would want to be good at them. Succeeding in a sport takes skills, and skills take patience and determination.
Join a sports team.
If you want to become a sports superstar, joining a team is a good way to start. Even if your skills are currently low, joining an amateur league will sharpen up your skills. Sports teams are everywhere, and most of them are free to join. If you go to school, you should go for team tryouts when they’re happening.
Practice until your skills become second nature.
If you’re wondering at what point a skill becomes mastered, it is when you’re able to do it automatically and without thinking. This is called the autonomous stage, and it’s where you want to be at if you want to play sports competitively.
Set ambitious but realistic goals for yourself.
One of the biggest reasons people join sports teams in the first place is to make friends with new people. Chances are you’ll develop friendships with at least some of them. Making these friendships a priority is a good move if you want to become great at sports. You can practice together on your own time. The morale (士气) boost of playing with friends helps as well.
| A．Set your sights wide. |
| B．Promote friendships with other players. |
| C．Recreation centers are often host to sports teams as well. |
| D．This doesn’t mean saying you’ll be professional within a year. |
| E．But if the desire is intense enough, you will do anything to realize your dreams. |
| F．Given enough time and repetition, a skill will eventually fall under this category. |
| G．However, you need to think about other things if you want to be a good sports player. |
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【推荐1】How Work Experience can Benefit A College Student
Competing in the job market is now a serious and frightening scene.
Get to try out things
One of the greatest things about being a working student is that it allows you to try out things. You get to see if you are good enough for the industry.
By working for a company, you will be able to see what they believe in and what it is like working in that type of environment.
Personal development
By getting work experience, you not only improve professionally, but also improve on a personal level.
This is often something that isn’t thought about when students think about work experience, but one of the greatest things about it is that you can actually use it as an opportunity to travel around the world.
| A．You can work abroad |
| B．Stand out to potential employers |
| C．And you also see if the industry is a good fit for you |
| D．This is something that is very helpful in any industry |
| E．This gives you a chance to learn about different cultures |
| F．You will discover that you improve your social skills in the workplace |
| G．With more people going to college, it means more people are fighting for the same job |
【推荐2】As winter comes to an end, gardeners in northern parts of the world look for signs of life.
First, create a wall in the back of the garden with plants that keep leaves throughout the year. That way, when some plants lose their leaves, the garden will still have structure that provides privacy and interest for the eye.
Next, consider how the garden looks.
When choosing plants, consider how all parts of the plant, from the fruit to the bark, will improve the garden’s appearance. Some plants that are interesting to see in the winter do not look very good during the summer. The red twig dogwood will leave a bright red leafless bush in the winter.
| A．Trees with beautiful bark can draw people in. |
| B．Some grasses can be left standing until spring. |
| C．It matters how others see the garden from the street. |
| D．They are also a beautiful sight for the borders of gardens. |
| E．Plants are not the only interesting thing in the winter garden. |
| F．Another bush that is beautiful in the winter is the American beautyberry. |
| G．They look for plants that are growing from roots that were planted in autumn. |
【推荐3】Smile, when making an introduction
Every day we meet people in a number of business and social situations.
Always stand when making an introduction
When you are seated and someone comes up to greet you, make the effort to stand up.
Always maintain eye contact while making an introduction
Many people not aware of the value of this simple action.
Always introduce a person of lesser authority to one of greater authority.
For example, when introducing, your supervisor to a job candidate (求职应征者), you would give your supervisor’s name first. “Bob Jones, may I introduce Susan Lee, who has just graduated from AB University?” In a situation where rank is unimportant, an introduction is based on sex and age. A man is presented to a woman and a younger woman to an older woman.
What if you find yourself in a situation where you have forgotten the other person’s name?
| A．Start with a handshake and reintroduce yourself. |
| B．When you make eye contact, you are giving a confident image. |
| C．The most important thing to remember is to say the most important person’s name first. |
| D．Standing up is the most important to meet a person. |
| E．By doing this, you show respect for yourself and the other person. |
| F．And the way we meet and greet them creates an impression. |
| G．By staring at the other person, you show your interest. |
【推荐1】The Olympic flame:
The Olympic flame is a symbol carried over from the ancient Olympics, where a flame burned at the altar (神坛) of Zeus throughout competition. It was finally reintroduced at the 1924 Amsterdam Games, and again burned in 1932.
Carl Diem, chairman of the organizing committee for the 1936 Berlin Games, proposed that the flame be lit in Greece and transported to Berlin via a torch relay. The idea was adopted, and continued at every Olympic Games since 1952.
The flame is lit at the ancient site of Olympia by the natural rays of the sun reflected off a curved mirror. It is lit at a ceremony by women dressed in robes resembling those worn in ancient times, who then pass it to the first relay runner.
Olympic motto:
“Citius, altius, fortius” is a Latin phrase meaning “swifter, higher, stronger”, which Baron de Coubertin borrowed from Father Henri Martin Dideon of Paris. Dideon was headmaster of Arcueil College, and used the phrase to describe the athletic achievements of students at the school. He had previously been at the Albert Le Grand school, where the Latin words were carved in stone above the main entrance.
Olympic oath (宣誓)
“In the name of all competitors, I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules that govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.”
Written by Baron de Coubertin, the oath is taken by an athlete from the host nation while holding a comer of the Olympic flag. The athletes’ oath was first taken by Belgian fencer Victor Boin at the 1920 Antwerp Games. A judge from the host country also speaks the oath, with slightly different wording.
1. The Olympic flame was first burned at ________ in modern times.| A．the 1952 Games | B．the 1924 Games | C．the 1932 Games | D．the 1936 Games |
| A．the torch relay was held at every Olympic Games since 1936 |
| B．the Olympic motto was originally written by Baron de Coubertin |
| C．the Olympic athletes’ oath was first taken at the Antwerp Games |
| D．the Olympic judges make a vow with completely different wording |
| A．the Olympic official website | B．a daily news report |
| C．a promotional advertisement | D．an acadernic research |
You could win ￡1,000 in this year’s Fiction Prize and have your story printed in Keep Writing magazine. Ten other lucky people will win a cheque for ￡100.
Once again, we need people who can write good stories. The judges, who include Mary Littlejohn, the novelist, Michael Brown, the television reporter, and Susan Hitchins, the editor of Keep Writing, are looking for interesting and original stories. Detective fiction was extremely popular last year, although the competition winner produced a love story. You can write down about whatever you want but here’s some advice to start your thinking:
Write about what you know
This is the advice which every writer should pay attention to and, last year, nearly everyone who wrote for us did exactly that. Love, family, problems with friends ---- these were the main subjects of the stories. However, you need to turn ordinary situations into something interesting that people will want to read about. Make the reader want to continue reading by writing about ordinary things in a new and surprising way.
Get your facts right
It’s no good giving a description of a town or explaining how a jet engine works if you get it wrong. So avoid writing anything unless you’re certain about it.
Hold the reader’s attention
Make the beginning interesting and the ending a surprise. There is nothing worse than a poor ending. Develop the story carefully and try to think of something unusual happening at the end.
Think about the characters
Try to bring the people in your story alive for the reader by using well-chosen words to make them seem real.
Your story must be your own work, between 2,000 and 2,5000 words and typed, double-spaced, on one side only of each sheet of paper.
Even if you’re in danger of missing the closing date, we are unable to accept stories by fax or email. You must include the application form with your story. Unfortunately your story cannot be returned, nor can we discuss our decisions.
You should not have had any fiction printed in any magazine or book in this country ---- a change in the rules by popular request ---- and the story must not have happened in print or in recorded form, for example on radio or TV, anywhere in the world.
Your fee of ￡5 will go to the Writers’ Association. Make your cheque payable to Keep Writing and send it with the application form and your story to:
Keep Writing
75 Broad Street Birmingham
B12 4TG
The closing date is 30 July and we will inform the winner within one month of this date. Please note that if you win, you must agree to have your story printed in our magazine.
1. How should writers deal with ordinary situations while writing?
| A．They should make them appealing to readers. |
| B．They should copy others’ ideas. |
| C．They should change some facts to make them interesting. |
| D．They should describe them as they are. |
| A．Making the contents interesting. | B．Getting the facts right. |
| C．Meeting the deadline. | D．Making the end ordinary. |
| A．they should write originally |
| B．they can type their stories as they like |
| C．they should follow some rules |
| D．they should hand in their stories in time |
| A．Late stories can be faxed if necessary. |
| B．Entry needs no fee. |
| C．Winners can have their stories printed in other magazines. |
| D．All stories should be presented by mail. |
【推荐3】The year before the first modern Olympic Games, Greece invited China to send a team. But the Qing government didn’t send any athletes to the Games. China did not take part in the Olympics until the 10th Games, held in Los Angeles in 1932. There, Liu Changchun took part in the men’s 100metre and 200metre races. He did not win any medals.
China won her first gold medal at the 23rd Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984, when Xu Haifeng won the men’s free shooting event. China came in fourth with 15 gold medals in all.
At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, China won 28 gold medals, entering the top three of the medal chart for the first time. September 22nd, 2000 was named China Day because China won six gold, three silver and one bronze medals that day.
In 2004, the 28th Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece. Two hundred and two countries took part in the Games. China got the second place with thirtytwo gold, seventeen silver and fourteen bronze medals.
We all know that in 2008, the Olympic Games were held in Beijing, where China won the first place.
1. When was China first invited to the Olympics?| A．In Tang Dynasty(朝代). | B．In Song Dynasty. |
| C．In Ming Dynasty. | D．In Qing Dynasty. |
| A．The tenth Olympics. | B．The eighth Olympics. |
| C．The fifth Olympics. | D．The first Olympics. |
| A．Liu Changchun. | B．Xu Haifeng. | C．Zhuang Yong. | D．Liu Xiang. |
| A．Thirty two. | B．Seventeen. | C．Fourteen. | D．Sixty three. |
