People enjoy sports, because sports help to keep people healthy, happy and to live longer. Many people like to watch others play games. They buy tickets or sit in front of TV sets. Often they get very excited when “their player or team” wins.
People play different games in winter and summer. Swimming is fun in warm weather, but skating is good in winter.
Some sports are so interesting that most people like them. Football, for example, is played around the world. Swimming is very popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. How fun it is to jump into a pool or a lake! And for people in cold countries, like Canada, they like to skate or ski.
Some sports go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. But basketball and volleyball are very new. And new sports or games come into the world almost all the time.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题:
1. Why do people like sports?
2. Do people play different games in different seasons?
3. Which sport is very popular in the countries near the sea?
4. In what kind of country people like to ski?
5. What sports have a long history?
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World Health Day is on the seventh of April every year. We have this day to help people pay attention to (关注) their bodies. It’s good to have a strong body. Do you want to know how to be healthy? Here are some good ways (方法).
★We need to have good eating habits (饮食习惯). To be healthy, we must eat well and watch the food we eat. Is your food healthy? Food in colors like red, green, orange, yellow and purple is good for us. To be healthy, we need to eat food in these colors.
★ We also need to do sports. It is good for us to play sports if we want to be healthy. So, to be healthy, we need to go out and play sports.
★ We need to be happy. Being happy can make us healthy, too. Let’s try our best to have a good time every day.
任务一：根据短文内容，完成下面的表格，每空不多于3个词。
| Have good eating habits | We must eat well and eat food in |
| Do sports | It is good for us to |
| We need to have fun every day. | |
任务二：根据对话，结合自身实际回答问题。
| Liz and Sam are talking about how to be healthy. Lix: It is important for us to be healthy. I think eating more fruit and vegetables is good for us. Sam: Yes, I think so. And we should also have a good breakfast every morning. 50. What’s your idea about keeping healthy? |
Exercising is a good way to keep fit. However, many people do not know how to exercise well. Here are some tips (建议).
Warm up. It is important to warm up before you exercise. You need to stretch (伸展) your legs, arms, back (背) and neck before you do any difficult activities like running.
Find good places to exercise. You do not need to spend a lot of money. You can run or play sports in a park or in your school gym. You don’t need to buy exercise equipment (设备) for your home. Just get your body moving!
Don’t work too hard. Choose a sport that you enjoy and then your exercise will be fun. Also, you only need to exercise a few times each week. If you exercise for 30 minutes each time, you will stay healthy.
Drink enough water. It is important to drink water when you exercise. Your body needs the water for energy (能量) and for keeping cool.
Be careful! If you hurt yourself while you are exercising, rest until (直到……为止) you feel better. Exercising when you are hurt is bad for your health.
Task Ⅰ: Finish the chart according to the article. Fill in each blank with no more than 3 words.How to exercise well | |
| Warm up | You need to stretch your legs, arms, back and |
| Find good places | You can exercise in |
| Don’t work too hard | You can choose a sport you like and do it |
| Drink enough water | Your body needs the |
| Be careful | Rest until you feel better when you are |
66. What can you do in a park or in your school gym?
67. How long should you exercise each time?
68. What kind of exercise do you like? Why do you like it? Explain your reason(s) in about 20 words.
【推荐3】Being on vacation does not mean that you should stop doing exercise. You must continue with the fitness (健康) programs if you want to keep fit. The following tips can help you continue with your fitness programs even while you are on the road.
Packing for fitness. You should have your sports things packed, such as sports shoes, exercise DVDs, sports clothes and other things. Remember not to pack big things. You know you don't have enough room to keep them during a trip. When you have all the fitness things packed, you can prepare to go.
If you are staying in a hotel, you should find out if there are any sports facilities (设备) in it. For example, most hotels have swimming pools, so it is a good idea to go swimming for some time in them.
Perhaps walking is the easiest way of exercising that you can do during traveling. When you are on a train, you can wear your sports shoes and take a walk along the aisle (过道). It will help you do some exercise during those long trips.
根据短文内容填空，每空不超过3个词。
How to | |
| Packing for fitness | You should remember not to pack |
| What you should do in a | You should know if the hotel has any |
| Sports you can do during traveling | ★The easiest way of exercising is ★You can walk along the aisle to keep fit on a train. |
I am a skateboarding coach, I give classes to teenagers interested in skateboarding. I also founded (创办) a skateboarding club in Beijing.
I started to learn skateboarding at 16 when I tried it with a friend. I love the sport because it is a great way to express myself. I have the freedom to develop my unique (独特的) style, showing my creativity and personality through tricks and even the way I design my boards.
I hope to share my love for skateboarding with others so I founded the OBT skate boarding club in Beijing and became a skateboarding coach after graduating from college. It’s not easy to start a career like this. I faced many challenges, from financial struggles (财务困境) to making my parents see that skateboarding was a promising skill to learn. But I never give it up. Luckily, in the past few years, skateboarding has become more and more popular in China. More teenagers and parents come to my club to learn this cool sport.
The classes begin with basic skills, such as rolling, turning, stopping and balancing. But I hope kids take up skateboarding for both athleti (运动的) and personal growth. It’s common for my students to fall when they practice. But they need to know they will fail and fail again, but they are going to get it. If they don’t try and fail, they will never grow and learn.
I am optimistic (乐观的) about the future of skateboarding instructors. In the past two years, more than 6 million people started skateboarding in China, and most of them are between 8 and 12 years old. With the increasing popularity of the sport, I believe there will be an even greater need for skateboarding coaches in the years to come.
（每题答案不超过6个词）1. What does the writer consider skateboarding as?
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2. Why did he become a skateboarding coach?
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3. In the writer’s opinion, what should kids take up skateboarding for?
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4. How can the students grow and learn according to the writer?
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5. What do you think of the writer?
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Many Americans enjoy running in their daily life. Early in the morning, at noon, or in the evening, whether (无论) in big cities or in the countryside, all over the United States, you can see Americans running-men and women, the young and the old. People run everywhere—down quiet streets in towns or at the gym. Some people even run in their living rooms.
However, running wasn’t so popular in the past. In the 1960s, few people ran, of whom most were athletes (运动员) and healthy strong people. At that time, women almost never ran. If they did, people might laugh at them. But today all these have changed. Men and women of all ages enjoy running.
Doctors say many of the health problems come from bad habits like eating too much, smoking cigarettes or taking little exercise. They often advise (建议) people to eat less and exercise more. In fact, if you aren’t ready to change your diet, you can start running.
1. What sports do many Americans like?2. Where do Americans run?
3. Did Americans like running in the 1960s?
4. What would happen if women ran in the 1960s?
5. What advice (建议) do the doctors give people?
Do you like animals? Do you know that there is a kind of exercise (锻炼) related to (与……相关) animals? It’s called Five-animal Exercises or Wu Qin Xi. It was created (创造) by Hua Tuo about 2000 years ago. People learn from animals and help their bodies work better.
The tiger exercise does good to the liver (肝). The bear exercise helps people with digestion (消化). The monkey exercise helps the heart (心) to work well. The deer (鹿) exercise is good for kidney (肾). The crane (鹤) exercise is good for the lung (肺).
Some people think that Wu Qin Xi helps them to live a long life.
2. What are the five animals related to Wu Qin Xi?
3. Is the monkey exercise good for the heart or the kidney?
4. Do you want to learn Wu Qin Xi? What do you think of it?(不少于 15 个单词)
What subject do you worry about the most at school? Many students worry about math. Some students can’t sleep well the day before a math exam. Others may feel very nervous during the exam itself. But there might be a way to make the subject less stressful (压力大的).
“For people who are worried about math, posture (姿势) makes a big difference, ”Erik Paper from San Francisco State University told the Daily Mail. That’s right—sitting up straight can help you do better on math exams.
Scientists tested 125 college students. They asked them to do a simple math exam while sitting in a slumped-over (趴倒的) posture, or sitting up straight. 3. After the test, 56 percent of students said the exam was easier to do if they were sitting up straight.
Slumping over is a defensive (戒备的) posture. It can bring about bad memories in the body and brain. This can stop you from thinking clearly, Paper said.
4. Students who were not nervous about taking the math exam did not necessarily benefit (受益) from better posture. But they did find that doing math while slumped over was more difficult, Science Daily reported.
Good posture isn’t just helpful for taking math exams. Sportspeople, musicians and public speakers can all benefit from better posture. When you feel stressed out, you can also try to sit up straight or stand tall. It can help you feel more certain and focus better.
A. 根据短文内容简要回答问题。1. According to the passage, what is the way to make the subject less stressful?
2. Is slumping over a good posture for an exam? Why?
B. 将短文中画线的句子译成汉语。
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C. 请给短文拟一个适当的英文标题
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The world is always full of surprising things. Everyone expects to see the beautiful eye-pleasing flowers and plants. It is reported that there are about 390,900 plants in the world. The following may not be so eye-pleasing, but are certainly eye-catching.
Baseball Plant
This ball-shaped plant used to be only found in South Africa. It is thought to be endangered(濒临灭绝的)in the natural environment in which it lives, yet it’s commonly planted around the world. Luckily, some special gardens have started to grow this plant to make sure that it no longer needs to be got from the wild so that it does not die out.
African Starfish Flower
Don’t fall for its beautiful flowers. It smells like bad meat, and its colors and hairs really look like those from a dead animal. This works wonders for attracting insects, even from a great distance. This is also a plant in danger as the result of less and less living space. This has been a problem for collectors hoping to have the plant at their home, as well as the Zulus, a group of people in Africa who use the plant as medicine.
Bat Flower
The black bat flower is an unusual flower that grows in the wild of Yunnan Province in China. It needs a special environment to grow. This is the reason why it is an endangered plant. As a result, the bat flower attracts a lot of attention from collectors and gardeners. It is famous for its bat-shaped black flowers. Its leaves look like the wings of a bat. There’s no question how the plant got its name.
Venus Flytrap
Venus flytrap can be easily found in many places. It lives mainly on meat. It survives like other plants by getting energy from gases in the air and the soil. However, it also eats insects. It opens its mouth wide and the hairs inside try to attract any insect that might land. As soon as it senses an insect, it shuts the mouth and begins to enjoy the food.
Plants take in CO₂ from the air and make oxygen. They help keep soil in their place. Many of them are commonly used for making our environment look better, and some of them are also used as medicine, food and so on. You are lucky if you see one of the plants mentioned above.
Eye-catching plants | |
| Introduction | The |
| Baseball Plant | ● In the past, people could only see it in South Africa while it is a ● It is |
| African Starfish Flower | ● The colors and hairs of this plant are ● It can be |
| Bat Flower | ● This plant got the name because of the bat-like ●It’s hard for the environment to |
| Venus Flytrap | ● Gases and the soil can ● Unlike most plants, meat becomes its main |
| Conclusion | Plants help improve air quality and our environment. Also, they can help feed and |
Welcome to the Amazon rainforest. As the largest rainforest in the world, it plays an important role in keeping the balanced ecosystem (生态系统) on the Earth. With an area of around 6 million square kilometers, the Amazon rainforest is more than half the size of China. This area has a great many species (物种). Actually, one in ten known species in the world can be found here.
Of the 390,000 plant species known to us, more than 40,000 can be found in the Amazon. There are different levels in the forest. At the bottom is a system of roots under the ground. Above that is leaf litter on the dark forest floor. The next level is made up of shorter plants with large leaves. Then there are the towering ancient hardwoods, and finally the tops of the trees which are taller than any other level of trees in the forest. Each level of the forest forms its own little world, home to different kinds of living things.
More than 1,300 species of birds and over 400 species of mammals (哺乳动物) hide among the forest’s plant life. This jaguar is one example. While a large number of jaguars survive here, they are only one part of this forest's food chain (食物链). They feed on at least 87 species, including frogs. These frogs, in turn, feed on insects which eat leaves and fruit.
The Amazon rainforest is a treasure house of species that can be used for food or medicine. What’s more, the Amazon rainforest breathes life into the planet by producing over 20 percent of all the Earth’s oxygen (O2). So it is often known as the “lungs of the planet”.
The Amazon Rainforest | ||
| Introduction | The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world, which helps keep the | |
| Species | Plant species | Number: over 40,000 species |
| Different levels in the forest: ●the bottom: a system of roots ●the second level: leaf litter ●the third level: shorter plants with large leaves ●the fourth level: towering ancient hardwoods ●the top: the tops of the | ||
| | Number: more than 1,300 species of birds and over 400 species of mammals | |
| One of the food chains in the forest: leaves and fruit→ | ||
| Importance | ●The Amazon rainforest is a treasure house of species that can be used for food or medicine. ●Known as the “lungs of the planet”, the Amazon rainforest | |
【推荐1】Canada is a big country with a large area, but it has a small population. It lies in North America with ocean around it in three directions except in the south, where the United States is. The Great Lakes are between Canada and the United States. There are many lakes and islands in the coastal areas. Canadians care about the environment very much. The government and the people in Canada try their best to protect the environment. So in Canada, the air is fresh, the water is clean, and the sky is blue. Many tourists like to travel in Canada and live for some time to relax themselves.
The climate in Canada is different from area to area. It is wet in the west and east, but cold in the north and south. Canada is rich in natural resources, such as forests, fresh water, coal, oil, and so on. Farmland mainly lies in the south where farmers grow lots of corns and wheats. There are many big farms there. The farmers work hard so that the people in Canada can get enough good food for their daily life. Industry in this country is well developed and the transportation is very convenient. Living surroundings in Canada are the best in the world. Canadians enjoy themselves and live a happy life.
根据短文内容，完成下面的表格。
| Where are many lakes and islands? | |
| The climate in the west and east | It is wet. |
| The climate in the north and south | |
| Natural resources in Canada | |
| Where does the farmland mainly lie? | |
| Which thing in Canada is the best in the world? |
Hi, I’m Andy. My friend Kate is from Thailand. I learn some rules in Thailand from her. Let me tell you some of them.
In Thailand, people usually take a gift(礼物) when they go to a dinner party. Here are some good dinner party gifts in Thailand.
★Some flowers ★Some home-made foods ★Some fruits
Table Talk Kate gives me a book as a gift. This is a book about table rules for students from 8 to 12. The writer is Julia Cook. In this book, the table can speak like a man. He says funny words(言语) to help kids to learn table rules. I think it’s a great book. |
Kate tells me many table rules in Thailand, too. Here are three of them. First, the head of a family is usually in the middle of the chairs around a table. Second, people there usually eat with a spoon(勺子) in the right hand and a fork(叉子) in the left hand. Don’t put the fork into your mouth. When you need to eat with your hand, please use the right one. Thai people think the left hand is dirty. Third, don’t be late.
These interesting rules can help me know more about Thailand. Also, they can help me a lot when I go on a trip to Thailand.
1. What does Andy learn from his friend Kate?2. What gift do people usually take to a dinner party in Thailand? (回答一条即可)
3. What does Andy think of the book Table Talk?
4. Why do people in Thailand use their right hands to eat?
5. Please translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
6. Are there any table rules in your family? What do you think of them?
Do you know what a resolution is? It’s a kind of promise. Most of the time, we make promises to other people. However, promises you make to yourself are resolutions, and the most common kind is New Year’s resolutions. The start of the year is often a time for making resolutions. When we make resolutions at the beginning of the year, we hope that we are going to improve our lives. Some people write down their resolutions and plans for the coming year. This helps them to remember their resolutions. Others tell their family and friends about their wishes and plans.
There are different kinds of resolutions. Some are about physical health. For example, some people promise themselves they are going to start an exercise program or eat less fast food. Many resolutions have to do with self-improvement. These are about making yourself a better person. Some people might say they are going to take up a hobby like painting or taking photos, or learn to play the guitar. Some resolutions have to do with better planning, like making a weekly plan for schoolwork. For example, a student may have to find more time to study.
Although there are differences, most resolutions have one thing in common. People hardly ever keep them! There are good reasons for this. Sometimes the resolutions may be too difficult to keep. Sometimes people just forget about them. For this reason, some people say the best resolution is to have no resolutions! How about you—will you make any resolutions next year?
1. When do people usually make resolutions?2. How many kinds of resolutions does the writer talk about?
3. Why do people think the best resolution is to have no resolutions?
4. What are your New Year’s resolutions? Write 30 words or more.
