1 . It was the final part of the 2016 World Triathlon (铁人三项) Series in Mexico. With just 700 metres to go, Alistair Brownlee was in third place and his younger brother Jonny, was in the lead. Alistair pushed himself towards the finish line in the burning heat, but as he came round the corner, he saw his brother about to fall onto the track. Alistair had to choose brotherly love, or a chance to win the race.
For Alistair, the choice was clear. His brother was in trouble. He had to help. Alistair ran towards Jonny, caught him and started pulling him towards the finish line. Alistair then pushed his brother over the line. The move put Jonny in second place and Alistair himself in third. It was an unexpected end to the race, but Alistair did not want to discuss it with the media. He just wanted to see his younger brother, who had been rushed to the medical area.
The Brownlee brothers have been doing triathlons since they were children. “Obviously, when your older brother is doing it, you think it’s a cool thing to do,” says Jonny. Alistair says that they encourage each other as much as they can when they train. Though there are arguments over “stupid things” now and then, Alistair agrees that having a brother is an advantage. “Throughout my entire life, I’ve had my brother trying to beat me at everything I do. It has been a fantastic driving force.”
Watched by millions, the ending to the race has different opinions: should the brothers have been disqualified (取消资格) or highly praised for their actions? But for Alistair, his decision was easy to explain:“Mun wouldn’t have been happy if I’d left Jonny behind.” At that moment, he was no longer an athlete aiming for a medal——he was just a brother.
1. Why did Alistair get third place only?A.He fell onto the track accidentally. | B.He was overtaken by another athlete. |
C.He stopped to give his brother a hand. | D.He struggled with the burning heat. |
A.An inspiration. | B.An authority. | C.A competitor. | D.A follower. |
A.Unfavorable. | B.Supportive. | C.Uninterested. | D.Varied. |
A.The Finish Line | B.Just a Brother | C.To Win or Not | D.Life Is a Race |
A.Life. | B.Health. | C.Sports. | D.Community. |
2 . Top 4 Writing Contests of 2023
The Betty Award
As one of the few competitions for elementary and middle school students, The Betty Award grants (授了) cash prizes for written pieces below 1,000 words. The Betty Award has both a Spring &. Fall contest.
Top prize: $ 300
Entry fee: S 20
Deadline: April 30, 2023
100-Word Writing Contest
100 words or less per entry is a must. Submit as many entries as you’d like. All ages, genders, nationalities and writers are welcome. The theme is using humor as healing (治愈)。
Top prize: $ 800
Entry fee: $ 10
Deadline: May 13, 2023
Teen Writing Contest
The Ann Arbor District Library is excited to host its 30th annual Teen Writing Contest in Winter 2023! Young adult authors take part as judges each year, who then read and select the winning stories. Stories are judged in three different categories: Grades 6—8, Grades 98.10, and Grades 11812.
Top prize: $ 250
Additional prizes: 2nd/ $ 150; 3rd/ $75
Entry fee: FREE
Deadline: August 15, 2023
Bennington Young Writers Awards
Bennington College has a unique literary legacy (遗产), including 12 Pulitzer Prize winners, countless New York Times bestsellers, and two of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. In celebration of this legacy, Bennington launched the Young Writers Awards to promote excellence in writing at the high school level.
Top prize: $ 1,000
Additional prizes: 2nd/ $ 500; 3rd/ S 250
Entry fee: FREE
Deadline: September 10,2023
1. When can participants submit their entries for The Betty Award?A.On April 28. | B.On May 13. | C.On August 15. | D.On September 10. |
A.It is free of charge. | B.It is open to all ages. |
C.It partners with a library. | D.It requires 1000-word entries. |
A.The Betty Award. | B.Teen Writing Contest. |
C.100 Word Writing Contest. | D.Bennington Young Writers Awards. |
3 . As a high school coach, I did all I could to help my boys win their games. I cheered as hard for victory as they did. A dramatic
It was a league championship basketball game between New Rochelle and Yonkers High. New Rochelle was
I looked at the clock and saw that the game was over. I hadn’t heard the final buzzer (终场哨) because of the noise. I
I had to tell O’Brien the sad news. His face
A.conversation | B.incident | C.gesture | D.challenge |
A.view | B.attitude | C.theory | D.impression |
A.organised | B.represented | C.imagined | D.coached |
A.crowded | B.cleared | C.shaken | D.arranged |
A.happily | B.closely | C.smartly | D.freely |
A.moving | B.progressing | C.leading | D.shooting |
A.control | B.place | C.care | D.need |
A.stuck | B.fell | C.turned | D.rolled |
A.annoying | B.amazing | C.thrilling | D.deafening |
A.examined | B.watched | C.researched | D.checked |
A.criticised | B.approached | C.interviewed | D.reminded |
A.broke down | B.faded away | C.went off | D.carried on |
A.clouded over | B.softened up | C.sweated over | D.wrinkled up |
A.Certainly | B.Similarly | C.Fortunately | D.Suddenly |
A.court | B.course | C.track | D.field |
4 . Growing up in Conway, South Carolina, I was always athletic and competitive. One afternoon, my brother grabbed me in the yard, and I felt some kind of pop. About an hour later, I couldn’t get up from a chair. Over the weekend, my joints (关节) swelled up. My mother took me to the hospital. It took nearly six months to check what was wrong with me. Then I was put on treatment. But I had so much joint damage that I couldn’t run like I used to.
My dad was a serious golfer. One day he said, “Let’s try golf.” He carried me onto the course. Seeing him hit those good shots made me want to do it too.
It wasn’t easy at first, because I had a lot of pain in my hands. I’d played golf, but it had never really caught my interest — it was too quiet for me. But I was happy to be outside, to have a chance of competing again, and I fell in love with it.
Later I made the high school team, but I got frustrated when I didn’t win, so I worked harder. Golf was the most challenging game I’d ever played.
I got a golf scholarship to the University of South Carolina and turned professional after I graduated. I still take medication, and I’m stiff and in pain sometimes. But I’ve got used to that.
I probably wouldn’t be a professional athlete if I hadn’t got sick. The experience taught me patience, and I learned to take nothing for granted. I know how happy I am to do what I do.
1. What do we know about the author from Paragraph 1?A.He was born with swelled joints. |
B.His joints healed very quickly. |
C.He completely recovered after the treatment. |
D.The cause of his disease was found out six months later. |
A.His love for golf. | B.His interest in sports. |
C.His father’s good performance. | D.His unwillingness to stay indoors. |
A.It was the author’s brother who first became aware that he had a disease. |
B.Suffering a lot of pain in his hands, the author wasn’t interested in playing golf at first. |
C.After founding a high school team, the author played harder and became professional. |
D.The author thought he should cherish everything he had, even his disease. |
A.Playing through pain | B.The burden lifted |
C.A bitter fight | D.Standing tall |
During the summer vacation, I took part in
I never expected
Preparing for the contest, practicing a 3minute speech, and overcoming stage fright, I spared no effort to take part in the competition.
One of my
Thanks
6 . Dangerous as they are, extreme sports remain appealing among many Australian young people! Camp Xtreme is the perfect test of your heart.
Kite Surfing
It’s the exciting mixture of kite, board and waves. The idea of using a kite to accelerate speed seems like a new challenge:Yet the art of kite flying dates back to the 13th-century China when it was used as a simple means of transport.
Catch a wind and you’re moving up, down and across the surf. “It’s always exciting. You’d jump 5 feet or 35 feet. You never know if you’re going to go up in the air, and your heart is just going boom, boom, boom. ”
Coasteering
It is by far the best activity and the event that everyone is still talking about. This is exploring the coastline without worrying about a coastal path or finding a rocky bay blocking your route. You climb, dive and swim from one place to another. With coasteering, you don’t have to be able to swim as the wet suit and buoyancy (浮力) aid will keep you floating when you are in the water.
Sky Diving
Traditional parachuting (跳伞) doesn’t sound risky enough. So now sky diving is the name for jumping from a plane and listening to your heart beating heavily as you move fast towards earth before you open your parachute at the last moment.
Mountain Biking
It’s been around so long that bikers are no longer satisfied with just going up and down a mountain. Mountain biking is a sport which consists of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough land, using specially adapted mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes, but include features designed to improve strength and performance in rough areas.
For details, please call us at 1300-792-668 or click here: www. xtremecamp.com.au.
1. All the four extreme sports are mainly intended to test one’s .A.heart beat | B.physical health |
C.potential strength | D.courage |
A.the kite | B.kite surfing |
C.kite flying | D.the art of kites |
A.Kite surfing. | B.Coasteering. |
C.Sky diving. | D.Mountain biking. |
7 . A new study has finally solved the problem of whether to eat breakfast before you exercise.
Researchers at the universities of Bath, Birmingham, Newcastle, and Stirling analysed the energy consumption of 12 healthy physically active men between the ages of 20 and 26. Each of the men completed three different trials: eating a breakfast of rice and milk and then resting (no exercise), eating the same breakfast two hours before cycling for 60 minutes, and finally not eating breakfast completely before doing the same 60 minutes of exercise. The study showed that fasted exercise (禁食运动) is the best for weight loss.
“These results suggest that for healthy young men a short-term energy lack may be more easily got if breakfast is worked off before exercise,” the study’s authors concluded. Here’s how it works: when you work out on an empty stomach, your body doesn’t have ready energy from food so it draws from other sources, like stored body fat, which makes your exercise more effective at burning fat—and helping you lose weight.
Additionally, exercising in a fasted state keeps your insulin (胰岛素) levels low, allowing your body to produce more growth insulin which also burns fat. “When insulin is rising—as is the case after you eat—your body will be in a state of wanting to store fat, not burn it,” Phoenyx Austin, MD, a sports medicine specialist, explained to MindBodyGreen. “It doesn’t matter if you exercise like a mad man after a meal. You won’t be able to burn body fat until insulin levels drop, which can typically take two or three hours, if not longer.”
But if you prefer eating breakfast before you exercise, don’t worry—there are benefits to be there, too. For instance, the researchers found that the men who ate breakfast first burned more carbohydrates(碳水化合物) while they worked out and sped up their metabolism(新陈代谢) for later on in the day.
1. What can we know about the 12 researched people?A.They like exercising very much. |
B.They are all young men and women. |
C.They enjoy rice and milk very much. |
D.They often do different trials in sports. |
A.Cooked. | B.Prepared. | C.Skipped. | D.Delayed. |
A.You will feel very hungry fast. |
B.Your body will burn your fat. |
C.You will exercise more madly. |
D.You will feel tired more easily. |
A.Keeping your insulin levels balanced. |
B.Keeping your body using less insulin. |
C.Letting your body produces less insulin. |
D.Making your insulin levels down. |
1.获奖的心情;
2.成功的因素;
3.获奖的感悟。
注意:1.词数80左右;
2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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9 . You start by running around the school track three times to warm up. This is followed by exercises or long jump for the girls and football or basketball for the boys. That is an average 45 -minute PE class— but do you really enjoy it?
For students at the Second High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, sports classes have experienced a welcome change. Senior 2 students now learn the traditional Chinese martial art of sword-fighting (中国剑术), making PE the most popular lesson on the timetable. “The classes used to be boring as we just did the same things again and again,” said Xiao Tong. “But now PE classes are such fun. Sword-fighting is so cool.” His classmate Wei Jie agrees. “As well as being fun, we learn about traditional Chinese culture,” she said. The usual morning exercises performed to music on the school playground have been replaced by kicking and punching practice (搏击操) to a pop music by Zheng Xiuwen. “We didn't pay much attention when we heard the old music,” Xiao explained, “But when Zheng's music is played, we get excited.” Mao Min, the PE teacher who introduced the changes, is pleased that the students now enjoy sports lessons more. “The classes encourage healthy lifestyles and I am always looking for creative ways to keep the students active,” he said. Schools offer activities according to what sports facilities (设备) they have. For example, students at the Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University can choose to learn swimming, taekwondo (跆拳道) or volleyball. “I take my volleyball very seriously so I keep fit by playing it,” said Senior 2 student Zhang Zheng. “Students only try hard in sports that interest them.”
1. Why was Xiao Tong not interested in PE classes in the past?A.Because he didn't do well in sports. |
B.Because he disliked the same activities. |
C.Because he thought the classes too long- |
D.Because he was tired of the PE teacher. |
A.Sword-fighting. | B.Volleyball. | C.Skating. | D.Punching practice. |
A.Sword-fighting appears in PE classes. |
B.Students try hard in all sports at school. |
C.Schools offer necessary sports facilities. |
D.PE classes are welcoming new changes. |
A.Supportive. | B.Negative. | C.Uncaring. | D.Doubtful. |
A. allowing B. avoidable C. briefly D. part E. principle F. research G. increasingly H. lowest I. maintain J. maximum K. prevent |
Walking, if you do it vigorously enough, is the overall best exercise for regular physical activity. It requires no equipment, everyone knows how to do it and it carries the
Strength training is another important
Finally, flexibility and balance training are