1 . Is Adventurous Sports Teaching Good or Bad?

In recent years, adventurous sports such as bungee jumping have become increasingly popular. More and more people are taking these kinds of sports whatever the cost is. They say it is so exciting and enjoyable to take part in an adventure, which can relieve pressure or stress.

According to ED, some schools in the U.S. have also been urged to increase class teaching about adventures. And many have.     1     Injuries increased one hundred fifty percent between 1997 and 2007.

The study involved injuries treated in hospital emergency departments. Only two percent were serious.

The researchers did not try to identify the causes of the increase, but they have some theories. Lara McKenzie from Ohio State University was the lead researcher. She says one possibility is a decrease in the number of school nurses during the period they studied. For example, a study in 2004 showed that the number of school nurses nationally failed to meet federal guidelines.     2    

Another possible reason for more injuries is a change in the traditional idea of adventure. Cheryl Richardson is with the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. From her point of view, this “New adventure” expands the kinds of sports that are taught.     3     Also, she says not all states require relevant teachers to be specially trained. Untrained teachers could be less likely to recognize unsafe conditions. Cheryl Richardson points to one of the study’s findings — that injuries are often the result of contact with a person or a structure.

The researchers say larger class sizes are another possible reason for the increase in injuries.     4     The National Association for Sport says twenty to thirty students in such kind of class teaching should be the limit.

On 1 June, 1910, the race to the South Pole     1     the Norwegian and the British     2    . Amundsen left on 8 September 1911.He     3    great progress because he had teams of dogs     4     (pull) the sledges and all his men were on skis.They arrived at the Pole on 14 December, 1911 and became the first     5     (arrive)there.Scott left on 1 November     6     his two sledges broke     7     first and then his horses had difficulties with the cold and the snow. They finally made it to the Pole and were       8     (shock) to find that they had failed to win the race.On their     9    (dead)return journey, they still found time to look for rocks.Their great courage made them into     10    (hero).

4 . The astronauts working on the International Space Station, the ISS, have started their zero-gravity preview of the World Cup match on Thursday, June 26, between the United States and Germany.

NASA astronauts Steve Swanson and Reid Wiseman and European astronaut Alexander Gerst, called out from Germany, showed off their moves in a soccer exhibition aboard the orbiting lab recently. An American video released today shows their performing space bicycle kicks, headers and, as players tend to do here on the earth, celebrating happily after scoring goals.

NASA’s humanoid (仿真) robot Robonaut 2, which is designed to help astronauts perform, even gets into the spirit, waving its arms this way and that.

The weightless action tells a key World Cup game on Thursday in Brazil featuring the two teams currently at the top of the match’s so-called “group of Death”.

The winner will win the group and move on to the single-elimination (淘汰) “knockout stage” of the World Cup, while the loser may go home, depending on what happens in Thursday’s game between Ghana and Portugal, the other two teams in the group. Two teams from the group will advance. If the U. S. and Germany tie, they both will move on to the next stage.

Swanson, Wiseman and Gerst are obviously fond of the World Cup. The three space-flyers also played micro-gravity(微重力) soccer in another video that NASA posted on June 11, the day before the World Cup kicked off.

“We want to wish all the teams and fans on the ground and in Brazil a great World Cup,” Gerst said in that video, “Have fun and have peaceful games. May the best win.” The three astronauts make up half of the space station’s current Expedition 40. The other three crew members are Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov, Oleg Artemyev and Maxim Suraev.

6 . My family first moved to Colorado 22 years ago. Los Angeles was too expensive and it was difficult to find well-paying jobs and affordable housing. Colorado became our next dream place. Settling into a small town in the Front Range, my parents found hard jobs.

Growing up in this small town, I remember my parents working hard to get past the language barrier. My mom, especially, tried her best to ensure she knew all that she needed to know about like my parent-teacher meetings and extracurricular (课外的) activities. One of those extracurricular activities that I signed up for was football. At that age, football was cool and all, but I was more into playing Pokémon and other video games. Football didn’t draw me in.

Big football tournaments (联赛) would come around like the World Cup, the Copa América and the Gold Cup, and the Mexican National Team would play in these tournaments. I would sit there in our living room and unmindfully watch the games while my parents would go crazy with enthusiasm ( 热情). I would sit there and play my game. My dad would look over and tell me that I should be paying attention carefully to the game and that I should care more about whether Mexico would win the match than my video games.

Both of my parents’ workspaces were crowded (占满的) with other workers. My mom worked with people from all over Latin America. Everyone’s topic of choice at work would always turn to how their national football team was doing. It was a way to show pride in the countries where they had grown up.

Last week, we were walking in the campus       1     we       2     (notice) a poster saying that there       3     (be) an English drama contest a few days later. Realizing the contest     4    (be) around the corner, we       5    (sign) up for the event immediately. We     6     (try) our best to practice and I thought we       7    (get) the first in the contest. We went to the office to turn       8     our English teacher for help. She     9    (offer) us a lot of valuable suggestions and told us to put our heart into it and we     10    (win).