1 . What is better for you? Exercising in the great outdoors, or signing up for a gym?To try and find out, the Guardian was invited to spend a month working withfitness and sports psychology experts at Bath University and the National Trust. The concept was that participants— including me — would spend alternate weeks exercising in a gym and on National Trust land.

The first week was spent on the exercise bikes, rowing machines and treadmills (跑步机) in a gym at Bath.Getting started at the gym was easy. There was a nice community too. People are gently teasing and encouraging each other.

On the downside, it was hard to ignore the background noise ofdance and pop music. And all the machines faced screens showing music videos, rolling news and sports channels. Not a place to get away from it all.

So it was a relief in week two to head for the hills of Dyrham, a National Trust parkland full of birds and deer.

Weeks three and four followed the same pattern. The diaries I had kept, questionnaires I had filled in, and heart monitors I had worn, were then analysed by scientists from Bath University.

The findings surprise me a bit. The heart monitors showed I had consumed a similar amount of energy whether exercising in the gym or outdoors. But fitness expert Martyn Standagewas most interested in the fact that on the days when my exercise had been done outside, I used more energy through the rest of the day.Standage said this fitted with studies that suggest working out in the outdoors leads to a greater feeling of vitality (活力).

Jo Barton, who specialises in studying outdoor exercise, suggested that working out in the fresh air could be “life-changing”.“Exercising in nature lifts your mood and increases your self-respect,” she said.

My verdict? It was more fun outside but sometimes more convenient to get to the gym. A bit of both may be the way forward.

1. Which shows the author’s exercisepattern in the four weeks?

A．in the outdoors→in the outdoors→in the gym→in the gym

B．in the gym→in the gym→in the outdoors→in the outdoors

C．in the outdoors→in the gym→in the outdoors→in the gym

D．in the gym→in the outdoors→in the gym→in the outdoors

2. What can we infer about the author?

A．He used more energy when exercising indoors.

B．He felt more energetic after exercising outdoors.

C．He was very tired after finishing daily exercise.

D．He summarized the findings after the experiment.

3. What was Barton’s attitude to outdoor exercise?

A．Supportive.	B．Doubtful.
C．Tolerant.	D．Uncaring.

4. The underlined word “verdict” in the last paragraph can be understood as __________.

A．concern	B．opinion
C．chance	D．challenge

2 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

As is     1     (know) to all, the Olympic Games are the most important events in the world. They were first held in ancient Greece     2     776 BC. And the events were named after the city Olympia. Slaves and women could not be allowed to take part in the ancient Olympics, and the     3     (athlete) were all from the same country.

In 1896,     4     first modern Olympics opened in Athens, the capital city of Greece. From then on, the Olympic Games     5     (take) place every four years. Athletes from the whole world can take part in the     6     (importance) events, whether they are men or women. The five rings on the Olympic Flag stand     7     five continents and the union of the whole world.

China didn't become a member of the modern Olympics until the 1950s. And in 1984, Xu Haifeng became the first Chinese that won an Olympic gold medal in shooting. With the     8     (develop) of China, Beijing finally succeeded in     9     (hold) the 2008 Olympics, during which the five Fuwa mascots     10     (deep) impressed the whole world.

3 . In 1928, James Braddock was a successful boxer who broke his hand in several places during a championship fight. He lost the fight but continued to box with an injured hand because he needed the money. As a result, his career floundered and he eventually lost his boxing license (执照) when he was considered as a shame to the sport.

Out of work, Braddock found himself in a difficult situation as the Great Depression swept the country of its wealth. Along with millions of other Americans, Braddock went under, with no money or career to put food on the table of his young family. During this difficult time, the family struggled with little food and even had their electricity cut during the winter.

In 1934, with government assistance, Braddock was asked to fill a spot as a temporary boxer. Out of shape, Braddock was seen as an easy opponent (对手). In what was considered a big upset (爆冷门), Braddock beat his higher ranked (排位较高的) opponent much to the amazement of boxing fans. With the help of his ex-manager, his license was eventually restored (恢复).

Braddock won fight after fight and managed to eventually come back from a dead career. He finally went on to fight the World Heavyweight Champion of the time — Max Baer. A tall, powerful boxer, Baer had actually killed a few of his opponents in the ring. As he was a small boxer, fans hoped Braddock wouldn't be killed during the fight. Most believed that his fairy-tale revival would end on the night he fought Baer. It was a difficult fight for Braddock. He took heavy beatings and even suffered broken ribs during the match. However, he fought until the end of the fight and eventually won the World Boxing Heavyweight Championship, much to the amazement of the whole country.

1. What does the underlined word “floundered” in the first paragraph probably mean?

A．Became respectable.	B．Got into trouble.
C．Lasted for long.	D．Took off.

2. How was Braddock's life in the Great Depression?

A．Poor.

B．Smooth.

C．Colorful.

D．Relaxing.

3. What can be learned about Braddock in the fight against Max Baer?

A．He gave up halfway.

B．He disappointed his fans.

C．He won the fight unexpectedly.

D．He lost his boxing license again.

4. What does Braddock's story imply?

A．Everyone has their price.

B．Two heads are better than one.

C．Every cloud has a silver lining.

D．Actions speak louder than words.

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The Paralympics are the games for sportsmen and women with a disability. They were the idea of Doctor Ludwig Guttman, a doctor     1    (work) at Stoke Mandeville hospital in the UK. This famous hospital looks     2     people who can no longer walk, or cannot move at all. After the Second World War, in 1945, the hospital was full of     3    (bad) injured soldiers. To give     4     hope, Dr Guttman started the Paralympics in 1948. They     5    (hold) at the same time as the London olympics; doctors gave out the prizes and nurses were employed as referees.

The first official Paralympics     6    (take) place in Rome in 1960, with 400 athletes from 23 countries competing. By 2004 they had become ten times     7    (big): nearly 4,000 athletes from 140 countries competed in 19 different     8    (sport). The youngest competitor was the 11-year-old swimmer Xu Qingqing from China, the oldest, 66-year-old David Williams, a sailor from Canada. The games were a great success for China,     9     won 141 medals, 63 of them gold. Britain came second with 94 medals, 35 of them gold. China’s disabled dance team closed the games with a     10     dance performance.

5 . 下面是星期一下午高中第一节体育课的有关情况。请你据此写一篇日记。
1.项目：跳远。
2.过程：打上课铃时就在操场集合；听老师讲解并示范；你因心情紧张而失败；不灰心，反复训练；终于跳过了3米。
3.体会：只要有恒心，就一定能成功。
注意：
1.内容必须包括所有要点，但不能逐点翻译；
2.日记格式要正确；
3.词数100左右。
参考词汇：the long jump
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6 . What makes sports fun?

What makes organized sports fun for kids? A group at George Washington University (GW), led by Professor Amanda J. Visek, has been studying this question. The research is important because lots of kids give up playing sports around age 13 or 14.

The reason kids quit?     1     So if the group can figure out what makes sports fun, maybe more kids will play longer and develop better lifelong exercise habits.

First, the group brainstormed 81 things called "fun determinants" that can make sports fun. Then they asked the players aged 8 to 18 to assess how important each thing was to their enjoyment of playing organized sports.     2     The players ranked(排名) “winning” as only the 40th most important fun determinant. Unexpectedly, they ranked "trying your best," "exercising and being active" and “getting along with your teammates" in the top 10 most important fun determinants.

    3     They also compared younger athletes with older athletes as well as recreational athletes and kids who play on travel teams. The recent study revealed (揭露) more surprises. Some people think girls like sports because they want to be with their friends, while boys like to compete.     4     It's true boys placed slightly more importance on "improving athletic skills to play at the next level," but for the most part, the study found male and female athletes’ answers were very close.     5     Although there were some differences between the groups -younger players, for example, like "playing different positions" more than older players-the groups shared lots of the same attitudes toward what makes sports fun.

A．The result was surprising

B．They say sports aren't fun anymore.

C．Boys and girls react differently toward sports.

D．Different groups have different opinions on fun determinants.

E．The group compared males' and females' attitudes on what makes sports fun.

F．The study, however, showed girls' and boys’ attitudes were more alike than different.

G．The same was true for younger and older players as well as recreational and travel athletes.

7 . Why Is Exercise Cool?

•Exercise Strengthens Muscles

Did you ever do a push-up or swing across the monkey bars at the playground?    1    By using your muscles to do powerful things, you can make them stronger. For older teens and adults, this kind of workout can make muscles bigger, too.

•    2    

Can you touch your toes easily without yelling ouch? Most kids are pretty flexible, which means that they can bend and stretch their bodies without much trouble. Being flexible is having “full range of motion”, which means you can move your arms and legs freely without feeling tightness or pain.

•Exercise Keeps the Balance

    3    Your body needs a certain amount of calories every day just to function, breathe, walk around, and do all the basic things.    4    If you’re not very active, your body won’t need as many calories. Whatever your calorie need is, if you eat enough to meet that need, your body weight will stay about the same. If you eat more calories than your body needs, it may be stored as extra fat.

•Exercise Makes You Feel good

It feels good to have a strong, flexible body that can do all the activities you enjoy—like running, jumping and playing with your friends. It’s also fun to be good at something, like scoring a basket, hitting a home run, or perfecting a dive.

But you may not know that exercising can actually put you in a better mood.    5    It’s just another reason why exercise is cool!

A．Exercise Makes You Flexible

B．Exercise Makes Your Heart Happy

C．Those are exercises that can build strength.

D．So you want to do some aerobic (有氧的) exercise right now?

E．But if you’re active, your body needs an extra measure of calories or energy.

F．Food gives your body fuel in the form of calories, which are a kind of energy.

G．When you exercise, your brain releases a chemical which may make you feel happier.

8 . There are many ways to travel within a city. We can walk, cycle, or take a bus. But no matter which way we travel, we have to stick to the route(线路) the city planners laid down for us.

Parkour practitioners (跑酷爱好者), however, see the city in a completely different way. To them, there are no fixed routes. There are no walls and no stairs—since they jump, climb, roll and crawl to move across, through, over and under anything that they find in their path. The city is their playground.

The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has noticed that this activity is drawing more and more people to it—there are 100,000 people taking part in parkour today in the UK alone, according to the Guardian—and how it is helpful for people to be much stronger: It trains coordination(协调性) and balance. So the organization is thinking about recognizing parkour as a new sport and adding it to the Olympics by 2024.

But parkour practitioners themselves don’t seem to be happy with the idea. They see parkour as “a lifestyle”, wrote the website NextSportStar. “It’s a competition against the conditions rather than just a sport.”

Indeed, many do parkour just to “escape the daily routine(事务) and experience the city in different ways”, wrote reporter Oli Mould on The Conversation. They see parkour as a way to express themselves through relaxing moves and creative routes while freeing themselves from the pressure.

It’s great that the FIG wants to develop new sport and stay close to a new cultural form. But it would be greater if they knew that not everything in life is a competition.

1. How do the parkour practitioners do parkour?

A．They move on as they wish.	B．They choose the routes the city planners laid down.
C．They run faster than others.	D．They stick to certain routes.

2. Why does the FIG want to add parkour to the Olympics?

A．It’s a special way of life.	B．It draws their attention.
C．It’s good for people to keep healthy.	D．It needs some rules and instructions.

3. What is the author’s idea on parkour?

A．It is more formal than other sports.	B．It helps people to be creative.
C．It’s worth adding to the sporting event.	D．It calls on people to work as a team.

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A．A new sports competition	B．Parkour practitioners
C．Training in a different way	D．Making the city their own

9 . It is a very effective strategy for success in women’s basketball. Nevertheless (然而), most people are surprised to learn that the leading women’s basketball college teams in the United States use male practice players. Men playing on the same court as women? Don’t they control the game?    1    The men are there to make the practice sessions more demanding for the team than female practice players would.

    2    Most of them are volunteers who are good players, but who are not on the men’s basketball teams. The NCAA(National Collegiate Athletic Association ), the athletic federation(联合会), approves of men practice players but they have to qualify(取得资格) for the team just as women players do.    3    Mostly though, they come to help the teams adapt and improve.

Besides the honor of practicing with top-notch ( 拔尖的 )women players, are there lots of other advantages of being on the practice team?     4     For example, men never get to play in actual games and they don't get to travel with the team to away games. They can't receive sports scholarships, although as registered college players, they have to keep up their academic grades. However, they get lots of indoor exercise.    5    

A．Unfortunately, there aren’t many.

B．How do men get to be practice players?

C．The players who qualify come for exercise and to let off steam(发泄).

D．In the end, they know their participation contributes to the team’s success.

E．No, they don't control the game even though they are typically larger and stronger.

F．Many coaches believe that use of male practice players lowers the risk of injury in practice.

G．If male practice players are used selectively, this practice may be an important teaching tool.

10 . Some people put their bicycles away once they learn how to drive a car. For many people, bicycling is not just an easy way of getting around town but also an exciting sport.      1    .

One kind of race is the time trial. Each racer leaves the starting line at a different time and heads hard for the finish line. The cyclist who covers the distance in the shortest amount of time wins the race.      2    , because the bicycles are spread out and are not likely to run into each other.

Another kind of race is more difficult. A few city blocks are closed to traffic. Then all the racers line up in a tight pack and begin racing at the same time.       3    . The race requires more than speed. It also requires skillful handling of the bicycle as it runs at full speed around other bicycles. The racer who completes all the laps first is the winner.

    4    . Racers have to cover anywhere from 35 miles to almost 3,000 miles. The race course may be a straight stretch of road or a long series of roads across the country. The prize goes to the first person who crosses the finish line.

Between races cyclists stay in condition by doing exercise that builds their strength so that they can keep riding for long periods of time.       5     , they often join bicycling groups and become licensed racers. Then they can enter special races all over the country. If you’re a cyclist, keep practicing. You could become a star.

A．As cyclists become more experienced

B．A time trial is a very safe race for beginners

C．Serious cyclists often arrange to take part in races

D．Road races are usually the longest cycling contests

E．Most people will seize possible chances to get around town

F．They cover many laps, going around and around the city blocks

G．When cyclists needn’t to build themselves up for those special races