1 . 假定你是李华，你的美国笔友Jack给你发来邮件，告诉你他参加美国中西部“汉语桥”比赛（U. S. Midwest Chinese Bridge Speech Contest）获得了一等奖，希望你继续帮他学习中文。请你给他回复一封电子邮件。要点如下：
1．祝贺他获奖；
2．希望继续向他学习英语，你帮他学中文；
3．祝愿他能来中国参加决赛。
注意：
1．词数100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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2 . I regularly train at a local boxing gym and I’m lucky enough to meet an amazing man, Adrian Charter. Adrian comes to the gym to train, just like me. The difference is, I’m 31 years old, and Adrian is 72!

I watched Adrian as he was training, early on a Sunday morning, and he was hitting the punching bag harder and quicker than most men in their twenties would. Adrian was a former boxer whose last professional fight was in 1972. Even though he has stopped competing as a boxer, his discipline(纪律) still makes him stick to a training rule.

It simply amazed me as to how a 72-year-old man could train so hard. Believe me, boxing is one of the most difficult sports on the earth, needing much patience,skill, and effort.

What surprised me even more was that a few days earlier he did some running. He ran 9 kilometers. He does this on a regular basis. For me, I can run 5 kilometers at most.

When I questioned him about how he kept such discipline, he calmly replied, “It is all in my mind.”

I thought about it for a moment. If discipline can push a 72-year-old man to train so hard and enjoy it, could I imagine how discipline could serve every single human being on the earth? Right at this point, as you read this story, please pause and ask yourself, “What is my level of discipline?”

Adrian’s example told me that the power of discipline will get us to the finishing line!The bigger the challenge is, the more our discipline can serve us and the sweeter the taste of success will be!

1. The author noticed Adrian Charter mostly because Adrian Charter _______ .

A．was a famous former boxer

B．was the oldest in the boxing gym

C．acted faster even than young people

D．didn’t want to compete any longer

2. What does the author think of boxing?

A．It has high requirements.

B．It has strict training rules.

C．It has a limit to people’s age.

D．It makes people become quick and strong.

3. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means “______ ”.

A．Rome was not built in a day

B．no pains, no gains

C．failure is the mother of success

D．early birds can catch worms

4. What can be the best title for the text?

A．Grasp every chance to keep fit

B．An unforgotten experience

C．The power of discipline

D．An amazing boxer

3 .         Sports is not only physically challenging, but it can also mentally challenging. Criticism (批评) from coaches(trainers), parents, and other teammates, as well as pressure to win can create too much anxiety or stress for young athletes. Stress can be physical, emotional, or psychological, and research has showed that it can lead to burnout. Burnout has been described as dropping or quitting of an activity that was at one time enjoyable.
        The early years of development are critical years for learning about oneself. The sport setting is one where valuable experiences can take place. Young athletes can, for example, learn how to cooperate with others, make friends, and gain other social skills that will be used throughout their lives. Coaches and parents should be aware(realize), at all times, that their feedback (反馈) to youngsters can greatly affect their children. Youngsters many take their parents’ and coaches’ criticisms to heart and find a flaw (缺陷)   in themselves.
        Coaches and parents should also be cautious(careful) that youth sport participation does not become work for children. The outcome of the game should not be more important than the process of learning the sport and other life lessons. In today’s youth sport setting, young athletes may be worrying more about who will win instead of enjoying themselves and the sport. Following a game, many parents and coaches focus on(pay more attention to) the outcome and find fault with youngsters’ performances. Positive reinforcement should be provided in spite of the outcome. Research shows that positive reinforcement motivates and has a greater effect on learning than criticism. Again, criticism can create high levels of stress(pressure), which can lead to burnout.
1. According to the passage sport is positive for young people in that_______-.

A．it can help them learn more about society

B．it teaches them how to set realistic goals for themselves

C．it enables them to find flaws in themselves

D．it can provide them with valuable experiences

2. Many coaches and parents are in the habit of criticizing young athletes__________.

A．without realizing criticism may destroy their self-confidence

B．in order to make them remember life’s lessons

C．believing that criticism is beneficial for their early development

D．so as to put more pressure on them

3. According to the passage parents and coaches should____________-.

A．help children to win every game

B．pay more attention to letting children enjoy sports

C．enable children to understand the positive aspect of sports

D．train children to deal with stress

4. The author’s purpose in writing the passage is___________.

A．to persuade young children not to worry about criticism

B．to emphasize the importance of positive reinforcement to children

C．to discuss the skill of combing criticism with encouragement

D．to teach young athletes how to avoid burnout

4 . Last month, students from one hundred and three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international computer programming contest. The Battle of the Brains took place in Harbin, China.     1    Jerry Cain, coach of Stanford University Team, California, says “One of the programming problems was trying to figure out how to break a chocolate bar into a certain number of pieces of a certain number of sizes and to do it as quickly as possible.     2     ” The students first listed the problems in order of difficulty.     3     They designed ways to test their solutions. And they wrote needed software systems. Even the winning team from Shanhai Jiaotong University in China was not able to solve all the problems within the given time limit. Stanford’s team solved five problems and finished in 14th place. Stanford was one of twenty-one American universities that took part in the contest this year
.    4     It began in 1970 at Texas A and M University. The contest quickly became popular in the United States and Canada. It developed and grew as more and more schools took part in local and area contests.The first final competition was held in 1977 at the Association for Computer Machinery Computer Science Conference. Today, a network of universities holds area competitions that send the winners to the world finals, now organized by IBM. Contest spokesman Doug Heintzman says the world champions receive prizes and scholarships.     5    

A．The competitors show great interest in IBM.

B．Then they figured out the requirements of each.

C．And that’s probably the simplest of all of them.

D．This competition is an opportunity to be recognized by famous universities from the world.

E．Three-person teams from each school had five hours to solve eleven real world problems.

F．The official name of the Battle of the Brains is the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.

G．They are also guaranteed an offer of employment with IBM.

5 . Training for a marathon (马拉松) requires careful preparation and steady, gradual increases in the length of the runs.     1    , buy the best-fitting running shoes you can find. No one can say which brand will work best for you or feel best on your feet, so you have to rely on your experience and on the feel of each pair as you shop. When you have found shoes that seem right, walk in them for a few days to double-check the fit.     2    . As always, you should stretch (伸展) at least ten minutes before each run to prevent injuries.

During the first week, do not think about distance, but run five minutes longer each day.     3    , it is wise to take a day off to rest. But during the next week, set a goal of at least a mile and a half per run.     4    . After two weeks, start timing yourself.     5    . Depending on the kind of race you plan to enter, you can set up a timetable for the remaining weeks before the race.

A．After six days

B．For a good marathon runner

C．Before you begin your training

D．With each day, increase the distance by a half mile

E．If they still feel good, you can begin running in them

F．Time spent for preparation raises the quality of training

G．Now you are ready to figure out a goal of improving distance and time

6 . For the rest of March, a disease will sweep across the US. It will keep kids home from school.       1         Employees will suddenly lose their ability to concentrate.

The disease, known as “March Madness”， refers to the yearly 65­team US men's college basketball tournament (锦标赛).       2         Teams compete against each other in a single­elimination (单局淘汰) tournament that eventually crowns a national champion.

Nearly 20 million Americans will find themselves prisoners of basketball festival madness. The fun comes partly from guessing the winners for every game. Friends compete against friends.           3         Colleagues against bosses.

Big­name schools are usually favored to advance into the tournament. But each year there are dark horses from little­known universities.

This adds to the madness. Watching a team from a school with 3,000 students beat a team from a school with 30,000, for many Americans, is an exciting experience. Two years ago, the little­known George Mason University was one of the final four teams.     4    

College basketball players are not paid, so the game is more about making a name for their university and themselves.     5         About $4 billion will be spent gambling (赌) on the event. According to Media Life magazine, the event will bring in $500 million in advertising income this year, topping the post－ season income of every US professional league, including that of the NBA.

A．Husbands against wives.

B．The players will go all out for the games.

C．But that doesn't mean money isn't involved.

D．College students will ignore piles of homework.

E．People are willing to spend more money on watching it.

F．It begins on March 15 and lasts through the beginning of April.

G．Many people had never even heard of the university before the tournament.

7 . In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some value it highly, believing that it is responsible for social progress and prosperity; others say that competition is bad; that it sets one person against another; that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people.
I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth relied on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs. In their single-minded pursuit of success, the development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten.
However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary players, they strongly blame competition. Among the most vocal are youngsters who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: “I may have lost, but it doesn’t matter because I really didn’t try.” What is not usually admitted by themselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of the true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that one’s self-respect relies on how well one performs in comparison with others. Both are afraid of not being valued. Only as this basic and often troublesome fear begins to dissolve can we discover a new meaning in competition.
1. What does this passage mainly talk about?

A．Competition helps to set up self-respect.

B．Opinions about competition are different among people.

C．Competition is harmful to personal quality development.

D．Failures are necessary experiences in competition

2. Why do some people favor competition according to the passage?

A．It pushes society forward.

B．It builds up a sense of duty.

C．It improves personal abilities.

D．It encourages individual efforts.

3. What is the similar belief of the true competitors and those with a desire to fail ?

A．One’s worth lies in his performance compared with others.

B．One’s success in competition needs great efforts.

C．One’s achievement is determined by his particular skills.

D．One’s success is based on how hard he has tried.

4. Which point of view may the author agree to?

A．Every effort should be paid back.

B．Competition should be encouraged.

C．Winning should be a life-and-death matter.

D．Fear of failure should be removed in competition.

8 . Youth sports teach kids to develop a winning state of mind as well as the ability to become team leaders. Although having _______ is a major part of athletics, the only purpose of sports is to compete and create the _______ mentality (心态) people need in sports.

_______ have the extremely hard task of getting their young athletes to learn how to play the sport and become disciplined, and ready to play the sport to the best of their ability. _______, I was at my younger brother’s baseball game the other night and his team was _______ by five runs in the last part of the game. While most teams in this situation would be desperately trying to regain their _______ for heroics, his team just seemed to slowly walk around, _______ sunflower seeds, and laugh at jokes made by teammates. I asked my brother after the game why everybody was so _______ about the loss and he said it was because some kid’s mom brought really good snacks.

Some parents have a _______ with coaches shouting at their child. If a child makes a mistake, it is the coach’s ________ to correct the problem. When parents get involved in telling the coach how to ________ the team, problems ________. Some parents feel if they pay their money, they should have an equal ________ on how to coach the team. In order to have a successful learning experience, the coach needs to feel like he can control his team and ________ the parents from having the last say. Without that, the coach feels as if he needs to ________the parents by giving more playing time to their kids who actually don’t ________it.

With youth sport programs becoming less competitive, club teams are on the ________ . More teens can get an easier access to them. Club teams ________more of what high school and junior high coaches are looking for, the competitive edge that is absolutely necessary in ________ . While having fun is important, skills and a ________ mentality is worth more in the world of sports.

1.

A．fun

B．dignity

C．courage

D．patience

2.

A．social

B．competitive

C．healthy

D．responsible

3.

A．Coaches

B．Parents

C．Experts

D．Headmasters

4.

A．As a result

B．In addition

C．For example

D．On the contrary

5.

A．up

B．below

C．above

D．down

6.

A．scores

B．goals

C．spirits

D．dreams

7.

A．chew

B．spit

C．count

D．swallow

8.

A．worried

B．happy

C．serious

D．casual

9.

A．joke

B．problem

C．contact

D．compromise

10.

A．duty

B．experience

C．awareness

D．turn

11.

A．dismiss

B．unite

C．handle

D．assess

12.

A．stand out

B．break out

C．work out

D．come out

13.

A．say

B．guidance

C．response

D．reward

14.

A．protect

B．defend

C．excuse

D．discourage

15.

A．assist

B．motivate

C．please

D．blame

16.

A．want

B．deserve

C．value

D．appreciate

17.

A．way

B．decline

C．go

D．rise

18.

A．offer

B．require

C．seek

D．preserve

19.

A．academics

B．sports

C．exams

D．competitions

20.

A．risking

B．controlling

C．winning

D．cooperating

9 . 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余项。（共5题）

NBA basketball players devote much of their lives to preparing for games. This preparation, which includes studying game films, practicing skills and treating injuries, is essential because of the pressure-packed nature of their profession.

    1     Generally, on the day of a game, players get together in the morning for an-hour shooting and also to review films of the opponent of that night.     2     Players receive treatments for injuries, put on their uniforms, discuss strategies with coaches and warm up during the remaining time before the game gets underway. As thousands of people cheer them on, a team’s best players will play 40 or more minutes during the game. After the game, some players stick around to lift weights before showering and heading home.

    3     They must leave their families at home, spend hours on planes traveling around the country and try to stay rested while sleeping at a different hotel every night.

The NBA’s 82-game regular season is tiring.     4     So many players focus on recuperating (恢复健康) for at least part of the off-season. Other players may work on recovering from surgery to correct injuries.

Weeks before the training camp, NBA basketball players start getting back in shape for the upcoming season.     5     Younger players often take part in developmental leagues during the summer months to increase their chances of getting onto an NBA team.

A．Trips can be difficult for NBA basketball players.

B．The league was founded in New York City on June 6, 1946.

C．It can wear down even the best-conditioned athletes.

D．It consists of 30 teams, 29 in the US and 1 in Canada.

E．The preparation may involve practicing basketball skills and lifting weights.

F．Following lunch, many players take a nap and eat a pre-game meal before arriving at the field.

G．An NBA basketball player’s typical workday routine varies based on his team’s schedule of games.

10 . Thirteen, for me, was a challenging year. My parents divorced and I moved to a new town with my father, far from my old family and friends. I was terribly lonely and would cry myself to sleep each night. To ease my sadness, my father purchased an old horse for me at a local auction. I named him Cowboy.

Cowboy was without a doubt the ugliest horse in the world. But I didn’t care. I loved him beyond all reason. I joined a riding club and suffered rude comments and mean snickers about Cowboy’s looks. I never let on about how I felt, but deep inside, my heart was breaking. The other members rode beautiful, registered horses.

When Cowboy and I entered the events where the horse is judged on appearance, we were quickly   shown the gate. No amount of preparation and love would turn Cowboy into a beauty. My only chance to compete would be in the speed events. I chose the jumping race.

One girl named Becky rode a big brown horse in the race events. She always won the blue ribbons. Needless to say, she didn’t feel threatened when I competed against her at the next show. She didn’t need to. I came in next to last.

The stinging memory of Becky’s smirks made me determined to beat her. For the whole next month I woke up early every day and rode Cowboy five miles to the arena (赛马场). We practiced running and jumping for hours in the hot sun and then I would walk Cowboy home totally exhausted. All of our hard work didn’t make me feel confident by the time the show came. I sat at the gate and sweated it out while I watched Becky and her horse charge through the course and finish in first place.

My turn finally came. I put on my hat, rubbed Cowboy’s neck and entered the arena. At the signal, we dashed toward the first fence, jumped it without trouble and raced on to the next one. Cowboy then flew over the second, third and fourth fences like a bird and I turned him toward the finish line. As we crossed the line the crowd was shocked into silence. Cowboy and I had beaten Becky and her fancy horse by two seconds!

I gained much more than a blue ribbon that day. At thirteen, I realized that no matter what the odds, I’d always come out a winner if I wanted something badly enough to work for it.

1. The underlined expression “shown the gate” (paragraph 3) most probably means ______.

A．told how to enter the arena

B．shown how to make the horse beautiful

C．removed from the competition early

D．told to enter the timed-speed events

2. When the final race finished, nobody cheered because        .

A．the audience didn’t like Cowboy

B．people envied the writer

C．the win was unexpected

D．the writer had run out of time

3. Why was the writer not confident of victory?

A．He was an inexperienced rider.

B．He had not practiced enough.

C．He believed he was unpopular with the crowd.

D．He thought his horse wasn’t as good as the others.

4. What did the writer learn from his experience?

A．Life can sometimes be unfair.

B．Anything is possible if one tries hard enough.

C．A positive attitude will bring success.

D．One should not make judgments based on appearance.