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1. What did the man do last night?
| A．He went to a party. |
| B．He visited a friend. |
| C．He watched a table-tennis game. |
| A．Boring. | B．Interesting. | C．Exciting. |
| A．He doesn’t want to watch games on TV. |
| B．He is quite a table-tennis fan. |
| C．He regrets missing the game. |
| A．About 20. | B．About 30. | C．About 40. |
4 . Nine out of ten U.S. high school students aren’t getting enough exercise, according to a recent study. Colorado State University (CSU) professor Kaigang Li researched the fitness and exercise habits of kids in their late teens. Rather than depending on surveys to get data (数据), Li asked the students in the study to wear accelerometers-devices (设备) that measure the amount (量) of physical activity — so that he could know how much daily exercise the teens were getting. According to the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) recommended (推荐) daily amount of exercise for kids to stay healthy, Li found that 91 percent of the 15-to-18-year-olds did not meet the requirements.
Earlier studies have shown that the amount of daily physical activity is likely to go down from childhood to late teenage years. For example, only 0.04 percent of 9 year-olds exercise less than an hour daily, but the number increases to 70 percent for 15-year-olds. And over the age of 15 kids become even less active.
Li found that, after high school, physical activity levels got even lower. Those who did attend college were slightly more active than those who didn’t, and of the college students, those living outside schools exercised less than on-campus students.
Kids who don’t get enough exercise often face serious health problems later in life. Li had a different set of recommendations for college students and those who don’t attend college.
“Colleges should ask students to do more physical activities -not just to build more centers, but to encourage students with more programs,” said Li.
For those who don’t attend college, Li believes that “government and communities” should know their needs and do more.
Part of the reason kids are not getting enough exercise may be because of the fact that only 29 percent of U.S. high schools have daily gym classes.
1. What do we know about Li’s research?| A．It was developed from surveys. |
| B．It asked students to exercise every day. |
| C．It got data with the help of accelerometers. |
| D．It didn’t agree with CDC’s recommendations. |
| A．Kids exercise less and less as they get older. |
| B．Kids around 15 are the most active in exercising. |
| C．Kids without enough exercise face more health problems. |
| D．Kids who attend college practice more than those who don’t. |
| A．Working with the local government and communities. |
| B．Giving students more chances for physical activity. |
| C．Preventing students from living outside schools. |
| D．Increasing the number of gyms in the colleges. |
| A．Pushing college students to get exercise is not easy. |
| B．CDC suggests that teens should exercise every day. |
| C．Teens who exercise daily often live a healthy life. |
| D．90% of U S. teens aren’t getting enough exercise. |
1. 你喜欢的运动项目及原因, 如有益于身心健康，增强自信等。
2. 何时喜欢上这项运动, 现在参加该运动的情况如何。
3. 询问对方的体育爱好。
注意：1. 词数：100左右。（信的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。）
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Harry,
I am glad to receive your letter.
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
6 . Playing tennis regularly could help keep people off death, but football, rugby and running may not help people to live longer, a study suggests.
A study followed more than 80,000 people for an average of nine years to find out if certain sports protected them against early death. It found that people who played racket sports regularly were the least likely to die over the study period, reducing their individual risk by 47 percent compared with people who did no exercise. Swimmers also reduced their chance of death by 28 percent, aerobics (有氧运动) fans by 27 percent and cyclists by 15 percent. Yet running appeared to have no impact at all on dying early, and neither did playing football or rugby.
Scientists say the difference may lie in the social aspect which goes alongside sports like tennis and squash (壁球), which often involve clubs and organized activities outside of the game. It means that people often have larger social net-works and tend to keep up activities into later life, both of which are proven to be good for health.
In contrast, people who play team sports often do not move onto a new sport once their teams break up for family, or injury reasons. They become watchers rather than participants in their chosen activity.
The researchers found that playing racket sports was associated with a 56 percent lower risk from heart death. Similarly, swimmers lowered their heart disease or stroke risk by 41 percent, and people who took part in activities like aerobics, dance or gymnastics lowered their risk by 36 percent. But again running, football and rugby had no significant impact on heart deaths.
However, other experts argue that this study must not be misinterpreted as showing that running and football do not protect against heart disease. In this study both runners and footballers had a lower rate of death from heart disease.
1. Which sport has hardly any impact on protecting people against early death?| A．Cycling. | B．Swimming. |
| C．Rugby. | D．Tennis. |
| A．Playing basketball with their friends occasionally. |
| B．Watching football games every day. |
| C．Playing tennis and joining a club. |
| D．Doing running in the park every day. |
| A．Social networks. | B．Staying at home. |
| C．Physical examinations. | D．Setting up families. |
| A．Give up | B．Fall apart |
| C．Destroy | D．Crash |
| A．Thousands of people participated in a 9-year research. |
| B．Study finds playing tennis helps people live longer. |
| C．It is wrong to say running has no impact on heart disease. |
| D．There are differences between racket sports and team games. |
7 . What would it be like to live on the moon? Students in the 2021 Future City Competition were challenged to find out. Nine middle school students from AI-Hadi School of Accelerative Learning in Huston, Texas, America took home the prize in the competition.
Middle school teams from the United States, Canada, Nigeria and China joined in the 29th yearly competition. The students used their STEM (science, technology, math and engineering) skills to create a city on the Moon.
The minerals and other resources(矿物质和其他资源) from the Moon helped the team design solutions to the problems humans might face on the planet, including providing enough water, as well as gases(气体) that are necessary for people, animals and plants to live. When asked if they’d like to live in their city on the Moon in the future, the students showed great excitement and interest in the possible moving from the planet Earth.
One winning student Sukaina Salim said, “One of our members had to leave the project because of his bad health. What was worse, COVID-19 created several difficulties for us. But we always encouraged each other to keep trying to achieve our common goals. It was a hard but great experience.”
Team teacher Syeda Batool encouraged the students and offered practical advice for their project.
“The most important thing we learned from our teachers was how to work together to do our job well,” said Mohammad Hani Mirza, who is a seventh grader. “That’s one thing we were missing because we all came from different backgrounds with different ideas, and we worked together to create a beautiful city.”
The winners were given a chance to go on an all-term trip to U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, and $7,500 for their school’s STEM program.
1. What do we know about the Future City competition?| A．It is designed for STEM students. | B．It is an international competition. |
| C．It is held in America every other year. | D．It is set up to protect the environment. |
| A．To list their challenges. |
| B．To show us their goals. |
| C．To advise us how to work with team members. |
| D．To encourage others to take part in the competition. |
| A．Hard work will pay off. | B．One should set a goal first. |
| C．Teamwork is the key to success. | D．Creativity comes from challenges. |
| A．Important skills to win a competition |
| B．The best way to achieve common goals |
| C．Middle school students wanted to live in a city on the Moon |
| D．Students from America won the 2021 Future City Competition |
1. What did the speaker do in the mornings?
| A．He learned baseball skills. |
| B．He visited local museums. |
| C．He watched baseball games. |
| A．On a farm. |
| B．In a restaurant. |
| C．In a cooking class. |
| A．Traveling around the world. |
| B．Learning several languages. |
| C．Meeting new friends from different countries. |
9 . A fresh and gentle wind on your face, soft sand under your feet and blue waters as far as the eye can see. Is there any other Olympic sport that is played in such pleasant conditions as beach volleyball？
“I’ve gone to a lot of beautiful places, and met a lot of beautiful people. That wouldn’t have happened if I had been playing another sport.” said Randy Stoklos, America’s most famous beach volleyball player.
The sport began as a four-a-side game on beaches in Southern California in the 1920s. The first recorded two-man game took place there in 1930, and the first tournament (锦标赛) was held in Los Angeles 18 years later. The winners were awarded a case of Pepsi. In the 1950s, women started playing and the sport soon spread to Europe and South America. Yet at that time, beach volleyball was more an entertainment show than a sport, with beauty contests included. The Association of Volleyball Professionals was founded in 1983 and beach volleyball developed into a fast, athletic sport. Its world-wide popularity won beach volleyball a place at the 1996 Olympics in Atalanta, where 24 male teams and 16 female teams took part. At present, the US and Brazil are the best in the world at beach volleyball.
The game came to China in the early 1990s and there have been national tournaments since 1994. It became an official event at the Eighth National Games in 1997. China’s You Wenhui and Wang Lu finished ninth in the women’s beach volleyball world championships in Brazil.
1. The passage is mainly about ______.| A．the history of beach volleyball |
| B．how to play beach volleyball |
| C．the importance of beach volleyball |
| D．women’s beach volleyball in China |
| A．Beach volleyball was first played like other Olympic: sports. |
| B．Beach volleyball has always been an entertainment show rather than a sport. |
| C．Beach volleyball began on beaches in Souther California. |
| D．Women started playing beach volleyball in South America in 1945. |
| A．In 1948, | B．In 1996. | C．In 1950. | D．In 1997. |
| A．in 1996, beach volleyball became an official event in China |
| B．China’s beach volleyball team is the best in the world |
| C．China’s beach volleyball players won the first place in Brazil |
| D．beach volleyball came to China in the early 1990s |
10 .
The documentary displays Lang’s inspiring journey from her gold medal victory as a volleyball player in the 1984 Olympics to her amazing career as a successful coach for both Team USA from 2005 to 2008 and China since 2013. She was the first person to win Olympic volleyball gold as a player and coach. Lang Ping revealed the secret to such remarkable achievements in the documentary. As she said, “
But illness is certainly not the only difficulty Lang has faced. In 2005, she struggled with balancing raising her daughter Lydia Bai Lang, who lived in the US, and her coaching career. She eventually decided to work for USA Volleyball that year.
There is no doubt that Lang is one of the greatest players and coaches in history. As an American athlete commented in the documentary,
| A．Who is Lang Ping? |
| B．Lang is the hardest to defeat. |
| C．I believe volleyball was my life. |
| D．What makes one a great person? |
| E．Glory and challenges go hand in hand. |
| F．Lang Ping is like Michael Jordan in our minds. |
| G．This decision aroused a lot of negative comments in China. |
