When I was four, my seven-year-old brother received a baseball glove for his birthday. Every night. as we went to sleep. I’d listen to him throwing a ball into the glove over and over to soften the leather. I wanted a glove so much that I almost cried. But, back then, girls didn’t play sports; they played with dolls (洋娃娃).
Fast-forward twenty-six years. Now a thirty-year-old mother of two boys and a girl, I happened to sec a notice in my local paper: “Women’s Baseball League opens soon. Anyone interested, sign up at the community service center.” I cut it out and set it on the kitchen table, Could I? After all these years?
I looked at that notice on my table every day. l thought of a thousand reasons I couldn’t play. But the idea of playing baseball stuck in my head and wouldn’t go away. Finally, 1 gathered up my courage and signed up. Since I wasn’t a member of any team, they told me I’d be assigned (分配) to one. Two weeks passed before they gave me the name of the team to look for. Since my husband worked Monday nights, I arranged for a babysitter. It was a luxury (奢侈) but, at that moment in my life, a necessity.
On Monday, heart pounding, I walked through the park filled with women of all ages practicing. It took me a while to find my team. They were all high-school girls, seventeen and eighteen years old! I waited a couple of minutes before approaching the coach. He had put together top athletes for his team, and he didn’t want some old lady messing things up. He looked me over. His girls had fine gloves and metal cleats (棒球钉鞋). They looked like players. I had no glove and wore an old T-shirt and gym shoes. I didn’t care. I wanted to play. That first day, he had me run bases (跑垒). I never got a chance to bat or play the field. I just ran bases all night. The next morning, I could hardly stand.
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When I showed up the next Monday, the coach was clearly surprised.
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“Impressive catch!” my teammates cheered for my performance after the training.
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Last Sunday, our school held on a 5-kilometer cross-country running race, that attracted many enthusiastic participants. Actually, all the student in our school attended the activity.
The race started from the school gate and ends at the foot of the South Hill, covering five kilometers all together. The whole course was quite difficulty, especially the part near the mountain, narrow but rough. All the participants spared no efforts finish the race.
This race gave us a opportunity to have a deeper understanding of patience as well as build up our bodies. However, we all think highly of it, and expect more activities like this in the future.
1.活动的目的;
2.体育运动的好处;
3.冬季运动过程中的注意事项。
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Dear schoolmates,
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Students’ Union
December 20th
1.你的运动经历;
2.运动给你带来的好处。
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2.题目已为你写好。
Sport Makes Me Happy
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1. 你最喜欢的运动;
2. 你喜欢这项运动的原因;
3. 你从这项运动中得到的益处。
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Dear Paul,
I am very glad that you can share with me about what your after-school life is like.
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Yours,
Li Hua
Tree-climbing class takes root in Hubei
Recently, a tree-climbing class has grown popular among students at the Sport Institute of Hubei University.
At a class on Monday, Lu Junpei showed 16 students some of
Student Zhu Jinhan climbed up the trunk and then
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Because more and more students are showing interest, the school plans to add
Hubei University is one of the first
1. Who are the judges for the first stage?
A.Professional cooks. | B.Local citizens. | C.School teachers. |
A.At a college. | B.At a restaurant. | C.At a middle school. |
A.Working out the exact cost of a meal. |
B.Cooking a meal to a fixed budget. |
C.Sticking to the time plan. |
A.What meal will be cooked. |
B.How much time will be given. |
C.How many people the meal will be cooked for. |
8 . A new study has found that braving the cold maybe a good way to help burn off some fat.
The research was carried out by scientists at Canada’s Laurentian University and focused on high-intensity interval training(HIIT). This format has grown in popularity of late due to the fat-burning benefits it brings, and the team set out to explore how temperature might influence its effects.
The study involved 11 overweight adults who took part in two HIIT sessions a week apart. One of these was carried out in a “thermoneutral” environment with temperatures of around 70 °F(21℃),and the other at a cold 32 °F(0℃). The sessions consisted of 10 separate cycling race at 90 percent effort lasting one minute, followed by 90-second “recovery” periods of cycling at30 percent intensity.
After each session, the participants cooled down by gently cycling or walking, ate a nutrition bar before going to sleep and enjoyed a high-fat breakfast the morning after. During these sessions, the scientists monitored skin temperature, core body temperature, heart rate and the amount of oxygen. Blood samples were also drawn to help calculate fat burning rates following the breakfast the next day.
“The present study found that high-intensity exercise in the cold increased lipid oxidation (脂质氧化) by 358 percent in comparison to high-intensity exercise in a thermoneutral environment,”the team writes.
The authors also note that the idea that cold temperatures help us burn more fat during exercise will need further investigation (调查), though the first-of-a-kind study does indicate it’s a possibility worth pursuing.
1. What is good for burning off fat according to the study?A.Cold food. | B.Low temperature. |
C.Hard workout. | D.Cycling race. |
A.Introduction to the study. |
B.Some data in the study. |
C.The participants in the study. |
D.The process of the study. |
A.Further study needs to be done. |
B.Doing exercise burns more fat. |
C.The efforts of scientists are in vain. |
D.The study result is unreasonable. |
A.High-intensity Workouts Help Burn off Extra Calories |
B.Cycling in the Cold Is a Great Way to Build upYour Body |
C.Study Shows Fat-burning Potential of Exercising in the Cold |
D.Researchers Have Found More Fat-burning Workouts |
1.大赛地点及时间;
2.活动内容安排
3.个人才艺。
注意:1.词数100左右;
2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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