1 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写一段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

A young boy named Alex wanted to be a great basketball player. He had a natural talent for the sport and loved playing it whenever he could. However, he was also very small and not very strong, which made it difficult for him to compete against bigger and stronger players.

Alex was often discouraged by his lack of size and strength. He would see other players who were bigger and more muscular than him and wonder if he would ever be able to compete against them. But he never gave up. He kept practicing and working hard, pushing himself to improve every day.

One day, Alex heard that his school was holding a basketball tournament. He was excited and immediately signed up for the tournament. However, Alex faced a big challenge during the tournament. The other team was bigger and stronger, and Alex found himself struggling to keep up. He missed several shots and made some mistakes that cost his team points. He felt embarrassed, frustrated and wanted to give up. He thought he was not good enough to compete against the best players in the school.

注意：
1.续写词数应为80左右；
2.请按如下格式作答。

But his coach, who noticed Alex’s discouragement, pulled him aside.

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2 . A recent series of studies examined the role of talent in the sports world. They focused on three different sports: World Cup soccer, professional basketball, and professional baseball. The results are mixed. For soccer and basketball, the studies revealed that adding talented players to a team is indeed a (n) _______ strategy, but only up to a point. Performance _______ when about 70% of the players were considered top talent. Above that level, the team’s performance began to decline. Interestingly, this trend was not evident in baseball, where additional _______ talent continued to enhance the team’s performance. (Figure 1 and 2)

In looking for an explanation for the different results for different sports, the researchers _______one important factor — the extent to which a good performance by a team required its members to coordinate (协调) their actions. This task _______ distinguishes baseball from basketball and soccer.

In baseball, the performance of individual players is _______ teammates than in soccer and basketball. The researchers concluded that when, during the course of play, task interdependence is high, team performance will _______ when there is too much talent in the group. When task interdependence is lower, _______ individual talent will have a positive effect on team performance.

One explanation for this phenomenon is not so far from the pecking order (等级排序) situation among chickens. If a basketball star is pursuing his own personal goals,_______ trying to gather a high personal point total, he may be less ________ than team player. He may take a shot himself when it would be better to pass the ball to a team mate, thus making the team’s overall performance suffer. “There is no________in TEAM,” young children learning to play team sports are often told. Apparently stars ________ follow this basic principle of sportsman ship.

Another possibility is that when there is a lot of talent on a team, some players may begin to________ This is referred to as the Ringelmann effect. Ringelmann conducted an experiment in which he asked two, three, four, and up to 28 people to participate in a game of tug-of-war. He measured how much force each person used to pull the rope. He found that whenever he added a person to the team, everyone else pulled with less force.

________ the ideal team — for sports, business, science, or entertainment — is more complicated than simply hiring the best talent. An A-team may require a________ not just A players, but a few generous B players as well.

1.

A．sensible

B．partial

C．alarming

D．attainable

2.

A．faded

B．peaked

C．evolved

D．proceeded

3.

A．team

B．creative

C．academic

D．individual

4.

A．identified

B．overlooked

C．considered

D．concealed

5.

A．explanation

B．conclusion

C．discussion

D．interdependence

6.

A．more suitable for

B．more critical to

C．less dependent on

D．less involved in

7.

A．swing

B．suffer

C．endure

D．function

8.

A．in principle

B．in a sense

C．in other words

D．on the other hand

9.

A．as a rule

B．by contrast

C．for example

D．as a matter of fact

10.

A．stressed

B．genuine

C．sensitive

D．generous

11.

A．I

B．HE

C．THEY

D．WE

12.

A．closely

B．rarely

C．humbly

D．jointly

13.

A．make less effort

B．cause more trouble

C．take less advantage

D．attach more importance

14.

A．Inspiring

B．Intensifying

C．Gathering

D．Training

15.

A．exploration

B．balance

C．stability

D．flexibility

3 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．Two.	B．Seven.
C．Ten.	D．Twelve.

2.

A．They are impolite.

B．They are necessary.

C．They are trouble makers.

D．They are crazy.

3.

A．The match is a national ice hockey game.

B．The speaker was a supporter of one team.

C．The teams are from the same continent.

D．The supporters left a good impression on the speaker.

5 . Thrown from his horse three times and repeatedly wet through while camping in a downpour, Chris Walker wondered whether the Mongol Derhy was really for him.

The property developer and farmer from Gloucestershire was, at 55, the oldest of the competitors in this year’s 1.000 km race across the grassland.

Despite the hardships of his eight-day journey, Walker was delighted to finish third in the annual equestrian (马术的 )endurance race.

Competitors race between checkpoints 22 miles apart, where they change horses. They spend nights at one of 28 stations, set up their own camp or enjoy the hospitality of friendly Mongolian families.

Walker, whose grandfather Neville Crump trained three Grand National winners, was an hour ahead of his rivals as the race entered its eighth day but was awarded a time penalty (判罚) because his horse had a high heart rate during one of the regular checks to ensure that the animals were healthy.

Walker said he had gone to Mongolia to “give it a go” but realized that he stood a chance of winning after teaming up with Patrick Heffron, a competitor from Ireland.

“The horses are quite wild. I got bucked off three times. I fell off in a hole,” he said. “You’re going along and suddenly disappear. You have to hang on to your horse for dear life or it goes off.”

Walker who has raised more than £7000 for the charity Riding for the Disabled Association, own horses and his son is a professional polo player.

Heffron, who met Walker as they went out for the race, finished third equal alongside his companion. He said it was important to form a team mainly because falling off alone means that there is no one to help you retrieve your horse.

“It is also a bloody long way to talk to yourself,”Heffron said. “Neither of us had prior ambitions win this race but we realized: “We’re in front, ” SP R pushed.

1. What can we learn about the Mongol Derby?

A．It’s a 22-mile equestrian endurance race.

B．Competitors have to camp at stations.

C．There is an age limit to competitors.

D．Horses are switched at checkpoints.

2. What is the main reason for Walker’s falling behind?

A．A time penalty.

B．The wild horse.

C．Poor teamwork.

D．His ill health.

3. What does the underlined word “retrieve” mean in the text?

A．Tie.

B．Feed.

C．Mount.

D．Bring back

4. Which of the following words can best describe Walker?

A．Enthusiastic but moody.	B．Proud and stubborn.
C．Courageous and ambitious.	D．Cooperative and generous.

7 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

What makes this year’s World Cup special?

This year’s FIFA World Cup kicked off in Qatar on Nov 20. In this sports event, a total of 32 teams will compete with each other for 28 days. But     1    makes this year’s World Cup “stand out” is its numerous historical footnotes, for better or for worse. Let’s see some of them.

One of the few countries not previously qualified to participate in the World Cup

Qatar has been     2    regular in the Asian Cup in recent years as well as a 2019 Asian Cup winner, gaining seven-game wins and scoring 19 goals that year. Its soccer team, however, has never previously qualified for a World Cup for either the men’s or women’s editions. Winning the right to host the 2022 tournament makes Qatar become the first country since Italy in 1934 to play in a World Cup without first     3     (qualify) for it.

First held in the northern hemisphere’s winter

Typically, the FIFA World Cup is held in May, June or July for suitable weather conditions. Yet, the sports event this year     4    (change) to winter to accommodate Qatar’s local temperatures.    5    (locate) in the desert, Qatar whose summer months usually reach above a temperature of 40°C, would be a nightmare for outdoor sports players. Playing in such temperatures means both being unable to play well and putting themselves at risk. Doing sports in intense heat may lead to dehydration (脱水), vision loss, fainting, and other such problems, noted the website Football.

    6    these considerations, Qatar has still stirred up some controversies (争议).    7    of them has been about player preparation. According to Fox Sports, many teams usually have plenty of time to prepare in advance. Soccer seasons often start in late August and wrap up the following May.    8    the World Cup begins, soccer teams still have three or four tune-up (热身) matches lasing several weeks. The coaches can also decide which team members can play in a match after seeing all of their players train and compete up close. Because of the unusual timing of the Qatar World Cup, however, this won’t leave any time for friendly matches ahead of the main event.

Criticized in lead-up to World Cup

To successfully hold the World Cup, Qatar needed to build more sports stadiums and other relevant infrastructure, like airports, metro lines and roads. This     9     (overwhelm) need for new construction created a high demand for labor. This demand was fulfilled by bringing 30,000 migrant workers to work on these projects since 2010. Some are reported     10     (treat) poorly, having their wages deducted (克扣) or even going unpaid for months. That has attracted criticism from some organizations around the world.

9 . 阅读下面材料, 根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段, 使之构成 一篇完整的短文。

I yawned (打哈欠)as I got off the last step of the bus. I had woken early that morning, and had not been able to sleep on the long ride from Riverside High, thinking about that day’s race, the Eye Opener. I had never raced in a state-wide race before. Over thirty high school teams ran, along with quite a few colleges. The rest of my team and I unloaded the bus, and we relaxed and waited for our race patiently.

“Start warming up,” our coach told us, roughly forty-five minutes after we arrived. After finishing our stretches, we headed over to the starting line, eager for the race to begin.

The starter walked to the middle of the field. “There will be two commands,” his voice boomed, ‘‘Runners set, then the gun. If you hear another shot, return to the starting line to start again. ” My heart raced as I got my legs ready to race.

“Runners set!” the starter shouted Bam! The gun fired, and he rushed out of our way. Adrenaline (肾上腺素)rushed through my body as I raced through the mass of runners. As I rounded the first turn, my schoolmates greeted me with heartening shouts. Then, in what felt like only one minute, I arrived at the one mile mark.

“6’10”, a man declared as I ran by. I tried to ignore him, but my legs began to burn as I realized I had run a mile and still had two to go. I slowed down my pace, for I knew the second mile was the worst of all three. Minutes later, I felt horrible. My legs ached, feeling like lead blocks. My vision was clouded as sweat dropped down into my eyes, and my arms felt as if they would fall off if I swung them one more time. Just as I almost reached my limit, a boy passed me. He also seemed to have lost strength but soon he was a little ahead of me.

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I gathered up my strength to speed up but suddenly fell to the ground.

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In the last mile, seeing the athletes passing us one by one, I asked the boy to run without me.

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