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

In the past year, I had an unforgettable experience of learning tai chi. Honestly speaking, I admitted that I     1     (feel) hesitant at first but with time passing by, it really had a huge effect on me     2     (physical) and mentally. Not only were I deeply impressed by the moves that caught my imagination, such as “white crane spreading its wings” and “golden rooster standing on one leg”, but also I     3     (inspire) to explore Chinese culture.

It is all about keeping a balance between yin and yang,     4     are believed to form the unity of opposites. The practice of taichi aims     5     (maintain) the balance of our body through opposite     6     (movement): up and down, left and right, forwards and backwards, breathing in and breathing out. By performing the routine, tai chi eventually brings     7     a state of physical and mental peace. No wonder it is a best way to relax your mind and body.

I also experienced a short period of tiredness and boredom. Thanks to the patient guidance of professional coach, I gradually found to my     8     (satisfy) that I could focus on peace of mind and sleep better,     9     (enable) me to stay cool under pressure. I am sure I will continue to practice tai chi and enjoy     10     benefits it has brought me.

4 . 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 grew up in southeastern Michigan. I was a fan of Detroit Tigers, a famous baseball team, as a young boy.

My childhood dream was to be like my hero, Al Kaline, and someday play for the Tigers. My Dad would take me to Tiger Stadium several times a year and my hero Al Kaline would never let me down. We never attended a game that he didn’t get at least one hit.

I was crazy about baseball. If there was a game in my high school, I was never absent. I kept practising so that I could achieve my dream of playing for the Tigers, and I was doing well at each level of play. Later, I got a chance to sign up for a strong American Legion baseball program. There I met our coach, Bob Ohm, who knew a lot of baseball and taught each of us the basics as well as more advanced baseball skills. With Bob Ohm’s help and my hard work, I had set new records in many baseball championships.

My dream to be like my hero seemed to draw near. One summer, I went up to play the final season in Marinette. There were scouts who came to find the best players. This was it! My big chance!

Well, as the game progressed I hit the ball very well getting five hits in the game. Unfortunately, I also made four mistakes. The final mistake actually drew laughter from the crowd.

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After the game, I knew my dream of playing professional baseball was lost.

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Today, I teach baseball in a high school.

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5 . Sam Gregory is a data scientist. He and his colleagues analyze data on soccer, ice hockey and other team sports. Coaches have come to realize that such statistics are valuable. They can guide strategies for beating the next opponent (对手). They might also suggest which practice drills or recovery routines will help players perform best at the next match. And technology for tracking all those numbers isn’t just useful for professional athletes. It also lets the rest of us record and improve our workouts.

Sports analytics started with baseball. Here, batting averages and similar measures have been tracked for more than a century. Around 2000, some people went well beyond those simple statistics. They analyzed data to identify and hire talented players who other teams had largely ignored. This let a baseball team with a small budget create a team that could beat wealthier teams.

Other ball sports soon followed the sports-analytics fashion. Wealthy clubs in the English Premier League were the first to build analytics teams for soccer, which the league and most of the world call football. Other European and North American leagues followed. Soccer coach Jill Ellis led the U. S. Women’s National Team in back-to-back World Cup championships. She credits analytics with some of that success in 2015 and 2019.

Today, companies like Gregory’s Sportlogiq help many soccer clubs prepare for the coming games. That means analyzing the opponent’s previous performance. Analysts use computer software to watch lots of videos. The software can summarize data faster than people can, and from any number of games. Those summaries help clubs identify the key players they need to guard. They point to sets of players who work well together. And they spot field sections where the opponent tends to attack or press.

1. What can we learn about the sports data analysis from the text?

A．It is a new science in the world.

B．It benefits almost everyone’s exercise.

C．It serves professional athletes specially.

D．It can stop athletes being hurt in games.

2. What is the use of sports analytics around 2000?

A．Setting up competitive teams at a low cost.

B．Judging what sports that players can perform best.

C．Reporting batting averages and similar measures.

D．Guiding the teams to make as much money as possible.

3. How do sports analyzing companies prepare clubs for games?

A．Look into the future of certain team sports.

B．Work out the proper strategies for their games.

C．Promote the use of computer in the sports fields.

D．Help them know both themselves and opponents.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Soccer Game Strategies	B．Today’s Team Sports
C．Sports Data Analytics	D．Data and Information

6 . Tuna Tossing (掷金枪鱼)  

This sport began in South Australia in a fishing community called Port Lincoln. It was inspired by the local fishermen who used to toss fish onto their trucks. Competitors will throw a 10kg fish and the winner is the person who throws the farthest.

Hot Dog Eating Contest

Competitive eating has become popular in the past years and its participants try to eat as many hot dogs as they can in ten minutes. This sport began in the U. S. city fairs and has gained recognition due to Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, held annually on the 4th of July. The sport has turned into a huge industry and is now popular in the U. S., Canada, and Japan.

Wife Carrying

   It’s a sport in which male competitors race while carrying a female teammate through a special track in the shortest time. This game has its origins in Finland. It developed into a worldwide game later and had the first foreign champion from Australia.The North American Wife Carrying Champion began in 1999. Now the World Wife Carrying Championship has teams competing from Australia, Germany, Britain, Estonia, Ireland, and the United States.

Palm Tree Climbing (爬棕榈树)

Independence Day in Indonesia is on August, 17th. This day is celebrated by various competitions. Climbing the palm trunk is the most difficult one. To climb on absolutely smooth, oiled trunk is a problem. At the top of the trunk there are prizes—from towels, clothes and something to mountain bicycles and cash certificates. Many countries have similar tree climbing events now.

1. Which event promotes the business development greatly?

A．Tuna Tossing.	B．Hot Dog Eating Contest.
C．Wife Carrying.	D．Palm Tree Climbing.

2. Where was the sport Wife Carrying first held?

A．In Indonesia

B．In Australia

C．In America

D．In Finland

3. What is special about Palm Tree Climbing?

A．It is the hardest among the four events.

B．Its competitors’ strength means everything.

C．Its winners get prizes of different value.

D．It has become popular in many other countries.

7 . 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。

The New York Marathon (马拉松) is my goal for this year. I know I am never going to win a race but now, when I get anything negative, I will think of the kind gentleman who really believed, “You very good… you very fast.”

At the time, I was living in the Bay Area, and my mother had come to visit for a few days. On the last day of her stay, I was preparing to go out for a run. I picked up a T-shirt I just bought the other day from a Chinese clothing shop — it had some Chinese characters on the front, and a scene of Honolulu Chinatown on the back. I didn’t speak Chinese, but somehow this special T-shirt was quite soft and good for exercise.Working in a very negative environment, I found morning runs very beneficial — body tired but mind awake.

And I had always met an elderly Chinese gentleman walking on the opposite side of the trail (道路) when I was running on other mornings. I had always said, “Good morning,” and he had always smiled warmly and nodded his head slightly.

As I was going out the door, my mother suddenly said, “I don’t think running is so hot — that famous runner died.” I started to recount what I had read about Jim Fixx, and how running had probably been the contributing factor to his living far longer than most of the other members of his family, but I knew there was absolutely no point.

As I started running on my favorite trail, I found I couldn’t shake my mother’s statement. I was so discouraged that I could hardly run. I began thinking, “Why do I run at all? Serious runners probably think I look silly! I might have a heart attack on the trail — my dad had a fatal (致命的) heart attack at 50 years old, and he was seemingly in better shape than I am.”

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My mother’s statement remained in my mind like a giant blanket.

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Upon hearing the man’s words, I felt more unexplained strength in my step.

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8 . On Sunday, Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia shocked the running world by breaking the women’s world record for the marathon by over two minutes. Assefa finished the Berlin Marathon in just 2 hours, 11 minutes, and 53 seconds.

But Assefa’s record was far beyond what most people expected. After all, it was only her third time running a marathon.

“I wanted to break the marathon world record,” she said, “But I couldn’t imagine that it would result in a time under 2:12.”

When Assefa was younger, she started by running short races, called sprints. Then she became a middle-distance runner, running the 800 meters (half mile) race. Her best time in the 800 meters was 1 minute and 59 seconds.

Last March, she ran her first marathon. Then last September, she entered the Berlin Marathon. She won, and set a new women’s record for the course, finishing in 2:15:37.

This year, she ran almost four minutes faster than she did last year. In both races, Assefa ran faster in the second half of the race than she did in the first half.

Her time of 2:11:53 was over two minutes faster than the old women’s record (2:14:04), which was set in Chicago in 2019 by Brigid Kosgei of Kenya.

When she finished the race, Assefa kneeled down and kissed the pavement before raising her arms in victory.

Though Assefa made it look easy, she said winning the race “…was the result of hard work.” Assefa was coached by Gemedu Dedefo, who has helped train many Ethiopian star runners.

1. What is Assefa’s latest record for the marathon?

A．2:11:53.

B．2:14:04.

C．2:15:37.

D．1:59:00.

2. What does Assefa think of her victory?

A．It is what she expected.	B．It is a piece of cake for her.
C．It is due to great effort.	D．It is because of her coach.

3. Which word best describes Tigst Assefa as a runner?

A．Talented.

B．Friendly.

C．Humorous.

D．Warm-hearted.

4. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A．Dedefo Helps to Train Many Star Runners

B．Kosgei Holds the Women’s Marathon Record

C．Assefa Sets a Good Example to Other Runners

D．Assefa Breaks the Women’s Marathon Record

9 . 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。

A rural basketball league in China attracted well close to 100 million live views across the country in 2022 and 2023 respectively.

The Village Basketball Association,     1     (base) in Guizhou Province, is better known as “CunBA”, Cun being the word for “village” in Chinese. The grassroots league was established in 2016 but has recently attracted     2     whole new generation of basketball fans nationwide. Amateur basketball players representing their villages compete not     3     cash prizes; instead, the winning team take home live ducks, rice and     4     (tradition) Miao-style silver headdresses.

The CunBA drums up a special kind of emotion and     5     (excite) among spectators (观众). However, none of the 20,000 spectators     6     made their way to the year’s final game had to pay for their tickets, and they were welcome     7     (enjoy) the game in creative ways.

According to Xinhua News Agency, the sport has a long history in the region     8     (date) back to 1930s. Annual games     9     (hold) during the region’s Miao ethnic harvest festival in the sixth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. The CunBA, during the 2022/2023 season,     10     (have) a total of 176 participating teams from the various farming villages in the region, hosting nearly 5,000 grassroots games.

10 . 从括号内选择合适的内容完成下面短文

My first and last time running a full marathon

It       1     (was, is) one of the hottest days in the fall of 2019, almost as hot as a typical summer day. I     2     (had stood, was standing) among large crowds of runners, many of whom including me       3     (had been waiting, have been waiting) for this moment. This was my first time to be running in a full marathon. Before this day, I       4     (had never run, have never run) more than 35 km at one time. With the start time approaching, my heart     5     (was to start, started) pounding faster with excitement and uncertainty.       6     (Would I be, Will I be) able to finish a race that is 42.195 kilometers long?

The moment the starting gun went off, the empty road       7     (was flooding, was flooded) with runners. I started my GPS watch to record my running statistics (数 据 ): speed, length, time, heart rate, and the like. As expected, after running for nearly two hours, I     8     (had covered, would cover) half of the race’s length. Given my record in training, I was still confident of finishing the race within four hours. After all, I       9     (had been training, have trained) for the marathon since the spring of the previous year.

The sun     10     (was getting, would get) higher, and I could feel the heat of the sun’s rays. Soon I realized that my pace       11     (had been slowing, would slow) down steadily, as some runners who       12     (had been running, ran) shoulder to shoulder with me were moving ahead. There was nothing I could do but watch the distance between us getting longer. By this time, my heart was pounding faster due to a lack of oxygen. As I       13     (would struggle, was struggling) to pass the 32 km sign, more runners ran past me. It was also at this stage that I got cramp (痉挛) in my leg and had to stop running. So, I walked instead, silently drying my tears of regret. Determined to cross the finish line before the marathon       14     (was, would be) officially over, I turned down any offer of help from volunteers. By the time I finished the race, 5.5 hours       15     (had passed, was passing).

In future, I will probably not have a second chance to run a full marathon, for I had lung surgery the following year and       16     (have since been forbidden, had since been forbidden) to do any vigorous (激烈的) exercise.