2 . What does the woman mean?

A．She watched an exciting game.

B．She played for the school team.

C．She was busy working yesterday.

3 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Last Sunday witnessed a friendly basketball game between students and teachers in our school with the aim of fueling students’ passion for sports as well as release their overwhelming pressure. Bathing in sunshine, players from Grade 3 competed with their teachers in the basketball court surrounded by the rest of the students, who were watching excited. Both teams were playing at their best in high spirit. Although the teachers took the lead in a game at first, the students did not lose their heart and tried to catch up with their opponents. The game was filled in great excitement and passion, and ends in a draw of 2:2. Not only the exciting game relieve the students’ intense stress, and their relationship with the teachers was also strengthened.

4 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号( )，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;

2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

By cycling you can not only enjoy the sights along the way but also can exercise your muscles or burn your fat. You can probable burn a lot of calories if you go for one-hour bicycling trip. If weight loss is your objection, one pound a week is beneficial. People who lost weight quickly are likely regain weight within the first year.

If cycling is part of our life, it is not necessary to give up sugar and coffee at a same time. Besides, a healthy diet is of great important as well. Eating fruit and vegetable can fuel your body on your cycling trips. If you cycle every day along with healthy eating, you will feel much more healthier.

5 . The butterfly, which is competitive swimming’s newest stroke (划水), was developed in the mid-1930s, but it wasn’t allowed in the Olympics until 1956. The story of the butterfly is a good illustration of how coaches and swimmers are constantly searching for ways to improve stroke efficiency.

During the 1920s, the Japanese Olympic coaches used underwater photography to research stroke mechanics, and their efforts paid off when Japanese competitors won five of the six men’s swimming gold medals at the 1932 Games in Los Angeles.     

It was a wake-up call to the rest of the swimming world, and one of the top US coaches – David Armbruster at the University of Iowa – began doing his own filming.

Armbruster was seeking to make the breaststroke faster. He knew that the action of bringing their arms forward underwater slowed breaststrokes down, so he came up with a method of bringing the arms forward over the water. The revised stroke (he kept the breaststroke kick) brought great improvements in speed.

The following year, Jack Sieg, an Iowa swimmer, developed a technique involving swimming on his side and beating his legs in unison (一致) similar to a fish tail. As Armbruster later explained in the book Weissmuller to Spitz: The History and Background of the Olympic Games: “Sieg tried the same action while swimming face down. Sieg synchronized his leg action with the butterfly arm action using two leg beats to each arm pull.” But the kick was ruled illegal because the legs moved in the vertical (垂直的) plane.

Within a few years, nearly every breaststroker was using this overarm butterfly action without the kick. The pure butterfly wasn’t legalized for some two decades, but at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne ‘the fly’ became an official event.

1. The best title of the article is _____.

A．Why did the coaches and swimmers improve stroke efficiency?

B．How did the butterfly come into being?

C．How did the Japanese wake up the swimming world?

D．When did ‘the fly’ become an official event?

2. The Japanese coaches use underwater photography in order to ______.

A．wake up the swimming world

B．be paid more money

C．know how to be a mechanic.

D．improve stroke efficiency.

3. Before the pure butterfly was officially recognized, ______ years or so had passed .

A．15

B．20

C．30

D．35

6 . COMPETITION!

Woo-hoo! Get your cameras and smartphones at the ready, because it’s time for this year’s NG KIDS photography competition.

What you need to know

Competition is open only to legal residents of the UK and Ireland who are between the ages of 7 and 14. We have THREE categories in the competition — animals, people and environment (a new category started this year). You can enter as many categories as you like but just ONE photo per category, please!

All photos should be sent through our website. If you’ve not already registered, you or your parent will need to do so at natgeokids. com/uk/ photocomp — it will only take a minute to do! You can submit ONE photo for each of the three categories. Photos should be in JPEG format, between 1MB and 5MB in size. Enter at natgeokids. com/uk/photocomp.

Before you submit your photo, make sure you rename it with your full name and the category you are entering. For example, Joe-Bloggs-Animals. jpg. Don’t forget to tell us your full name, date of birth and the title of your photo!

The prizes

Our Star Prize is a family holiday in Morocco!

And that’s not all! Each category winner will win a number of prizes too, including an amazing Nikon COOLPIX W150 camera, which is built to go anywhere.

The closing date is 23:59 (GMT) on 21 October 2020. Winners will be notified before 18 November 2020.

1. How is this year’s competition different from that of last year?

A．It has a new category.

B．It lasts about one month longer.

C．It is open to kids from around the world.

D．It will give more than one prize to winners.

2. How many photos can be submitted at most by an applicant?

A．One.

B．Two.

C．Three.

D．Five.

3. What can be learned from the passage?

A．It will take a long time to register.

B．All the winners can go for a family holiday in UK.

C．The photos can be submitted on 18 November 2020.

D．One must rename the photo with full name and the category.

10 . In the lead-up to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, educators across Qatar Foundation (QF) have found creative ways to take advantage of the global sporting event in the classroom to teach both physical and social skills, and to bring their lesson plans to life.

“Apart from encouraging them to take part in the physical aspect of the game, it’s a perfect opportunity to teach social skills, such as team spirit, fair play, respect for rules, cooperation, discipline and tolerance, etc. These are all essential skills for future participation in group activities and professional life,” explained Sara Hal Hajri, assistant director of QF.

The topics include learning about the event, the sport of football, stadiums and how they link to Qatari culture and heritage, and the positive impact the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 will have on the local community, etc. Classes will also be designing and creating a sustainable football in honor of the landmark year.

At the heart of the activities are friendly football matches organized to simulate the match experience where students will engage as either football players or audience. They will create cheers for their favourite team, use a match ticket, and purchase refreshments to mirror the experience at a match.

Football in Qatar Academy Sidra (QAS), a QF school, has been included in the curriculum across the age groups to teach subjects like geography, art writing,math and others in creative ways. For example, Grade 4 students are using maps to determine the distances between stadiums while Grades 11 and 12 engage in redesigning the FIFA World Cup using recycled materials.

Fatima Saad Mohannadi, a Grade 10 student from QAS said, “Everyone is pumped up about the World Cup-it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and there are so many activities being linked to it. And when we also have it included in our day-to-day learning, it just makes school that much more fun and something that, like the World Cup, we all look forward to.”

1. What does Sara want to stress concerning integrating football into class?

A．Its significance.

B．Its prospect.

C．Its diversity.

D．Its efficiency.

2. What does the underlined word “simulate” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Guarantee.

B．Preserve.

C．Model.

D．Recall.

3. What’s Fatima’s attitude to football-related activities?

A．Resistant.

B．Excited.

C．Doubtful.

D．Tolerant.

4. What’s the best title of the text?

A．The Cultures Behind the Football Event

B．The Postive Impacts of Playing Football

C．Qatar Plays Host to the 2022 FIFA World Cup

D．QF Schools Use Football As a Novel Teaching Tool