1 . 阅读下面的短文，根据其大意，从方框中选择适当的词填空。其中有三项为多余选项。

capable          disease          relieve        strengthen          oxygen          regular

    1     physical activity is one of the most important things you can do for your health. Being physically active can improve your brain health, help manage weight, reduce the risk of     2    ,     3     bones and muscles, and improve your ability to do everyday activities.

3 . 选词填空

inspiration     try out     give him a shot   crashed into   let us down had a strong desire   on his own   suggested       make it     on the bench

During all those hours of doing jump shots     1    , he used Bogues as his     2    . Paul once said, “If Bogues could     3    , why not me?”

However, our coach was not so sure. Paul had to     4     many times just for making the team. He was still usually     5    , being just a replacement, which was really tough on him. Though Paul had real skills and     6     to play for the team, he didn’t get a chance.

One day, a player and I     7     each other, which made me unable to play any more. Some one     8     that the coach     9    . The coach was hesitant (犹豫) at first, but he finally agreed. To our surprise, Paul didn’t     10     and we finally won the game.

4 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. personal        B. insecurities        C. moments       D. admit       E. follow       F. good             G. grow             H. issues       I. right       J. crucial       K. activities

How I Tricked Myself into Enjoying Healthier Foods and Exercise

Most of us would like to think that when we reach a certain age or point in our careers, we automatically evolve past the point of worrying about our appearance. Body image and self-confidence, or our lack of confidence, is something that we never really talk about for fear of drawing attention to our     1    .

But the truth is that our body image issues affect us more than we’d like to     2    . Over the last eight years I’ve worked hard to     3     my business. My main focus has been my work—writing books, creating products, launching products, growing my team—and I’ve dedicated long hours to my company’s success. My diligence has definitely paid off and my business is thriving, but all of that hustling has come at a(n)     4     cost. I’ve spent long hours at the computer and little time exercising or eating     5    . I tried to ignore it and I told myself that no one noticed, but my weight steadily crept up.

As a result, my confidence slowly decreased, and I retreated from the     6     —both personal and professional—that I loved. I stopped going out with friends, stopped sharing photos of myself on social media and avoided media interviews. Even if I didn’t want to admit it, I knew that the underlying problem was that I just didn’t feel     7     about myself. I had to make a change. I started by getting clear about my goals, which included getting into the best shape of my life, changing the way I ate and running a 10K on my 40^th birthday. But more importantly, I got honest with myself about why those goals were so     8     and then I asked the people that I trust the most to hold me accountable. From there, I had to make the daily decision to     9     through.

It wasn’t easy. In fact, there were many     10     that were downright painful. But I’m succeeding, and I’m happy to see that I’ve made changes and am now leading a healthier life.

6 . 根据上下文选择合适的单词, 在空格处填入单词的正确形式, 使文章信息完整, 意思准确, 有两个单词是多余选项。

battle   carnival   surround   atmosphere   location   crowd   roar   feature   performance   snack   decorate   range

Two outdoor basketball courts in a rural village in southwest China’s Guizhou province recently became popular for holding games with a/an     1     that rival the NBA.

Over ten thousand spectators (观众)     2     the courtside from morning to the next dawn and even at midnight,     3     on their feet when there was a score, eating     4     when hungry, and drinking home-made rice wine when thirsty. That’s why people call the games held in the courts CunBA,” a nickname similar to the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).

Taipan village,     5     in Taipan township, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous county of Guizhou, is home to the two standard basketball courts and has hosted the basketball match for decades. The annual basketball event is part of a traditional Miao ethnic harvest festival. The festival       6     a series of traditional activities, including horse racing and traditional music performance.

Basketball games are the most attention-grabbing part of the festiva1. There was a unique opening ceremony. The games also had halftime shows     7     by cheerleaders of Miao ethnic groups, as well as halftime shooting games. Equipment       8     from the local bullfighting horns, gongs, drums, to even pans and basins was taken to the games for cheering. These all made the atmosphere totally comparable to that of professional games.

This year’s tournament attracted 16 teams from     9     villages to compete. Players     10     primarily for honor, although there were some rural prizes too-a 650-kilogram cow for the winner, a pair of sheep for the runner-up and two piglets for the third-placed team.

7 . 阅读下面小短文，根据上下文语境，选择合适的单词填入空白处，每个单词只使用一次，每个方框里有一个是多余的单词。

A. destination   B. contacted   C. confidently   D. teenagers   E. injured   F. compete

One of the most popular sports among     1     is skiing. To ski, you have to choose a     2    . Last winter, Julie     3     a local tour guide in Yunnan Province, China and headed to Yulong Snow Mountain Ski Resort for a three-day trip. She used to watch the skiers go down a snowy mountain on TV, but when it came to her having a try, she was afraid of getting     4    . Fortunately, she found an experienced coach to teach her from the very beginning and soon she was able to stand on the ski board     5    .

8 . 请根据短文，选择适当的单词或短语填空，注意备选项中有多余词汇。

at last     to make an impression     positive     gym rather than     in the open air     even if     focus on movements     make it     expert     basic

Many of us think if we’re not hot, we’re not working out right. But is that true? Sweating is the cooling process (过程) your body goes through to help you keep a steady body temperature     1     workout goal. “‘Sweating equals calories burned’ is actually not true,” says Jessica Matthews, an     2     from the American Council on Exercise.“Everybody sweats differently, and how much or how little you sweat isn’t equal to the number of calories you burn.”

A study done on 20 highly trained cyclists in a(n)     3     found that working out in heat can play a(n)     4     role — including resulting in improved sweating and cooling. A part-time yoga teacher, Matthews says that hot workouts are becoming most popular in yoga. “People really like seeing whether their bodies can     5     through the external heat. But its demands mean that people need to have a     6     knowledge of what they can manage before they try these     7     in a heated environment.”     8     you’re considering a very simple workout like a heated cycling class, get comfortable cycling in a non-heated environment first. If you are doing workouts     9     on summer days, begin by going out for 10 to 15 minutes at a time. Then gradually increase to 20 minutes and work your way up, depending on your goals.

9 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. precisely       B. statistical       C. gender       D. enrolled       E. restriction       F. spotted G. frank       H. execute       I. identified       J. confidence       K. dramatically

Female Grandmaster—Hou Yifan

Even by the standard of chess geniuses, Hou Yifan stood out. It wasn’t so much the way she played the game     1     with an aggressive but flexible style. It was that she was a girl. Thirteen years after she became a Grandmaster, at the age of fourteen, people still mentioned two big hairpins that used to pin back her bobbed hair. “I never felt     2     or limitations,” she told me recently from her home in Shenzhen, China, where she is a professor at Shenzhen university’s Faculty of Physical Education.

“My parents never told me that as a girl you should do this or that,” she said. “Teachers never shaped my views in that way.” These days her hair falls to her shoulders and black cat’s-eye glasses frame her face. She speaks English quickly and     3    . She is the only woman among the hundred best chess players in the world.

Chess is not like basketball or soccer. Men and women face one another on equal terms, and no one can tell the     4     of a player from the moves on a scorecard. Still, of the seventeen hundred and thirty-two Grandmasters in the world, just thirty-eight are women. Much of this gap stems from how many women compete versus the number of men who do: around sixteen percent of tournament players are     5     as female and most of them are children. As a purely     6     matter, you would expect few, if any, women at the extreme of the rankings. Still, this appears to be an incomplete explanation of the inequality at the top of the game, about which Hou is     7    . “You cannot deny it, you cannot pretend it doesn’t happen,” she told me, of the absence of women from chess highest echelon(梯队). For years, she has been the only one who stood a chance.

Hou was born in 1994 in Xinghua, a small city near China’s coast. As a child she     8     a chess set in a shop window and liked the shapes of the pieces. When she was five, she started playing the game with other kids at the home of a chess teacher and showed enough talent that her parents     9     her a year early in the local school which had a chess program. She and her classmates would consult a large chess dictionary and write out the first few moves of famous openings on a sheet of paper. Then they would set up their boards, dutifully     10     their copied instructions and launch their wild attacks.

She moved to Shandong with her mother and attended chess classes. Two years later, she joined the national team and won the girls under ten championship in 2003. In the next year, she finished boys under ten tournament tied for first.

10 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. affected          B. agent            C. conditions        D. figures          E. inhabitants          F. motion G. originating       H. preserved       I. promoting        J. recognized       K. slide

The Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics saw many excellent athletes compete on the ice and snow,     1     an enthusiasm for winter sports in China. In fact, the country has had a deep relationship with winter sports since ancient times, with skiing     2     in the Altay prefecture(县) of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

In 2005, cave paintings of Altay people hunting on skis with poles were discovered, which archaeologists estimated could be more than 10,000 years old. Since then, Altay has been     3     by many as one of the birthplaces of skiing, according to Xinhua.

As one of the richest collections of ancient rock art in China, there are herds of camels, sheep, wolves and human     4    . The painting on the roof of a cave in Dundebulake village of Altay prefecture depicts humans on skis, bending their knees as they travel alongside animals, including deer and moose.

The rock art in Dundebulake is well     5     because the pictographs are well hidden in the cave. Additionally, Altay’s dry climate has been a useful preserving     6    , according to a 2016 research paper published by the Hebei Normal University. Unique geographical and climatic     7     make skiing an indispensable part of local people’s lives. The climate in Altay is mild and not too windy, so skiers are less     8     by weather conditions, allowing them to safely move faster.

Unlike the modern skis we use nowadays, fur skis have been used as a means of transportation for the snowfield     9     of Altay for more than 100 centuries, according to rock carvings uncovered in the area.

Making skis has been a traditional skill. The handmade skis have a layer of horse skin. The fur on the horse skin can help decrease friction when they     10     down the hill, while the skis also prevent skiers from falling when they walk up. At the same time, they have a wooden stick in hand to keep balance, according to China Daily. Fur ski competitions have been held annually by the local government. Many locals would display their maneuvers at the competitions.