1 . Humans were made for walking. With our upright posture and strong leg muscles, our bodies were actually designed with walking in mind which makes it such perfect exercise. It’s kind to our bodies and great for our waistlines.
Maybe you already love to walk, but you’re getting tired of tracing the same old route day after day, or maybe you’re new to walking and aren’t sure how to get started.
If making friends and socializing is your goal, call up your friends and schedule walks with them.
From the benefits to your heart to your overall happiness, walking is just plain good for you.
| A．Headed to a new city? |
| B．This month, pick up a map and start walking. |
| C．Ask your friends where they like to walk and just go there. |
| D．Either way, it's time to accept the idea of walking with a purpose. |
| E．And best of all, it’s a great way to see new things and meet new people! |
| F．Recently, science has proved that walking is good for your body shape. |
| G．If you're after walking alone, ask about local hikes that get you out of town and into the countryside. |
2 . Do big sporting events make us do more sport?
I recently spent half a weekend sitting on the sofa watching the Davis Cup. I thought about going for a run, but I did not want to miss the rest of the match. Soon it was starting to get dark, so I did not bother. Whenever I watch tennis, I think how nice it would be to play it regularly. But I have been thinking that for almost 20 years without actually setting foot on a court. The evidence would suggest that I’m not the only one.
When a country or city bids to host an international sporting event, it often promises that more people will take up sports as a result. London was no exception. Tessa Jowell, who helped to secure the 2012 Olympics for London, said they would be the first to set challenging but achievable targets as a measure of their ambition: By 2012 two million more people would be physically active. And 60 percent of young people would be doing at least five hours of sports per week.
In the end it did not turn out quite like that. Just over one-third of people in Britain take part in sports once a week. A report on Olympic and Paralympic legacy has said that a big change in participation levels simply has not happened.
Why isn’t there a big increase in people taking part in sports after most sporting events? Perhaps it is a mistake to assume an automatic link between watching sports and playing it. While the games are on, they actually encourage people to do just the opposite — to spend whole sunny days not out playing sports, but inside sitting on the sofa with the curtains shut to stop the sun shining on the TV screen and spoiling the view. We don’t expect half the audience of a hit musical to apply to drama school the next day, yet we seem to expect it of sporting events.
We might have sat on the sofa doing an impression of Usain Bolt’s bow-and-arrow signature pose. But how many of us have been inspired by watching him sprint (短跑) 100 meters? The high-level performances on show only remind people that they could never match the elite athletes in their sporting achievements even if they trained full time.
Maybe participation in sports is not the right legacy to expect after a major sporting event. It’s not so much that the Olympics failed to get people to participate but rather that this was never going to be the result. The Olympics can do many things, but maybe this cannot necessarily be one of them.
1. What can we learn from the first paragraph?| A．The author prefers playing tennis to running. |
| B．The author watches tennis matches very rarely. |
| C．The author hasn’t played tennis in nearly two decades. |
| D．The author didn’t go for a run because the match lasted longer than expected. |
| A．to fasten | B．to protect | C．to obtain | D．to promise |
①it takes people a longer time to play sports than watch it
②watching sports actually discourages people from going out
③sporting events make people aware that they could never be as good as elite athletes
④people are too busy to get into the habit of taking part in sports
| A．①② | B．②③ | C．③④ | D．①④ |
| A．important | B．natural | C．harmful | D．unnecessary |
3 . After the Gold
Congratulations! You’ve won the gold medal! Stand still while the photo flashes (闪光灯) pop and TV journalists ask how it feels. Thousands of new followers on social media, meanwhile, are waiting for what you have to say.
Then, prepare for a different kind of downhill.
Diann Roffe knows the experience well. The American Alpine ski racer (高山滑雪运动员) won a gold medal at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics after winning a silver at the 1992 Albertville Games. She immediately announced her retirement. She was 26, an age when most people have just begun a career.
Joining society at 26 can be tough. A professional athlete’s life is remarkably self-centered. You wake up taking your heart rate. You think of your own workout goals. You write down what you eat. After years of self-focus, if everything works out just right, you win. Most people will never experience a high that high. But there’s a downside.
“It was like being taken up to the highest mountain peak to see the view, and then being brought down, never to be there again,” said Roffe. In the first years after her win, Roffe thought, “Here I am struggling with the masses to make ends meet and get school done, seeking that extraordinary feeling again.”
Roffe’s friend, speed skater Cathy Turner, was the darling after she won a gold at the 1992 Albertville Games. “I woke up every day with a long to-do list,” she recalled her early days after retirement. “It was like, ‘What speech am I giving? What company am I going to address?’ I was Cathy the skater, the Olympian. Then I was Cathy the motivational speaker.”
Turner found it difficult to make a transition out of the sport. She returned to compete at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics, where she won another gold. She retired again, turned her attention to computers, but soon found herself with marital (婚姻的) troubles. Turner escaped her troubles the only way she knew — she trained for the 1998 Games, where she didn’t win a medal.
If their stories illustrate how difficult post-gold years can be, Roffe and Turner also show why winning athletes often eventually succeed.
“Think of what these people develop!” said California sports psychologist Doug Gardner. “Perseverance. Tenacity in dealing with failure. These skills are very useful in other aspects of life.”
Turner combined her perseverance with her love of computer technology. She finally became a valued database (数据库) manager at a company in New York state. Roffe, 23 years after her retirement, runs a successful business which makes locker (储物柜) systems for team locker rooms, resorts and gyms.
1. Which of the following statements about Diann Roffe is true?| A．She won her first Olympic gold medal in 1992. |
| B．She was invited to address many big companies after her retirement. |
| C．She has taken part in the Olympic Games three times in all. |
| D．She has become a successful businesswoman. |
| A．Athletes will have many sleepless nights as TV journalists pour in. |
| B．Athletes will have a hard time deciding what to say to new followers on social media. |
| C．Athletes will find it challenging to relive such great feelings in daily life. |
| D．Athletes earn small salaries and most of them will find it hard to make ends meet after retirement. |
| A．they focus remarkably well on themselves |
| B．most of them are very strong and healthy |
| C．they tend to keep trying despite difficulties |
| D．they know how to motivate others |
| A．American Alpine ski racers won many gold medals |
| B．she felt she had finally made a transition out of her sport |
| C．the U.S.A. team used the products of her company |
| D．her husband and kids accompanied her to the races |
4 . In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some hold an optimistic attitude. They value it highly,believing that it is a natural result of social progress and prosperity(繁荣) and that anyone who wants to he outstanding has to keep up with the pace. Others think otherwise. They say that competition is bad,that it sets one person against another and that it leads to the unfriendly relationship between people.
I have taught many children who hold the belief that their self-worth depends on how well they perform at tennis and other skills. For them,playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs. In their single-minded pursuit（追求) of success,the development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten.
However ,while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed,others have an opposite opinion. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary players,they strongly blame competition. Among the most vocal are youngsters who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. They have no choice. Teaching these young people,I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying,they always have an excuse： “I may have lost,but it doesn't matter because I really didn't try. “ What is not usually admitted by themselves is the belief that if they really try and lose,that will mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly,this belief is the same as that of the true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that one's self-respect relies on how well one performs compared with others. Both are afraid of not being valued. Only as this basic and often troublesome fear begins to dissolve(消除) can we discover a new meaning of competition.
1. What does this passage mainly talk about?| A．Competition helps to set up self-respect. |
| B．Opinions about competition are different among people. |
| C．Competition is harmful to personal quality development. |
| D．Failure is a necessary experience in competition. |
| A．those who try their best to win |
| B．those who value competition most highly |
| C．those who are against competition most strongly |
| D．those who rely on others most for success |
| A．One's worth lies in his performance compared with others. |
| B．One's success in competition needs great efforts. |
| C．One's achievement is determined by his particular skills. |
| D．One's success is based on how hard he has tried. |
| A．Every effort should be paid back. |
| B．Competition should be encouraged. |
| C．Winning should be a life-and-death matter. |
| D．Fear of failure should be removed in competition. |
时间：2019年6月20日。
地点：市体育场。
要求：1. 任何人均可参加；
2. 面对竞争对手要友好。
规则：1. 当场公布比赛结果；
2. 无论是否获胜，均有礼品；
3. 冠军奖金为1000美元。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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That’s all. Thank you!
Harley Street
April 5, 2019
6 . I first played tennis when I was 5 years old. I went to my local community center to
When I was ten years old,I
When I was in the 6th grade, I
I'm so
| A．attend | B．build | C．celebrate | D．visit |
| A．relaxing | B．different | C．tough | D．funny |
| A．research | B．effort | C．energy | D．observation |
| A．specifically | B．correctly | C．carefully | D．bravely |
| A．camp | B．school | C．college | D．home |
| A．duties | B．sports | C．experiments | D．hobbies |
| A．pretended | B．agreed | C．guaranteed | D．decided |
| A．succeeded | B．imagined | C．practiced | D．listened |
| A．pictures | B．lessons | C．tracks | D．messages |
| A．team | B．club | C．organization | D．competition |
| A．performed | B．mixed | C．launched | D．played |
| A．because | B．and | C．but | D．so |
| A．faster | B．higher | C．richer | D．better |
| A．attention | B．quality | C．idea | D．thought |
| A．sad | B．sorry | C．glad | D．tired |
| A．even | B．never | C．ever | D．still |
| A．remembered | B．achieved | C．learned | D．understood |
| A．healthy | B．busy | C．free | D．calm |
| A．allow | B．permit | C．order | D．encourage |
| A．benefit | B．comfort | C．satisfy | D．establish |
7 . History has been made at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia, as men competed in synchronized swimming(花样游泳) for the first time .
There was nothing in the world that could prevent July 26, 2015 from being the best day in Bill May’s life. The 36-year-old American synchronized swimmer became the first male world champion in mixed synchronized swimming.
“It’s something that I have dreamed of my entire life,” said May. His partner Christina Jones believed “this is the future of synchronized swimming”.
Synchronized swimming has been an Olympic sport since 1984, but only as an event for women. Nevertheless, men kept training in the hope that a chance might come for them to compete at the top international level, at the Olympics or the World Championships.
“Men’s choreography(舞蹈编排) is different from women’s. It is a completely different style. In a mixed duet(混双项目) the man should personify strength and power The woman, on the contrary, beauty and grace,” Russian male synchronized swimmer Alexander Maltsev said.
However, some people still believe that synchronized swimming should be a sport purely for women. Although men are stronger, they are less flexible so it is harder to get the necessary extension in: the legs. Buoyancy(浮力) is also an issue. The sport is very difficult for men in general, because men don’t actually float like women.
As times have changed, women now can compete in every category of sport at the Olympics, but there still remain two that are closed off to men-synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics(艺术体操).
Some see FINA’s change as a sign that the International Olympic Committee(IOC)may also be ready to include mixed duets soon. Nevertheless, the IOC says that it will only consider adopting male synchronized swimming after a formal request from FINA and no such request has ever been made.
It may take many years for the IOC to open the door to male synchronized swimming but if and when it does, one thing is certain. “If synchronized swimming went to the Olympics, I would definitely be there to compete,” said Bill May, “even if I am 85. ”
1. According to the passage, Bill May dreamt of _______.| A．being the first male champion swimmer at the Olympic Games |
| B．being a professional synchronized swimmer and defeating other competitors |
| C．having a partner who could help him win the championship at the top international- level |
| D．competing in a world championship of synchronized swimming as a male athlete |
| A．they never gave up training |
| B．they kept appealing to the Olympic committee |
| C．they made synchronized swimming known to more people |
| D．they tried to gain support from the female swimmers |
①flexibility ②judgement ③floatability ④strength
| A．①② | B．①③ |
| C．②③ | D．③④ |
| A．FINA hasn’t made the formal request |
| B．Male synchronized swimmers are not fully prepared |
| C．Female synchronized swimmers are strongly against it |
| D．Rhythmic gymnastics hasn’t been adopted |
A footballer was
Remove clothing using scissors if necessary unless it is
During the Renaissance, new ideas and values gradually replaced
1. 祝贺获奖；
2. 肯定成绩和努力；
3. 约时间在网上交流学习中国古诗的心得。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：中国古诗词朗诵大赛 the Chinese Ancient Poetry Recital Contest
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