1 . When you go for a run outside, chances are that you’ll find litter all around you. Do you just go past it, or do you stop and pick it up? If you choose the latter, you’re part of the latest fitness trend that’s sweeping the West: plogging.

The word “plogging” combines the Swedish phrase “plocka upp” (pick up) with the English word “jogging”.

Running – especially marathons – is often associated with good causes. And plogging, which combines environmentalism with fitness, has become the new poster boy for the environmentally-friendly runner. All a plogger needs is a trash bag, and ideally a pair of gloves to protect their hands.

The process of collecting garbage is simple, but it sheds light on serious environmental issues. “When I usually walk through the streets of New York, the sight of newspapers, lost hats, and shattered glass doesn’t bother me,” Matthew Sedacca of Men’s Health magazine wrote. “But when I was plogging and focused on trash collecting, the amount of garbage strewn (散布) across the sidewalks and along the pavement was kind of shocking.”

While collecting garbage, ploggers learn to classify and dispose of it correctly too. Laura Lindberg, a plogger who lives in New Jersey, US, always keeps a note of what she’s collected in her mind. This way, she knows what can stay in her trash bag and what can go in a nearby recycling bin.

It may be difficult to measure the sense of self-satisfaction that comes from making the world a cleaner, greener and more beautiful place, but the health benefits of plogging are easy to see. According to the Swedish fitness app Lifesum, a 30-minute plogging burns around 288 calories, compared to 235 calories burned from just jogging.

So the next time you go out jogging, why not carry a trash bag and collect some litter along the way? Your body and the environment will thank you.

1. What can we learn about “plogging” from paragraph 1 to 3?

A．Plogging is becoming a tendency throughout the world.

B．A plogger should take a pair of gloves for protection.

C．A plogger can contribute to environmental protection.

D．Plogging is often connected with running especially marathons.

2. What does the underlined phrase “shed light on” in paragraph 4 most probably mean?

A．To pick something up.

B．To make something clear.

C．To do good to something.

D．To take advantage of something.

3. The author presents his ideas mainly by      .

A．setting down general rules

B．drawing a comparison

C．making assumptions

D．giving examples

4. What can we infer from the passage?

A．We should assist ploggers to classify rubbish correctly.

B．Ploggers need keep a note of what they’ve collected.

C．Plogging helps burn more calories than jogging only.

D．The joy from plogging outweighs the health benefits.

2 . Are you trying to find the best time for exercise?     1     Follow these tips to figure out what fitness routine works best for you.

Dawn, dusk or dead of night — when’s the best time to work out? Well, that depends on when’s the best time for you, because the benefits of physical activity depend upon how consistent you are.     2     But if you’re not a morning person, it may not work for you to try to get up at dawn to work out. The key is to do what’s most likely to work for you consistently.

    3     If you find that working out too late in the evening keeps you from falling asleep easily, shift your exercise session earlier in the day or try less intense, more mindful forms of movement.

To stay motivated, choose activities you enjoy. If you’re a social person, do something that engages you socially. Take a group exercise class, join a recreational team or walk with a group of friends. If you prefer having time alone, walking, swimming or biking solo might be a better fit for you.     4    

There are so many choices.     5     Having a variety of fitness activities to choose from may keep you from getting bored or burnt out.

A．The truth is, it’s personal!

B．Don’t limit yourself to just one.

C．There are other important considerations.

D．Use your body clock as a guide to when to go for a walk.

E．You might have heard that the best time to exercise is early in the morning.

F．If you’d like to spend more time with your family, find an activity you can all do together.

G．If your schedule isn’t predictable (可预测的), you may need to be flexible and have a plan for various times of day.

3 . 假定你是红星中学李华, 你的英国朋友 Peter 热爱体育运动, 他将作为交换生到你校学习一年。请你给他写一封邮件, 主要内容包括:
1. 介绍你校体育课程及活动;
2. 推荐一项中国传统体育项目。注意: 1. 词数 100 左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。
Dear Peter,

I’m glad to hear that you will come to our school on a one­year exchange program.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

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

There is a growing interest in rock climbing. Recently there    1    (be) an improvement in technology and techniques to perform it. The sport is getting more    2    (attract) to many people. Although rock climbing has risks and physical challenges, people still have several reasons to take it up.

Some sportsmen feel that rock climbing can never become boring. This is because you have different places to go climbing. Additionally, there are several challenging routes to climb. If you are tired    3    walls at your location, you may visit elsewhere    4    (experience) other challenging walls.

    5    (obvious), it offers great fun and adventure to people when they go high up on walls. When they push themselves beyond the expected limits, they get    6    sense of achievement. Many people feel that rock climbing also gives them a feeling of    7    (free), as they can go wherever they want.

There are many sportsmen    8    also lake rock climbing as a physical challenge where they always move up the levels. After    9    (cross) a set level, they move to the next and then to the next. And they can always give a fight to their previously achieved    10    (goal). It all depends on their physical fitness and skill levels.

5 . Tired of your quiet day-to-day life? How about leaving your computer games behind and taking up an extreme sport?

You can ride a bicycle, right? In that case you’re halfway to becoming a mountain biker. All you have to do is take your bike off the road and try some hilly areas. Mountain biking was developed in California in the 1970s and became an Olympic sport in 1996.

Not challenging enough? Skydivers jump from planes at a height of 1,000 to 4,000 meters. You have to be fit but there’s no age limit with this sport. For example, Dilys Price from Cardiff went on her first jump aged 54. The minute she came down, she wanted to go up again. She said: “It was so attractive”.

Some adventures have invented base jumping, in which people jump from tall structures, such as buildings or bridges, with a parachute. Many of their jumps aren’t legal, especially in the cities.Dan Witchalls has jumped off The Shard —London’s 310 meter-high building four times.He says, “Base jumping is scarier than jumping out of a plane. In a plane there is no sense of height, but when you are standing on the edge of the building you can see people and cars, the experience makes it very real.”

It seems there’s no shortage of imagination when it comes to risking life to look cool and get the heart beating wildly. Surfing, diving, rock climbing ...And how about extreme ironing? That is, pressing your clothes on top of a mountain! Extreme ironing is said to have been created in the 1990s in England by a man who saw a large amount of wrinkled clothes and felt bored when doing the cloth ironing. That man was Phil Shaw. For him, the excitement of this sport comes from looking at the viewers’ faces. Shaw says, “Sometimes they look confused; sometimes they laugh. It’s fun to see how people react to it.”

1. What does the author think about mountain biking?

A．A bit boring.	B．Challenging indeed.
C．Great fun.	D．Not very hard.

2. What does the author want to show with the example in paragraph 3?

A．Skydivers have to be very healthy.	B．Skydiving is not challenging enough.
C．Elderly people can also take up skydiving.	D．People can easily become crazy about skydiving.

3. What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 4 refer to?

A．The sense of height.	B．Base jumping experience.
C．The edge of the building.	D．Jumping out of a plane.

4. Why did Phil Shaw invent extreme ironing?

A．He liked ironing clothes.	B．He wanted to make clothes ironing more fun.
C．He enjoyed different looks on people's faces.	D．He had a good view standing on top of a mountain.

6 . Flo Meiler was a Senior Olympics tennis player. She_________track and field at age 60. At 65,she tried the pole vault (撑杆跳高) for the first time. Now, over a decade later, Meiler has_________in the Nation Senior Games 13 times and holds 15 world records: one- hundred meter, the high jump, the long jump, the pole vault and so on. Meiler's_________of accomplishments goes on. Meiler is proud of it. How many_______ does your great grandma hold? Maybe none yet._________,Meiler will tell her there's still plenty of_________.

In Bernice Bates' yoga class, there is a motto: “I can do that.”You will feel_________when watching Bates twist and flatten her body into_________most healthy young people can't even do. Bates began_________herself yoga in 1980. Now, at 92, she__________a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest yogi on Earth. While teaching free lessons to residents of her Florida retirement home, Bates__________those who're decades younger than her by__________one simple philosophy: As long as you're alive, it's never too late to love your________This article must 　______　 with my own great grandmother who celebrated her 100th birth-day last year by bringing the whole family to a party on Orcas Island. Century old smiles are truly_______ a thing.

1.

A．gave up

B．took up

C．cleaned up

D．set up

2.

A．competed

B．failed

C．studied

D．practised

3.

A．list

B．dream .

C．desire

D．expectation

4.

A．tests

B．results

C．scores

D．records

5.

A．Besides

B．However

C．Otherwise

D．Therefore

6.

A．time .

B．need

C．sense .

D．fate

7.

A．relaxed

B．upset

C．optimistic .

D．annoyed

8.

A．examples

B．pieces

C．structures

D．shapes

9.

A．showing

B．awarding

C．teaching

D．creating

10.

A．searches

B．holds

C．cleans

D．reaches

11.

A．promises

B．invites

C．requires

D．inspires

12.

A．getting

B．asking

C．sharing

D．making

13.

A．family

B．body

C．friends

D．careers

14.

A．deal

B．compare

C．end

D．continue

15.

A．common

B．necessary

C．difficult

D．beautiful

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

My dad is an enthusiastic(狂热的) runner who     1    (great) influenced me when I was young. So I was very sporty before the age of 14. However, when my family moved, my new school didn’t pay much attention     2    sports and had no after­school activities like football or running. Over the next few years, I stopped exercising apart from during Physical Education lessons at school. I looked like I was     3    (health); however, I was not.

One day, I was late for a bus, tried to run after it and in under a minute was out of breath! This made me realize how unfit I was.     4    (help) myself get in shape again, I made a(n)     5    (decide) that I would take up a kind of sport.

A friend of     6    (I) suggested a swimming pool close to my house     7    she goes to a few times a week. Now, I’m a swimming lover! I find swimming in the pool very     8    (relax). I swim for an hour three times a week. I hope     9    I will soon start to feel the benefits of regular exercise, and will become     10    (fit) than before.

8 . If you have ever done competitive sports,you will know that starting a new season means a lot of hard work and practice.     1     Here are a few ways to make sure that you’re ready for the first day. 

    2     Ask your coach, gym teacher or trainer for some advice before writing your plan. Besides, write down how long you have worked out and what activity you have done. 

Ask your coach if you aren’t sure what you need. New equipment can be expensive, so think about using some second-hand equipment if it’s available. Brothers, sisters and friends can be great sources of used equipment.     3     You can ask your coach to take a look at it before the first day of practice. If you are a returning player, take out all your equipment, try it on and make sure that it still fits and works. 

    4     Sports camps can help new and experienced players brush up on skills before the season starts. College players, coaches or other professionals usually teach in the camps. Many schools and colleges offer various sports camps during the summer and on the weekend during the school year. 

Your school or team will probably require a physical check before allowing you to participate. Because everyone needs to get checked at the beginning of the season, doctors tend to be busy those times of the year. Therefore, set up an appointment with the doctor earlier.     5    

A．Set realistic goals.

B．You can also consider a sports camp.

C．Just make sure that it’s very clean and safe to use.

D．It’s also normal to feel a little nervous about starting.

E．Making the team and getting in shape are great goals.

F．Start by writing an exercise plan if you don’t have one.

G．That can give the doctor plenty of time to fill out your paperwork.

9 . What makes sports fun?

What makes organized sports fun for kids? A group at George Washington University (GW), led by Professor Amanda J. Visek, has been studying this question. The research is important because lots of kids give up playing sports around age 13 or 14.

The reason kids quit?     1     So if the group can figure out what makes sports fun, maybe more kids will play longer and develop better lifelong exercise habits.

First, the group brainstormed 81 things called "fun determinants" that can make sports fun. Then they asked the players aged 8 to 18 to assess how important each thing was to their enjoyment of playing organized sports.     2     The players ranked(排名) “winning” as only the 40th most important fun determinant. Unexpectedly, they ranked "trying your best," "exercising and being active" and “getting along with your teammates" in the top 10 most important fun determinants.

    3     They also compared younger athletes with older athletes as well as recreational athletes and kids who play on travel teams. The recent study revealed (揭露) more surprises. Some people think girls like sports because they want to be with their friends, while boys like to compete.     4     It's true boys placed slightly more importance on "improving athletic skills to play at the next level," but for the most part, the study found male and female athletes’ answers were very close.     5     Although there were some differences between the groups -younger players, for example, like "playing different positions" more than older players-the groups shared lots of the same attitudes toward what makes sports fun.

A．The result was surprising

B．They say sports aren't fun anymore.

C．Boys and girls react differently toward sports.

D．Different groups have different opinions on fun determinants.

E．The group compared males' and females' attitudes on what makes sports fun.

F．The study, however, showed girls' and boys’ attitudes were more alike than different.

G．The same was true for younger and older players as well as recreational and travel athletes.

10 . Why Is Exercise Cool?

•Exercise Strengthens Muscles

Did you ever do a push-up or swing across the monkey bars at the playground?    1    By using your muscles to do powerful things, you can make them stronger. For older teens and adults, this kind of workout can make muscles bigger, too.

•    2    

Can you touch your toes easily without yelling ouch? Most kids are pretty flexible, which means that they can bend and stretch their bodies without much trouble. Being flexible is having “full range of motion”, which means you can move your arms and legs freely without feeling tightness or pain.

•Exercise Keeps the Balance

    3    Your body needs a certain amount of calories every day just to function, breathe, walk around, and do all the basic things.    4    If you’re not very active, your body won’t need as many calories. Whatever your calorie need is, if you eat enough to meet that need, your body weight will stay about the same. If you eat more calories than your body needs, it may be stored as extra fat.

•Exercise Makes You Feel good

It feels good to have a strong, flexible body that can do all the activities you enjoy—like running, jumping and playing with your friends. It’s also fun to be good at something, like scoring a basket, hitting a home run, or perfecting a dive.

But you may not know that exercising can actually put you in a better mood.    5    It’s just another reason why exercise is cool!

A．Exercise Makes You Flexible

B．Exercise Makes Your Heart Happy

C．Those are exercises that can build strength.

D．So you want to do some aerobic (有氧的) exercise right now?

E．But if you’re active, your body needs an extra measure of calories or energy.

F．Food gives your body fuel in the form of calories, which are a kind of energy.

G．When you exercise, your brain releases a chemical which may make you feel happier.