1 . 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。

How Running Helped Me Turn My Life Around

I've never been an athlete. In my twenties, I went for an occasional yoga class, but that was really the summary of all my athletic accomplishments.

That was until the end of 2016,     1     I was unexpectedly laid off. I was feeling quite depressed but pushed myself to go and cheer for the TCS NYC Marathon runners as the course was going through our neighborhood.

However, while     2     (be) there, I got lots of energy from all the runners, smiling and applauding. Not a runner myself, I thought maybe I     3     give running a try just to use my neglected gym membership and see where it takes me. And so I tried. I went to my local gym the next morning and got on a treadmill（跑步机）. I was out of breath my minute five, but I slowed down,     4     (walk) for a bit and then restarted. I came back the next day, hoping to last a few minutes     5     (long). By the end of two weeks, I could run for 30 minutes, which was a huge success.

While I saw my body starting to look more toned, I also noticed my negative thoughts didn't occur that frequently. And it sparked a thought -- what if I could set a running goal and sign up for my first - ever race? I did and races became a new hobby.

    6     the meantime, I was able to acquire a few freelance（自由职业的）projects. They offered me a good income, and, most importantly, the time     7     (work) out for the big race. Also, when I was going for interviews, I started to feel very confident of my abilities, experience and skills.

I got my full-time job offer at my dream company just a couple of weeks before the half marathon.     8     I got an injury from over-training right before the race, I still went for it and still finished within my     9     (expect) time.

I still have a long running journey ahead of me -- I'd love to work on my speed, my technique and I dream of running a marathon outside of the US. Running gives me faith     10     I can do anything I set my mind to.

2 . 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

4. According to the passage, which statement is NOT true?

A．The Japanese coaches improved butterfly stroke.

B．David Armbruster used filming to study stroke mechanics.

C．Sieg came up with the idea of beating legs like a fish tail.

D．The butterfly was added to the Olympics in 1956.

3 . 语法填空

Physical Fitness Tests at Nationals Cause Outrage

Chinese sports authorities have been criticized for their new fitness rules.

No matter     1    happens in the pool, swimmers can only progress to the finals    2    (base) on the results of their physical fitness tests. The General Administration of Sport (国家体育总局) passed this new rule in February. It    3    (come) into public attention after widespread criticism at the National Swimming Championships in Qingdao.

The two-day tests    4    (undertake) by swimmers before the championships started on September 26. Athletes took part in ten events, including 30-meter sprints, pull-ups, and 3,000-meter runs.

Out of the top 16 finishers in each event, only the eight who scored    5    (high) on their physical fitness tests progressed to the next round. As a result, some race winners have missed out on the final. These included Wang Jianjiahe, who broke    6    record in Asia. Yu Hexin, who set a new national record in the men's 50-meter freestyle, failed to make it to the final. World champion Fu Yuanhui also missed out.

"It's not    7    we don't care about physical fitness," Wang told reporters. "We just think physical fitness should not be a decisive factor."

However, Chinese Swimming Association chairman Zhou Jihong made    8    clear that the reform was here to stay. "Everyone is equal before the rules," she said in an interview. Zhou explained that the aim is    9    (allow) China's athletes to compete with the best in the world.

Athletes at the National Track and Field Championships in September also complained that the physical fitness tests were too hard for them. It is reported that even chess players have had to take such tests.

The new GAS rule stated that those who did not meet the physical fitness requirements    10    (not allow) to compete in the Tokyo Olympics. Strengthening physical fitness training can not only improve the physical fitness of athletes, but also lay a solid foundation for their ability to compete well.

4 . 选词填空

A.	clouds	B.	claimed	C.	outdoor	D.	opportunity	E.	string	F.	potential
G.	attempt	H.	benefit	I.	limit	J.	heights	K.	unbeaten

Armand Duplantis may only be 20 years old, but he is already a track and field superstar. Duplantis had already earlier broken his own indoor pole vault（撑竿跳）world record in February of this year. Last month, he broke the    1    world record too. At the Diamond League meeting in Rome, he cleared 6.15 meters with his second    2    , beating Sergey Bubka's mark of 6.14 meters set in July 1994.

Before Duplantis, the 6.14-meter mark was the most impossible world record known to man. Yes, it was less attainable than any short distance running, distance running, jumping or throwing event record. "I hit the mat（垫子）but I haven't really fallen back to earth," Duplantis told reporters after breaking the record. "I think I'm still up in the    3    right now."

Nicknamed Mondo, Duplantis has been labelled as the next Usain Bolt（尤赛恩·博尔特） for his    4    to light up the sport. The child prodigy broke age-group records on his way to joining the pole vaulting elite. In fact, he remains    5    since the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha.

Duplantis sporting story began when he first tried pole vaulting at the age of four. Born to an American pole vaulter father and a Swedish athlete mother, Duplantis had the    6    of growing up with a pole vault pit in his own back garden. It was a child's playground heaven, but also the perfect breeding ground for greatness. Having already set world bests at every age from seven to 12, he won the world youth title in 2015, and then the world junior and European senior titles in 2018. In summer 2019, he    7    his first global medal as an adult with a world silver.

In the context of his    8    of achievements, it was somewhat unsurprising that Duplantis was able to break the 26-year-old record. The most pressing question now is whether he can continue to reach new    9    .The Swede has already been selected to compete at the Tokyo Games, where he will be a favourite to win gold. "I've always tried to not put a    10    on myself," he says. "There are endless possibilities."

5 . 从方框里选择合适的词语填空。

delivered     alert     documented   arising   temporary   recommendation     accommodate     demand       increase     contributing     practices

The throngs of tourists flooding Russian cities for the World Cup are expected to provide a(n)     1     boost to the country’s economy. However, the influx has proved difficult for some host cities to fully     2     visitors.

In the city of Samara, where England will play Sweden on Saturday in a quarterfinal match, water pressure is decreasing due to a(n)     3     in customers. In response, the city utility company has offered an unusual solution to mitigate(缓解) the low pressure. The proposal by the city’s water system authorities was     4     in a simple statement. “Save water, take showers in pairs,” the company said, accompanying its     5     with a smiley face.

The Moscow Times reported the water authorities have increased output in recent days to compensate for the visitors, but the utility company is still trying to     6     residents about the strains placed on the water service. Rather than trying to change the habits of visitors, the water service has asked locals to alter their daily     7    .

“Thousands of the city’s visitors, who also consume water, are     8     to the increase,” the utility company, Samarskiye Kommunalniye Systemy, wrote in a press release on Wednesday.

The city has also experienced a heat wave that has increased the     9     for water during the tournament. The Associated Press reported said that medical staff distributed water to fans traveling to last month’s game between Russia and Uruguay via public transit.

Utility issues also arose when Russia hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The host nation seemed unable to provide the infrastructure needed to host athletes, fans, reporters and others who attended the tournament. Journalists who visited the city to report on the games     10     discolored and brown water coming out of faucets.

6 . 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。

The postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for a year has raised concerns over a     1    (reduce) marketing period for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, but analysts believe the impact will be limited.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics,     2    sponsorship revenue has exceeded $3.1 billion, has been rescheduled to be held from July 23 to August 8 in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic,     3    (shorten) the Olympic marketing period for the Beijing Winter Olympics ---     4    (hold) in February 2022 --- by a year. 

Ren Hai, a professor at the Olympic Research Center of the Beijing Sports University, claimed on Tuesday, "There will of course be an impact, but I think the impact will be limited, as the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics are different in terms of sports and disciplines," Ren said. "Historically, the two different Olympics     5    (host) very close together." Ren was referring to the period from 1924 to 1992,     6     both the Winter and Summer Olympics were held in the same year.

He Wenyi, executive director of the China Institute for Sports Value, Peking University, said the reason     7     the limited impact on Winter Olympics marketing is that China has relatively few winter sports stars. China has won 224 gold medals in the Summer Olympics since 1980, compared with only 13 champions in the Winter Games. The last Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, saw China     8    (bag) only one gold medal, in short track speed skating. Summer Olympics sports are widely popular in China while winter sports are yet to enjoy the same kind of popularity, though the country has vowed to get 300 million people to participate in winter sports by the year 2022.

"But the promotional events of Beijing 2022 are unlikely     9    (affect), as the novel coronavirus epidemic is under control in China," He Wenyi said, adding the virus spread might lead to a change in     10     sports sponsorship is done worldwide.

7 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

The 2020 Championships Wimbledon have been canceled     1     public health concerns linked to the coronavirus epidemic. The Championships     2    (schedule) to be held from Monday, June 29 through Sunday, July 12. The134^thtournament will be held (hold) between June 28 and July 11, 2021. “This is a decision we have not taken lightly and we have done so with the highest regard for public health and the well-being of all those    3     come together to make Wimbledon happen,” AELTC chairman Ian Hewitt said. “It     4     (weigh) heavily on our minds that the staging of The Championships has only been interrupted previously by World Wars but,     5    (follow) thorough and extensive consideration of all scenarios, we believe that it is a measure of this global crisis and     6     it is ultimately the right decision to cancel this year’s Championships, and instead concentrate on     7     we can use the breadth of Wimbledon’s   resources to help those in our local communities and beyond.

8 .

A．Most of the man's friends are athletes.

B．Few people share the woman's opinion.

C．The man doesn't look like a sportsman.

D．The woman doubts the man's athletic ability.

9 . 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

2. Male synchronized swimmers held the hope that they might have a chance to compete at the top international level one day, so _______.

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

3. Synchronized swimming is not easy for men, due to their comparatively poor _______.
①flexibility       ②judgement        ③floatability       ④strength

A．①②	B．①③
C．②③	D．③④

4. What is the reason why IOC hasn’t taken adopting male synchronized swimming into account yet？

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

10 . Guided Writing
Directions: Write an English composition in 120 - 150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
你班将组队参加学校组织的集体舞比赛（group dancing cooipetition)，班长希望大家积极参加。对此谈谈你的看法。
你的文章必须包括以下内容：
·你是否会参加比赛
·你做出该决定的具体理由