1 . Two Russian cosmonauts(宇航员)aboard the International Space Station (ISS) played chess against an Earth-bound grandmaster on Tuesday, in celebration of the first such game half a century ago.

Equipped with an electronic chessboard,cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vaguer played in zero gravity against 30-year-old Russian former child prodigy(神童)Sergei Karyakin. The game was broadcast live and ended in a draw after about 15 minutes.

It was organised by the space agency Roscosmos and the Russian Chess Federation to celebrate the 50^th anniversary of the first Space-Earth game of chess played on June 9, 1970. "It's a huge honor for us not to lose to a grandmaster," Ivanishin said, while Vaguer added that US astronauts on the ISS watched the game and gave tips.

Karyakin, who played from Moscow's Museum of Cosmonautics, said he was jittery during the game and could not fall asleep until 4 a. m. on the night before the match.

"They played well," he said. "I can say that the human brain functions very well in space, and I have seen this today." At the age of 12 years and seven months, Karyakin became the world's youngest ever grandmaster.

Ivanishin, Vagner and US astronaut Chris Cassidy arrived on the ISS in April. On May 31, they were joined by US astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on the first manned private (light to the ISS. SpaceX made history by becoming the world's first commercial company to send humans to the ISS, leading Russia to lose its long-held monopoly(垄断)on space travel.

1. Why did the two Russian astronauts play chess on the ISS?

A．To offer a live show from the ISS.

B．To prove their success in boarding the ISS.

C．To test the human brain functions in zero gravity.

D．To celebrate the first Space-Earth chess game 50 years ago.

2. What does the underlined word "jittery" mean in the fourth paragraph?

A．Bored.

B．Disappointed.

C．Anxious.

D．Frightened.

3. What is the best title of the passage?

A．A Space-Earth Chess Game	B．A Former Child Chess Prodigy
C．A Chess Game Played on the ISS	D．A Celebration of Human Space History

2 . Improving as a runner is about more than just running all of the time.    1    In that case, you can make large improvements as a runner in a relatively short time, no matter what your sport, race, or running habits.

    2    It is common for runners to push themselves about the same amount each time, running similarly challenging runs and gradually increasing difficulty. Outstanding runners, however, alternate(交替)an easy, resting run with a very challenging one. It is during these difficult runs，when you really push yourself, that your body snakes the most significant gains.    3    Rather, it is helping rebuild and relax the muscles needed for your big runs.

Keep a relaxed but strong upper body to conserve energy efficiently. You want to keep your chin(下巴)up and your shoulders back, with loose, relaxed arm and hand muscles. Your elbows are bent at 90 degrees but swing freely. If anything, the only muscles you want to focus on keeping strong and tight are the ones in your core(核心).    4    

Use your light run to work up a light sweat. A higher body temperature ensures your muscles are loose and flexible, and your body is pumping blood effectively throughout. For everything other than easy runs, use the first five to ten minutes to build a light sweat and get your body ready for exercise.    5    Slowly pick up speed for short 10 second runs, then return to normal warm-up pace. This helps prepare your muscles for speed.

A．Don't feel like an easy day is "cheating".

B．Alternate easy and hard runs to build strength rapidly.

C．Even five minutes of walking is a good way to get started.

D．"Warming up" truly means you want to warm up your body.

E．You are to pay a little attention to details and a smart training plan.

F．That's because this will naturally help you efficiently channel energy.

G．Remember to relax your face and neck muscles instead of tensing them

3 . 请以“My favorite sport”为题，写一篇短文，参加你校英文报征文，内容包括：1.如何爱上这项运动的；2.喜爱的原因。
注意：1.词数100左右；2.短文题目和首句已为你写好。

My favorite sport

Many people like sports.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4 . There have always been a lot of commonly believed but false ideas about being fat and doing exercise.Some people believe that they can't help putting on weight as they get older,while others hold that if they stop exercising,their muscles will turn into fat.Here are some more myths:

I' ll never lose weight-I come from a fat family

Wrong!While we can't change the body type we are born with,we can't blame our genes for making us fat.There's plenty of evidence that fatness runs in families, and the main reason is that they share the same habits of eating too much and exercising too little.

I am fat because I burn calories slowly

Wrong! Fatness is not caused by a slow metabolism(新陈代谢).In fact, although fat people consume more energy than slim people,they also fail to realize how much they eat!Keeping a diary can help you work out your daily food intake more accurately.

Exercise is boring

Wrong!Anything will become boring if you do it repetitively.The key is to develop a balanced and varied program that's fun as well as progressive.If you enjoy a Sunday walk,take a different route.If you do yoga,try a tai chi class.If you like swimming,set yourself a distance or time challenge.

No pain,no gain

Wrong!Exercise is not meant to hurt. Indeed, pain is your body telling you something's wrong, and continuing to exercise could lead to serious injury.You may experience mild discomfort as you begin to exercise regularly,but this is your body adapting to the positive changes in your lifestyle and the aches should disappear relatively quickly.If they don't,rest and seek medical advice.

1. What does the author think about being fat?

A．It is the family genes that make people fat.

B．People are fat because they consume too little energy.

C．A diary of exercise can prevent people from becoming fat.

D．It is the consequence of people's unbalanced lifestyle.

2. According to the author,how can we make exercise more interesting?

A．By taking varied exercise.	B．By choosing simple exercise.
C．By doing regular exercise.	D．By sticking to outdoor exercise.

3. What is the author's opinion about "No pain,no gain" in exercising?

A．Keeping fit is essentially a painful experience.

B．Exercise should be stopped if continuous pain is felt.

C．Pain in exercise is a precondition for reaching your goal.

D．Getting used to pain leads to positive changes in your body.

5 . Race walking shares many fitness benefits with running, research shows, while most likely contributing to fewer injuries. It does, however, have its own problem.

Race walkers are conditioned athletes. The longest track and field event at the Summer Olympics is the 50-kilometer race walk, which is about five miles longer than the marathon. But the sport’s rules require that a race walker’s knees stay straight through most of the leg swing and one foot remain in contact (接触) with the ground at all times. It’s this strange form that makes race walking such an attractive activity, however, says Jaclyn Norberg, an assistant professor of exercise science at Salem State University in Salem, Mass.

Like running, race walking is physically demanding, she says, According to most calculations, race walkers moving at a pace of six miles per hour would burn about 800 calories(卡路里) per hour, which is approximately twice as many as they would burn walking, although fewer than running, which would probably burn about 1,000 or more calories per hour.

However, race walking does not pound the body as much as running does, Dr. Norberg says. According to her research, runners hit the ground with as much as four times their body weight per step, while race walkers, who do not leave the ground, create only about 1.4 times their body weight with each step.

As a result, she says, some of the injuries associated with running, such as runner’s knee, are uncommon among race walkers. But the sport’s strange form does place considerable stress on the ankles and hips, so people with a history of such injuries might want to be cautious in adopting the sport. In fact, anyone wishing to try race walking should probably first consult a coach or experienced racer to learn proper technique, she says. It takes some practice.

1. Why are race walkers conditioned athletes?

A．They must run long distances.

B．They are qualified for the marathon.

C．They have to follow special rules.

D．They are good at swinging their legs.

2. What advantage does race walking have over running?

A．It’s more popular at the Olympics.

B．It’s less challenging physically.

C．It’s more effective in body building.

D．It’s less likely to cause knee injuries.

3. What is Dr. Norberg’s suggestion for someone trying race walking?

A．Getting experts’ opinions.

B．Having a medical checkup.

C．Hiring an experienced coach.

D．Doing regular exercises.

4. Which word best describes the author’s attitude to race walking?

A．Skeptical.	B．Objective.
C．Tolerant.	D．Conservative.

6 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Sun Yang wins men's 400m freestyle in FINA Champions Swim Series on January 15 in Shenzhen. “My 400m free remains smooth all the time, showing that my training is    1    (effect). My goal this year is    2     (win) at the Olympic Games," said Sun, who lost to Rapsys     3    0. 03 in 200m freestyle on Tuesday. The world top-class athlete     4     (perfect) showed his dominant power in the 400m freestyle event in front of all his home fans,       5     (suggest) that he is aiming high for the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games.

Liu Xiang bagged her second gold medal in the 50m freestyle in 24. 04. “I got    6     cold after I arrived here three days ago,       7     I did not expect to win with a time equaling my personal best," said Liu. So far, China       8     (collect) 9 gold medals as the biggest winner.

According to FINA official website, the brand-new “FINA Champions Swim Series" is since 2019 a circuit     9     (gather) the top athletes of the sport, and it has an original     10     (compete) format including finals with only four swimmers.

7 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What does the speaker ask the runners to do?

A．Stand in line.

B．Do a practice run.

C．Follow a volunteer.

2. What will be available at the stations every two miles?

A．Medical assistance.

B．Reporters.

C．Drinks.

3. What is forbidden in this race?

A．Headphones.

B．Food.

C．Photos.

4. When will the running course be taken down?

A．In the mid-morning.

B．At midday.

C．In the early afternoon.

8 . A snowstorm hit my neighborhood the other day. I had recently agreed to be the house’s groundskeeper, which meant I got ______ with shoveling(铲) the inches of snow that covered the driveway.

I had stayed in the house during the ______ , so I was actually pretty happy to head ______ . I shoveled for an hour or so, and I felt muscles in my arms and legs that I had ______ used start to burn. By the time I finished shoveling, I was getting the   ______ I normally get from biking. To be honest, I was pretty ______ to stop.

A few days later, some friends and I got into a ______ about how hard it is to exercise. Going to gyms is becoming the most annoying ______ ever. Not exercising has an effect on our health. Less than 5% of adults are physically ______ for half an hour a day. Not exercising enough can ______ diseases like heart diseases, cancer, obesity and depression.

And yet shoveling snow was that ______. It didn’t take too much ______ because I wasn’t shoveling for exercise, but to ______ the driveway. People pay much money for gym memberships and classes to ______ extra fat. So why not ______ paying the fitness industry to exercise and help with each other with such kind of ______ ? Surely they’re better off ______ that money and putting the energy to practical use.

A neighborhood could have a Facebook group where people could ______ things they needed help with. Then, people who wanted to exercise could ______ . Win-win. Instead of making it about helping people, it can be framed as a new fitness ______ .

1.

A．charged

B．filled

C．tasked

D．crowded

2.

A．festival

B．disaster

C．rush

D．storm

3.

A．outside

B．inside

C．forward

D．backward

4.

A．usually

B．directly

C．really

D．rarely

5.

A．challenge

B．exercise

C．threat

D．power

6.

A．lucky

B．angry

C．happy

D．sorry

7.

A．party

B．meeting

C．discussion

D．fight

8.

A．homework

B．routine

C．solution

D．business

9.

A．strong

B．healthy

C．active

D．sleepy

10.

A．bring about

B．set off

C．take down

D．live through

11.

A．difficult

B．easy

C．valuable

D．perfect

12.

A．determination

B．intelligence

C．reputation

D．confidence

13.

A．design

B．clear

C．build

D．wash

14.

A．put on

B．pass down

C．pick up

D．burn off

15.

A．enjoy

B．miss

C．stop

D．escape

16.

A．reality

B．labor

C．dream

D．faith

17.

A．saving

B．collecting

C．donating

D．achieving

18.

A．seek

B．imagine

C．post

D．examine

19.

A．help out

B．show off

C．turn around

D．run away

20.

A．lesson

B．skill

C．map

D．style

9 . 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 move, my new school didn’t pay much attention     2     sports and had no after-school activities like football or running. Over the next few years, I    3    (stop) exercising apart from during Physical Education lessons at school. It looked like I was     4     (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.     5     (help) myself get in shape again, I made a(n)     6     (decide) that I would take up a kind of sport.

A friend of mine suggested a swimming pool     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    9     hour three times a week. I hope that I will soon start to feel the benefits of regular exercise, and will become     10     (fit) than before.

10 . The modern competitive sport of weightlifting originated in 19^th-century Europe and was included in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896.     1     At that time, simple competitions were held to see who could lift the heaviest weight.

The first worldwide weightlifting championships were held in London in 1891. At that time, there were no female competitors. Today, the World Weightlifting Championships, organized by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), are held every year.     2    

Weightlifting as an Olympic event got off to an unsmooth start. It was not held as a separate event in the first games held in 1896, but as a field event.     3     The sport returned to the Olympics again in 1904, this time as part of the athletics program. Not until 1920 did weightlifting make its real Olympic comeback. The 1920 Olympic Games, held in Antwerp, Belgium, marked weightlifting’s debut（首次露面）as a separate event.     4     Previously, weightlifters in the Olympics were all required to compete against each other, regardless of their size. One-hand lifting was dropped from the sport in 1928. Various weightlifting exercises were added and later removed over many years until 1972.     5     The 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney saw the introduction of the women’s competition, although the IWF has held the World Weightlifting Championships for women since 1987.

A．The 1940 and 1944 Games were canceled.

B．It is a sport in which barbells are lifted competitively.

C．The 1900 Games had no weightlifting presence at all.

D．The championships include 15 separate weight types for both men and women.

E．The 1972 Olympic Games finally presented the weightlifting program in its present form.

F．The sport, however, dates back to ancient civilizations including China, Egypt and Greece.

G．The Antwerp Games also introduced one-hand lifting and weight divisions to the new event.