1 . I was having a period of bad health. I had one operation after another. I was falling
I’d discovered that walking gave me a little
Slowly, feeling a little
In three years of walks, I’ve met dozens of people who’d had
All I’d
A.away | B.apart | C.asleep | D.about |
A.everything | B.nothing | C.something | D.anything |
A.courage | B.confidence | C.relief | D.delight |
A.drove | B.took | C.set | D.gave |
A.then | B.before | C.until | D.while |
A.miles | B.kilometers | C.blocks | D.streets |
A.happier | B.calmer | C.faster | D.stronger |
A.found | B.added | C.challenged | D.climbed |
A.review | B.search | C.goal | D.task |
A.moved | B.worked | C.carried | D.brought |
A.put into | B.knocked into | C.broke into | D.turned into |
A.bought | B.formed | C.published | D.created |
A.picked up | B.brought up | C.went up | D.kept up |
A.generally | B.recently | C.gradually | D.effectively |
A.same | B.particular | C.extra | D.similar |
A.received | B.avoided | C.suffered | D.stood |
A.able | B.worried | C.likely | D.anxious |
A.benefited | B.attempted | C.dreamed | D.sought |
A.home | B.neighborhood | C.success | D.friendship |
A.caught sight of | B.thought highly of | C.fell in love with | D.settled down in |
2 . Before there was the written word, there was the language of dance. Dance expresses love and hate, joy and sorrow, life and death, and everything else in between.
“I adore dancing,” says Lester Bridges, the owner of a dance studio in Iowa. “I can’t imagine doing anything else with my life.” Bridges runs dance classes for all ages. “Teaching dance is wonderful.
So, do we dance in order to make ourselves feel better, calmer, healthier? Andrea Hillier says, “Dance, like the pattern of a beating heart, is life. Even after all these years, I want to get better and better.
A.So why do we dance? |
B.Dance in the U.S. is everywhere. |
C.If you like dancing outdoors, come to America. |
D.My older students say it makes them feel young. |
E.I keep practicing even when I’m extremely tired. |
F.Dancing seems to change their feeling completely. |
G.They stayed up all night long singing and dancing. |
According to a review of evidence in a medical journal, runners live three years
The best exercise is one that you enjoy and will do. But otherwise… it's probably running. To avoid knee pain, you can run on soft surfaces, do exercises to
I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth relied (依赖)on how well they performed 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 take an opposite attitude .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. 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 had really tried and lost, that would 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 in comparison with others . Both are afraid of not being valued . Only as this basic and often troublesome fear begins to dissolve (缓解) can we discover a new meaning in 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.Failures are necessary experiences in competition |
A.It pushes society forward. | B.It builds up a sense of duty. |
C.It improves personal abilities. | D.It encourages individual efforts |
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.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. |
Yoga(瑜伽) is an ancient practice that helps create a sense of union in body, mind, and spirit. It brings us balance. I was seriously out of balance when I started practicing yoga in 1999. I had plantar fascitis in both feet, and my doctor had warned me against all the things I loved to do: walking, hiking, and playing tennis. I was desperate for exercise. Yoga became my salvation and even enhanced my other fitness activities. I practice yoga at least twice a week, but I consider yoga to be part of my daily life because after a while you no longer just practice yoga—you love it.
Yoga becomes part of your physical life. Your body grows stronger, more toned, and more flexible as you move from one pose to the other. I spent a week in Mexico at a yoga retreat, and it was the first vacation on which I lost weight. “Rather than building muscle, yoga builds muscle tone,” says Shakta Kaur Khalsa, author of the K.I.S.S. Guide to Yoga. “Because yoga helps maintain a balanced metabolism (新陈代谢), it also helps to regulate weight. Additionally, yoga stretches muscles lengthwise, causing fat to be removed around the cells.” I do yoga poses throughout the day. After hours at my computer, I stretch my stiff shoulders and arms. When I need a boost of energy, I do energizing poses. When I am feeling exhausted at the end of the day, I do restorative poses.
Yoga becomes part of your mental life. Yoga teaches you to focus on breathing while you hold the poses. This attention to breath is calming; it dissolves stress and anxiety. I use yogic breathing on the tennis courts, in the dentist’s chair, and in traffic jams. You should always leave a yoga practice feeling energized, not tired. If you feel tired after yoga, it means you spent the time “fighting” yourself, trying to force yourself into poses. In yoga, you “surrender” to the pose by letting go of the tension.
Yoga becomes part of your spiritual life. Yoga is practiced by people from all religions; it is not restricted to any religious group. Yoga teaches “right” living in how we deal with ourselves and others. As I work on a difficult pose, I learn patience, forgiveness, and the value of gentleness. Yoga advocates proper eating, but you don’t have to be a vegetarian to practice yoga.
1. What would be the best title for this passage?
A.What’s Yoga? | B.How I Do Yoga Poses |
C.The Benefits of Yoga | D.The Varieties of Yoga |
A.grow taller | B.lose weight |
C.become flexible in thinking | D.make more friends |
A.they consume energy in practicing yoga |
B.they respond well to yoga poses |
C.they spend too much time on yoga |
D.they force themselves into yoga poses |
A.Yoga as a means to keep fit. | B.Different yoga poses. |
C.Popularity of yoga all over the world. | D.Encouraging people to do yoga. |