1 . Benefits of Sports
Doing sports is a physical, mental and social adventure. It’s a great way for children to take a break from studies and release extra energy. It also helps them lead fuller and happier lives as regular sports have proven beneficial to overall well-being.
The physical benefits of doing sports are probably the most obvious. Regardless of your fitness level when you start playing sports, you’ll notice an increase in your overall fitness once you’re involved.
Children who participate in sports might also benefit from the social aspect, feeling part of a group, building up responsibility and leadership.
Discipline is another social advantage. Most organized sports require a strict training and practice schedule. As a student-athlete, you need to balance studies and athletics.
There is no shortage of reasons to find a sport to get involved in. Are you ready to go? Pick one and get moving!
| A．It’s not just your body that benefits from sports. |
| B．Therefore, playing sports is going to make you more fit. |
| C．But remember, a child’s self-worth should not be distinguished by victory or loss. |
| D．If you play group sports, you’ll be part of a team that takes direction from a coach. |
| E．Nearly every sport requires physical activities and the competitive skills. |
| F．Among these, learning how to function as part of a team is the most important advantage. |
| G．Only with strict discipline can you be successful both in the classroom and in the sports field. |
2 . Exercising regularly not only helps you keep slim, but also improves your overall health and well-being. Different exercises produce different results, as they focus on alternate parts of the body. There are four broad exercise categories: endurance, strength, flexibility, and balance. Many people often only focus on one exercise type, but including all four in your workout will produce better results and reduce your risk of injury.
Endurance
Endurance exercises increase your breathing and heart rate. By doing endurance exercises, you are working to keep your heart, lungs, and blood-flow system healthy while improving your total fitness. Over time these activities will make everyday activities seem easier.
Strength
If you want to build up your muscles, then strength exercises, which are also known as “resistance training”, are right for you. Even the slightest increase in strength can make a huge difference in your ability to carry out daily tasks. Developing strong muscles also reduce your risk of weak bones.
Flexibility
Flexibility exercises help stretch your body’s muscles. This allows for more freedom of movement for other exercises and can also improve your range of motion, posture, ability to breathe deeply, and blood flow. Also, it reduces the muscle tension caused by stress.
Balance
Balance exercises help prevent falls and are especially important to older adults, helping them stay independent. Most good balance exercises are ones that keep you constantly moving with your feet on the ground. Heel-to-toe walking and standing on one foot are simple ways to improve balance.
1. How can a person benefit most from their exercise routine?| A．By combining different exercise types together. |
| B．By having enough rest between their workouts. |
| C．By concentrating on one training aspect at a time. |
| D．By increasing the frequency of their training gradually. |
| A．Strength and Balance. | B．Flexibility and Balance. |
| C．Endurance and Strength. | D．Endurance and Flexibility. |
| A．Arms. | B．Legs. | C．Waist. | D．Neck. |
3 . Don’t Be Afraid to Quit. It Could Help You Win.
The marathoner Molly Seidel has always been a respectable athlete, but her path to the Olympic medal was not smooth.
Treatment changed everything.
In a world that rewards constant toughness, Seidel’s breakthrough was a case study in the value of patience and self care. Despite the general wisdom that the career of a professional athlete should be unbroken upward to peak performance, Seidel stepped away to recover, and came back stronger.
Seidel’s coach, Jon Green, says she does better in races when she’s not pushed to extremes in practice. “
| A．She became a better athlete than ever. |
| B．Does Molly have determination? |
| C．When she crossed the finish line, she screamed with joy. |
| D．Seidel thinks that quitting shouldn’t be seen as giving up. |
| E．It’s a powerful lesson in how to handle the natural derailments(脱轨) of life. |
| F．We make sure we're taking care of Molly as a person, not just Molly the runner. |
| G．She quit the 2016 U. S. Olympic trials to check into treatment for depression, and disordered eating. |
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5 . The Olympics and COVID-19 were never going to coexist. The basic rule when it comes to controlling an infectious disease is to limit the contact people have with one another. Yet the very essence of the two weeks of competition, which begin on July 23 in Tokyo, is to invite the world to meet, greet and engage in friendly — and often socially not so distant — contests.
An estimated 70,000 athletes, coaches, staff, officials and media will be marching in Tokyo from July to August for the Olympics — at a time when infections in the city are rising again. On July 8, the government declared a fourth COVID-19 state of emergency in Tokyo, which will extend through the end of the Games.
New cases of COVID-19 emerging from any of the Olympic visitors could not only disrupt(扰乱) the Games but also forever fade this year’s Olympics as an exercise in a global pandemic that has claimed the lives of 4 million people.
Olympic organizers are working desperately to prevent that from happening. After consulting with infectious-disease experts, Tokyo 2020 officials have created guidelines for everyone who will be traveling to Japan for the Olympics. Many of the measures are familiar: frequent testing, mask orders and social-distancing procedures.
The strategy is also realistic. While it might not be possible to prevent the virus from entering secretly the Olympic community, the countermeasures are meant to contain it as much as possible. Infections will happen. The challenge lies in minimizing the risk of those infections and the impact they might have—on not just the Games but also the Japanese public and, ultimately, the world at large when Olympic delegations return home.
1. What is the basic principle of controlling an epidemic?| A．To prevent people from communicating with each other. |
| B．To keep people from participating in activities. |
| C．To stop people from chatting online. |
| D．To limit the contact people have with each other. |
| A．The possible threat brought by new cases of COVID-19. |
| B．The spreading of virus caused by new cases of COVID-19. |
| C．The treatment of new cases of COVID-19. |
| D．The decrease of new cases of COVID-19. |
| A．Skeptical. | B．Objective. |
| C．Conservative. | D．Negative. |
| A．A news magazine. | B．A biology textbook. |
| C．A research paper. | D．A travel brochure. |
6 . Kite surfing is a sport that takes place on the surface of the water, on top of boards that are similar in design to wakeboards (尾波滑水板), with the surfer pulled by a kite. The popularity of kite surfing has grown, although it is rather difficult to master. Kite surfing uses the same equipment as kite boarding, but is generally given more to riding on top of waves, rather than on smaller lakes or other calm bodies of water.
Early experiments in kite transportation took place through the 19th century, and at the dawn of the 20th century Samuel Cody crossed the English Channel using kites and a small boat. Kite surfing itself, however, wasn’t really born until the late 1970s. Beginning in that decade, more people became involved in using kites for personal transport and sport. Kite technology itself advanced enormously during the 1970s, with kites becoming much more controllable.
The early kite surfing was rather accidental, but innovators continued to develop the technology to make it easier to control and safer. By the late 1990s, kite surfing was becoming popular off the coast of Maui, France and throughout the world. In 1997, a special kite system was built specifically for kite surfing, which helped kite surfing into the mainstream.
Because of the high speeds and the dangers, it is generally recommended that would-be kite surfers take at least a few basic classes to learn the fundamentals. The main attraction of kite surfing is the potential for amazing tricks. The kite allows the surfer to experience enormous jumps, flying through the air for large distances before hitting the water in a controlled fashion. Like skateboarding, kite surfing makes use of a number of board grabs, with complex tricks possible due to the long period of time the surfer can remain in the air.
1. What does the author mainly intend to tell us in Paragraph 1?| A．What is kite surfing. | B．Where to go kite surfing. |
| C．How to enjoy kite surfing. | D．Why people like kite surfing. |
| A．sport | B．experiment |
| C．entertainment | D．transportation |
| A．Kite surfing often leads to accidents. |
| B．Maui is home to kite surfing. |
| C．Kite control is the key to kite surfing. |
| D．Kite surfing came into being in the 1990s. |
| A．Its potential for tricks. | B．Its long time in the air. |
| C．Its speed across the water. | D．Its big distance over the water. |
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2. 你最喜欢的运动及原因。
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8 . ★The 13th annual Dubuque Senior Tri-State Hoopfest will take place on Saturday,Oct.31 at Nora Gymnasium.
There will be boys divisions for grades 3-8 in the morning and grades 9-12 in the afternoon.The cost is $15 per player. Each player receives a T-shirt, and individual prizes go to winning teams. The past two years, more than 65 teams competed in the event. For more information or a camp registration, contact Wendell Eimers at weimers @dbqschools. org.
★The University of Dubuque Men's Basketball team will host junior varsity high school shootout on Sunday, November 8th. Each team is guaranteed a minimum of three games and games will be hosted by certified officials.
The cost of the shootout is $175 per team.For more information contact coach Rob Siever ding at 563-590-6711 orrsieverd@dbq.edu.
★The University of Dubuque Men's Basketball team will host a youth tournament for boys in grades 3-8. The tournament will take place on Sunday,November 1st and each team is guaranteed a minimum of three games.The cost of the tournament is $100 per team. For more information please contact coach Rob Sieverding at 563-580- 6711 or rsieverd@dbq.edu.
★The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Dubuque is now taking teams for its 3rd/4th grade boys and girls basketball league. The league starts on Monday, Sept. 7, with two games per week for five weeks.Games are played from Monday to Friday at 5, 6 and 7 p.m., and the cost is $25 per player for 10 games. For more information,email tsully5@aol.com or call Tom at 563-585-0599. Sign-up for other grades will be at a later date.
1. Which is TRUE about Dubuque Senior Tri-State Hoopfest?| A．There are prizes for winning teams. |
| B．It is held yearly for boys aged 3 to 12. |
| C．More than 65 schools join in the match. |
| D．Each team will have to play at least three games. |
| A．The youth tournament. |
| B．The junior varsity high school shootout. |
| C．The 3rd/4th grade boys and girls basketball league. |
| D．The 13th annual Dubuque Senior Tri-State Hoopfest. |
| A．To inform the dates of basketball events. |
| B．To introduce several events of basketball. |
| C．To advise young children to play basketball. |
| D．To attract more students to join basketball clubs. |
9 . Clocking 16 hours, 46 minutes, nine seconds, the athlete Chris Nikic didn’t finish with the shortest time when he recently completed his first Iron Man Race, but he did quite well.
After swimming 2.4 miles, the 21-year-old Floridian cycled 112 miles. Even after suffering a fall from his bike during the second leg of the race, he called on his inner strength to get back up, keep going and get the job done. And then he ran a 26.2-mile marathon to become the first competitor with Down’s Syndrome (唐氏综合征) in the world to successfully cross the finish line in the history of the Iron Man Race. For his efforts, Nikic also earned himself a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
“To Nikic, this race was more than just a finish line and a celebration for the success,” his dad said. The race has served as a chance to become one step closer to his goal of living a normal life. It’s about being an example to other kids and families that face similar difficulties. Those with Down’s Syndrome will be prompted to live a life like normal persons.
Nikic trained between four and six hours a day to prepare for the event, and that training paid off.
Goal set and achieved, Nikic posted on Instagram, where he has 33,000 new followers. “Time to set a new and bigger goal for 2021.”
One of Nikic’s biggest fans, all-time tennis great Billie Jean King, tweeted the perfect response: “No limits. No boundaries. Keep dreaming big and going for it!”
As for that medal he won for completing the race, he gifted it to his loving mom. With hope of competing in the 2022 Special Olympics scheduled in Orlando, it looks as if Chris Nikic has plenty of big dreams yet to come true.
1. What did Nikic’s performance during Iron Man Race prove?| A．He is strong. | B．He is confident. | C．He is kind. | D．He is careful. |
| A．Praised. | B．Surprised. | C．Supported. | D．Encouraged. |
| A．He wanted to make Nikic famous. |
| B．He wanted to encourage Nikic. |
| C．He wanted to show respect for Nikic. |
| D．He wanted to show his relationship with Nikic. |
| A．Chris Nikic encourages people to exercise |
| B．Chris Nikic won first place in Iron Man Race |
| C．Athlete with Down’s Syndrome makes history |
| D．Special Iron Man Race was held for special athletes |
One of the big reasons why people drop an exercise program are lack of interest. If that you’re doing isn’t fun, it’s hard to keep it up. When pick the right type of exercise, consider our workout personality. For an example, do you like to work out alone? If so, solo sports like running or biking could be for you. Or do you like the sharing motivation and companionship that comes for being part of a team? Then school sports and club teams are great ways to stay actively with others.
Do remember the great thing is that it’s never too late start.
