1 . My family first moved to Colorado 22 years ago. Los Angeles was too expensive and it was difficult to find well-paying jobs and affordable housing. Colorado became our next dream place. Settling into a small town in the Front Range, my parents found hard jobs.
Growing up in this small town, I remember my parents working hard to get past the language barrier. My mom, especially, tried her best to ensure she knew all that she needed to know about like my parent-teacher meetings and extracurricular (课外的) activities. One of those extracurricular activities that I signed up for was football. At that age, football was cool and all, but I was more into playing Pokémon and other video games. Football didn’t draw me in.
Big football tournaments (联赛) would come around like the World Cup, the Copa América and the Gold Cup, and the Mexican National Team would play in these tournaments. I would sit there in our living room and unmindfully watch the games while my parents would go crazy with enthusiasm ( 热情). I would sit there and play my game. My dad would look over and tell me that I should be paying attention carefully to the game and that I should care more about whether Mexico would win the match than my video games.
Both of my parents’ workspaces were crowded (占满的) with other workers. My mom worked with people from all over Latin America. Everyone’s topic of choice at work would always turn to how their national football team was doing. It was a way to show pride in the countries where they had grown up.
I grew up loving football more and more. The more I learned about my Mexican roots (根), the more I tried to find ways to express pride in them in the United States.1. Why did the author’s family move to Colorado?
A.To make a better life. |
B.To attend more activities. |
C.To follow their football dream. |
D.To receive a better education. |
A.It was amazing. | B.It was important. |
C.It was uninteresting. | D.It was difficult. |
A.Remind the author to watch them carefully. |
B.Play video games with the author. |
C.Learn English in their living room. |
D.Guess who would be the winner. |
A.build a closer friendship |
B.express their homesickness |
C.share a common topic |
D.show their pride in their motherlands |
2 . Taking care of yourself is not being selfish. By caring enough to
Believe in yourself and your ability. Make a list of
Seek out a friend or coworker who will make you feel comfortable.
Adopt eating and physical activity habits that can become part of your
Go on a
A.see | B.take | C.use | D.treat |
A.better | B.worse | C.bigger | D.smaller |
A.successful | B.little | C.strange | D.few |
A.optional | B.particular | C.dynamic | D.optimistic |
A.Taking | B.Making | C.Sharing | D.Playing |
A.create | B.ruin | C.benefit | D.forget |
A.Reward | B.Pick | C.Pass | D.Instruct |
A.introduce | B.gain | C.find | D.result |
A.found | B.pass | C.build | D.keep |
A.family | B.friendship | C.object | D.lifestyle |
A.to | B.on | C.for | D.outside |
A.out of | B.due to | C.away from | D.on to |
A.trip | B.talk | C.story | D.meeting |
A.and | B.but | C.because | D.so |
A.study | B.accept | C.know | D.discuss |
3 . As a high school coach, I did all I could to help my boys win their games. I cheered as hard for victory as they did. A dramatic
It was a league championship basketball game between New Rochelle and Yonkers High. New Rochelle was
I looked at the clock and saw that the game was over. I hadn’t heard the final buzzer (终场哨) because of the noise. I
I had to tell O’Brien the sad news. His face
A.conversation | B.incident | C.gesture | D.challenge |
A.view | B.attitude | C.theory | D.impression |
A.organised | B.represented | C.imagined | D.coached |
A.crowded | B.cleared | C.shaken | D.arranged |
A.happily | B.closely | C.smartly | D.freely |
A.moving | B.progressing | C.leading | D.shooting |
A.control | B.place | C.care | D.need |
A.stuck | B.fell | C.turned | D.rolled |
A.annoying | B.amazing | C.thrilling | D.deafening |
A.examined | B.watched | C.researched | D.checked |
A.criticised | B.approached | C.interviewed | D.reminded |
A.broke down | B.faded away | C.went off | D.carried on |
A.clouded over | B.softened up | C.sweated over | D.wrinkled up |
A.Certainly | B.Similarly | C.Fortunately | D.Suddenly |
A.court | B.course | C.track | D.field |
During the summer vacation, I took part in
I never expected
Preparing for the contest, practicing a 3minute speech, and overcoming stage fright, I spared no effort to take part in the competition.
One of my
Thanks
5 . Dangerous as they are, extreme sports remain appealing among many Australian young people! Camp Xtreme is the perfect test of your heart.
Kite Surfing
It’s the exciting mixture of kite, board and waves. The idea of using a kite to accelerate speed seems like a new challenge:Yet the art of kite flying dates back to the 13th-century China when it was used as a simple means of transport.
Catch a wind and you’re moving up, down and across the surf. “It’s always exciting. You’d jump 5 feet or 35 feet. You never know if you’re going to go up in the air, and your heart is just going boom, boom, boom. ”
Coasteering
It is by far the best activity and the event that everyone is still talking about. This is exploring the coastline without worrying about a coastal path or finding a rocky bay blocking your route. You climb, dive and swim from one place to another. With coasteering, you don’t have to be able to swim as the wet suit and buoyancy (浮力) aid will keep you floating when you are in the water.
Sky Diving
Traditional parachuting (跳伞) doesn’t sound risky enough. So now sky diving is the name for jumping from a plane and listening to your heart beating heavily as you move fast towards earth before you open your parachute at the last moment.
Mountain Biking
It’s been around so long that bikers are no longer satisfied with just going up and down a mountain. Mountain biking is a sport which consists of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough land, using specially adapted mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes, but include features designed to improve strength and performance in rough areas.
For details, please call us at 1300-792-668 or click here: www. xtremecamp.com.au.
1. All the four extreme sports are mainly intended to test one’s .A.heart beat | B.physical health |
C.potential strength | D.courage |
A.the kite | B.kite surfing |
C.kite flying | D.the art of kites |
A.Kite surfing. | B.Coasteering. |
C.Sky diving. | D.Mountain biking. |
6 . Growing up in Conway, South Carolina, I was always athletic and competitive. One afternoon, my brother grabbed me in the yard, and I felt some kind of pop. About an hour later, I couldn’t get up from a chair. Over the weekend, my joints (关节) swelled up. My mother took me to the hospital. It took nearly six months to check what was wrong with me. Then I was put on treatment. But I had so much joint damage that I couldn’t run like I used to.
My dad was a serious golfer. One day he said, “Let’s try golf.” He carried me onto the course. Seeing him hit those good shots made me want to do it too.
It wasn’t easy at first, because I had a lot of pain in my hands. I’d played golf, but it had never really caught my interest — it was too quiet for me. But I was happy to be outside, to have a chance of competing again, and I fell in love with it.
Later I made the high school team, but I got frustrated when I didn’t win, so I worked harder. Golf was the most challenging game I’d ever played.
I got a golf scholarship to the University of South Carolina and turned professional after I graduated. I still take medication, and I’m stiff and in pain sometimes. But I’ve got used to that.
I probably wouldn’t be a professional athlete if I hadn’t got sick. The experience taught me patience, and I learned to take nothing for granted. I know how happy I am to do what I do.
1. What do we know about the author from Paragraph 1?A.He was born with swelled joints. |
B.His joints healed very quickly. |
C.He completely recovered after the treatment. |
D.The cause of his disease was found out six months later. |
A.His love for golf. | B.His interest in sports. |
C.His father’s good performance. | D.His unwillingness to stay indoors. |
A.It was the author’s brother who first became aware that he had a disease. |
B.Suffering a lot of pain in his hands, the author wasn’t interested in playing golf at first. |
C.After founding a high school team, the author played harder and became professional. |
D.The author thought he should cherish everything he had, even his disease. |
A.Playing through pain | B.The burden lifted |
C.A bitter fight | D.Standing tall |
7 . A new study has finally solved the problem of whether to eat breakfast before you exercise.
Researchers at the universities of Bath, Birmingham, Newcastle, and Stirling analysed the energy consumption of 12 healthy physically active men between the ages of 20 and 26. Each of the men completed three different trials: eating a breakfast of rice and milk and then resting (no exercise), eating the same breakfast two hours before cycling for 60 minutes, and finally not eating breakfast completely before doing the same 60 minutes of exercise. The study showed that fasted exercise (禁食运动) is the best for weight loss.
“These results suggest that for healthy young men a short-term energy lack may be more easily got if breakfast is worked off before exercise,” the study’s authors concluded. Here’s how it works: when you work out on an empty stomach, your body doesn’t have ready energy from food so it draws from other sources, like stored body fat, which makes your exercise more effective at burning fat—and helping you lose weight.
Additionally, exercising in a fasted state keeps your insulin (胰岛素) levels low, allowing your body to produce more growth insulin which also burns fat. “When insulin is rising—as is the case after you eat—your body will be in a state of wanting to store fat, not burn it,” Phoenyx Austin, MD, a sports medicine specialist, explained to MindBodyGreen. “It doesn’t matter if you exercise like a mad man after a meal. You won’t be able to burn body fat until insulin levels drop, which can typically take two or three hours, if not longer.”
But if you prefer eating breakfast before you exercise, don’t worry—there are benefits to be there, too. For instance, the researchers found that the men who ate breakfast first burned more carbohydrates(碳水化合物) while they worked out and sped up their metabolism(新陈代谢) for later on in the day.
1. What can we know about the 12 researched people?A.They like exercising very much. |
B.They are all young men and women. |
C.They enjoy rice and milk very much. |
D.They often do different trials in sports. |
A.Cooked. | B.Prepared. | C.Skipped. | D.Delayed. |
A.You will feel very hungry fast. |
B.Your body will burn your fat. |
C.You will exercise more madly. |
D.You will feel tired more easily. |
A.Keeping your insulin levels balanced. |
B.Keeping your body using less insulin. |
C.Letting your body produces less insulin. |
D.Making your insulin levels down. |
1.比赛时间;
2.演讲话题;
3.报名方式。
注意: 1.词数80左右;
2.开头和结尾已给出,可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear George,
I’m writing to invite you to join us in the “Chinese speech contest for foreigners” to be held in our school
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
In high school, Dad got me to play football in the first place. I enjoyed throwing the ball around with my friends, but I didn’t think I had what it took to play on a team. “I’m no football player,” I told my dad. “You’ll never know what you’re capable of unless you give it a try, Adam,” he told me. So, I did. It would give me a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence. I remember how proud he was when I won some awards and the hug he gave me after I received my congratulation letter. There was rarely a game where Dad wasn’t on the sidelines, cheering me on.
Four years of hard preseason football camps came down to my last game. I urged my dad to bring our video camera.
I waved at my parents before the opening kick-off, and put on my game face. My pads broke as I made contact with the offensive players. I grabbed at the clothes of their running back and dragged him to the field. A loud cheer came from the sidelines. There was Dad with the camera, cheering like crazy. By the end of the game, I had stopped seven players and a sacking (擒杀) — my best performance ever, a perfect end to my career. I ran into my dad’s arms. I was sweaty and smelly, but he hugged me anyway. I couldn’t wait to watch the tape — experience every moment again.
As soon as we got in the house, I took the tape out of the camera and put it in the player. My dad, mum, sister and I sat down in the living room in front of the big screen TV. I pressed Play. The video started. The two teams, lined up before the game, then the running back taking the handoff, running up to the line, me reaching out, and then…the sky and clouds! I could hear my dad screaming “Way to go, Adam!” as images of the sky shook up and down on screen.
Paragraph 1:
I leaned forward to see the next big play.
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Paragraph 2:
The tape ended and Dad was quiet.
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All parents know exercise is important for children: It can lower heart risks, control weight,and help kids do better in school. Plus, outdoor activities at an early age can go a long way toward helping children form healthy habits for life. In other words, exercise is needed for healthy development. But don’t expect kids to understand about those things. Some kids just aren’t into exercise, but that shouldn’t mean they have to be addicted to the TV. So parents could do something to help inactive son or daughter fall in love with physical activity.
If parents sit in front of the TV every night, a bag of chips in hand, kids aren’t likely to respect restrictions (限制) you set on their screen time either. So check your own viewing behavior, and serve as a role model by putting physical activity into your everyday life. When you can, walk instead of driving. Regularly participate in activities that you enjoy and let your kids see — and hear about — how much you enjoy them. In this way, they may “do as the Romans do”. Make sure that children’s fitness is included in the family schedule in the same way that school, work, shopping, and family gatherings find their way onto the calendar. You and your children are more likely to stick to an exercise plan if you incorporate it into your life on a routine basis. And your children will begin to expect and accept that Sunday morning usually means a hike ride, and a couple of nights after dinner the family takes a light walk through the neighborhood.
Children who aren’t naturally good at physical activities may be self-conscious about their lack of physical skills and even fear public failure. These kids need all the support and encouragement from parents. Negative comments don’t work and will only serve to make your child feel bad. Remember, acknowledge the effort — choosing to be active or trying to improve a skill — rather than the outcome.
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