1 . I love outings to the ballpark. My ears perk (竖起) up at the whack of a precisely hit ball, my nose enjoys the scent of hot dogs, and my heart jumps at the possibility of winning it all. But a few years ago I discovered the best way to watch a baseball game might be not to watch at all.

This discovery arose the year I got married. The first apartment my husband and I rented could charitably be called “charming”, although “diminutive” better describes it. But to young newlyweds, the 41-square-metre apartment felt sublime. The best thing about the apartment, in my opinion, was its location a quarter-mile from baseball’s oldest stadium, Boston’s Fenway Park.

The only problem? My husband was not a Red Sox fan. I hadn’t anticipated this stumbling block. He was an avid sports fan, and he’d only just moved to Boston. Surely a love of the hometown team would seep into his heart as naturally as fish take to water.

My hopes faded as the season began. A Seattle Mariners hat remained firmly planted on his head. Matching Red Sox T-shirts earned a veto.

As newlywed disagreements go, this one wasn’t horrible. Plenty of couples flourish with dueling team loyalties. But a worry nagged: If he couldn’t root for the Red Sox, would he ever truly make Boston home?

As a student, when the magic in the air that season permeated (传播) the girls’ boarding school I attended outside Boston, we begged our house directors to let us stay up past curfew to watch the games on TV, and when they at first refused, we listened on radios in our rooms and gleefully burst into the halls to cheer.

So when my husband said he’d never be a Red Sox fan, my heart clenched. But one delightful spring day our teeny apartment came to my rescue. As we sat at our dining room table, we heard a roar swell to a crescendo. This was the first indication that we could hear the stadium crowds from our home.

1. What do we learn about the author from Paragraph 1?

A．She has a good appetite.

B．She used to be a very energetic player.

C．She is very alert to smell.

D．She is a baseball fan.

2. Which of the following best explains “diminutive” underlined in Paragraph 2?

A．Very smart.

B．Very small.

C．Extremely broken.

D．Extremely old.

3. How did the author deal with their disagreements?

A．She tolerated them.

B．She ignored them.

C．She argued with her husband frequently.

D．She attended school for baseball games.

4. How does the author satisfy her desire to enjoy baseball games?

A．Watching games with her husband at home.

B．Listening to the games from the neighboring stadium.

C．Communicating with her husband while dining.

D．Listening to the games on radios at home.

2 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

In a world that seems ever more likely to suffer from stress and anxiety, it’s so incredibly important for children to learn     1     to switch off. We want children to let off steam, to relax and unwind and they do this so well through play. As children enter their school years, they can start to feel pressure     2     mainly comes from school and academia. Thankfully, playgrounds are a great way for them to play, interact and enjoy themselves. As they become more     3     (physical) active, their mental health and wellbeing improve as well.

3 . Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson have a combined net worth of 400 billion, roughly the size of the GDP of the entire nation of Ireland. And all three men have decided to put vast sums of their wealth into chasing their space travel dreams, creating a modern space race in which ultra — rich men — rather than countries — shoot for the stars.

But why the three billionaires choose the crazy plan? Just for the travel dreams? It’s not that simple.

As we all know, the space travel is a mirror of comprehensive national strength, whether it’s the cold war or the present. The first space race spanned multiple presidents and premiers — Kennedy, Krushchev, Brezhnev, Nixon. It made heroes of astronauts and cosmonauts, and it focused national prides. But obviously, this year’s race between the billionaires features none of that national pride or opposing ideas. It’s tax — averse tycoons (大亨) who want to sell high — priced tickets to rich people interested in experiencing weightlessness. Amazon’s Bezos has said he is funding his portion by selling off large chunks of his Amazon stock (股票) — 1 billion or more a year.

What are the odds? If anyone is taking bets on how this will end, and who will have the more profitable space tourism business, consider Amazon’s method of making very little profit in order to eat up competition. So, from this point of view, what’s hiding behind this crazy race is business. As a method of expand influence, it is not a bad idea.

Richard Branson has carried out his plan on July 12, and Jeff Bezos announced that he will start his space travel on July 20. Bezos is getting some good press because he’s taking Wally Funk along for the ride. She’s the pilot now in her 80s who was kept out of space in the 1960s because she’s a woman. This may be a bonus for him. As for Musk, he thinks these two above are not real space trips, he wants a larger move.

Who will win the race in the end? Let’s wait and see.

1. Which of the following people might be the potential client of the space travel?

A．Daisy aged 45 with a heavy debt.

B．Clarkson who doesn’t enjoy taking risks.

C．Billy aged 60 with an ample retirement pension.

D．Alexander who knows nothing about space travel.

2. What stopped Wally Funk flying to space in the 1960s?

A．Age.

B．Gender.

C．Height.

D．Disposition.

3. What does the author think of the billionaires race?

A．Profit — driven.

B．Meaningless.

C．Foolish.

D．Generous.

4. What does the underlined word “spanned” in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Revolved.

B．Turned down.

C．Entered.

D．Leapt through.

4 . As a rider, Anna Kiesenhofe’s Olympics victory might be a surprise. The winner of the road race at the Tokyo Olympics left the sport at the end of 2017 when she found herself out of contract (合同). She came into Tokyo without a professional team and left as an Olympic champion.

The 30-year old began her cycling career in 2014 after running injuries that prevented her from continuing her pursuits of triathlon (铁人三项). She later joined a Catalan team and won the Spanish National Cup in 2016.

The then-26 year old signed her first professional contract with Lotto Soudal Ladies for the following season. However, she ended her 2017 campaign in April and did not sign a contract for 2018, eventually taking a year off the bike. In 2019, Kiesenhofer came back to the sport as a rider, winning the Austrian national road race. Despite her results, Kiesenhofer sill had no professional contract while going into the Tokyo Olympics.

Kiesenhofer was the first rider to attack in the Olympic road race, eventually forming a breakaway along with Carl Oberholzer, Omer Shapira, Vera Looser and Anna Plichta, which went on to reach a gap of 11 minutes. After Looser and Oberholzer were dropped, Kiesnhofer ataced her two remaining breakaway companions.

After Shapira and Plichta were caught by the peloton (主车群), the rest of the riders seemed to believe that they were racing among themselves for Gold, not knowing that Remehofere was still in front. While it might be a misjudgment from the rest of the peloton that allowed Kiesenhofer to keep her lead of more than two minutes, other riders’ mistakes should not detract from the Austrian’s efforts.

Off the bike, the new Olympic Champion has a PhD in mathematics after studying at the Technical University of Vienne as well as at Cambridge University. She currently works at the University of Lausanne.

1. Why did Anna give up triathlon?

A．She got injured.	B．She lost interest in it.
C．She had to attend university.	D．She never won a medal.

2. Which is the right order of the following events?
①She ended her campaign.       
②She took a year off the bike.       
③She began her cycling career.
④She won the Austrian national road race.                    
⑤She won the Spanish National Cup.

A．③④①②⑤.	B．②③④①⑤.
C．③⑤①②④.	D．④②③①⑤.

3. What were the riders of the peloton unaware of at the Tokyo Olympics?

A．The road race was so difficult.	B．Anna was a new rider.
C．They had caught up with Anna.	D．Anna took the lead of them.

4. What is Anna’s present job?

A．A cycling coach.	B．A university teacher.
C．A professional rider.	D．A college student.

5 . As is known to all. the first modern Olympics were held there in 1896. But the history of the Olympics in Greece dates back to much earlier.

The first ancient Olympics were held in 776 B. C. The games got their name from Olympia, the Greek city where they took place.

Like the Summer Olympics of today, the ancient Olympics were held every four years. One of the main features (特点) of the ancient Olympics was the Olympic truce (休战).The truce meant that all wars were stopped, so that athletes and spectators could compete and travel in peace. Thousands of people from all over the Greek world came to watch.

During the first Olympics, there was only one competition—a 218-yard (200-meter) race. But over time the games grew to include wrestling, chariot racing, boxing and other sports. Women were not allowed to compete, but they had their own separate games.

“The ancient athletes became celebrities (名人)， just like today. They often lived the rest of their lives being treated to free dinners.” Cerrato said “City-states even tried to steal away each other's athletes by offering them various awards.”

Unlike today's Olympics, the ancient Olympics were held to honor Zeus. Greeks thought that Zeus was the leader of the many gods and goddesses they believed in. But what comes as a surprise to many people is the fact that many athletes competed completely naked(裸体的)！

The ancient Olympics existed until 393 A. D. But the modern Olympics are still going strong. “The Olympics” gather athletes from around the world，said Sue Macy, author of a new National Geographic book, Swifter, Higher, Stronger： A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics. “It’s so much bigger today.”

1. What would be the best title of the passage?

A．History of the Olympics.	B．Features of the Olympics.
C．Truce of the Olympics.	D．Swifter. Higher, Stronger.

2. From the passage we can see that ________.

A．the ancient Olympics attracted people all over the world

B．men as well as women could compete in the games

C．the ancient Olympics were an important event in Greece

D．there were many kinds of races at that time

3. In ancient times，when the Olympics were held, ________.

A．all the people in Greece would stop working

B．people stopped fighting to take part in the games

C．people from all over the world came to see the games

D．most of the athletes came from those who won the fight

4. In this passage the underlined word “spectators” means people who ________.

A．organized the games	B．played in the games
C．watched the games	D．had no chance to watch the games

6 . TOKYO—Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga told the media on Monday if any places hosting events of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics declare a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 epidemic during the games, the events will continue to be held but without spectators. With one month to go before the games are due to begin on July 23, Suga is again showing his administration’s determination to hold the Olympic Games as planned, despite so much pressure from various parties urging it to cancel the event.

Although the Japanese government regards the Tokyo Olympics as an important opportunity to improve its soft power, the Japanese people’s enthusiasm for the Games has been continuously dented since they were postponed last year. The resurgence of the novel coronavirus in some places in Japan in recent months has cast a shadow over people’s confidence that the Olympics will not give rise to new groups of infections, and there are fears that the Games will provide new channels for the virus' global transmission.

Some torchbearers from Japan have withdrawn from the Olympic torch relay in the country. And the latest survey indicates only 34 percent of Japanese people support holding the games according to the schedule. Predictably, the Suga administration will do all it can to try to ensure the games go ahead. But it remains to be seen whether it can stand the tests of the uncertainties related to epidemic prevention and control that might happen during the Games.

Since it has not yet got the virus under control at home, the people have reasons to question its ability to deal with the prevention and control work when large numbers of participants will arrive in Japan from around the world in a short time. It is to be hoped that Japan can draw lessons from the organization of epidemic prevention and control work during the ongoing UEFA European Championship, carry out strict epidemic prevention and control measures, and be prepared for emergencies to guarantee the safety and success of the Olympics at this special time.

It should be a common wish of the whole world that the Tokyo Olympics can become a stage showing unity and resolve of human beings in their fight against the virus. That will endow the games with special meaning beyond sports.

1. What is the second paragraph mainly about?

A．The virus’ global transmission.	B．People’s worry about the infections.
C．The resurgence of the novel coronavirus.	D．The benefit of holding the Tokyo Olympics.

2. How do 34% of Japanese people like holding the games according to the schedule?

A．Uncertain.

B．Negative.

C．Approving.

D．Indifferent.

3. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “endow” in the last paragraph?

A．Compare.

B．Start.

C．Provide.

D．Charge.

4. What can be the best title for the news report?

A．Japan to ensure Olympics go ahead	B．Olympics big test for Japanese government
C．Japanese people’s enthusiasm for Olympics	D．Japan’s strict epidemic prevention during Olympics

7 . 假定你是李华,学校网站的英语专栏正在开展“我的运动故事”主题征文活动。你打算投稿,请根据下面的提示写一篇短文。标题已给出。
1. 过去生活方式不健康,易生病,影响学习和生活;
2. 发生改变的原因及改变;
3. 现在的运动习惯和产生的积极结果。
注意: 1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。

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8 . 你东京的朋友Narudo很惊艳于此次中国代表队的表现，对中国运动员的奥运精神也是印象深刻，故写信给你，想请你谈一谈你最喜欢的中国运动员。请你写一封回信给他。
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2. 字迹整洁清晰
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9 . 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。

Since the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology     1     (design) uniforms (制服) for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, it has taken on the task of costume design for many international sports events. It took two years     2     (complete) the design work for the Chinese Olympic delegation's entry uniform in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. After several     3     (round) of selections and evaluations, final uniform designs with the theme of “making a good start” were     4     (official) confirmed in March, 2021.

Since the appearance of the athletes is     5     focus of the opening ceremony, an eye-catching red is a top choice,    6    is the primary color in China's national flag and also symbolizes energy, passion and joy in traditional Chinese culture. White     7     (represent) brightness and purity plays a buffering (缓冲) role in the costume design. The     8     (combine) of red and white means “making a good start.”

The white dress for female athletes features China's national flower, the peony, and the source is from a Ming Dynasty peony bowl,    9     the design of the men's shirts is inspired by the five-star pattern of China's national flag. It reflects the spirit of the Chinese Olympic team to fight together     10     national honor.

10 . Imagine the feeling of swinging at a baseball going 100 miles per hour—without leaving your living room, or being in race car as it roars down the track, while you are sitting on the couch.

These are just some of the ways that sports business leaders say virtual reality (VR) will revolutionize how people train for and experience sports. Virtual and augmented（增强的）realities are together known as mixed reality (MR). “American footballers are already using VR to better train their minds and read the field,” Ludden said. “This can allow players to perfect their skills without risking injury.”

Canadian company D-BOX Technologies designs and produces moving seats found in cinema and theme parks. It is now moving into sports, and shows its Formula One (F1) racing simulator （模拟器）. The seats stimulate the force of gravity, speed and every shaking as Fl champion Lewis Hamilton zips around city streets.

A simulation seat uses pre-programed data now. Someday, though, it could use real-time information sent by the car. “They could broadcast live content through a network in pop-up theaters around the world,” Ludden said. Say you want to experience the true stress of a batter being up against major-league baseball pitcher. “You can have a heartbeat added to the sensation on the seat and then you can feel it, boom, boom,” Maheu explained. “When he swings and hits the ball, you can have an impact.”

One day, fans around the world could physically experience every game from their favorite player in real time. Ludden said that current and near-future technology could create “augmented stadiums” for live audiences. Panasonic launched its “Smart Venue” plans which included the overlaying of graphics, advertisements, player statistics and replays on the field of play at a pro football game. “If you are seated in the cheap seats, you can see this really useful.” “Fans may someday join in stadium wide games, using the field as a virtual gaming platform,” Ludden added.

1. What does the underlined phrase “read the field” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Get off the playing field.	B．Build up a football court.
C．Judge the situation on the field.	D．Ask players to play on the spot.

2. What does Maheu think audiences can do in the future baseball game?

A．Enjoy live content in any theater.

B．Program the simulation seats in advance.

C．Control the force and speed of the baseball.

D．Experience the real time game with the player.

3. What does Ludden mainly describe in the last paragraph?

A．The origin of VR.	B．A future stadium.
C．An advertisement platform.	D．The expectations of audiences.

4. What is the main idea of the text?

A．VR can improve players' skills for sports.

B．VR increases fans' joy in the baseball game.

C．VR can improve sports experience for players and fans.

D．VR promises a new future for football players and games.