1 . Active Challenge

Weight loss camp for girls aged 13—18 in Canada

Location: Beautiful Bear Creek Outdoor Center Near Ottawa, Ontario Season: July 2nd-August 28th Capacity: 40

Activities include: hiking, rafting, canoeing, yoga, cooking, camp skills, mountain biking, nutrition classes, swimming, fitness classes etc. Choose what you like!

Active Challenge is a weight loss program specially for young women. The burden of being overweight is heavier than just the extra pounds. We use outdoor adventures to challenge the girls, to give them something to draw strength from.

Because you’ll be losing weight alongside young women just like you, you’ll find no one laughing at you and you’ll help each other. At Active Challenge you’ll make lifelong friends with young women of your own age and learn to love new adventurous activities.

Unlike any other weight loss program, Active Challenge is designed so you’ll lose weight and have the strategies and skills to keep the weight off forever. Active Challenge does not put you on a diet. We follow the Canada Food Guide to healthy eating and exercise appropriate portion control. We help you develop healthy habits.

The staff at Active Challenge combine experienced outdoor adventure professional with highly qualified clinicians. All of us are absolutely devoted to helping you achieve lasting behavioral change and weigh loss. Most of all we are devoted to having a great time doing it.

Pre-Camp: Upon registration in Active Challenge, a registration package will be sent out to you with forms to be completed before camping as well as program preparation materials, an introduction to Active Challenge and pre-program personal challenge assignments to get you on your way toward a healthier you.

Post-Camp: Our post program is designed to keep you focused and remind you of the goals that you set during the camp. We will send you home with your personal meal and exercise plan and keep in touch with you for a full three months after the camp ends through letters, emails and phone calls, tracking your progress and giving you strategies and support.

1. Why are outdoor adventurous activities held for girls?

A．To lose weight quickly.	B．To have fun.
C．To keep fit.	D．To make them stronger.

2. How will girls feel about the atmosphere at Active Challenge?

A．Competitive and challenging.	B．Friendly and supportive.
C．Cold but exciting.	D．Lonely but safe.

3. After registration, girls ________.

A．will be in informed how to get prepared for the program

B．should go to buy the program preparation materials

C．should learn some skills and strategies to lose weight

D．will have to finish some challenging tasks at home

4. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A．To invite girls to join in Active Challenge.

B．To share skills and strategies of losing weight.

C．To introduce the importance of losing weight.

D．To explain the popularity of Active Challenge.

2 . 阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题

Michael Todd wore the same clothes every day for the first three weeks of school. When the other kids began to notice that he was wearing the same black pants and blue, teal, and gray long-sleeve shirt day after day, Todd, a freshman at Martin Luther King Jr. College Preparatory High School in Memphis, became the target of laughter. But there was little Todd could do. His mother simply couldn’t afford to buy him new clothes.

Two of the kids piling on were Antwan Garrett and Kristopher Graham, a pair of freshman football players. But over time, they realized that their disparaging words felt like bullying and seemed to be slowly crushing Todd’s spirit. Something finally clicked.

“I felt like I needed to do something,” Graham told CBS News. So he and Garrett hatched a plan. They went home and hunted through their own drawers and closets. The next day at school, they met Todd at their third-period class and asked him to come into the hall. Todd was understandably nervous about being called out by the larger boys.

“He wasn’t smiling or anything, and I was like, ‘I think this is going to make you smile,’ ” Graham says. “I told him, ‘We’re in the same third period, and I apologize for laughing at you, and I want to give something to you to make it up.’ ” He then handed Todd a bag. Inside were cleanshirts and shorts, plus a brand-new pair of New Balance sneakers.

Todd was blown away. “I was very happy,” he told WATN-TV. “Shocked, completely.”

And Todd got much more than a new wardrobe. He no longer sits alone at lunch. Now he eats with his new friends, Garrett and Graham.

“I’ve been bullied my entire life,” Todd told CBS News. Reflecting on the day Garrett and Graham called him into the hall, he called it “the best day of my entire life, basically.”

1. Why didn’t Michael Todd change clothes for the first three weeks of school? (No more than 10 words)
2. What does the underlined word hatched mean? (No more than 3 words)
3. What did Todd expect when asked to come into the hall? (No more than 10 words)
4. What happened on “the best day” of Todd’s entire life? (No more than 20 words)
5. How do you treat your classmates at school?. Give one example.(No more than 20 words)

3 . Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. That ambition   ________   ended in 2010 when Hill was in a car accident, which put the 17-year-old high school senior in hospital for 51 days and left her paralyzed from the waist down. For most people, that would have   ________   any hope of a dancing career. But for Hill, it was the   ________ . Far from being a(an)   ________ , her wheelchair encouraged her to fight. “I want to prove to everyone including myself that I’m still normal,” she said, “whatever normal means.”

Normal for her meant   ________ , so Hill did it in her wheelchair alongside her nondisabled high school dance team. Half of her body was taken away from her, so she had to   ________   it with her hands. It definitely took a lot of   ________   and patience.

After graduation from high school, Hill wanted to   ________   her dance network to include women like her. She met people online who had   ________   various spinal (脊椎的) injuries but share her   _______ , and invited them to dance with her.

The   ________ experience made Hill wish to reach more people. She moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and formed a team of dancers with disabilities she called the Rollettes. “I want to   _________   the stereotype of wheelchair users and show that dance is dance, whether you're walking or you're   ________ .” Dancing on ________ ,the Rollettes discovered, can be just as fast-paced and fulfilling as the foot-based   ________ .

Every year Hill holds a dance camp called the Rollettes Experience for wheelchair users to help them bring out their acting   ________ . In 2019, 173 participants from ten countries attended. For many, it was the first time they’d felt they   ________ . “It’s so powerful to have my teammates in my life, because they’re my teachers. I have more   ________ ,” one dancer excitedly commented.

Chelsie Hill   _________   what many of us never will: her childhood dream. She has been chasing her dream in the wheelchair. She’s a dancer. The Rollettes have helped her find something else just as   __________ .

1.

A．naturally

B．nearly

C．suddenly

D．unfortunately

2.

A．chased

B．abandoned

C．raised

D．ruined

3.

A．beginning

B．nightmare

C．compromise

D．miracle

4.

A．accident

B．obstacle

C．companion

D．disability

5.

A．dream

B．dancing

C．recovery

D．teamwork

6.

A．move

B．drag

C．remove

D．seize

7.

A．bumping

B．rejecting

C．turning

D．learning

8.

A．design

B．expand

C．employ

D．change

9.

A．suffered

B．witnessed

C．treated

D．ignored

10.

A．identification

B．accomplishment

C．determination

D．requirement

11.

A．interesting

B．challenging

C．amazing

D．embarrassing

12.

A．put forward

B．take off

C．figure out

D．break down

13.

A．laughing

B．dreaming

C．marching

D．rolling

14.

A．wheels

B．mats

C．stages

D．hands

15.

A．activity

B．variety

C．creativity

D．community

16.

A．style

B．award

C．talent

D．personality

17.

A．lived

B．escaped

C．understood

D．belonged

18.

A．moves

B．partners

C．confidence

D．pressure

19.

A．applied

B．absorbed

C．attained

D．accumulated

20.

A．fulfilling

B．relaxing

C．convincing

D．approving

5 . Qi Haoran, a Junior One student, was quite busy over the past winter vacation – and not just with homework. Qi, together with 10 other classmates made a volunteer group to call on people to join the Clean Your Plate Campaign (光盘行动).

The 11 students went to many restaurants and told people the importance of saving food. “Excuse me, do you know that 950 million people around the world still haven’t got enough to eat? Could you please not waste food?” They would say this kind of thing hundreds of times every day.

The Clean Your Plate Campaign began on the Internet in January. It calls on people to reduce food waste.

China in these years had serious problems with wasted food. CCTV reported in January that the food Chinese people waste every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year.

Chinese people are well known for being hospitable (好客的) and generous. Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all their food.

Luckily the campaign has got the support of many. In a restaurant in Xinjiang, the owner gives the guests who have eaten up all that they ordered a sticker. People can enjoy a free meal when they have 10 stickers. More than 750 restaurants in Beijing have begun to offer smaller dishes and encourage their guests to take leftovers(吃剩的食物) home.

To reduce food waste is a big task, and it needs time. It’s important that everyone does their bit, just like Qi. Did you finish your meals today?

1. What did the 11 students do in the winter vacation?

A．They opened a restaurant together.

B．They volunteered for a campaign.

C．The helped each other with homework.

D．They collected money from customers in restaurants.

2. What does the underlined part “call on” mean in Chinese in the passage?

A．打电话

B．叫喊

C．拜访

D．号召

3. What can we learn from Paragraph 4 and Paragraph 5?

A．Wasting food is a serious problem in China.

B．Chinese people waste the most food in the world.

C．Chinese people want to show off because they are rich.

D．Most Chinese people are afraid of losing face at the table.

4. What did the restaurant in Beijing do to support the campaign?

A．It encouraged customers to take leftovers home.

B．It gave stickers to the guests who ordered small dishes.

C．The owner would have dinner with those who had eaten up their food.

D．It offered a free meal to the guests who had finished all their food ten times.

10 . From a very early age, some children exhibit better self-control than others. Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child's low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

Researchers have been studying this group of children for many years now. They observed the level of self-control the youngsters displayed. Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measures like “acting before thinking” and “Persistence in reaching goals.”

The study led by Moffitt of Duke University and colleagues followed 1, 000 children from birth to age 32 in Dunedin, New Zealand.

“The children who had the lowest self-control when they were age three to ten, later on had the most health problems in their 30s,” Moffitt said, “and they had the worst financial situation. They were more likely to have a criminal record and to be raising a child as a single parent on a very low income.” Moffitt explained that self-control problems were widely observed, and weren’t just a feature of a small group of misbehaving kids.

Moffitt said it's still unclear why some children have better self-control than others, though she said other researchers have found that it's mostly a learned-behavior, with relatively little genetic influence. But good self-control can be set to run in families because children with good self-control are more likely to grow up to be healthy and successful parents. But the good news, Moffitt said, is that self-control can be taught by parents, and through school education.

1. From the first two paragraphs we learn that________.

A．the research has been carried out for five years

B．self-control in kids probably determine their future

C．self- control was decided by children's intelligence

D．children's self-control is almost the same at early age

2. Children with low self-control are more likely to ________.

A．become wealthy in later life	B．get good school performance
C．have better financial planning	D．behave negatively

3. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Self-control cannot be taught in schools.

B．The study is limited within few participants.

C．It's never too late to deal with self-control problems.

D．Good parenting can improve self-control and life success.