1 . 阅读下面短文，按照要求完成阅读任务。

The legendary charity runner Rosie Swale Pope has jogged (慢跑) her way across Europe to Istanbul, Turkey, as she continues her 6,000-mile journey from Brighton in the U.K. to Kathmandu in Nepal. The 73-year-old took on the challenge in an effort to raise support to improve health, education and living of local communities in Nepal, which was destroyed by a destructive earthquake in 2015.

“It is not about just giving people food. It is about helping these talented people to grow their own food,” she said as she jogged by the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia, the top tourist attractions in Istanbul.

Pope, from Tenby, Wales, began her journey to Kathmandu from Brighton, a town on the English Channel, in July 2018. Turkey is the 13th country she’s jogged through. The Republic of Georgia is next on her itinerary.

“I never know where I sleep every night. I sleep in fields. I sleep in the streets. I get up and run. I meet people I would never meet any other way,” she said. She transports her belongings in a bright red cart (手推车) that she drags behind her while she runs.

Recognized as one of the world’s longest solo runners, she ran around the world in 2004 to raise money for charity, and in 2015 she ran across the United States — from New York to San Francisco — to honor her late husband, Clive, who died from prostate cancer.

Her adventures also include sailing alone from the U.K. to the U.S. in a 17-foot boat. She described herself as “just an ordinary person, and I am old,” but she’s made special connections all over the world. “I meet people I would never meet any other way and actually it is a way of giving more to life because I have more. You don’t go out and you don’t wait for the world to come to you,” she said.

1. What’s the purpose of Pope’s jogging from Brighton to Kathmandu? (no more than 15 words)
2. What does the underlined word in Paragraph 3 probably mean? (1 word)
3. How does Pope bring her belongings when she jogs? (no more than 10 words)
4. What did Pope do in 2015? (no more than 15 words)
5. What do you think of Pope? Please explain. (no more than 20 words)

2 . 阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

“Tennis – I’m saying goodbye.” With these words, Russian tennis superstar Maria Sharapova, 32, has announced her retirement.

“How do you leave behind the only life you’ve ever known?” she asked herself. Several reasons played a role in Sharapova leaving the tennis court for good.

Over the last couple of years, she’s dealt with an injury in her right shoulder and inflammation (炎症) in her forearms that may have prevented her from returning to top form. In more recent news, the death of her longtime friend, US basketball legend Kobe Bryant, also played a factor in her decision to retire.

“As I think you’ve seen throughout my career, my perseverance ( 毅 力 ) has been my greatest tool, my greatest strength,” Sharapova said in an interview. “But I’ve started feeling like it was becoming a weakness, because the stubbornness (执着) that was keeping me going was keeping me going for wrong reasons.”

Sharapova rose to stardom (明星身份) at age 17 when she won Wimbledon in 2004. She won a total of four Grand Slam singles titles: the 2006 US Open, the 2008 Australian Open, and the 2012 and 2014 French Open. She also earned the Fed Cup title in Russia in 2008 and an Olympic silver medal in singles in 2012, among many other accomplishments.

For 16 straight years from 2004, Sharapova was the world’s highest-earning female athlete, according to Forbes. Off the court, she made millions of dollars from companies such as Evian and Nike, as well as starting her own candy company.

“Tennis showed me the world --- and it showed me what I was made of,” Sharapova wrote on Facebook on Feb 26, alongside a photo of herself as a young girl with a tennis racquet (球拍). “It’s how I tested myself and how I measured my growth. And so in whatever I might choose for my next chapter, my next mountain, I’ll still be pushing, I’ll still be climbing，I’ll still be growing.”

1. What made Maria Sharapova decide to retire at the age of 32? (no more than 10 words)
2. What does Para. 5 mainly talk about? (no more than 10 words)
3. How did Maria Sharapova become the world’s highest-earning female athlete? (no more than 20 words)
4. What does the underlined sentence mean in the last paragraph? (no more than 10 words)
5. Do you think perseverance (毅力) is always our greatest tool? Give your reason. (no more than 20 words)

3 . 阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

Kobe Bryant wasn't the first NBA player to visit China. But he was the first player to help China grow into a basketball-crazed nation.

Kobe's first visit was in 1998, and in conducting basketball clinics （篮球训练营），doing business and participating in charity, he was warmly welcomed in the basketball-loving country. Once, nearly 15,000 people showed up at 9 am for an event at which Kobe was scheduled to appear at 4 pm.

USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo saw firsthand Kobe's popularity during Kobe's time with Team USA at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when as captain he led the team to a gold medal. "There were tens of thousands of people on the streets, yelling, 'Kobe! Kobe!' It was unbelievable, just unbelievable," Colangelo said.

"It's harder for me to walk around here than in the United States," Kobe once told reporters in China in 2013. “It's uncontrollable. Fans rush you and surround you, and it gets to the point where you can't go out."

His last visit was in August last year for the 2019 FIBA World Cup. He told reporters, “I watched the country develop from the ground up. I watched Beijing grow. I watched the passion for the game develop. My goal is to develop the country's basketball to a level where they can compete with the best basketball countries in the world,"^, Kobe said.

Kobe was and perhaps remains China's favourite NBA player, and fans in the country were shocked by his death in a helicopter crash in January this year. Tencent, the NBA's digital partner in China, posted a memorial page that drew more than five million visitors in less than five days.

Just two days before Kobe died, he posted a short video on the Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo, wishing Chinese fans a happy new year. How sorrowful his fans are when they watch the video again!

1. Apart from being an excellent NBA players, what else makes Kobe Bryant special to Chinese fans? (no more than 15 words)
2. What does the author want to prove, telling us what Jerry Colangelo saw at the 2008 Beijing Olympics? (no more than 10 words)
3. What does the underlined phrase "from the ground up" mean in paragraph 5? (no more than 8 words)
4. What made Kobe Bryant confident that China's basketball can be one of the best in the world? (no more than 15 words)
5. How do you find Kobe Bryant? Please give your reason, (no more than 20 words)

4 . Ivy Granstrom

Ivy Granstrom was born with impaired vision(弱视) and got a serious back injury at the age of 60 during a car accident. She participated in cold English Bay swimming events for 76 years and was therefore sometimes known as the Queen of the Polar Bear Swims.

Gerry Hewson

Gerry Hewson was a member of Australian Men’s National Wheelchair Basketball Team. He won a gold medal in the 1996 Summer Paralympics. He coached for the West Sydney Razorbacks from 2004 to 2006. He was named as a lifetime member in recognition of the efforts he made for the promotion of wheelchair basketball. Discussing the appeal of wheelchair basketball, he commented that,“There is a coating at the edge of the rim(轮辋) that actually lights up like a spark(火花), and it stays for about two to three seconds. That is quite exciting and great fun.”

April Holmes

April Holmes lost her left leg below the knee because of a train accident in 2001. Remembering it she said,“I had a life-changing accident in January, 2001. And fortunately I have been able to get back to doing what I love, and that’s track and field.” Through hard work, she made records in the 100, 200, and 400 meter events. To live her life to its full potential, she has set up a non-profit(非营利的) organization, the April Holmes Foundation, to help people with learning or physical disabilities while being a role model for them.

Shauna Maria Whyte

Shauna Maria Whyte was born in Canada in 1967. She has won many prizes in cross-country skiing competitions since 1975. In 1991, during a horseback riding competition, Shauna broke her back. She did not surrender to this change in her life, and she started using a sit sled(雪橇).

1. What earned Ivy Granstrom great fame?

A．Skiing	B．Basketball
C．Swimming.	D．Track and field

2. According to Gerry Hewson, why did he love the sports he was doing?

A．It brought him excitement.

B．It won him several medals.

C．It gave him a job as a coach.

D．It strengthened his physical abilities.

3. Who set up an organization to encourage people?

A．Ivy Granstrom.	B．Gerry Hewson.
C．April Holmes.	D．Shauna Maria Whyte.

4. What do we know about the four people mentioned in the text?

A．They are peace-lovers.

B．They are disabled fighters.

C．They made contributions to youth sports.

D．They worked for the promotion of Paralympics.

5. In which part of a newspaper can you probably find the text?

A．Travel.	B．Culture.
C．Technology.	D．Sport

5 . 阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

On March 6, Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love posted an article titled Everyone is Going Through Something on the website The Players’ Tribune. In the article, the 29-year-old revealed how he suffered from his first panic attack in a game against the Atlanta Hawks and why he was so worried about sharing his story with the public.

Love identified that what keeps people from speaking up about their mental health challenges is the fear that many people see them as a weakness.   “Growing up, you figure out really quickly how a boy is supposed to act. You learn what it takes to ‘be a man’. It’s like a playbook: Be strong. Don’t talk about your feelings. Get through it on your own,” he wrote.

And being an NBA player made his situation even more difficult. Love was afraid to share his struggles because he didn’t want his Cavaliers teammates to think that he was unreliable.

However,   as   it   turned   out,   Love’s   teammates   understood   and   supported   him.   Cleveland superstar LeBron James even wrote on social media that Love is “even more powerful now than ever before”.

For Love, it was a journey of empowerment to accept and address his mental illness and share his experience with millions of people who face the same problems. In fact, he was inspired to talk

about his situation by Toronto Raptors shooting guard (得分后卫) DeMar DeRozan, who had also opened up about his mental health issues.

Last month, the 28-year-old told the Toronto Sun that despite being a top-performing and wealthy NBA player, he still deals with constant blues. “It’s one of the things that no matter how indestructible (坚不可摧的) we look like we are, we’re all human at the end of the day,” he said. “Sometimes it brings out the best of you when everything in the whole world gets on top of you.”

1. What problem did Love have according to the author? ( No more than   8   words )
2. According to Love, why was it more difficult for him to speak up about his problem? ( No more than   11 words )
3. How did Love's teammates react after Love shared his story? ( No more than 9 words )
4. How do you understand the underlined sentence in the last paragraph? ( No more than 11 words )
5. How does the author’s story inspire you to overcome weaknesses in life? Put it in your own words. ( No more than 20 words )

6 . Not so long ago, most people didn’t know who Shelly-Ann-Francis-Pryce was going to become. She was just an average high school athlete. There was every indication that she was just another American teenager without much of a future. However, one person wants to change this. Stephen Francis observed then eighteen-year-old Shelly Ann as a track meet and was convinced that he had seen the beginning of true greatness. Her time were not exactly impressive, but even so, he sensed there was something trying to get out, something the other coaches had overlooked when they had assessed her and found her lacking. He decided to offer Shelly-Ann a place in his very strict training sessions. Their cooperation quickly produced results, and a few years later at Jamaica’s Olympic trials in early 2008, Shelly-Ann, who at that time only ranked number 70 in the world, beat Jamaica’s unchallenged queen of the sprint(短跑).

“Where did she come from?”asked an astonished sprinting world, before concluding that she must be one of those one-hit wonders that spring up from time to time, only to disappear again without signs. But Shelly-Ann was to prove that she was anything but a one-hit wonder. At the Beijing Olympics she swept away any doubts about her ability to perform consistently by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 meters Olympic gold. She did it again one year on at the World Championship in Berlin, becoming world champion with a time of 10.73 — the fourth fastest time ever.

Shelly-Ann is a little woman with a big smile. She has a mental toughness that did not come about by chance. Her journey to becoming the fastest woman on earth has been anything but smooth and effortless. She grew up in one of Jamaica’s toughest inner-city communities known as Waterhouse, where she lived in a one-room apartment, sleeping four in a bed with her mother and two brothers. Waterhouse, one of the poorest communities in Jamaica, is a really violent and overpopulated place. Several of Shelly-Ann's friends and family were caught up in the killings; one of her cousins was shot dead only a few streets away from where she lived. Sometimes her family didn’t have enough to eat. She ran at the school championships barefooted because she couldn’t afford shoes. Her mother Maxime, one of a family of fourteen, had been an athlete herself as a young girl but, like so many other girls in Waterhouse, had to stop after she had her first baby. Maxime’s early entry into the adult world with its responsibilities gave her the determination to ensure that her kids would not end up in Waterhouse's roundabout of poverty. One of the first things Maxime used to do with Shelly-Ann was taking her to the track, and she was ready to sacrifice everything.

It didn't take long for Shelly-Ann to realize that sports could be her way out of Waterhouse. On a summer evening in Beijing in 2008, all those long, hard hours of work and commitment finally bore fruit. The barefoot kid who just a few years previously had been living in poverty, surrounded by criminals and violence, had written a new chapter in the history of sports.

But Shelly-Ann’s victory was far greater than that. The night she won Olympic gold in Beijing, the routine murders in Waterhouse and the drug wars in the neighbouring streets stopped. The dark cloud above one of the world’s toughest criminal neighbourhoods simply disappeared for a few days. “I have so much fire burning for my country,”Shelly said. She plans to start a foundation for homeless children and wants to build a community centre in Waterhouse. She hopes to inspire the Jamaicans to lay down their weapons. She intends to fight to make it a woman’s as well as a man’s world.

As Muhammad Ali puts it, “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them. A desire, a dream, a vision.” One of the things Shelly-Ann can be proud of is her understanding of this truth.

1. Why did Stephen Francis decide to coach Shelly-Ann?

A．He had a strong desire to free her family from trouble.

B．He sensed a great potential in her despite her weaknesses.

C．She had big problems maintaining her performance.

D．She suffered a lot of defeats at the previous track meets.

2. What did the sprinting world think of Shelly-Ann before the 2008 Olympic Games?

A．She would become a promising star.

B．She badly needed to set higher goals.

C．Her sprinting career would not last long.

D．Her talent for sprinting was known to all.

3. What made Maxime decide to train her daughter on the track?

A．Her success and lessons in her career.

B．Her interest in Shelly-Ann’s quick profit.

C．Her wish to get Shelly-Ann out of poverty.

D．Her early entrance into the sprinting world.

4. What can we infer from Shelly-Ann’s statement underlined in Paragraph 5?

A．She was highly rewarded for her efforts.

B．She was eager to do more for her country.

C．She became an athletic star in her country.

D．She was the envy of the whole community.

5. By mentioning Muhammad Ali’s words, the author intends to tell us that ________.

A．players should be highly inspired by coaches

B．great athletes need to concentrate on patience

C．hard work is necessary in one’s achievements

D．motivation allows great athletes to be on the top

7 . Dale Carnegie rose from the unknown of a Missouri farm to international fame because he found a way to fill a universal human need.
It was a need that he first_______back in 1906 when young Dale was a junior at State Teachers College in Warrensburg. To get an _______, he was struggling against many difficulties. His family was poor. His dad couldn’t afford the _______ at college, so Dale had to ride horseback 12 miles to attend classes. Study had to be done_______his farm-work routines. He withdrew from many school activities_______he didn’t have the time or the _______. He had only one good suit. He tried_______the football team, but the coach turned him down for being too _______. During this period Dale was slowly_______an inferiority complex (自卑感), which his mother knew could__________him from achieving his real potential. She__________that Dale join the debating team, believing that__________in speaking could give him the confidence and recognition that he needed.
Dale took his mother’s advice, tried desperately and after several attempts__________made it. This proved to be a__________point in his life. Speaking before groups did help him gain the__________he needed. By the time Dale was a senior, he had won every top honor in __________. Now other students were coming to him for coaching and they, __________, were winning contests.
Out of this early struggle to__________his feelings of inferiority, Dale came to understand that the ability to__________an idea to an audience builds a person’s confidence. And,__________it, Dale knew he could do anything he wanted to do—and so could others.1.

A．admitted

B．filled

C．supplied

D．recognized

2.

A．assignment

B．education

C．advantage

D．instruction

3.

A．training

B．board

C．teaching

D．equipment

4.

A．between

B．during

C．over

D．through

5.

A．while

B．when

C．because

D．though

6.

A．permits

B．interest

C．talent

D．clothes

7.

A．on

B．for

C．in

D．with

8.

A．light

B．flexible

C．optimistic

D．outgoing

9.

A．gaining

B．achieving

C．developing

D．obtaining

10.

A．prevent

B．protect

C．save

D．free

11.

A．suggested

B．demanded

C．required

D．insisted

12.

A．presence

B．practice

C．patience

D．potential

13.

A．hopefully

B．certainly

C．finally

D．naturally

14.

A．key

B．breaking

C．basic

D．turning

15.

A．progress

B．experience

C．competence

D．confidence

16.

A．horse-riding

B．football

C．speech

D．farming

17.

A．in return

B．in brief

C．in turn

D．in fact

18.

A．convey

B．overcome

C．understand

D．build

19.

A．express

B．stress

C．contribute

D．repeat

20.

A．besides

B．beyond

C．like

D．with

8 . Practice，practice，and practice! That’s____Tiger Woods became a champion golfer.
Tiger Woods ____ golf when he was very young. ____ with other children of his age，he showed special interest in golf．Finding that his son had a ____ for this game，Tiger’s father decided to ____ him on his own．To his father’s surprise，Tiger was a(n)____ golfer even at the age of 6.
However，being a child,Tiger couldn’t focus all the time，____he never gave up. Tiger listened to soft music to improve his ____ His father helped him learn to focus inspite of the ____ ．Sometimes his father stood in front of Tiger and said，“I'm a tree in your way,”He would have to hit the ball ____ his father．Sometimes his father would dance and sing when it was Tiger’s turn to hit and Tiger had to focus on the ____．
The training helped him．Once a ____ made a loud noise while Tiger was playing. He Said he never heard the broadcast because he was so ____ on the game. Tiger cannot____ losing. If he loses，he will go out and____ even harder in order not to make the same mistake.
In the year 2000，when he was 24 years old，he ____ four major golf competitions—the US Open，the US Amateur，the British Open and the British Amateur. But during the 2008 season it became clear that Tiger was ____ pain in his knee．In April his knee was operated on and he ____ the PGA(美国职业高尔夫球协会)tour season．After an eight-month period of ____ he returned to play again in February 2009. He didn’t make his fans ____．He won again.
He is so much better than the other golfers that some say he is the greatest golfer to ever play the game．1.

A．how

B．when

C．where

D．because

2.

A．looked up

B．set up

C．took up

D．gave up

3.

A．Mixed

B．Compared

C．Living

D．Competing

4.

A．trick

B．plan

C．skill

D．gift

5.

A．train

B．save

C．stop

D．raise

6.

A．lucky

B．common

C．amazing

D．careful

7.

A．and

B．but

C．so

D．as

8.

A．confidence

B．strength

C．patience

D．energy

9.

A．disturbance

B．carelessness

C．determination

D．failure

10.

A．against

B．under

C．onto

D．over

11.

A．music

B．ball

C．coach

D．ground

12.

A．teammate

B．teacher

C．radio

D．fan

13.

A．curious

B．quick

C．serious

D．focused

14.

A．stand

B．forget

C．understand

D．recognize

15.

A．cry

B．practice

C．think

D．argue

16.

A．judged

B．watched

C．conducted

D．won

17.

A．examining

B．avoiding

C．suffering

D．reducing

18.

A．missed

B．offered

C．escaped

D．joined

19.

A．research

B．rest

C．learning

D．traveling

20.

A．worried

B．troubled

C．surprised

D．disappointed