1 .     1    . The legendary volleyball coach Lang Ping gave the answer in the recent documentary (纪录片) The Iron Hammer.

The documentary displays Lang’s inspiring journey from her gold medal victory as a volleyball player in the 1984 Olympics to her amazing career as a successful coach for both Team USA from 2005 to 2008 and China since 2013. She was the first person to win Olympic volleyball gold as a player and coach. Lang Ping revealed the secret to such remarkable achievements in the documentary. As she said, “    2    ”.

    3    . Troubled by severe injuries to her cervical vertebra, back, waist and knees, caused by intense exercise and hard work, the 60-year-old has undergone more than 10 surgeries. “No parts of my body function well,” she joked.

But illness is certainly not the only difficulty Lang has faced. In 2005, she struggled with balancing raising her daughter Lydia Bai Lang, who lived in the US, and her coaching career. She eventually decided to work for USA Volleyball that year.     4    “I’m proud of being Chinese”   Lang responded in an interview. Later she returned to head the Chinese women ’s volleyball team in 2013, leading the team successfully defending its World Cup crown with a perfect record of 11 straight wins last year.

There is no doubt that Lang is one of the greatest players and coaches in history. As an American athlete commented in the documentary,     5    .

A．Who is Lang Ping?

B．Lang is the hardest to defeat.

C．I believe volleyball was my life.

D．What makes one a great person?

E．Glory and challenges go hand in hand.

F．Lang Ping is like Michael Jordan in our minds.

G．This decision aroused a lot of negative comments in China.

2 . Thomas Panek has completed 20 marathons, however, he made history on Sunday at the New York City Half Marathon.

While visually impaired（视觉障碍）runners usually use human guides, Mr Panek became the first person to complete the race supported by guide dogs. A trio of Labradors - Westley, Waffle and Gus - each accompanied (陪伴) him for a third of the race. The team finished in two hours and 21 minutes.

Mr Panek, who lost his sight in his early 20s, showed that while he appreciated the support of human volunteers, he missed the feeling of independence. In 2015, Mr Panek established the Running Guides programme which trains dogs to support runners.

When selecting his companions for the race, Mr Panek chose siblings Waffle and Westley to join Gus, who is his full-time guide dog. “The relationship is really important. You can’t just pick up the harness (挽带) and go for a run with these dogs,” Mr Panek said. “You’re training with a team no matter what kind of athlete you are, and you want to spend time together in that training camp.”

Each dogs sets its own pace — Westley runs an eight minute mile, while his sister Waffle can cover the same distance in six minutes—and helps Mr Panek avoid obstacles such as kerbs（路缘）and cones (锥体). Each dog wears a special harness and set of running boots, to protect their paws.

Gus was chosen to run the final leg of the race and cross the finish line with Mr Panek. He retired from his duties as a guide dog at the end of the race.

According to Mr Panek, guide dogs give visually impaired people the freedom to “do whatever it is a sighted person does, and sometimes, even run a little faster than them”.

1. In which way did Thomas Panek make history?

A．He set a new record of time in running the half marathon.

B．He is the first blind person who take part in the marathon.

C．He finished the competition with help of human volunteers.

D．He is the first blind person finishing half marathon with guide dogs.

2. What can we learn about Thomas Panek?

A．He stopped running after he lost sight.

B．He enjoyed running with human volunteers.

C．He is the founder of the Running Guides programme.

D．He got the gold medal at the New York City Half Marathon.

3. What do you know about the three dogs?

A．They didn’t get training before the race.

B．Westley runs faster than Waffle.

C．Gus is Panek’s full-time guide dog.

D．Westley retired after the race.

4. The passage is ______.

A．an essay

B．a news report

C．a biography

D．a review

3 . 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。

Nikhil Kumar is one of the best young table tennis     1     (player) in the United States. Less than a month after Kumar won the right     2     (compete) in them, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games     3     (put) off until 2021. Like so many other Olympic athletes, he is now trying to stay sharp and in shape.

    4     is different are all the details of his training. All things considered, he says, everything seems to be working. “For my sport, a little lucky that were able to have everything indoors, and it’s not taking    5     too much space and everything,” Kumar said. “Not many sports are as lucky as ours are right now, to be able to have the opportunity to continue playing on a daily basis.”

The coronavirus pandemic (新冠病毒) has forced many athletes to be     6     (create) as they try to continue their training. But in some Olympic sports, working from home is fairly common. Kumar has been able to play table tennis with a robot that     7     (shoot) balls at him.

Everyone is facing issues during the pandemic,     8    some competitors have been lucky. Weightlifter Kate Nye trains at home in her garage. She said. “When everything kind of started shutting down, it    9    (obvious) affected our lives in other ways -but weightlifting wasn’t one of them. I’ve just been going as     10     (plan).”

4 . 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 Warrens burg. 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 because he didn’t have the time or the ______. He tried for 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 suggested 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 finally 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 senior, he had won every top honor in speech. 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 ______ 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．permits

B．interest

C．talent

D．clothes

6.

A．light

B．flexible

C．optimistic

D．outgoing

7.

A．gaining

B．achieving

C．developing

D．obtaining

8.

A．prevent

B．practice

C．patience

D．potential

9.

A．presence

B．practice

C．patience

D．potential

10.

A．key

B．breaking

C．basic

D．turning

11.

A．progress

B．experience

C．competence

D．confidence

12.

A．in return

B．in brief

C．in turn

D．in fact

13.

A．convey

B．overcome

C．understand

D．build

14.

A．express

B．stress

C．contribute

D．repeat

15.

A．besides

B．beyond

C．like

D．with

5 . Vanessa Bryant made her first public comment Wednesday since the helicopter crash that killed her husband Kobe Bryant and one of their daughters.

“We are completely devastated (摧毁) by the_________loss of my adoring husband, Kobe-the amazing father of our children; and my beautiful, sweet Gianna — a loving, thoughtful and wonderful daughter, and amazing_________to Natalia, Bianka and Capri,” Vanessa Bryant wrote.

The Bryants would have_________their 19th wedding anniversary this April. They had four daughters including Natalia, Bianka, Capri and the 13-year-old Gianna who died in the crash.

“There aren’t_________words to describe our pain right now,” Vanessa Bryant wrote. “I take_________in knowing that Kobe and Gigi both knew that they were so deeply loved. We were so fortunate to have them in our_________. I wish they were here with us_________. They were our beautiful blessings_________from us too soon.”

“I’m not sure what our lives hold_________today, and it’s impossible to__________life without them,” Vanessa Bryant continued, “But we wake up each day,__________to go ahead because Kobe, and our baby girl, Gigi, are shining on us to__________the way. Our love for them is__________. I just wish I could hug them, kiss them and have them here with us right now.”

There has been no__________on funeral or memorial plans yet for Kobe and Gianna Bryant. Vanessa Bryant asked for continued__________of her family’s privacy as it is “going through this new reality”.

1.

A．gradual

B．eventual

C．obvious

D．sudden

2.

A．sister

B．mother

C．wife

D．daughter

3.

A．congratulated

B．celebrated

C．prepared

D．attended

4.

A．natural

B．special

C．enough

D．satisfactory

5.

A．comfort

B．pride

C．delight

D．interest

6.

A．dreams

B．lives

C．houses

D．pictures

7.

A．ever

B．forever

C．yet

D．sometimes

8.

A．divided

B．freed

C．taken

D．kept

9.

A．before

B．until

C．through

D．beyond

10.

A．balance

B．save

C．imagine

D．survive

11.

A．trying

B．forgetting

C．regretting

D．pretending

12.

A．block

B．shelter

C．construct

D．light

13.

A．limited

B．endless

C．complex

D．poisonous

14.

A．advertisement

B．guidance

C．expression

D．announcement

15.

A．service

B．help

C．respect

D．approach

6 . Li Ning is called the prince of gymnasts. When he ______ at the age of 26, he had won 106 gold medals in major ___ across the world. They _____ six out of seven gold medals at the 1982 World Championship, and three at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles (as well as two silver and a bronze), Li Ning was the best, _______ sports journalists met in

1999 to make a _______of the greatest sportsmen and sportswomen of the twentieth century, Li Ning's name was on it, ______ footballer Pele and boxer Muhammad Ali.   But ______ he had won everything it was possible to win in his sport, Li Ning retired ________the feeling that he had failed. He was _______ because he had not performed well in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

But it was this sense of failure _____ made him determined to succeed in his new life. A year after his retirement, Li Ning _____ a new career as a businessman. But he didn't forget his sporting background. He decided to launch a new brand of sportswear, __________with global giants like Nike and Adidas. He made the ______ choice, for a Chinese person, of choosing his own name as the brand mark. The bright red logo is _____ the first two pinyin letters or Li Ning's name, L and N.

Li Ning's sports clothes came ______ the market at just the right time. The number of young people with money to _____ was on the increase — and sport had never been so ______ Li Ning' s designs were attractive, and they had a major _____ over their better-known rivals — they were ______ A pair of Nike trainers, for example, could cost up to five times as________as a similar Li Ning product. Success for Li Ning was guaranteed, and it came quickly.

1.

A．resigned

B．began

C．retired

D．started

2.

A．battles

B．competitions

C．wars

D．fights

3.

A．included

B．got

C．received

D．had

4.

A．Before

B．After

C．If

D．When

5.

A．list

B．plan

C．circle

D．speech

6.

A．such as

B．on behalf of

C．together with

D．in honor of

7.

A．since

B．even though

C．when

D．now that

8.

A．from

B．through

C．for

D．with

9.

A．disappointed

B．confused

C．satisfied

D．content

10.

A．which

B．what

C．that

D．who

11.

A．produced

B．began

C．ended

D．continued

12.

A．working

B．arguing

C．dealing

D．competing

13.

A．unusual

B．common

C．ordinary

D．normal

14.

A．made out of

B．made into

C．made up of

D．making up for

15.

A．off

B．onto

C．from

D．after

16.

A．pay

B．cost

C．take

D．spend

17.

A．interesting

B．popular

C．valuable

D．hopeful

18.

A．disadvantage

B．control

C．power

D．advantage

19.

A．cheaper

B．better

C．more expensive

D．more attractive

20.

A．few

B．many

C．much

D．little

7 . Being highly successful in any field is pretty rare. It takes a combination of natural talent, luck, determination, and plenty of outside support for someone to make it big in sports, entertainment, or business. But what if competing is all that matters to you, whether you are likely to succeed or not? This was the goal of Michael Eddie the Eagle Edwards, and that he reached that goal was an amazing achievement.

Born in the U.K. in 1963, Michael was an enthusiastic downhill skier whose dream was to compete for Britain in world-class competitions. He would have liked to represent his country in the 1984 Winter Olympics, but there were a large number of downhill competitors, and Edwards didn't qualify. Seeing his chance elsewhere, he switched to ski jumping. Ski jumping didn't cost nearly as much, and there was almost no competition for a place on the Britain team.

But number of hurdles (障碍)could have meant the end of Edwards' dream. He weighed more than most competitors, which put him at a disadvantage. He had no financial support for his training. Poor eyesight meant that he had to wear glasses under his goggles (护目镜)- not a good thing when they steamed up at high altitudes. But he couldn't let any of this discourage him. He saw himself as a true lover of the sport who simply wanted the chance to compete. Winning wasn't the point. Having the opportunity to try was all he cared about. And nothing could stop him from trying.

In the end, Edwards took 55th place in the 1987 World Championships. He then went on to the Calgary Olympics in 1988, where he finished last in both of his events. Many athletes would have been embarrassed by this result, but he is proud of his achievement to this day. His determination to fight against all the odds made him a global hero, and in 2016, the inspiring film Eddie the Eagle was made about his life.

1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?

A．To add some background information.

B．To uncover the secret of success.

C．To expect an answer from readers.

D．To introduce the topic.

2. Why did Michael Edwards choose ski jumping?

A．It took less skill.

B．The equipment was cheaper.

C．There was little competition.

D．It was easy to win the championship.

3. After the Calgary Olympics, Edwards _________.

A．felt he had reached his goal

B．was embarrassed by his results

C．switched to film making

D．was glad it was over

4. What made Michael Edwards outstanding?

A．His determination to win.

B．His enthusiasm for the sport.

C．His attitude towards the Olympics.

D．His ability to overcome physical disabilities.

8 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Life is often a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. Sun Yang was the first Chinese man     1     (win) an Olympic gold medal in swimming. That moment     2     (come) last month, when he won the men’s 200-meter freestyle event at the Asian Games.

Sun has accomplished a Golden Grand Slam, having won the 200, 400 and 1, 500-meter freestyle events at the Asian Games, World Championships and Olympic Games. His     3     (patient) and persistence have paid off. The 26-year-old swimmer told Xinhua News Agency, “Not many swimmers could have waited for eight years over three Asian Games like me. My dream has     4     (final) come true.”

While Sun stood on a podium (领奖台)     5     (listen) to the Chinese national anthem (国歌) along with the silver and bronze medal winners, a technical problem caused the medalists’ flags to drop to the ground. Sun jumped off the podium, walked over to the officials and demanded that the flags again.     6     the end, the officials held the flags up themselves as China’s national anthem played a second time.

Many Chinese Internet users thought Suns reaction to the incident to be an act of patriotism (爱国主义). “    7     is great to win the championship, but    8    (see) our national flag go up again is also very important. Winning the title is an achievement     9     will be remembered, but raising the flag again is also of great     10     (important).”

9 . 阅读下面材料，在答题卡上填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Chinese tennis legend Li Na will be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.     1     (amazing), Li is the first Asian player     2     (receive) the sport’s ultimate honor. She was joined by Mary Pierce and Yevgeny Kafelnikov for the halls Class of 2019, which     3     (announce)at the Australian Open last month. Li retired in 2014 because of recurring knee injuries, eight months after winning that year’s Australian Open and     4     (rise) to a career-high second in the WTA ranking. Her first Grand Slam trophy came at the 2011 French Open,     5     she defeated four top-10     6     (opponent) along the way. To     7     (she) credit, those on-court achievements, along with L’s engaging     8     (personal), helped spur interest in tennis at home in China.

“I have loved seeing the sport grow in China,” Li said in     9     statement, “and I’m proud to be part of that history.” The formal induction ceremony will be held     10     July 20th in Rhode Island.

10 . Michelle Kwan is a champion ice skater who has won five World Championships, nine U. S. Championships and two Olympic medals, in addition to countless other skating competitions. While audiences have seen her glide effortlessly across the ice, long hours of practice and devotion contribute each jump and spin.

Kwan began ice skating when she was five years old, and her skill quickly became evident. At the age of eight, she skated several hours a day, every day of the week. Before school, after school and on weekends, she was at the ice rink. The cost of ice time and coaches quickly grew, but her parents were committed to her success. Her family sold their home and purchased a much smaller one to free up money to pay for her ice skating.

When Kwan was 13, she performed at her first U. S. National Championships. After a disappointing performance, she swore to work even harder and improve. She did. The next year, she finished second. From there she went on to win a silver medal at the 1998 Olympics and the first of her World Championships. She followed up with a bronze medal at the 2002 Olympic Games.

Kwan is the most decorated figure skater in American history. She was the sole member to the U. S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame and the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame classes of 2012, and in 2014, she was appointed to the Hall of Fame at the U. S. National Competition.

Even after retiring from skating. Kwan has not given up her devotion to learning, service and hard work. She received her college degree in 2009 from the University of Denver and is pursuing graduate studies in international relations at Tufts University. Meanwhile, she has held several diplomatic and ambassador positions representing the United States globally. Ultimately，whether on the ice, in the classroom or representing her nation, Kwan presents one consistent quality—devotion.

1. What do we know about Kwan according to the text?

A．She performed badly in her first national competition.

B．She has won five U. S. Championships.

C．She failed to graduate from Tufts University.

D．She hasn’t won the second place in Olympic Games.

2. Which of the following can best describe Kwan?

A．Warm-hearted.	B．Energetic.
C．Easygoing.	D．Devoted.

3. What may be the best title for the text?

A．The Way to Success	B．A Great Skater
C．How to Be a Good Player?	D．Why Is       Devotion Important?