1 . Tennis, basketball, soccer, swimming — these are examples of the hundreds, maybe thousands, of sports in the world. People in every country play some kind of athletic game. Why do people spend so much time and energy playing sports?
Good health is one big advantage to playing sports.
An additional reason for playing sports is that it makes people feel good. It does this in two interesting ways. First, playing sports makes people feel good about themselves.
There are a lot of other reasons why people play sports, but studies show that the biggest reason is enjoyment. When asked why they play sports, most people said they play because it’s fun.
Do you want to be healthy, socialize, feel good, and have fun? Play a sport.
A.It takes time to find a fun sport. |
B.They don’t have to play — they want to play. |
C.Finishing a long race can make someone feel confident. |
D.It may be because playing sports has a lot of advantages. |
E.Good health is not the only reason that people play sports. |
F.Exercise can make people stronger and help them live longer lives. |
G.Sports allow people to realize the importance of physical and mental health. |
2 . Many people lead busy lives and think they barely have time to work out every day.
Require Less of a Time Commitment
Committing to exercising for a certain amount of time per week can be difficult, especially when you do not have the time or motivation to work out for an extended period. Microworkouts are good alternatives. They take up only 10 to 30 minutes of your day. Many people spend much longer scrolling through social media each day.
Make Scheduling Workouts Easier
It can be challenging to commit the time needed to exercise every day,but it can also be hard to fit a workout into a tight schedule. However, a study suggests that it may be possible.
Need No Equipment
Investing in expensive home gym equipment can be a real burden. When you decide to domicro workouts, though, you don’t need a bunch of equipment.
A.Ready to get moving? |
B.You just fit it into your routine. |
C.Fitness should be simple and convenient. |
D.So it should be a relatively easy time commitment. |
E.If you feel this way, you may be interested in micro workouts. |
F.Can micro workouts give the same benefits as longer workout sessions? |
G.Instead,you can use things around your home to empower your workout. |
3 . People do physical exercise as part of their healthy lifestyle to get stronger and healthier.
There are three basic modes of physical exercise: flexibility exercise helps the human body in general or its part in particular to be able to reach farther and bend better; aerobic exercise helps the body work hard for a long time; anaerobic exercise makes the arms and legs stronger.
It has long been known that exercise is not only good for your body, but also for your mind. According to researchers, gymnasts are more likely to be emotionally stable, football players the most outgoing and swimmers the happiest.
The psychological study, which was carried out by experts, also revealed that sports can also offer clues to a person’s attitude to charity, reading habits and even their voting intentions. Boxers, for example, are most likely to focus on material possessions in life. Meanwhile, runners tend to be outgoing people who love being the centre of attention. Walkers, a group that includes those who enjoy wandering and cross-country races, are least concerned about other people and like doing things by themselves without interruption from others. Those who play chess are confident when they face challenges and trouble. Those who swim tend to be tidy and charitable. However, according to Mind Lab, 61 percent of adults are fond of helping others regardless of their choice of sports.
The results from this study also show that no matter what kind of person you are, there is the right kind of exercise for you.
1. Which of the following sports belongs to flexibility exercise?A.Running. | B.Swimming. | C.Football. | D.Gymnastics. |
A.Walkers enjoy loneliness in their lives. |
B.Boxers tend to ignore wealth in life. |
C.Runners have great power of concentration. |
D.Chess players like challenging other people. |
A.To make a contrast. | B.To draw a comparison. |
C.To place an emphasis. | D.To give an example. |
A.How can you choose suitable sports? |
B.What kind of sports can benefit you most? |
C.How can sports keep you mentally healthy? |
D.What does your choice of sports tell about you? |
4 . Teenagers’ fitness is now a major concern,and physical exercise is very important. It reduces stress and improves fitness. Exercise makes your body strong,and helps you to keep the right body weight. Sports scientist Dr. Helen Lopez offers the following advice to teenagers:“First,you need to find out your present level of fitness. Then you can design a programme that will help you become healthier.”
Dr. Lopez suggests that there are three levels of fitness that need a change of lifestyle.“Overweight”means that the person gets very little exercise and often has a serious weight problem. “Inactive” means that the person does not join in many physical activities,but is not seriously overweight.“Active”refers to people who take part in sports and other physical activities,but do not have a high fitness level.
According to Dr. Lopez,overweight teenagers should work out to keep healthy.“Ride a bike,play volleyball or basketball for a while,and go for a twentyminute walk each day. All these will help to burn calories.”Inactive teenagers should do similar activities, but add some bending and stretching exercises, such as pushups and situps, starting with twenty of each a day.“Inactive people can take a little more exercise than overweight people because their bodies are stronger,”Dr. Lopez said. The same rule applies to active teenagers.
Dr. Lopez suggests one hour a week or more on running and other forms of intensive exercise,together with fifteen minutes a day spent on stretching and bending activities.“These are really important in order to prevent injuries,” Dr. Lopez said. Some weighttraining and other bodystrengthening exercises could also be planned in the programme in order to increase the person’s strength.
1. What can we learn from the passage?A.Active people always have a high fitness level. |
B.Overweight people always take more exercise. |
C.Keeping fit means changing teenagers’ lifestyle. |
D.Inactive teenagers are not seriously overweight. |
A.Physical exercise can make the teenagers grow taller. |
B.Physical exercise can help teenagers become healthier. |
C.Physical exercise can help to burn up calories. |
D.Physical exercise can increase teenagers’ strength. |
A.walking exercises | B.streching and bending |
C.riding | D.weighttraining |
A.Doing Exercise |
B.Teenagers’ Fitness |
C.Different Lifestyles |
D.Overweight Teenagers |
5 . All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer.
Some sports or game go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese Kungfu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet.
People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends.
A.And think of people in cold countries. |
B.Sports help to train a person’s character. |
C.People aren’t inventing new sports or games. |
D.Many people like to watch others play games. |
E.People are inventing new sports or games all the time. |
F.Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere take part in them. |
G.Not a few people participate in different sports competitions themselves. |
6 . Recess for Kids
Ask a group of kids about their favorite part of the school day and many will talk about something that happened at recess. Maybe they finally made it across the monkey bars (单杠). Maybe somebody kicked the ball over the fence. Maybe a fruit tree in a neighboring yard started to drop apples on the playground.
It’s true not just according to kids, but also to adults who study recess for kids. Whether they’re inventing a new game or sitting under a tree, kids need a break — or several of them — during the school day.
Why Kids Need Recess.
There's no debate that recess, or mainly referred to as physical activity, is good for kids.
You can’t have your brains go hours at a time and retain and store information in working memory.
How Much Recess Should Kids Get.
“Ideally, children should get four 15-minute recesses every day”, says Debbie Rhea, a professor from Texas Christian University, who advocates for outdoor play in schools.
In addition to simply providing enough time for recess, schools should teach skills that will make recess more successful. For instance, letting kids run fast will help them develop coordination.
A.How to Make Recess Better. |
B.Who should help kids recess. |
C.You need time away to process it. |
D.This recommendation has been widely accepted. |
E.Any one of these things is a marker of a good recess. |
F.Maybe running up the slide is not as unsafe as it looks. |
G.We wouldn’t have kids sitting there for math or reading for long hours. |
7 . Sport is not only physically challenging, but it can also be mentally challenging. Criticism from coaches, parents, and other teammates, as well as pressure to win can create an excessive amount of anxiety or stress for young athletes. Stress can be physical, emotional, or psychological and research has suggested that it can lead to burnout. Burnout has been described as dropping or quitting of an activity that was at one time enjoyable.
The early years of development are critical years for learning about oneself. The sport setting is one where valuable experiences can take place. Young athletes can, for example, learn how to cooperate with others, make friends, and gain other social skills that will be used throughout their lives. Coaches and parents should be aware, at all times, that their feedback to youngsters can greatly affect their children. Youngsters may take parents’ and coaches’ criticisms to heart and find a mistake in themselves.
Coaches and parents should also be careful that youth sport participation does not become work for children. The outcome of the game should not be more important than the process of learning the sport and other life lessons. In today’s youth sport setting, young athletes may be worrying more about who will win instead of enjoying themselves and the sport. Following a game, many parents and coaches focus on the outcome and find fault with youngsters’ performances. Positive reinforcement motivates and has a greater effect on learning than criticism. Again, criticism can create high levels of stress, which can lead to burnout.
1. What is the main idea of the first paragraph?A.Mental stress should be reduced. | B.Sport should be made less competitive. |
C.Stress should be made less. | D.Sport can be mentally challenging. |
A.it can help them learn more about society |
B.it enables them to criticize themselves |
C.it can provide them with valuable experiences |
D.it teaches them how to set realistic goals for themselves |
A.Parents and coaches should enable children to enjoy sport. |
B.Parents and coaches should help children to win every game. |
C.Parents and coaches should train children to deal with stress. |
D.Parents and coaches should understand the meaning of sport. |
A.To teach young athletes how to avoid burnout. |
B.To persuade young children not to worry about criticism. |
C.To stress the importance of encouraging children. |
D.To discuss the skill of combining criticism with encouragement. |
8 . The human body is designed to move. But modern lifestyles and office jobs rarely give us the chance to move around. As we know, we sit while we’re eating, we sit in the car and we sit while we're watching TV. And many of us sit for many hours at work.
New research shows that sitting less than three hours a day might extend your life by two years. Peter Katzmarzyk, a scientist at the University of Louisiana in the southern United States, says that sitting is ubiquitous in our lives, meaning it is something we do all the time, everywhere.
However, Mr.Katzmarzyk says even that does not mean you can sit for the rest of your waking hours. He also says you may exercise often. “We can’t throw away physical activity. It’s extremely important. We have 60 years of research showing us that.”
Mr.Katzmarzyk and his colleagues are part of a new generation of researchers studying how sitting all day affects length of life. “Studies that have assessed the relationship between sitting and mortality (死亡率)or television viewing and mortality are very rare. There have only been a few of them, actually five or six now,in the last four or five years.” They found that cutting television time to less than two hours a day could add one-point four years to life.
Luckily, change is already coming to some offices, especially in the design of desks. A “standing desk” lets people stand while they are working. Another new design is called the “treadmill desk”. A treadmill is an exercise machine that lets you walk in one place. Even some U.S. schools are beginning to experiment with desks that are part bicycle to keep children moving, That’s one of the strategies that many companies are using now.
Mr. Katzmarzyk also says studying this problem has inspired his team to make a few changes in their own lives.
1. The underlined word “ubiquitous” is the closest .A.危险的 | B.尴尬的 |
C.舒适的 | D.普遍的 |
A.Sitting too long may help increase one’s life. |
B.Exercise is important, but so is not sitting. |
C.Watching TV is bad, but can broaden one’s horizons. |
D.Stopping watching TV is a necessary but hard task. |
A.It’s a relatively new area of study. |
B.It’s a hot subject studied by experts. |
C.It’s a study that begins too late. |
D.It’s ignored by many experts. |
A.To give them more comfort . |
B.To improve their work efficiency. |
C.To offer them the chance to exercise. |
D.To seek pleasure while working. |
9 . The Growing Popularity of Cycling
They say once you learn how to ride a bike, you never forget. Most of us learnt when we were kids, and many still strap (系好) on our helmets, put our feet on the pedals , and shoot off for a ride around the streets. In recent times, cycling has seen a boost in popularity.
First, let’s look at the health benefits. Cycling can improve your cardiovascular (心血管的) health and burm excess body fat. Strengthening your leg muscles in your calves (小腿肚) and thighs (大腿).
Cycling can be a great way to commute (通勤) or get about town.
So, whether people want to cycle for their health, getting about town, their wallet, the environment, or a combination of all of them—
A.The popularity of cycling is on the rise. |
B.By cycling, you save money on fuel or train fares. |
C.Finally, cycling can also be good for the environment. |
D.Cycling except for transport, also can be used for fitness. |
E.And cycling’s benefits aren’t just physical, but mental as well. |
F.What makes it so appealing to people to straddle their bikes once again? |
G.I feel very relaxed by cycling, but the body was able to quickly reach the amount of exercise! |
10 . Sports day! These two words can inspire both joy and terror in the hearts of students everywhere. For many, sports day can be a great day of fun and the chance to bag a prize or two.
Today, more and more schools have recognized the importance of exercise.
However, some people feel that it’s important that sport has winners and that learning to lose is just as important as learning how to win.
There are lots of people who agree with the idea—parents in particular! According to a 2017 survey by Families Online, 82% of parents say they prefer “traditional” competitive sports days.
People have different ideas about whether it is the winning or the taking part that counts when it comes to school sports days. So, should School Sports Day be competitive or not? We want to know your ideas.
A.What’s the point if no one wins? |
B.Should sport just be about winning? |
C.Many of them have “non-competitive” sports days. |
D.Everyone should be celebrated for trying and playing their part. |
E.Many adults are worried that their kids can get injured when doing sports. |
F.For others, it might feel like having to take part in something they aren’t good at. |
G.Many adults feel that children can learn valuable lessons in both winning and losing. |