1. Who is the man’s favorite player?
A.Messi. | B.Neymar. | C.Cristiano Ronaldo. |
A.The influence. | B.The time change. | C.The best players. |
A.Italy. | B.Brazil. | C.Germany. |
2 . To become the Olympic champion in the individual (个人) all-around event, Gabby Douglas had to leave everything she
As it turned out, Douglas did
Not so long ago, Martha Karolyl the coordinator (联络人) of the women’s national team, did not think Douglas had what it
“I’m going to inspire so many people,” she said. “I’m ready to
A.tried | B.thought | C.judged | D.knew |
A.take up | B.pack up | C.clean up | D.do up |
A.goodbye | B.hello | C.thanks | D.no |
A.cause | B.observe | C.ride | D.strike |
A.common | B.time | C.fun | D.tough |
A.breathtaking | B.heartbreaking | C.eye-catching | D.head-spinning |
A.dropped out | B.moved on | C.pulled over | D.went off |
A.reason | B.talk | C.compete | D.train |
A.met | B.helped | C.understood | D.needed |
A.approximately | B.gradually | C.exactly | D.possibly |
A.defeated | B.pleased | C.respected | D.assisted |
A.forced | B.transformed | C.persuaded | D.put |
A.world | B.city | C.team | D.state |
A.amateur | B.elected | C.average | D.enthusiastic |
A.clarifying | B.defending | C.winning | D.demanding |
A.followed | B.organized | C.watched | D.led |
A.confident | B.nervous | C.excited | D.uneasy |
A.viewed | B.appeared | C.mattered | D.took |
A.now and then | B.more and more | C.far and wide | D.on and on |
A.shine | B.fly | C.dance | D.score |
3 . Fourteen-year-old Harini Logan won the Scripps National Spelling Bee last Thursday, defeating 12-year-old Vikram Raju in a tiebreaker. It’s the first time that the contest has ever been decided by a tie-breaking round of spelling.
A spelling bee is a contest where players take turns spelling words. Though the bee is mainly about spelling, it also focuses on the meaning of the words. During parts of the contest, students were asked to choose the correct meaning of a word.
That caused trouble for Harini. She was asked about the meaning of the word “pullulation”. She said the word described the nesting of birds. The contest organizers had expected the answer to be the “swarming of bees”. Harini was removed from the contest. But soon she was back in- the judges double-checked and learned that Harini’s definition was also correct. One by one, the other students spelled a word wrong and got out. Finally, only Harini and Vikram were left.
To make ties much less likely, a “spell-off” was added to the contest in recent years. In the spell-off, Vikram and Harini each took turns trying to spell the words they were asked, but both made blunders. At one point, Harini could have won by spelling the word “drimys” (a kind of plant) correctly. But she missed it.
That put the two into a super tie-breaking event, where they were each given 90 seconds to correctly spell as many words as they could. The New York Times reports that the two spelled so quickly that the judges needed to review the video to see who had won. In 90 seconds, Vikram had spelled 15 words correctly, Harini had 21 correct spellings, making her the new winner.
This was Harini’s fourth at the Bee and it’s the first time she’s made it to the finals. Describing her win, she said, “This is just such a dream!”
1. What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us about the spelling bee?A.Its significant meaning. | B.Its competition content. |
C.The importance of spelling. | D.Players’ struggle for spelling. |
A.She failed to enter the final round. | B.She was confident about her answer. |
C.Her answer was misjudged at first. | D.She refused to accept the judgement. |
A.Efforts. | B.Ways. | C.Senses. | D.Mistakes. |
A.A Tie-Breaking Event |
B.Scripps National Spelling Bee |
C.Teen Wins Spelling Bee in Exciting Tie- Breaker |
D.A Girl’s First Time to Make Her Dream Come True |
1. Where will the junior and senior competitions take place this season?
A.At Queen’s Park. | B.At King’s Park. | C.At Royal Park. |
A.Watch an awards ceremony. |
B.Go to a party. |
C.Attend a picnic. |
A.Four teams will take part in it. |
B.Players will wear red shirts this year. |
C.The games will be played on Sundays. |
5 . Modern Olympics
In the modern Olympics, some things are the same no matter which country is hosting, and some things change. For example, the Olympic symbol is always the same. The five rings stand for the five continents united together. The blue ring stands for Europe, the red ring for America, the yellow ring for Asia, the green ring for Australia and the black ring for Africa.
The Olympic motto, “Faster, Higher, Stronger,” stays the same for every Olympics. And of course, the torch — a symbol of peace, light and friendship — is always there.
However, some things are different. The Olympic slogan, for example, is created by the host city, and it reflects the spirit of those Olympics. Do you remember the slogan for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games? It was “One world, One dream”.
Each host country creates its own mascot and song. The Olympic mascot is often an animal with a national feature. The Olympic songs are always popular around the world. Do you remember the song “You and Me”? It touched many people’s hearts.
Some things have stayed the same, and somethings have changed over the years. But one thing has always been the same — to do the best and to compete fairly.
1. What are the three words that show the mottos of the Olympic Games?A.Peace, light, friendship. | B.Past, now, future. |
C.Faster, higher, stronger. | D.Yesterday, today, tomorrow. |
A.The five rings stand for the five continents united together. |
B.The five rings stand for Europe and Australia. |
C.The five rings stand for America and Africa. |
D.the five rings stand for Asia. |
A.You and Me. | B.Five Friendlies. |
C.Five Mascots | D.One World, One Dream |
6 . My brother and I often fight with each other over small things. One day our father said to us, “Tomorrow we will take part in the Ray Home Sports Day. Both of you must go with me. Perhaps you can learn something from those children.” My brother laughed, “Dad, Ray is a home for physically disabled children. What can we learn from them?”
“You will see,” our father said.
Our father works as a volunteer at Ray. The children there have problems with their hands, speech, walking or hearing. Every day, he spends hours helping them to move or exercise their legs or arms.
The following day, he took us to Ray Home. When we got there, we found a nice place to sit down. Finally, the sports began. There was a 50-meter race to see who could run fastest. All the runners were physically disabled. As the race started, all the children moved as fast as they could. Just then, one of the girls fell over and hurt her leg. She began to cry at the top of her voice.
All the children stopped to help the poor girl. Then they all held hands and finished the race together. My brother and I were surprised to see this: the children weren’t interested in winning the race-they were more interested in helping each other to finish the race.
1. Why did the father take the writer and his brother to Ray Home?A.The father wanted them to do something at Ray. |
B.The father asked them to help the children at Ray. |
C.The father wanted them to take part in the Sports Day. |
D.The father wanted them to learn something from the children. |
A.He works as a teacher there. | B.He helps the children there. |
C.He watches the games there. | D.He does sports with his sons. |
A.All the children were disabled. | B.A little girl fell over and got hurt. |
C.They stopped to laugh at the girl. | D.They didn’t want to finish the race. |
How Much Is an Olympic Gold Medal Worth?
If the International Olympic Committee still gave solid gold medals to first place finishers, medals would be pretty
The gold medals for the Tokyo Olympics,
But Olympic gold medals have value beyond the sum of their parts, and plenty of
Others end up in the auction circuit long after the original
8 . I imagine there might be a footballer or two who has woken from a terrifying dream where they can’t see the ball, or the coming opposite player. In the middle of the game, they’ve ended up lost, unable to momentarily know in which direction they are playing. Such is the usual world for players in blind football where getting the wrong direction on the pitch is only an occasional problem, quickly corrected.
Blind football is played worldwide, in England, in Japan, in China and so on. The rules are simple, the action fast. The ball is filled with ball bearings that make sounds as the ball moves, enabling the players to spot the ball very accurately—although if the ball is too fast or too slow, the sound becomes small and spotting it is harder.
It’s five-a-side, including a sighted goalkeeper but plus a “caller” for your team behind the opponent’s goal. All the players on the pitch wear a blindfold to avoid any potential cheating from anyone sighted or partially sighted. But many players are totally blind. For example, Japanese player, Yasuhiro Sasaki, can see nothing, though he was partially sighted when younger, when he was a fan of regular football. The “caller” is an essential aid to the players, calling out directions to the ball, and, importantly, distance and angle to the goal. A caller has to be quick-minded and train with team-members.
Now happily, many people come to blind football “from an interest in football foremost, rather than any interest in the disability.” All in all, blind football might become popular with more blind people.
1. The author mentions a terrifying dream in the first paragraph to ________.A.introduce the fear a professional player may suffer |
B.warn players not to get the wrong direction |
C.describe the difficulties a blind footballer might have |
D.analyze why a football game may end up in failure |
A.There are five players on each team, including a caller. |
B.The callers provide necessary information for the players. |
C.The ball should be passed neither too fast nor too slow. |
D.The caller is the only person who can see on the team. |
A.To ensure an honest game. | B.To keep partially blind players out of the game. |
C.To make the game more exciting. | D.To check that all players are totally blind. |
A.A football game for the blind. | B.A new way to play blind football. |
C.Blind football around the world. | D.How to play blind football. |