1 . Future football stars

Football academies were set up by leading football clubs so their coaches could run trials to discover and train talented boys from as young as eight as potential players for their first team.

This means that in Britain there are at least 9,000 boys at any one time attending academies after school who think they are going to be a famous footballer.     1     One eight-year-old was selected for Chelsea Academy and he went from being top of his class at school to being the boy who was messing around at the back. His mother asked him why he wasn’t trying hard at school any more. His reply was that he was going to be a footballer and be rich, so he didn’t need to. In the end, he only lasted a year in the academy.     2     And he wasn’t so discouraged that he never played football again.

    3     Any sport where only a few can get to the top has many talented failures. These people are very good and do their best but finally it will not pay off because they are just not outstanding enough. In football, this effect is big because the number of players chosen by academies is so huge.     4    

This doesn’t put off all the boys who are spotted by the big football clubs and are desperate to join the academies.     5     They get to play as much football as possible. The skills become part of them, as they are with professional players, so they are automatic and the boys don’t have to think about them when they’re on the football field.

A．Unfortunately, for most this isn’t the case.

B．The benefits are still there for them of course.

C．All the big football clubs have a football academy.

D．But, luckily for him, he was still young enough to get over it.

E．But football is not alone when it comes to this kind of thing.

F．Most of these won’t get into a team and most won’t become professionals.

G．And footballers are much more likely to get injured when they play games.

2 . 语法填空

Both Paul     1     I were huge fans of the NBA, and we used to play on the court which was next to our building. Paul's favourite player     2     (be) Tyrone Bogues, who was only 1.6 metres tall,     3     made him the shortest player ever in the NBA. Paul was only 1.6 metres tall too, and he used Bogues     4     his inspiration, practicing very hard. Although Paul tried     5     many times for making our school basketball team, our coach was not so sure, so Paul was still usually     6     the bench, which was really tough on him.

Our team was playing our main competitors this week. During the competition, a player and I crashed    7     each other and my knee hurt badly, which made me give     8     the game. The last quarter was about     9     (begin), and my team was behind by 10 points. With our team's suggestion, our coach permitted Paul to play the game. All the extra hours that Paul had spent     10     (practise) alone paid off. He made shot after shot. When the game ended, our team had won by 2 points.

3 . The first Olympic Games at Olympia were held in 776 BC. They were held _______ four years from 776 BC to 393 AD. In _______ Greece, games were _______ connected to the worship(崇拜)of the gods and heroes. They were also held as part of religious ceremonies(典礼) to _______ dead heroes. But from the beginning the games at Olympia served to _______ the Greek sense of national unity. So every four years over 1,100 years, thousands of   _______ stopped all wars and _______ to a small sanctuary(圣殿) in northwestern Greece for five days in the late summer for _______ reason-to watch the Olympic Games. During that time, _______ from all over the Greek world competed in a number of athletic __________ and worshipped the gods at Olympic. The athletes competed not for __________ or material benefits, __________ only for the honor of being Olympic visitor. Like our Olympics, __________ athletes were heroes who put their hometowns on the map. However, unlike our Olympics, only free men who spoke Greek could compete, instead of athletes from any country and the games were __________ held at Olympic instead of moving around to different places every time.

The ancient Olympics had a __________ variety（种类) of games. Many of these are the ancestors(原型) of our modern Olympic Games and had rules and playing conditions.

1.

A．each

B．other

C．one

D．every

2.

A．modern

B．former

C．ancient

D．late

3.

A．much

B．little

C．less

D．closely

4.

A．meet

B．welcome

C．honor

D．call

5.

A．form

B．strengthen

C．invent

D．reach

6.

A．players

B．soldiers

C．athletes

D．people

7.

A．crowded

B．moved

C．rode

D．flew

8.

A．no

B．a single

C．some

D．a certain

9.

A．speakers

B．listeners

C．audience

D．competitors

10.

A．things

B．matters

C．events

D．accidents

11.

A．medal

B．money

C．fame

D．victory

12.

A．because

B．and

C．while

D．but

13.

A．brave

B．good

C．all

D．winning

14.

A．sometimes

B．always

C．again

D．seldom

15.

A．poor

B．rare

C．special

D．rich

4 . 语法填空

Paul and I were     1     our school basketball team. We loved basketball and were both huge fans of the NBA. My favourie player was LeBron James, while Paul’s favourie player was Tyrone Bogues, a short guy who was only 1.6 meters tall, the same     2     Paul. Paul knew that being shorter     3     other players meant that he had to practise more. He thought Bogues could make     4    , so could he! Though Paul had real skills, he was still usually on the bench, being just a     5    (replace). He had a strong     6    (desirable) to play for the team, but didn’t get a chance. This week, a tough competition began, I    7    (crash) down and hurt     8    (bad ) so that I couldn’t play any more! We all recommended Paul     9    (play). Paul rushed onto the court and all his hard practice paid     10    . The coach thought Paul had earned his place on the team.

5 . Sports are popular for a number of reasons. Sports are even more popular with people who do not necessarily participate in them, but love being spectators (观众). Here are several most popular sports in the world.

Football (Soccer)-4 billion fans

Football, better known as soccer in the US, is the most popular sport in the world. It is said that the origin of football may go as far back as two thousand years, beginning in China. One reason for football’s popularity is that unlike other sports that require expensive equipment, all you need to play football is a ball and your feet.

Hockey-2 billion fans

Hockey, both on ice and in a field, wins a following of two billion people. Field hockey is mainly played in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, while ice hockey is particularly popular in Canada and the US. Unlike ice hockey, field hockey usually does not involve body contact in the form of checking.

Tennis-1 billion

An estimated one billion people world wide follow tennis. In tennis, players on both sides of an elongated (偏长的) net try to hit a ball with a racket so that it either goes past their opponents or bounces on their opponents' side twice to score points. Pro tennis players, like Roger Federer and Serena Williams, are now household names around the world.

Volleyball-900 million

Volleyball involves two teams, each on one side of a raised net, trying to “volley” a ball onto the ground of the opposing team's side for points. One popular game, known as beach volleyball, is played on sand with two people on each team, as opposed to regular volleyball, where there are normally six players on each team.

1. What is special about field hockey?

A．It requires little training.	B．It allows body contact in checking.
C．It is only played in four continents.	D．It is the main branch of hockey.

2. What can we learn about beach volleyball?

A．It has different features from regular volleyball.	B．It is played on sandy flat grounds.
C．It's not as popular as traditional volleyball.	D．It only needs two players for a game.

3. Which sport costs the least money?

A．Tennis.

B．Hockey.

C．Football.

D．Volleyball.

6 . 语法填空

Olympic athletes usually push     1     (they) to the limits. As one of them, I     2     (miss) countless birthday parties and nights out, and ruined a family holiday in France because of the     3     (end) search for a swimming pool to train in. The list goes on and on. And it boils down to this: I was born with     4     enormous amount of drive and     5     (determine). I have always lived my life to     6     (extreme). Because if your dream is to be the best and reach the winner’s platform, you’d better be totally     7     (commitment) to your sport. It is all about that little extra thing you have done in your preparation     8     will set you apart from your competitors. People may call it     9     (health) or selfish to go to these lengths, but that is the way I roll, no matter     10     it is I’m applying myself to.

7 . Basketball is a team sport played in a court with two netted rings attached to 10-foot poles on either end of the court.     1     Variations (变种) on the basic game include beach basketball, wheelchair basketball and banks hot basketball. Here’s how to play the basic game.

    2     Two players from the opposing teams try to take possession of the ball. The team that catches the ball first plays offense, and the opposing team plays defense. Players of the same team pass the ball back and forth as the opposition attempts to take possession of it. Team players are assigned different positions.     3    

The ball must be continually dribbled (运球) as players try to move it toward the extreme ends of the court where the netted rings wait.     4    . You have to dribble or shoot the ball. Each player must throw the ball within a maximum of 35 seconds. The players cannot kick the ball.

Making illegal body contact is a foul (犯规). If a team commits consecutive (连贯的) fouls, their opponents are awarded a free throw.     5    

The team that scores the most points in the stipulated time is the winner. If the teams are tied at the end of regulation, the game goes into overtime. Overtime periods are played until one team has more points than the other at the end of an overtime period.

A．The referee throws up the ball to start the game.

B．Don’t walk with the ball，which is called traveling.

C．You can learn to dribble, pass, shoot and defend at a high level.

D．Start your journey by playing against the best players in your age group.

E．They are point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward and center.

F．Five active players per team attempt to score points by getting a ball through one of the nets.

G．If a player commits six fouls in an NBA game, he or she will be disqualified from finishing the game.