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Paris will host the European Athletics Championships in 2020.

The 26th     1    (compete) will take place at the Charlety Stadium, to the south of Paris, from 26 to 30 August 2020.   

“I’m     2     (delight) to announce that the European Athletics Council has approved (批准) the Parisian plan to host the European Athletics Championships in 2020, ” said Svein Arne Hansen, President of European Athletics. He also thought     3     was wonderful to return their sport to centre stage again     4     (short) after the Olympic Games.   

The tournament (锦标赛), which     5     (expect) to feature nearly 1, 500 athletes from 51 members of the European Athletics, will have seen its first comeback in Paris since 1938.   

French Athletics Federation President Andre Giraud said, “Hosting the European Championships in France will provide     6     great opportunity for us     7     (bring) our members together and enable us to convey our values, namely     8     (set) new goals and commitment.”

So far, the 20, 000-capacity Charlety Stadium     9     (host) the Finals of the IAAF Grand Prix (国际田联大奖赛) twice (in 1994 and 2002).   The 2017 IAAF Paris Diamond League meeting was also held at the stadium     10     July 1.

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　　The Olympics, an extraordinary sporting event was held every four    1    for about 3, 000 years, bringing joy and excitement to people across the world. The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BCE. During the early Games, only Greek men could compete    2     a few events, such as boxing, running and the long jump. The modern Olympics were first held in 1896, in Athens. The Olympics    3     (bring)back to life by Pierre de Coubertin, whose dream was that the Olympics would help people of different    4    (race)origins and from different cultures live side    5    side in peace.    6     (motivate)by the Olympic motto “Faster, Higher, Stronger”, many well-known athletes have devoted themselves to    7     (achieve)sporting excellence and pushing the boundaries of human achievement. Two such Olympians were Cassius Clay and Jessica Ennis-Hill, both of    8    gained remarkable achievements. China has a very short history of competing in the Olympics but in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, in addition to hosting the Olympics for the first time, China also     9    (rank)first on the medal table. In 2022, Beijing will host the Winter Olympics, which is thought to be another    10     (history)moment for China.

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As an athlete, Mike had been practicing hard. He preferred     1     (play) basketball rather than stay indoors in his free time. His favorite player was Jordan, who was a famous champion. Mike had a strong desire     2    (play) for his team. However, he was the shortest player in the team, so he was usually on the bench, being just a replacement,     3     was really tough on him.

Once two players crashed     4     each other during a game and one of them was badly hurt. The team quickly gathered around and the doctor put on ice pack on his knee. In that case the coach had to let Mike play, so Mike rushed onto the court. All the extra hours that he’d spent practising alone     5    (pay) off. The other team just couldn’t keep up with his energy and speed and the audience couldn’t stop clapping and     6    (cheer). At last, Mike earned his place on the team!

Mike likes many kinds of sports, such as jogging, cycling and boxing. He is in good shape, for he always keeps a     7     (balance) diet. He drinks a large amount of water every day. He also     8     (offer) some tips on sports on his blog. For example, long-distance running has a lot of benefits. It can strengthen your immune system and relieve you of some ache. It also helps you see     9     you are capable of. If you are fed up with your life, do some running! You don’t need some special     10     (equip). Do some warm­up activities before running, which will prevent you from being injured. If you keep it up, you will be amazed at your strong body some day!

4 . The FIFA World Cup 2022, the world’s greatest football tournament, is set to begin in Qatar on November 21, 2022.

The FIFA World Cup is being held in the Middle East for the first time and is being hosted by an Asian country for the second time. The nation, which draws visitors from all around the world, promises to host the most expensive World Cup ever.

By land size, Qatar is the smallest nation to have ever hosted a FIFA World Cup. Switzerland, which hosted the 1954 FIFA World Cup, is the next-smallest nation. Qatar became the second nation to host the major competition without ever making it to an earlier round of competition. Qatar has a population of 2.8 million, which is comparable to that of Yorkshire. However, because of its size, it has the highest per capita income in the world.

A FIFA World Cup is an expensive event, and since 1994, there has been a general upward trend in the costs connected with hosting the most famous tournament.

The nation has already spent around $200 billion. The nation spends $500 million per week on infrastructure(基础设施) projects, new stadiums, hotels, hospitals, and airports. According to Qatar’s finance minister, Ali Shareef AI-Emadi, preparations for the World Cup are almost complete.

A huge amount of soccer fans are expected to arrive in the country (about 1.2— 1.5 million). Due to concerns about a shortage of housing, the nation has already spent $40 million on hotels.

The estimated cost of Qatar’s 2022 FIFA World Cup is $220 billion. The historic tournament’s most costly edition is expected to be this one. Fans are surprised with the World Cup’s luxury and fascination, but there is also plenty of controversy(争议).

1. What do we know about the FIFA World Cup?

A．Yorkshire hosted the 1954 FIFA World Cup.

B．The FIFA World Cup is the world’s greatest tournament.

C．It’s the second time the FIFA World Cup has been held in an Asian country.

D．The overall cost of hosting FIFA World Cup has been on the rise since 1954.

2. What does the fifth paragraph mainly talk about?

A．People’s warmth for Qatar.	B．Qatar’s preparations for World Cup.
C．Qatar’s goals for the World Cup.	D．Qatar’s main financial situation in 2022.

3. How much money is left over for Qatar to prepare for the World Cup?

A．$40 million.

B．$200 million.

C．$500 million.

D．$20 billion.

4. What might the writer continue to write in the next paragraph?

A．How soccer fans plan to go to watch the World Cup of Qatar.

B．What the stadiums of the 2022 World Cup look like.

C．How people view differently on the Qatar’s luxurious behavior.

D．What other surprises does Qatar offer soccer fans.

5 . The astronauts working on the International Space Station, the ISS, have started their zero-gravity preview of the World Cup match on Thursday, June 26, between the United States and Germany.

NASA astronauts Steve Swanson and Reid Wiseman and European astronaut Alexander Gerst, called out from Germany, showed off their moves in a soccer exhibition aboard the orbiting lab recently. An American video released today shows their performing space bicycle kicks, headers and, as players tend to do here on the earth, celebrating happily after scoring goals.

NASA’s humanoid (仿真) robot Robonaut 2, which is designed to help astronauts perform, even gets into the spirit, waving its arms this way and that.

The weightless action tells a key World Cup game on Thursday in Brazil featuring the two teams currently at the top of the match’s so-called “group of Death”.

The winner will win the group and move on to the single-elimination (淘汰) “knockout stage” of the World Cup, while the loser may go home, depending on what happens in Thursday’s game between Ghana and Portugal, the other two teams in the group. Two teams from the group will advance. If the U. S. and Germany tie, they both will move on to the next stage.

Swanson, Wiseman and Gerst are obviously fond of the World Cup. The three space-flyers also played micro-gravity(微重力) soccer in another video that NASA posted on June 11, the day before the World Cup kicked off.

“We want to wish all the teams and fans on the ground and in Brazil a great World Cup,” Gerst said in that video, “Have fun and have peaceful games. May the best win.” The three astronauts make up half of the space station’s current Expedition 40. The other three crew members are Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov, Oleg Artemyev and Maxim Suraev.

1. How many astronauts are working on the ISS?

A．Three.

B．Five.

C．Six.

D．Nine.

2. The “two teams” in Paragraph 4 refers to______________.

A．Brazil and the USA	B．Brazil and Germany
C．Ghana and Portugal	D．Germany and America

3. Which of the following expressions is mostly related to the soccer game?

A．Kick off

B．Move on

C．Show off

D．Make up

4. There has been a weightless world cup in the ISS because_____________.

A．astronauts love to play football in their ISS

B．astronauts are concerned about the World Cup

C．Astronauts are asked to play a weightless game

D．astronauts are curious about a weightless match

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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.