The cafeteria (自助食堂) conversation on Monday was all about hockey (冰上曲棍球) again. Jade usually fit in with the sports crowd, but now she was not included in the conversation.
“When will you get out on the ice, Jade?” Hazel asked. Jade was a soccer star at her old school in California. “I’m inviting her to play hockey.” Hazel told other players at the table.
Jade lowered her voice. “I can’t make it to open skating time because I have to look after my younger brother Calvin until 6:30.”
But Hazel had been friendly since their first meeting and she wasn’t going to give upon this. “A rink (溜冰场) is behind the stadium. I can practice with you thereafter the closing time. You can buy skates from Ms. Silva, the facility manager. 7 o’clock this evening at the rink!” Hazel told Jade excitedly.
However, Jade didn’t tell Hazel she couldn’t afford the skates and hockey stick. After school Jade hurried home to look after Calvin. When she was cleaning the crumbs (面包屑) under Calvin’s highchair with a broom, she got an idea. At 6:35, Jade grabbed the broom and an old tennis ball.
At the rink, Hazel hadn’t turned up yet. In her dirty shoes, Jade practiced hitting the ball with the broom independently. Surprisingly, she scored a goal. But her smile disappeared as she saw Ms. Silva walking over.
She looked down at Jade’s feet pitifully. “Your shoes made the rink dirty. Those aren’t skates and hockey stick.”
“I’m really sorry for the dirt,” Jade apologized. “I don’t have money for those.”
“You didn’t tell me that!” Hazel appeared, holding Jade’s hands.
“Want a weekend job?” Ms. Silva advised gently. “I’ll teach you how to remove the dirt and leaves. A month later you may get new skates!” “Definitely.” Jade replied. “I’ll be there with you!” Hazel said.
注意：1.续写词数应为100词左右；2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
In the following month, Jade was a dutiful staff and practiced with Hazel in the rink every night.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2 . In the Commonwealth Games England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have separate Olympics teams, unlike the Olympics where they compete together as Britain.
What are the Commonwealth Games?
The Commonwealth Games are held every four years between members of the Commonwealth of Nations—a group of independent countries, most of which used to be part of the Britain. The Games were first held in 1930 in Hamilton, Canada. The event was named the Commonwealth Games in 1978.
The history of the Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games have been held every four years since they started and have grown much bigger. At the first Commonwealth Games, only 11 nations and 400 athletes were involved in six sports. For a long time, the Games only included individual sports such as athletics, boxing and swimming. In 1998, team sports such as cricket, hockey and netball were introduced. The Commonwealth Games have featured many fantastic feats and the athletes have broken a wide range of records.
Paralympic progress
At the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games, Canadian athlete Chantal Petitclerc became the first athlete with a disability to win a gold medal in the wheelchair 800-meter race. She said, “It meant so much to me that the Commonwealth Games decided that a performance is a performance-and it doesn’t matter if you accomplish it in a wheelchair. Paralympic athletes continue to take part in the Commonwealth Cames’ main sports programs, and many have broken records and made history.
1. Which countries take part in the Commonwealth Games?| A．Independent countries. | B．Members of the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| C．The former members of the Britain. | D．All the countries from around the world. |
| A．11. | B．4. | C．6. | D．400. |
| A．To make historic records. | B．To enjoy sports programs with other athletes. |
| C．To show their disabilities. | D．To prove themselves with good performance. |
1. What does the speaker think of his first marathon?
| A．Boring. | B．Satisfying. | C．Difficult. |
| A．He was too nervous. |
| B．He lacked training beforehand. |
| C．He didn’t take his running shoes. |
| A．He got the third place. |
| B．He completed his challenge. |
| C．It took place in hot weather. |
4 . Guernsey International Poetry Competition — Poems on the Move
Your poem could be on show in 2024. Winning entries are displayed in two stages: 21 bus poems will be chosen, and the top 9 of these will take part in a second, larger exhibition, first at Guernsey Airport, then all over the island.
How to enter·Online by completing the online entry form and payment, at www.poemsonthemove.com.
·By email: PotM@guernseyliteraryfestival.com .
·By post: Poems on the Move 2024, Guernsey Literary Festival, PO Box 174, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK,GY1 3LG.
Fees·Entries are £4 per poem or 3 poems for £10.
·Fees are not refundable.
·Young People’s Poetry: Aged 11-17, entries FREE
Rules·Entries must be no longer than 14 lines and must be typed and fit on a single A4 page.
·Please do not write your name or age on the same sheet as your poems.
·Enter each poem on a separate page and enclose another separate sheet with your name, address, telephone number, email address, plus the title(s) of your poems.
·Entries must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never have been published, self-published, published on any public website or broadcast, nor winning or placed in any other competition.
·Closing date for receipt of entries: February15, 2024
The prize is open to anyone except those involved in organizing the competition. Winners will be contacted by March 5, 2024. Winning poems will be shown on Guernsey buses, and 9 of these poems will become part of the Poems on the Move exhibition, for no less than six months.
1. What should entrants do?| A．Show their poems on the bus. | B．Deliver their poems in person. |
| C．Start entering after February 15, 2024. | D．Have the poems typed as requested. |
| A．They should be original. |
| B．They must be over 14 lines. |
| C．They should be around two pages long. |
| D．They must be published works on any site. |
| A．A young man aged 16. | B．A poet involved in the competition. |
| C．A writer organizing the competition. | D．A teacher writing a poem. |
5 . Tennis is an incredibly mental sport.
It is very easy to self-destruct (自我毁灭) when playing tennis if you let your expectations and ego get the better of you. So, simply playing the ball that is in front of you is the simplest way to approach the game, along with taking each point at a time.
That being said, it is much easier said than done.
Tennis is also about playing the big points well and understanding that not all points hold the same weight across the course of a match. Putting disappointment behind you and trying to play the next point with a positive attitude can be very difficult to do.
| A．However, being flexible is also important. |
| B．You will always have to have some form of strategy. |
| C．However, it is a key part of becoming a better tennis player. |
| D．It can bring with it a whole host of physical and mental benefits. |
| E．Every backhand shot you hit is what you throw at your opponent. |
| F．Perhaps the most obvious benefits tennis offers are the physical ones. |
| G．The scoring system in tennis means you can win more points and still lose a match! |
Exciting action, excellent organization and touching stories of athletes made the just finished 4th Asian Para Games in Hangzhou a huge success,
The whole world was
The Hangzhou Asian Para Games attracted over 3, 000 athletes from 44 countries, making it the
Organizing such
At the Games, Team China won 521 medals,
Yangshan Half Marathon (马拉松), one of the most popular rural races in China, took place on March 28 in Yangshan town, Wuxi, East China’s Jiangsu province.
The race was part of the 25th Yangshan Peach Blossom Festival,
Yangshan,
The annual Yangshan Half Marathon, hosted three times from 2017 to 2019 (with a break due to the pandemic in 2020),
The half marathon race, which stuck to the same course as before, has been
Pu Xiangfeng, deputy head of Huishan’s bureau of culture, sports and tourism, said the event this year was
“I really liked the marathon course. The spring in Wuxi is beautiful and the country life in Yangshan is
1. What is this competition about?
| A．Saving energy at home. | B．Reducing noise pollution. | C．Using technology creatively. |
| A．Starting the machine. | B．Increasing air pressure. | C．Producing carbon dioxide. |
| A．To discuss the way of writing a paper. |
| B．To find the right material for a model. |
| C．To study the approach to detailed drawings. |
9 . On Aug. 7, 2021, Xu Shixiao and her partner, Sun Mengya, won gold in the first women’s canoe double 500 m event at the Tokyo Games. It was also the first Olympic gold medal for China in the event.
In 2005, the 13-year-old, who was much taller than her peers, attracted the attention of a rowing coach who came to look for potential paddlers in her school.
“Every day my canoe turned over dozens of times. I drank lots of water in rivers,” recalls Xu of her first canoeing training. Xu kept training for a year and she made the final of a national race for teenage athletes out of a dozen paddlers at the centre.
In 2013, the news that women’s canoeing was still not an Olympic event dealt her a heavy blow.
When Xu Shixiao went to work as usual in the furniture company five years ago, she was surprised to get a call from her former coach, inquiring about her willingness to return to canoeing and compete in the Tokyo Olympic Games.
| A．Xu quickly made her decision. |
| B．Yet Xu’s journey to the Olympics was a rough one. |
| C．It was impossible for her to change the sport at age 21. |
| D．She made all efforts to reach the goal and never gave up. |
| E．Xu agreed to train at a rowing centre because she thought rowing a boat was fun. |
| F．Compared with athletes who are in their early 20s, Xu’s physical recovery is slower. |
| G．The Olympic medalist will participate in competitions at home and abroad this year. |
10 . It was a very exciting day for us-the championship Little League game of the season. Two teams would be
Ben, my husband, who had to stay in
He taught the teams how to play the game and about good
Today, one
The score was close; it was a(n)
| A．finding | B．battling | C．carrying | D．working |
| A．school | B．court | C．hospital | D．church |
| A．before | B．since | C．once | D．while |
| A．examinations | B．operations | C．work | D．training |
| A．worn down | B．turned down | C．knocked down | D．let down |
| A．leadership | B．friendship | C．scholarship | D．sportsmanship |
| A．competitive | B．mixed | C．caring | D．divided |
| A．respect | B．hope | C．honesty | D．justice |
| A．book | B．film | C．saying | D．article |
| A．give up | B．give in | C．give out | D．give over |
| A．open-minded | B．easy-going | C．enthusiastic | D．generous |
| A．types | B．expressions | C．idioms | D．matches |
| A．ball | B．bat | C．boot | D．saucer |
| A．audience | B．player | C．coach | D．father |
| A．unequal | B．boring | C．messy | D．tough |
| A．Suddenly | B．Curiously | C．Carefully | D．Awkwardly |
| A．came | B．disappeared | C．changed | D．spread |
| A．as if | B．even if | C．where | D．unless |
| A．photo | B．prize | C．cup | D．medal |
| A．disease | B．injury | C．failure | D．loss |
