When I joined a private football league a few years ago, the sport meant everything to me. My coach (教练) said that I had lots of potential (潜力), and I became captain of my ___1___. That was before all the fun was taken out of___2___
At first, everyone on the team got ___3___ playing time. Then the team moved up to the top division after winning all its games, and the ___4___ started. Some parents, who had paid the coach extra so their daughters could have ___5___ one-on-one training, got angry when she didn't give them more playing time in our ___6___. The coach was replaced.
The new coach, however, took all the fun out of the game: All we did during practice was ___7___ I always wished to God that it would rain so we would not have the___8___. Of course, all teams run drills; they are ___9___ But we ran so much that, afterwards, we had trouble___10___. Younger people shouldn't be doing exercises ___11___ for 18-year-old. お
I was very thin ___12___ I started football, but as a member of this team I wouldn't eat much, because I was afraid of being too ___13___ to run. I feared making mistakes, and the added pressure caused me to make more than my usual___14___
Is all this pressure necessary? I ___15___ up leaving the football team. Four other girls did the same, and two of them stopped playing football completely. That's ___16___, because they had so much potential. They were just burned- out with all the pressure they ___17___ from the coach or their parents.
I continued playing football at school and ___18___ my love for it. I joined a private team coached by my school coach. When I started playing ___19___ him, he told me I needed to relax because I looked nervous. After I ___20___ down, I played better. When you enjoy something, it's a lot easier to do it well.
1. A. class B. club C. team D. board
2. A. playing B. living C. learning D. working
3. A. great B. equal C. right D. extra
4. A. business B. struggle C. attempt D. pressure
5. A. free B. private C. good D. basic
6. A. matches B. courses C. lessons D. programs
7. A. jump B. play C. run D. shoot
8. A. duty B. meeting C. operation D. training
9. A. necessary B. boring C. scientific D. practical
10. A. speaking B. moving C. sleeping D. breathing
11. A. used B. intended C. made D. described
12. A. till B. since C. before D. because
13. A. full B. tired C. lazy D. big
14. A. size B. share C. space D. state
15. A. gave B. kept C. ended D. picked
16. A. sad B. shameful C. silly D. serious
17. A. received B. suffered C. brought D. felt
18. A. reconsidered B. rediscovered C. reformed D. replaced
19. A. at B. by C. for D. around
20. A. fell B. stepped C. slowed D. calmed
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of the team (足球队队长)。
第2小题：此处指playing football。综观全文，作者刚开始时在球队没有任何压力(pressure)，以玩(playing)为主，队员们都从中找到快乐(fun)。 第3小题：equal (平等的，一样多的)，从下文可以得到答案。 第4小题：球队取得好成绩后，压力随之而来。 第5小题：父母付给教练额外的（extra）的钱是为了能给他们孩子个别的一对一训练 （one-on-one training）。 第6小题：在比赛中。 第7小题：根据下文可以做出判断。此处从语法上讲属于动词不定式充当表语（动词前面省略了to）。 第8小题：根据上文，球队训练就是让队员跑，作者对此感到很厌烦，所以希望训练的时候天会下雨。 第9小题：结合常识，跑对于足球队员来说是必要的。 第10小题：本句的含义是跑的这样多以至于孩子们呼吸感到困难。 第11小题：be intended/ meant/ designed/aimed for…的含义是为了…，为…而准备。此处为过去分词充当定语，修饰exercises。 第12小题：根据背景，此处用连词连接时间状语从句。 第< span lang=EN-US style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt'>13小题：显然是担心吃的太多而跑不动。 第14小题：make(take)one’s share 含义为承受某人的那一份（压力）。此处作者认为这种训练已经让她这种年龄的孩子难以承受。 第15小题：end up doing sth. （以…而结束），结合上下文，作者由于难以承受而最终离开球队。 第16小题：结合上下文，具备如此的潜力而最后选择彻底放弃，这样做另人感到伤心。 第17小题：通过对本句结构的分析可以得到短语feel pressure from…感觉到来自于…的压力。 第18小题：在学校踢球，作者又重新找到了其中的快乐。 第19小题：空格后him指的是教练，这样答案就很明显了。 第20小题：根据上文relax(放松)即可做出判断。calm down 的含义为定下心，放松。
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Have you thanked your grandma today? You might want to consider it. A recent study found that kids live longer when a grandmother takes part in their daily lives.
Most animals die soon after their childbearing years are over. Women, however, often live for many years after they stop having kids.
To try to understand why, researchers from Finland looked at birth and death records of two communities from the 18th and 19th centuries, one in Finland and one in Canada. In these communities, 537 Finnish women and 3,290 Canadian women were grandmothers who had lived past the age of 50.
For every decade they lived beyond 50, the researchers found that the women ended up with an average of two extra grandkids. It didn’t matter what the differences in health or living conditions were between the two communities or from family to family.
Grandchildren were also more likely to live into adulthood if their grandmothers were alive when they were born. If their grandmothers were younger than 60 at the time, that was even better. The study also found that women had children 2 to 3 years earlier if their own mothers were still alive at that time than those whose mothers had died.
The researchers suggested that grandmothers have provided important assistance in raising their grandchildren for at least the past 200,000 years. As a result, they helped extend everyone’s lifespan.
So, don’t take your grandma for granted!
【小题1】How many women in the survey in the two communities were grandmothers who had lived past the age of 50?
| A．537. | B．3,290. | C．3,827. | D．2,753. |
| A．She was also more likely to live into adulthood. |
| B．She had children 2 to 3 years earlier. |
| C．She ended up with an average of two extra grandkids. |
| D．It had no influence on her. |
| A．They provided them with better living conditions. |
| B．They provided assistance in raising their grandchildren. |
| C．They helped with housework. |
| D．They made everyone happy. |
| A．kids live longer when grandmothers take part in their daily lives |
| B．most animals die soon after their childbearing years are over |
| C．women often live for many years after they stop having kids |
| D．grandchildren are less likely to live into adulthood if their grandmothers are alive |
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We’ve considered several ways of paying to cut in line：hiring line standers，buying tickets from scalpers (票贩子)，or purchasing line?cutting privileges directly from，say，an airline or an amusement park.Each of these deals replaces the morals of the queue (waiting your turn) with the morals of the market (paying a price for faster service)．
Markets and queues—paying and waiting—are two different ways of allocating things，and each is appropriate to different activities.The morals of the queue，“First come，first served，”have an egalitarian(平等主义的) appeal.They tell us to ignore privilege，power，and deep pockets.
The principle seems right on playgrounds and at bus stops.But the morals of the queue do not govern all occasions.If I put my house up for sale，I have no duty to accept the first offer that comes along，simply because it’s the first.Selling my house and waiting for a bus are different activities，properly governed by different standards.
Sometimes standards change，and it is unclear which principle should apply.Think of the recorded message you hear，played over and over，as you wait on hold when calling your bank：“Your call will be answered in the order in which it was received.”This is essential for the morals of the queue.It’s as if the company is trying to ease our impatience with fairness.
But don’t take the recorded message too seriously.Today，some people’s calls are answered faster than others.Call center technology enables companies to“score”incomings calls and to give faster service to those that come from rich places.You might call this telephonic queue jumping.
Of course，markets and queues are not the only ways of allocating things.Some goods we distribute by merit，others by need，still others by chance.However，the tendency of markets to replace queues，and other non?market ways of allocating goods is so common in modern life that we scarcely notice it anymore.It is striking that most of the paid queue?jumping schemes we’ve considered—at airports and amusement parks，in call centers，doctors’offices，and national parks—are recent developments，scarcely imaginable three decades ago.The disappearance of the queues in these places may seem an unusual concern，but these are not the only places that markets have entered.
1.According to the author，which of the following seems governed by the principle“First come，first served”？
A．Taking buses.
B．Buying houses.
C．Flying with an airline.
D．Visiting amusement parks.
2.The example of the recorded message in Paragraphs 4 and 5 illustrates________.
A．the necessity of patience in queuing
B．the advantage of modern technology
C．the uncertainty of allocation principle
D．the fairness of telephonic services
3.The passage is meant to________.
A．justify paying for faster services
B．discuss the morals of allocating things
C．analyze the reason for standing in line
D．criticize the behavior of queue jumping
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Don’t take ______ for granted that he will agree with you on the subject.
A. this B. that C. it D. Which
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Don’t take ______ for granted that he will agree with you on the subject.
A. this B. that C. it D. Which
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American is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while—then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.
Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.
Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine (常规). They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.
For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!
1.The writer of this passage must be ___________.
A. an American B. a Chinese C. a professor D. a student
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their family.
B. Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.
C. Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.
D. Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.
3.From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will probably be _________________.
A. warmly welcomed at the airport B. offered a ride to his home
C. treated hospitably at his home D. treated to dinner in a restaurant
4.From the underlined sentence, we can know the Chinese people __________.
A. are strict with time B. don’t take time seriously
C. don’t know how to use time D. are willing to spend time for friends
5.A suitable title for this passage would probably be “________________”.
A. Friendships between Chinese
B. Friendships between Americans
C. Americans’hospitality
D. Americans’and Chinese’s views of friendship
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