This Sunday in London, an American running phenomenon will hit the UK for the first time — and looks set to leave a mark. The Color Run? series, founded in 2011 by Utah resident Travis Snyder, who currently lives in Los Angeles, is a 5k with a twist: runners start in white clothing, and at each kilometer get caked in brightly colored powders (made from 100% eco-friendly and natural food-grade corn starch) thrown by volunteers.
Snyder, 35, previously organized rock climbing events but says it was having a child that inspired him to think of an event combining fitness and pleasure. So far, 600,000 people have already taken part in Snyder's fitness festivals across the world, from Sydney to Rio de Janeiro, becoming America's biggest 5k along the way.
What does Snyder think is its appeal? "I think sometimes people get tired of being so competitive," he says. "In a running event, the person next to you is the tool that you are going to compare yourself to; whether or not you run faster than them or they run faster than you. The Color Run still has running in its basis: people still get to be out and be active. But instead of it being an exclusive experience, it's an inclusive experience, where the people next to you are part of that."
The events attract a large population, including families and children, along with a higher proportion of women than most runs. For many, it is their first race and furthest distance. Synder's eight-year-old son has taken part in 20 of the races. "It's not a big deal because he doesn't think of it as 5k – he is just running and having fun."
In line with this theme of participation rather than competition, there are no praises for coming first. If runners want to get a result, they will have to track it themselves, as it is not officially timed. And, needless to say, the finish line is one big party – before the clean up begins.
1.Those ________ can join in the Color Run.
A. whose ages are more than 8 B. who wear colorful clothes
C. who are good at running D. who dress in white
2.What contributed to Travis Snyder’s founding the fitness festival?
A. Competitive society.
B. Being a father.
C. Love among families and children.
D. Having a lifestyle mentally and physically.
3.The Color Run series main aim is to ________.
A. reduce people’s stress B. find the fastest runners
C. combine health and fun D. have a big party for every family
4.Why does the author mention Snyder’s eight-year-old son in Paragraph 4?
A. To show Snyder’s love for his son.
B. To prove the son was good at running.
C. To tell us how the son covers his furthest distance.
D. To argue the activity gains popularity whatever age.
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When something goes wrong, it can be very satisfying to say, “Well, it’s so-and-so’s fault.” or “I know I’m late, but it’s not my fault; the car broke down.” It is probably not your fault, but once you form the habit of blaming somebody or something else for a bad situation, you are a loser. You have no power and could do nothing that helps change the situation. However, you can have great power over what happens to you if you stop focusing on whom to blame and start focusing on how to remedy the situation. This is the winner’s key to success.
Winners are great at overcoming problems. For example, if you were late because your car broke down, maybe you need to have your car examined more regularly. Or, you might start to carry along with you the useful phone numbers, so you could call for help when in need. For another example, if your colleague causes you problems on the job for lack of responsibility or ability, find ways of dealing with his irresponsibility or inability rather than simply blame the person. Ask to work with a different person, or don’t rely on the person. You should accept that the person. Ask to work with a different person, or don’t rely on this person. You should accept that the person is not reliable and find creative ways to work successfully regardless of how your colleague fails to do his job well.
This is what being a winner is all about—creatively using your skills and talents so that you are successful no matter what happens. Winners don’t have fewer problems in their lives; they have just as many difficult situations to face as anybody else. They are just better at seeing those problems as challenges and opportunities to develop their own talents. So, stop focusing on “whose fault it is.” Once you are confident about your power over bad situations, problems are just stepping stop on for success.
1.The underlined word “remedy” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ________.
A. avoid B. improve
C. accept D. consider
2.According to the passage, winners ________.
A. have responsible and able colleagues
B. meet with fewer difficulties in their lives
C. deal with problems rather than blame others
D. blame themselves rather that others
3.When your colleague brings about a problem, you should ________.
A. find a better way to handle the problem
B. blame him for his lack of responsibility
C. tell him to find the cause of the problem
D. ask a more able colleague for help
4.When problems occur, winners take them as ________.
A. excuses for their failures
B. barriers to greater power
C. chances for self-development
D. challenges to their colleagues
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【吉林省长白山市2017届高三第二次模拟】C
You have never seen him, but they're with you every time you fly. They record where you are going, how fast you're traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally. Their ability to withstand（经受得住）almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a magic book. They're known as the black box.
When planes fall from the sky,as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean June 30,2009,the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong.So when a French submarine（潜水艇）detected the device's homing signal five days later,the discovery marked a huge step toward determining the cause of a tragedy in which 152 passengers were killed.
In 1958,Australian scientist David Warren developed a flight-memory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction.That was the first mode for a black box,which became a requirement on all U.S.commercial flights by 1960.Early models often failed to withstand crashes, however, so in 1965 the device（装置）was completely redesigned and moved to the back of the plane-the area least affected bu impact-from its original position in the landing wells（起落架舱). The same year, the Federal Aviation Authority required that the boxes, which were never actually black, be painted orange or yellow to aid visibility.
Modern airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder, which tracks pilots' conversations, and a flight-data recorder,which monitors fuel levels,engine noises and other operating functions that help investigators reconstruct the aircraft's final moments.Placed in an insulated ( 隔绝的) case and surrounded by a quarter-inch-thick panels of stainless steel,the boxes can withstand massive force and temperatures up to 2,000℉.When in deep water,they're also able to emit signals from depths of 20,000 ft.Experts believe the boxes from Air France Flight 447,which crashed near Brazil on June 1,2009,are in water nearly that deep,but statistics say they're still likely to turn up.In the approximately 20 deep-sea crashes over the past 30 years,only one plane's black boxes were never recovered.
1.In Paragraph 1，the author wants to say the black box_________.
A. comes from a comic book B. is an necessary device on an airplane
C. can prevent disasters D. can control the function of an airplane
2.From the black box on the Yemeni airliner _________ could be found.
A. the scene of the crash and the degree of the damage B. the total number of passengers on board
C. homing signals sent by the pilot before the crash D. data for analyzing the cause of the crash
3.Why was the black box redesigned in 1965?
A. The early models often got damaged in the crash. B. New materials became available by that time.
C. Too much space was needed for its device. D. The early models didn't provide the needed data.
4.What do we know about the black boxes from Air France Flight 447?
A. They have stopped sending homing signals. B. There is an urgent need for them to be reconstructed.
C. There is still a good chance of their being recovered. D. They were destroyed somewhere near Brazil.
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【河南省洛阳市2017年高三第二次统考】 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
When I was a kid, my father and mother were made me join a tennis club in the center of our city. Every day both my parent would take me to club after school. I played tennis ,ate snacks and did my homework here. It was basically my second family. A woman whose name was Li Li, my first private coach, was as a mother to us. She not only taught me everything that I know about what to play tennis, but treats me well. She was kind or always trained me with great patient. In my heart, she was the best coach in our city.
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[2017·云南师范大学附属中学高三高考适应性考试 (六)]
As it's easy to cultivate and it contains most of the vitamins necessary for health, potatoes are popular in cultures worldwide. Originating 1.________ South America, potatoes have been part of South American diet for hundreds of years. With multiple potato 2.________ (variety) in the market, they are fried, baked, freeze?dried to form many beloved dishes. In Ireland, from its introduction in the 16th century, potatoes3.________ (hold) a central place in the Irish diet and been considered as the primary Irish crop. In the US, potatoes are one of the most 4.________ (wide) consumed crops. French fries are commonly found in typical American fast?food restaurants and cafeterias. French fries were introduced to the US 5.________ Thomas Jefferson served them in the White House during 6.________ presidency from 1801—18
For many Chinese people, potatoes are considered a vegetable. 7.________ in the future, this will no longer be the case.“A programme to add potatoes to China's list of food, joining rice, wheat and corn, will 8.________ (expand) to diversify the Chinese menu and meet increasing food demands，”agricultural experts and authorities with the Ministry of Agriculture said in 9.________ conference on Jan.6.Specifically, potato powder will be mixed into bread and noodle to suit Chinese consumers' taste and 10.________ (eat) habit.
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I believe we could face delays if we travel by bus，________ traffic jams.
A. thanks to B. despite
C. regardless of D. in spite of
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Generally speaking，the limits of a person's intelligence are fixed at birth，but whether or not he reaches those limits will ________ his environment.
A. focus on B. rely on
C. agree on D. carry on
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My watch broke a few days ago, which made me sad. The watchband（表带）broke without my noticing, causing it to fall to the floor while I was doing some ______. As I stepped back to ______ some other clothes, I heard a terrible sound. I ______ the watch and saw a spider web of cracks on its face. I saw that it was beyond ______ and sadly threw it into the garbage.
Strangely, now that it is ______ I find that I have no wish to buy a new one. ______ it is because in this digital age clocks are ______. They are on my wall，in my car, on my computer, and even on my phone. I can’t even ______ my head without seeing what time it is.
I think that the real reason, ______, is that as I have grown older, my ______ with time itself has changed. While I feel as ______ as ever, time in this world has gone by much too fast. The little baby boy I once ______ to sleep on my chest is now a 23-year-old man who is bigger than me. Young and ______ adults from my childhood have grown old, sickened and even ______. I can now see that time can’t be kept. It flows on and on and carries us with it on a river of ______.The days zoom by（急速移动）, our hair turns ______, our skin becomes wrinkled, and our bodies wear out. Looking at our ______ cannot slow it down. All we can do is embrace it and ______ each day we are given.
So do your best to spend each ______ moment here in joy. Do your best to spend your days living, laughing, hugging, helping, praying, and smiling. Most ______ do your best to spend our seconds here loving yourself, and others.
1.A. exercising B. cleaning C. washing D. cooking
2.A. fetch B. find C. take D. choose
3.A. set up B. picked up C. looked for D. cared about
4.A. reach B. description C. construction D. repair
5.A. worn B. disabled C. gone D. lost
6.A. Truly B. Really C. Likely D. Perhaps
7.A. somewhere B. nowhere C. anywhere D. everywhere
8.A. shake B. turn C. nod D. move
9.A. although B. therefore C. however D. instead
10.A. attitude B. relationship C. concern D. friendship
11.A. young B. calm C. happy D. useful
12.A. cheated B. comforted C. rocked D. relieved
13.A. lively B. energetic C. childish D. clever
14.A. passed away B. got away C. run away D. given up
15.A. smile B. silence C. change D. love
16.A. black B. dead C. yellow D. gray
17.A. watches B. bodies C. ages D. relatives
18.A. share B. enjoy C. divide D. value
19.A. considerate B. interesting C. precious D. difficult
20.A. importantly B. silently C. usefully D. interestingly
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科目：高中英语 来源：山西省朔州市2016-2017学年高一下学期第一次阶段性测试英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
Harry is eighteen now. He studies in a middle school. His parents like him very much and hope he can become a famous man. So they often tell him to study hard and they do all for him. They call him at six in the morning, after breakfast his father takes him to school in a car and in the afternoon, as soon as the young man comes back, the supper is ready. Of course, he never washes his clothes or goes to buy something in the shops.
Once Harry’s father was sent to London on business. He would stay there for half a year. Leaving, he told his wife to take good care of their son. The woman had to get up earlier and did all what her husband did before. And two months later she was so tired that she was ill in bed. Now the young man got into trouble. He couldn’t do any housework. He had to do as his mother told him. Even he didn’t know where to get on the bus!
Yesterday Harry’s mother found his shoes were worn out and told him to buy a new pair in the shop. But he didn’t know how to choose. The woman had a sigh(叹息) and gave him a shoe pattern(鞋样) and told him to buy a pair of shoes himself. It’s Saturday today and Harry doesn’t go to school. With a policeman’s help, he found a shop. The shopkeeper was friendly to him. The man brought a lot of shoes and asked him to choose. When he was trying on a pair, suddenly he remembered something and took them off. The man was surprised and asked, “What’s the matter, young man?”
“I’m sorry. I’ve left the shoe pattern at home!”
1.Harry’s parents do all instead of him because _______.
A. he’s too young B. he has poor health
C. he’s busy with his studies D. they hope he spends all time on studies
2.The woman had to look after her son by herself because _______.
A. her husband wasn’t at home B. she was stronger than her husband
C. she knew the young man well D. she was freer than her husband
3.When the man was in London, _______.
A. Harry had to stay at home B. Harry didn’t find the bus stop
C. Harry fell behind in his class D. Harry wouldn’t go to school
4.The woman told her son to buy a pair of shoes because _______.
A. she didn’t know what kind he needed
B. she was busy with the housework
C. something was wrong with her
D. she wanted her son to do something himself
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