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1.excite ________adj.________n.

2.exist ________n.

3.explain.________n.

4.express ________n.

5.extreme ________adv.

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Extreme Sports

闲暇时,你是否还会去打篮球或看电视?如果是这样,那么你已经有些落伍了。如今,“extreme sports”----------------------——————————————————————“极限运动”已经成为时尚一族的最爱。

  Rick Stevenson, 16 years old, spends every minute on the mountain.He and his friends go snowboarding(踏板滑雪)every weekend.“It’s great,”he says.“The winds are so strong; the boards go 50 miles an hour.”His friend Laura Fields agrees,“No one goes skiing any more.”She says,“That’s for the old folks.”

  Rick and Laura are part of new trends(趋势)in sports.Its philosophy is to get as close to the edge as possible.And more and more young athletes are taking part in these risky(冒险的)activities called“extreme sports”or“X-sports”.

  In the past, young athletes would play baseball.Today, they want risk and excitement-the closer to the edge, the better.They snowboard over cliffs(悬崖)and mountainbike down steep mountains.

  Extreme sports started as an alternative to more expensive sports such as golf.A city kid who couldn’t afford expensive sports equipment could get a skateboard and have fun.But now it has become a whole new area of sports, with specialized equipment and high levels(水平)of skill.There’s even a special Olympics for extreme sports, called the Winter X-Games, which includes snow mountain biking and ice climbing.

  What makes extreme sports so popular?“People love the risk,”says Murray Nussbaum, who sells sports equipment.“City people want to be outdoors on the weekend and do something challenging.The new equipment is so much better that people can take more risks without getting hurt.”An athlete adds,“Sure there’s a risk.Once you go mountain biking or snowboarding, it’s impossible to go back to bike riding or skiing.It’s just too boring.”

  Now even the older crowd is starting to join in.Every weekend, groups of friends in their early 30s get together.On weekdays they work as computer programmers in the same office.On weekends they rent mountain bikes that cost $2, 000 each and ride down steep mountains together.

  Extreme sports are certainly not for everyone.Most people still prefer to play basketball or watch sports on TV.But it has been a fact that extreme sports are gaining in popularity.“These sports are fresh and exciting.It’s the wave of the future,”says Nussbaum.

  Help:

  steep adj.rising or falling sharply, not gradually

  alternative n.something that you can choose to do or use instead of doing something else

  specialized adj.adapted or designed for a particular purpose

问题:

What kind of extreme sports would you prefer if you were given a chance to choose?Why?

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短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)
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。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词入加一个漏字符号(^),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:在错的词下面一横线,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。
Last weekend we went mountain-climbing.Even the heavy rain in the morning could not
prevent us go.Setting off very early, we went along an extreme narrow road, all in high spirits.
On every side of the road were green fields and some farm house.We could hear the sound of
the rain and our footsteps mixing with our laughter.At noon we reached top of the

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Cold weather has a great effect on how our minds and our bodies work. Maybe that is why there are so many expressions that use the word “cold”. For centuries, the body’s blood has been linked closely with the emotions. People who show no human emotions or feelings, for example, are said to be cold-blooded. Cold-blooded people act in merciless ways. They may do brutal things to others, and not by accident. For example, a newspaper says the police are searching for a cold-blooded killer. The killer murdered someone, not in self-defense. He seemed to kill for no reason, and with no emotion, as if taking someone’s life meant nothing.

Cold can affect other parts of the body, the feet, for example. Heavy socks can you’re your feet, if your feet are really cold. But there is an expression—to get cold feet—that has nothing to do with cold or your feet.

The expression means being afraid to do something you have decided to do. For example, you agree to be president of an organization. But then you learn that all the other officers have resigned. All the work of the organization will be your responsibility. You are likely to get cold feet about being the president when you understand the situation.

Cold can also affect your shoulder. You give someone the cold shoulder when you refuse to speak to them. You treat them in a distant and cold way. The expression probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face-to-face. You may give a cold shoulder to a friend who has not kept a promise he made to you, or to someone who has lied about you to others.

A cold fish is not a fish. It is a person. But it is a person who is unfriendly, unemotional and shows no love or warmth. A cold fish does not offer much of himself to anyone.

Out in the cold is an expression often heard. It means not getting something that everybody else got. A person might say that everybody but him got a pay raise, and that he was left out in the cold. And it is not a pleasant place to be.

1.The passage is intended to tell us that ______ .

A.cold weather has a great effect on human bodies

B.many English expressions contain the word “cold”

C.cold is a word closely linked with human emotions

D.the word “cold” has many different meanings in English

2.The underlined word “brutal” in Paragraph 1 most probably means “______”.

A.impolite          B.illegal             C.cruel             D.extreme

3.Which of the following expressions can best describe a person who is unwilling to offer anything to others?

A.Cold-blooded.      B.To get cold feet.     C.A cold shoulder.    D.A cold fish.

4.You can say Tom ______ if the teacher gives all the boys except him a pen as a prize.

A.is given the cold shoulder

B.is left out in the cold

C.has got cold feet

D.is murdered by a cold-blooded killer

5.We can draw a conclusion from the passage that ______ .

A.all the expressions containing the word “cold” have a negative meaning

B.all the expressions containing the word “cold” have something to do with cold

C.people who show no human emotions or feelings have cold blood

D.many parts of the human body can be badly affected by cold

 

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Global warming threatens to hold back human progress, and make unachievable all UN targets to reduce poverty, according to some of the world’s leading international development groups.

In a report published today, Oxfam, Greenpeace, Christian Aid, Friends of the Earth, WWF and 15 other groups say rich governments must immediately address climate change to avoid even “unbearable levels” of worldwide poverty.

“Food production, water supplies, public health and people’s living environment are already being damaged,” the report says. “The world must meet its promise to achieve poverty reduction and also deal with climate change.”

The report, which draws on UN predictions of the effects of climate change in poor countries over the next 50 years, says poor countries will experience more flooding, declining food production, more disease and the worsening or disappearing of entire ecosystems on which many of the world’s poorest people depend.

“Climate change needs to be addressed now. The poor will bear the burden of it. The frontline experience of many of us working in international development indicates that communities are having to fight against more extreme weather conditions.”

Climate change will play havoc (浩劫) with agriculture and water supplies and will increase diseases. “By 2025 the proportion of the world’s population living in countries of great water stress will almost double, to 6 billion people. Tropical and sub-tropical areas will be hardest hit — those countries already suffering from food shortage”.

Poor countries mostly do not need high-tech solutions, but would most benefit from education, research and being shown how to farm better. The report says unchecked global warming, more than wars or political confusion, will displace millions of people and destabilize (不安定) many countries.

Who should play a leading role in resisting the more extreme weather conditions?

A. International groups.       

B. Rich countries.

C. Poor countries.            

D. Tropical and sub-tropical countries.

Which of the following is not true according to the text?

A. Poverty and climate change are closely linked.

B. More and more people will suffer from the water stress and food shortage.

C. What the poor countries need badly is high technology.

D. International communities have to take steps to resist the bad climate.

What is the best title of the passage?

A. International Development Brings in Climate Change

B. Global Warming Is a Bigger Threat to the Poor

C. International Groups Work Together to Reduce Poverty

D. Worldwide Poverty Shall Be Avoided

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