Don’t Take the Fun Out of Youth Sports
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 ___36___. That was before all the fun was taken out of ___37___.
At first, everyone on the team got ___38___ playing time. Then the team moved up to the top division after winning all its games, and the ___39___ started. Some parents, who had paid the coach extra so their daughters could have ___40___one-on-one training, got angry when she didn’t give them more playing time in our ___41___. The coach was replaced.
The new coach, however, took all the fun out of the game. All we did during practice was ___42___. I always wished to God that it would rain so we would not have the ___43___. Of course, all teams run drills; they are ___44___. But we ran so much that, afterwards, we had trouble ___45___. Younger people shouldn’t be doing exercises ___46___ for 18-year-olds.
I was very thin ___47___ I started football, but as a member of this team I wouldn’t eat much, because I was afraid of being too ___48___ to run. I feared making mistakes, and the added pressure caused me to make more than my usual ___49___.
Is all this pressure necessary? I ___50___ up leaving the football team. Four other girls did the same, and two of them stopped playing football completely. That’s ___51___, because they had so much potential. They were just burned-out with all the pressure they ___52___ from the coach or their parents.
I continued playing football at school and ___53___ my love for it. I joined a private team coached by my school coach. When I started playing ___54___ him, he told me I needed to relax because I looked nervous. After I ___55___ down, I played better. When you enjoy something, it’s a lot easier to do it well.
36. A. class B. club C. team D. board
37. A. playing B. living C. learning D. working
38. A. great B. equal C. right D. extra
39. A. business B. struggle C. attempt D. pressure
40. A. free B. private C. good D. basic
41. A. matches B. courses C. lessons D. programs
42. A. jump B. play C. run D. shoot
43. A. duty B. meeting C. operation D. training
44. A. necessary B. boring C. scientific D. practical
45. A. speaking B. moving C. sleeping D. breathing
46. A. used B. intended C. made D. described
47. A. till B. since C. before D. because
48. A. full B. tired C. lazy D. big
49. A. size B. share C. space D. state
50. A. gave B. kept C. ended D. picked
51. A. sad B. shameful C. silly D. serious
52. A. received B. suffered C. brought D. felt
53. A. reconsidered B. rediscovered C. reformed D. replaced
54. A. at B. by C. for D. around
55. A. fell B. stepped C. slowed D. calmed
36---55 CABDB ACDAD BCABC ADBCD
36. C。由第一段第一句知作者参加的是一个足球队，球队用team，captain of my team“球队队长”。
37. A。由选项和第一段的内容可知需要填一个动名词与football搭配，
38. B。从本段倒数第二句“有些家长想让教练多给自己的孩子一些上场的时间”可反推出刚开始大家的机会均等。
39. D。pressure“压力”。下文讲了来自父母、教练的压力，从第五段第一句和最后一句也可得到启示。
40. B。one-on-one training的意思是一对一的个别辅导，其主语their daughters，即那些给过教练好处的队员，private“私人的，个人的”比good“好的”更能体现这一层关系。
41. A。从their daughters could have private one-on-one training可知那些父母的孩子已经在训练中得到了更多的指导，所以那些父母不可能为训练生气，排除B 、C、D。
42. C。从该空后面的内容可推知他们的训练只是跑步。
43. D。这一段讲的是训练枯燥无味，所以“我”总是祈祷上帝下雨的目自然是中止训练。
44. A。由句前的Of course可知作者这里在承认跑步训练是必要的，也为下一句的转折呼应。
45. D。本句用的是so…that句型，表示结果，跑得太多的结果是上气不接下气。
46. B。非谓语动词做定语，be intended for“专门为……而设计”，意思是不应该让青少年进行适合成人的运动。
47. C。从句意上排除A、B、D三项。
48. A。这里考的是too…to…，“太饱而不能跑步”，这是作者不能多吃的原因。
49. B。share有分担的意思，这里指分内的事。
50. C。give up doing“放弃做某事”；keep up something“保持”；pick up something“拾起，学到”；end up“告终，结束”，因为各种压力作者最终不得不离开这支球队，C项最合适。
51. A。有潜力的队员却完全停止了踢球这是多么可惜的事。sad“令人悲伤的,令人难过的”；shameful“可耻的”；silly“傻的”；serious“严重的”，四个选项中sad最贴近文意。
52. D。这里需要填的是the pressure在从句中的谓语，从句的主语they指的是退役的队员，他们不是压力的带来者，排除C；正因为他们不愿意接受也受不了这种压力才选择离开，排除A；suffer后要加from。
53. B。reconsider“重新考虑”；rediscover“重新发现”；reform“改革”；replace“代替”。R这一段讲的就是作者如何重新找到对足球的喜爱的，所以选rediscover。
54. C。此题用排除法，by 和around都有在……旁边的意思，要选都要选，排除，play at后接游戏名，是做……游戏的意思，排除。
55. D 。calm down是镇定下来，平静下来，意思与教练的话相符。
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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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