题目内容
Don't Take the Fun Out of Youth SportsWhen 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
解析：
| 第1小题：captain
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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提示：
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 |