题目内容
I am feeling too tired to drive any more. Will you _____?
A. take off B. take on C. take out D. take over
D
Jason
What I like best is seeing Arsenal win and playing football. If I am feeling sad I will play a football game on my Play Station 2. The best day I have ever had was when I finished first in the 800-metre race at my secondary school. It was a school record, although I didn’t know that at the time. My family makes me happy, too.
Antonio
My little sister makes me sad because she always tells tales on me to my mum. If I am having a bad day, food cheers me up. I like chili con carne and sweet chili crisps. It makes me happy because I want to be big and have lots of energy.
Usman
I haven’t done anything very exciting in my life but one of my best achievements is that I got a good report from my school this year, because last year I got a bad one. People on TV make me laugh, particularly Eddie Murphy. If I am having a bad day I watch Basil Brush. I am good at making other people happy. I just talk and my friends start laughing — they think I am silly.
Ashleigh
If I’m having a bad day, knowing that someone is there for me can make me happy. I wouldn’t say I’m the best at making other people happy, but I know that just being a good friend to other people is important. The things I like doing are singing, dancing, hanging out with my friends and just being lively and funny.
Kinzey
The most exciting thing I have ever done in my life was when I went abseiling in Wales. But that was a one-off. The things I do all the time are playing football, watching movies and going places with my friends. I know it sounds bad, but what I find funny is when people hurt themselves. If I am having a bad day and I see someone having a worse day than me, that makes me feel better.
【小题1】 Food is very important for _________ when he has a bad day.
| A.Kinzey | B.Ashleigh | C.Antonio | D.Usman |
| A.Jason and Ashleigh | B.Jason and Usman |
| C.Kinzey and Usman | D.Kinzey and Jason |
| A.Kinzey finds it bad when people hurt themselves. |
| B.Jason knew he had set a new school record when he finished first in the 800-metre race. |
| C.When Usman talks, his friends start laughing because they think he is humorous. |
| D.Antonio likes food because he wants to be big and have lots of energy. |
| A.to make other people happy |
| B.to play football with friends |
| C.to hang out with friends |
| D.to be lively and funny |
| A.what makes different people happy |
| B.what makes different people feel moved |
| C.relationships between different people |
| D.what different people think success is |
Babies are born yogis. Once we were all able to pull our toes up by our ears and laugh about it. Then we aged, got injured, and began carrying stress in our shoulders and back. In short, we lost our balance.
Yoga(瑜伽) is an ancient practice that helps create a sense of union in body, mind, and spirit. It brings us balance. I was seriously out of balance when I started practicing yoga in 1999. I had plantar facilities in both feet, and my doctor had warned me against all the things I loved to do: walking, hiking, and playing tennis. I was desperate for exercise. Yoga became my salvation and even enhanced my other fitness activities. I practice yoga at least twice a week, but I consider yoga to be part of my daily life because after a while you no longer just practice yoga—you love it.
Yoga becomes part of your physical life. Your body grows stronger, more toned, and more flexible as you move from one pose to the other. I spent a week in Mexico at a yoga retreat, and it was the first vacation on which I lost weight. “Rather than building muscle, yoga builds muscle tone,” says Shakta Kaur Khalsa, author of the K.I.S.S. Guide to Yoga. “Because yoga helps maintain a balanced metabolism (新陈代谢), it also helps to regulate weight. Additionally, yoga stretches muscles lengthwise, causing fat to be removed around the cells.” I do yoga poses throughout the day. After hours at my computer, I stretch my stiff shoulders and arms. When I need a boost of energy, I do energizing poses. When I am feeling exhausted at the end of the day, I do restorative poses.
Yoga becomes part of your mental life. Yoga teaches you to focus on breathing while you hold the poses. This attention to breath is calming; it dissolves stress and anxiety. I use yogic breathing on the tennis courts, in the dentist’s chair, and in traffic jams. You should always leave a yoga practice feeling energized, not tired. If you feel tired after yoga, it means you spent the time “fighting” yourself, trying to force yourself into poses. In yoga, you “surrender” to the pose by letting go of the tension.
Yoga becomes part of your spiritual life. Yoga is practiced by people from all religions; it is not restricted to any religious group. Yoga teaches “right” living in how we deal with ourselves and others. As I work on a difficult pose, I learn patience, forgiveness, and the value of gentleness. Yoga advocates proper eating, but you don’t have to be a vegetarian to practice yoga.
1.What would be the best title for this passage?
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A.What’s Yoga? |
B.How I Do Yoga Poses |
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C.The Benefits of Yoga |
D.The Varieties of Yoga |
2.According to the third paragraph, yoga can help people __________.
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A.grow taller |
B.lose weight |
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C.become flexible in thinking |
D.make more friends |
3.People feel tired after yoga because __________.
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A.they consume energy in practicing yoga |
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B.they respond well to yoga poses |
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C.they spend too much time on yoga |
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D.they force themselves into yoga poses |
4.If this passage continues, what will the writer most probably write about in the next paragraph?
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A.Yoga as a means to keep fit. |
B.Who may like yoga |
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C.Popularity of yoga all over the world. |
D.Encouraging people to do yoga. |