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They forced ____ little children to work all day for so little money____ everyone couldn’t bear that.
- A.so; as
- B.so; that
- C.such; as
- D.such; that
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．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. |
Remember those big, colorful books with large pictures of balls or apples when you were a little kid? Those have proven to be helpful, according to a number of studies. Between 1 and 5 years old, introducing books to Children can help greatly because this is usually the age when intellectual (智力的) capabilities form.
At age 1 to 5, a child can decide whether he wants to learn or wants to be a good learner. The road to learning starts here. Their curiosity (好奇) and imagination are fed with the many pictures, sounds and colors in the books.
Children normally began school at 5 years old. But today, they go to school when they are as young as one and a half years old. This is because many parents have recognized that influencing the child's formative years (性格形成时期) is very important. The fight influence can make the child want to read in the future.
Parents should play a part in encouraging children to read. Even just reading them bedtime stories can help children feel the joy and amazement connected to reading. This can help them become better readers and better learners as they grow older.
If children are interested in reading books rather than watching television, they can improve many skills besides reading and learning. Books can act as stepping stones to intelligence. However, parents must be very careful not to overpower their children. If they force children to read books that are too hard to understand, they might think reading is boring and lose interest in it.
1.. This passage mainly ______.
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A．advises kids to spend less time watching TV |
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B．explains why reading is good for us |
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C．tells us that reading is good for children |
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D．suggests that parents spend more time with their kids |
2..Why does introducing books to kids between 1 and 5 years old help them greatly?
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A．Because this is a good way to keep them away from television. |
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B．Because it makes them become interested in going to school. |
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C．Because it helps them learn much faster when they are older. |
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D．Because it is usually the age when intellectual capabilities form. |
3..It is implied in the passage that _____.
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A．the writer read a lot of books when he was a child |
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B．parents should never force their children to do anything |
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C．the formative years may begin at one and a half years old |
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D．a child's formative years are earlier than before |
4..In the writer’s opinion, _____.
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A．children should read all kinds of books |
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B．children should only read books with pictures |
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C．books can help children become cleverer |
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D．bedtime stories make children love their parents more |