You will spend hours at the gym training your body, but do you ever think about training your brain? Here are four ways to keep your brain mentally (脑力上地) active and healthy.

Play games

Your brain is a muscle just like the ones in the rest of your body. If you don’t use it, you will lose it. For example, doing a crossword puzzle (纵横填字游戏) once a day is a good way to give the brain the exercise it needs. This kind of puzzle is good at training different areas of the brain. But remember that when doing this puzzle, you should gradually increase the complexity (复杂度); otherwise, it will become repetitive (重复乏味的) and stop being mentally challenging.

Talk aloud

Although it might sound strange to you, talking aloud is a great way to boost your memory. A good exercise to try is counting to 99 in threes as fast as you can.

Be a team leader

If you find you can do your work very easily, you should find a new task. It is important that your job should be mentally challenging. Complex jobs are often more challenging and make the brain work a little harder.

Learn a language

A study found that, compared with those who could speak only one language, the people who could speak two languages had a slower rate of cognitive (认知能力) decrease. Learning a new language is very challenging and it makes sure that different areas of the brain have their lights on.

1.What is the main idea of this passage?

A.Why you should train your brain.

B.How to be a good team leader.

C.Training the brain is more important than training the body.

D.How to make your brain healthy and work actively.

2.Which word can replace the word "boost" in the third paragraph?

A.Change.           B.Promote.          C.Decrease.         D.Lose.

3.We should gradually increase the complexity when doing crossword puzzles because ______.

A.if we don’t use our brain, we will lose it

B.we should make our brain face different challenges

C.our brain is a muscle like other parts in our bodies

D.these puzzles can work on different areas of the brain

4.Which group of people have a slower rate of cognitive decrease?

A.Those who don’t often do crossword puzzles.

B.Those who don’t often count to 99 in threes.

C.Those who do their work very easily.

D.Those who can speak more than one language.

 

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,选项中有两项为多余选项。

All over the world people enjoy sports .sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer.

_1.___.They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when their player or team wins.

___2.___Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in china, Egypt or Italy! _3.__ Think how many lovers to skate or ski in Japan, Norway or Canada.

Some sports or games go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. __4.__ Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.

People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends. 5. One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace(胜不骄,败不馁)。

A.And think of people in cold countries.

B.Sports help to train a person’s character. (性格)

C.Not a few people like sports in the world.

D.Many people like to watch others play games.

E.People aren’t inventing new sports or games.

F.Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere take part in them.

G.People are inventing new sports or games all the time.

 

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