An exercise method (Gyrotonics) designed to stretch muscles and improve strength and balance is becoming popular in the United States. Here's more about Gyrotonics and the man who invented this special form of exercise.

Gyrotonics is a kind of exercise that combines the movements of dancing and swimming with the mental and physical practice called yoga. It helps lengthen muscles, improve balance, and exercise the joints, the parts of the body where bones are joined.

A Hungarian dancer named Juliu Horvath developed this special form of exercise. After he was injured in dancing, Mr. Horvath studied yoga intensely. In the 1980s, he developed a new exercise method as a special kind of yoga to strengthen dancers.

According to Mr. Horvath, his method was based on the octopus(章鱼)，monkey and cat. He says these animals have no restrictions. They can move in any direction the Gyrotonic movements to help the human body move more freely.

A special machine made of wood and weights(砝码) helps guide the body through the Gyrotonics exercises. You sit or lie on a flat board. You put your legs or hands through special cloth handles attached to a line with weights. With the tension created by the weights, you must try to move through the exercises.

Seven kinds of backbone movements form the base of Gyrotonics. For example, you can stretch your back to the left and right or forward and backward. While moving your back, you can also work on arm or leg motions. These movements must be done in a smooth way. Often the motions are circular(圆形的)。

When Juliu Horvath first developed Gyrotonics, he was the only teacher. Since then, he has taught almost 70 trainers. Now, there are more then 800 official schools in the world where you can learn Gyrotonics.

1.This passage mainly focuses on _____.

A．A successful life of Horvath                B．A popular kind of exercise

C．Some advice on health care               D．Some uses of a special machine

2.According to the passage, what made it possible for Horvath to develop Gyrotonics?

A．His dancing-related injury.                 B．His failure in practicing yoga.

C．His good skills of dancing                  D．His wish to be a Gyrotonics trainer.

3.What do you think inspired Horvath in developing Gyrotonics?

A．His experience in dancing.                B．His use of a special machine.

C． The movements of some animals.          D．The ideas from many trainers.

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A．Many Americans have improved their health through Gyrotonics.

B．In a way, Gyrotonics is an exercise that comes from yoga.

C．You only have to move your backbone when doing the exercise.

D．Gyrotonics courses can be found in most countries worldwide.

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1.From "Elite Lessons" you can learn _____.

A．how to teach lessons in French or English

B．what the largest guitar contest in Canada is

C．more information about the Drummer Contest

D．skill in drumming that only a few people possess

2.Since James is weak in French reading comprehension he may choose _____.

A．elite Lessons                           B．private Tutoring

C．customized Tutoring                     D．basic Lessons for Beginners

3.How much shall you pay for a basic guitar lesson?

A．$14 an hour       B．$15 an hour        C．$19 an hour       D．$25 an hour

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A．daily news                             B．education reports

C．telephone directories                    D．classified advertisements

Mary Buendia once spent a day in an airplane, looking for a cat. She didn't find it that day. The plane flew around all over the world for three weeks with the cat on board. She finally found it in the cargo hold and sent it home first-class. Another time ,she found two suitcases full of birds from Turkey. But her strangest experience was when she pulled a snake out of a man's pants.

Mary Buendia is an animal health inspector at JFK Airport in New York. She takes care of all the animals that pass through the airport and checks that they are healthy. In the Animal Health Center, there are areas for dogs, cats, reptiles, birds, and fish. There is also an area for very big animals. The biggest they ever had was a black rhino. "It was no problem." she says.

At the center, they receive all types of animals  monkeys, wild cats, poisonous spiders. It's impossible for one person to know about all of these, but there are 20 people working with Mary. Among them, they understand how to take care of the animals. She recently had to feed a group of toucans, which are rare birds. "luckily," she says, "there is a supermarket nearby which is open 24 hours. I had to go at 2 a.m to buy bananas.

Mary often works at night. "It's quiet between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m." she says, "because we don't have night flights. We try to give the animals a quiet night." Mary clearly loves her job. "You never know what the day will bring,"she says, and goes off to feed the birds.

1.The best title of the passage will probably be _____.

A．JKF Airport in New York                   B．Airport Health Inspector

C．Mary Buendia                          D．Animal Health Center

2.Form the first paragraph, we can know that _____.

A．working as an Airport Health Inspector, Mary Buendea has various experiences

B．after the cat was found, it was sent home to New York

C．Mary got frightened when she pulled a snake out of a man's pants

D．Mary was tired of dealing with animals at the airport

3.We can infer from the passage that _____.

A．Mary often works at night during flights

B．it took Mary a whole day to find a lost cat in an airplane

C．only healthy animals can be permitted to go aboard the airplane

D．Mary knows everything about the animals by working with 20 other people

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。

___1___ But science may have just proved them right because beautiful women are more likely to have daughters than their plainer counterparts, according to a study.

As parents tend to pass on genes that determine looks, this could result in handsome men becoming rather thin on the ground. ___2___ For example, Yasmin Le Bon is signed to the same modelling agency as her daughter Amber, and Jerry Hall's daughters Elizabeth and Georgia Jagger have both taken to the catwalk.

Dr Satoshi Kanazawa, of the London School of Economics, analysed data from a survey of 17,000 babies born in Britain in March 1958 and tracked them throughout their lives. ___3___ When they reached 45, they were asked about the gender of any children they had.

Those rated as attractive were equally likely to have a son or daughter as their first child  but the unattractive sorts were more likely to have a son. ___4___

Dr Kanazawa believes that parents tend to produce children who benefit from their own features. ___5___ So it pays for attractive women to have daughters. But couples blessed with strength and aggression rather than looks are better off having boys, as these characteristics are of more use to males.

A．Women are becoming more beautiful over the generations because attractive women have more children than plain ones.

B．Single girls have always complained that good-looking men are difficult to find.

C．Beauty is of more benefit to a woman than a man.

D．At the age of seven, their attractiveness was rated by their teachers.

E. Put another way, the beautiful women were more likely to have daughters.

F. And it may also explain why many models have daughters who follow in their fascinating footsteps.

G. Famously good-looking parents like Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are more likely to have girls than uglier couples.

假如英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^）,并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Schools should be clean and pure place. But now something bad happens. Some students cheated in examinations at school. As students, we often have examinations, many of which are sometime too difficult for us. In addition, some students not work hard at their lessons. So when taking examinations, they are dishonest in order that get better results to please his parents and teachers. I think it wrong to cheat in examinations though it breaks the rules of schools. We students should be honest and try to get good grades in studying hard instead of by cheating in the examinations. What's more, we should improve our study methods and get good prepared for examinations.

假如你是李华，准备参加学校举办的主题为“健康成长”的英语作文比赛。请按要求写一篇短文，主要内容包括：

1. 乐观的人生态度；

2. 努力学习；

3. 参加体育锻炼。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以便行文连贯；

3. 开头已写好。

We all want to grow up happily and healthily, and for this goal we must do several things.

—I want someone to write the composition for me.

—No！As a student，you _______depend on yourself.

A．shall             B．will              C．can              D．may

Mrs. White found her husband surrounded by letters and papers and ______very worried.

A．look             B．looks             C．looking           D．to look

When the book，Twilight，was first ________，it was immediately well received by readers.

A．brought up                            B．brought down

C．brought about                          D．brought out

Wang Hao and Chu Yafei led China to______gold and silver finish in ______ 20­kilometer walk，the first athletic event at the Asian Games.

A  a；the    B. the；a    C. 不填；a    D. 不填；the