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Strange though they may look, these so-called barefoot shoes, which reproduce the effect of barefoot running but with less pain, are just one brand in a range of minimalist footwear. These super-thin sports shoes are causing a stir in the world of running and fitness. Why? Because some experts believe they could make you a better, more efficient runner and that traditional trainers could be doing you more harm than good.
"Wearing a shoe that has lots of cushioning and support affects the way your body naturally moves and studies suggest that this carries a higher risk of injury," explains Matt Wallden, an athlete performance expert. "But with barefoot shoes, the foot can actually feel the firmness and shape of the ground, which allows your body to respond effectively.’"
But before you rush out to invest in minimalist footwear, be careful. These kinds of shoes are not meant for everyone, or at least not straight away.
"Ordinary sports shoes with support are good for beginners whose bodies are not used to the impact of running," explains Patrick Davoren, former Olympic athlete. "It you are not in great condition, then running in minimalist footwear may cause injuries and will turn a lot of people off exercise and running.
If you are currently injured, and figures show that in any given year 65% of all runners are, it can be tempting to try anything that promises to get you back on the road, trail, or beach. But barefoot running is not a method of treating injury nor is it a magical way of suddenly turning you into a great athlete.
Even if you’re used to running, when you start using minimalist shoes you should build up your distance gradually. Start_off’by doing just 10% of what you’d normally run and increase the distance by no more than 10% every week. And a word of warning - you may never have soft feet again
小题1:The Vibram FiveFingers are shoes ______.
| A．specifically designed for women |
| B．that have lots of cushion inside |
| C．safest for people who enjoy sports |
| D．that are much thinner than normal sports shoes |
| A．experts | B．feet | C．shoes | D．runners |
| A．make feet more sensitive to the running surface |
| B．will produce immediate improvements |
| C．force your body to move less naturally |
| D．increase the chances of getting hurt |
| A．run in the shoes every day at top speed |
| B．begin with a shorter running distance than normal |
| C．occasionally run barefooted to harden their feet |
| D．make sure they are already very fit before using them |
| A．A travel book. | B．A movie website. |
| C．A sports magazine. | D．A science journal. |
答案
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:B
小题5:C
解析
小题1:细节题：根据第二段的：These super-thin sports shoes are causing a stir in the world of running and fitness. 说明这种运动鞋比普通的运动鞋薄，D正确。
小题2:猜词题，根据上文的These super-thin sports shoes are causing a stir in the world of running and fitness. 说明下文指的是这些鞋子可以让你成为更好，更有效的跑步者。选C。
小题3:推理题：根据第三段的：But with barefoot shoes, the foot can actually feel the firmness and shape of the ground, which allows your body to respond effectively.推断出这种鞋可以让跑步的人对地面更加敏感。选A。
小题4:细节题：最后一段有：Even if you’re used to running, when you start using minimalist shoes you should build up your distance gradually. 说明用户开始时应该比正常的距离短一点，选B。
小题5:推理题：这是一篇介绍一种新型运动鞋的文章，应该是运动杂志，选C。
核心考点
试题【When movie star Scarlett Johansson was photographed naming in Los Angeles recent】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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The man shrugged impatiently, for the brightness of those pictures hurt him, and his memory travelled on another ten years. He had a job by then, plenty of friends and started to come home less. He did not really want to remember those years, nor the day when, because o’ debts, he had gone home planning to ask for money. He felt embarrassed, but he knew exactly where his dad kept the money. When his parents stepped out of the room, he took what he wanted and left.
That was the last time he had seen them. Ashamed, he went abroad, and his parents knew nothing about the years of wandering or time in prison. But locked in his cell he often thought of home. Once free, he would love to see his parents again, if they were still alive, and still wanted to see him.
When his prison time was up, he found -a job, but couldn’t settle. Something was drawing him home. He did not want to arrive penniless, so he hitchhiked most of the long journey back. But less than a mile from his destination he started to feel sick with doubt. Could they ever accept this man who had so bitterly disappointed them?
He spent most of that day sitting under a tree. That evening he posted a letter which, although short, had taken him hours to write. It ended with:
I know it is unreasonable of me to suppose you want to see me ... so it’s up to you. I’ll come early Thursday morning. If you want me home, hang a white handkerchief in the window of my old bedroom. If it’s there, I’ll come in; if not, I’ll wave good-bye and go.
And now it was Thursday morning and he was sitting on the pavement at the end of the street. Finally he got up and walked slowly toward the old house. He drew a long breath and looked.
His parents were taking no risks. ________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
The man threw his head back, gave a cry of relief and ran straight through the open front door.
小题1: Why did the man shrug impatiently (paragraph 2) while he was thinking of his childhood?
| A．The thoughts made him angry. |
| B．He felt he had wasted time. |
| C．He was anxious to go home. |
| D．The sweet memory caused him much pain. |
| A．He doubted if his parents still lived in that house. |
| B．He had much news to tell his parents. |
| C．He felt ashamed to ask for forgiveness. |
| D．He was longing to return home and felt excited. |
a. He took the money from his parents.
b. He bought a bicycle with his savings.
c. He was sentenced to prison.
d. He wrote the letter home.
e. He sat on the pavement.
f. He hitchhiked back home.
| A．b, a, c, d, e, f | B．b, a, c, f, d, e |
| C．a, c, b, d, f, a | D．a, d, b, c, e, f |
| A．Every inch of the house was covered in white. Sheets, pillowcases and table clothes had been placed on every window and door, making it look like a snow house. |
| B．The house before him was just as he remembered: the red bricks, the brown door and nothing else. |
| C．A colourful blanket was over the front door. On it, in large letters, was written, "Welcome home, son |
| D．A police car was parked in the drive way, and two officers stood at the front door. |
| A．Sweet Memory | B．White Handkerchief |
| C．Abandoned Son | D．Leaving Home |
He stepped forward when was told his 64-year-old mother might be dead within months unless she got a new kidney (肾). The worried surgeon brought her to London to be cared for at his hospital. However, it was not all plain sailing. Tests showed Dr Syed was the wrong blood group, so the only way was to go through a special blood-washing process. He consulted colleagues about that, but they didn’t agree, because the risk of rejection is still too high. Dr Syed and his mother were then advised to consider a new way of donating and receiving, called an organ-paired. That is, Dr Syed donated his kidney to an unknown person and another donor in the chain was a successful match for his mother. The chain of three transplants took place at the same time on July 31 with Dr Syed’s kidney going to a recipient in the Midlands and Mrs. Syed receiving her kidney from a person in the south of England.
Just hours after donating his own kidney, Dr Syed found himself recovering in bed next to his mother. Mrs Syed said, “When I came round from my operation Asim was in the next bed and the first thing he said was, ‘Mum now all your worries are over.’ Tears fell down.”
Now mother and son are recovering well with Dr Syed already back at work. Mrs. Syed is staying with him for several months while the hospital monitors her progress.
He said, “I did what anyone would do when they see a relative suffering disease. Although I wasn’t able to help mum directly, by agreeing to be part of a chain, I was also very happy.”
小题1: Why isn’t it a plain sailing?
| A．No one can treat his mother well. |
| B．Dr Syed was the wrong blood group. |
| C．They didn’t have money to be in hospital. |
| D．Mrs. Syed was unwilling to receive the operation. |
| A．It is very dangerous. | B．It costs too much. |
| C．They didn’t know how to do it at all. | D．They didn’t have the relative equipment. |
| A．She was touched by his son’s deed. |
| B．She has already recovered completely. |
| C．After operation, she went her own home. |
| D．She was in hospital in London for many years. |
| A．The hospital still needs improving. |
| B．Dr Syed has love and devotion to his parents. |
| C．The expense in the hospital is too high to afford. |
| D．Dr Syed donated his kidney to his mother directly. |
Long ago there was a poor farmer in Russia. He had been very 1__ with everything he had. However, when he found his elder brother was __2__ than him, he felt disappointed. So he 3__ hard about how he could also be richer. Finally he got an idea. He started to spend less money on food and clothes to __4___ some money to buy more land. Once he had enough money, he started __5_for land.
He6__ that on the neighboring land, there were some nomads living there. He bought some gifts and went to ___7_ their head. He presented the gifts to the head and told him the 8__ of his visit. The head welcomed him, accepted the gifts and agreed to his 9_ to get the land. The head told him that he could have the land _10__ giving him anything. He can take as much land as he could _11 by walking through the land before sunset. He should start in the morning and whatever distance he could travel during the 12_____, he could have it.
The farmer became very 13___when he heard this offer. Now he could have lots of _14__ without paying anything. He came __15 the next morning and started running, not walking, 16_ he could cover the largest area. To reach his goal, he neither ate food, nor drank water, nor had any rest. He just continued___17_. Without eating, or drinking, or resting he just got very 18__.When he came back to the head in the evening, he 19__ right on the spot. Sadly his son buried him in a piece of land about 6×4feet.
Don’t be greedy or you will __20 everything finally.
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One day I took several pairs of shoes to the shoemaker to be mended. After a week I went to take them back. Four months later, my husband and I were invited to dinner. I took out a pair of shoes. I hadn"t worn them since they were mended. I put one shoe on my right foot, and then I put the other on my left. But I felt that the other one was on the wrong foot. I took both shoes off for a closer look. They were nearly the same style (式样), color and size, but each was for the right foot. Then I thought of the shoemaker. Though I was sure he wouldn"t remember me after such a long time, I called him. "Thank goodness you called me at last!" He said happily. "An angry woman has been troubling me for months!"
小题1:How many pairs of shoes did the woman take to the shoemaker to be mended?
| A．One shoe. | B．Two pairs of shoes. |
| C．Only three shoes. | D．Some pairs of shoes. |
| A．was very careful with his work |
| B．mistook one of the woman" s shoes for the other woman" s |
| C．forgot the woman because it happened a long time ago |
| D．was troubled by two men |
| A．Yes, she did. | B．The story didn"t tell us. |
| C．No, but her husband did. | D．No, she didn"t. |
| A．sad | B．angry | C．glad | D．worried |
When an official at the U. S. Open Pocket Pool(台球)Championship saw a 9-year-old girl playing at one of the tournament tables, he told her that spectators(观众)were not allowed to play. But much to his surprise, the girl was actually a competitor. That was nine years ago, and today, with five U. S. Open Women’s titles behind her and a recently won world championship, no one is likely to mistake Jean Balukas for a spectator again.
It doesn’t seem too surprising that Jean became caught up in pool——her father owns a pool hall within walking distance of the family’s home in Brooklyn. When she was just tall enough to see over the table, she fell in love with the game soon. Five years later Jean was ready to enter her first U. S. Open. She still remembers the letter the officials sent her reminding her that she wouldn’t be allowed to stand on a box to play.
As Jean improved, she found it increasingly difficult to play games at her father’s pool hall. “If I’d beat one of the guys, his friends would laugh at them about losing to me,” she says. Now Jean comes to the hall only weeks before a tournament when she plays Johnny Goon, her father’s pool manager.
That Johnny can beat her shows the gap that now exists in pool — as in other sports — between the top men and women competitors. “I’m supposedly the top woman player, but I’d have a hard time beating the number 50 man,” says Jean. “If I was a boy and played pool, I’d be a nobody.”
Jean thinks that women pool players still have a long way to go because pool has been a man’s game for so long. “When they think of pool players, people have this picture in their head of gambling(赌博) and smoke,” she says.
Jean won four of the seven games in these two years. She was as surprised as anyone else at her performance, even though she was a New York City tennis champion and center for her high-school basketball team. Jean does not take full credit for her achievements, saying, “I think what I have in sports is a gift from God, and that’s why I can get out there and do so well.”
小题1:We can learn from the first passage that Jean Balukas_____.
| A．had become well-known at the age of 9 |
| B．had achieved great fame at the age of 18 |
| C．was often asked to play with men players |
| D．was refused to play in the U. S. Open for her young age |
| A．told her to arrive in time for the game |
| B．showed people’s doubt about her ability |
| C．told her about the basic rules of the game |
| D．invited her to compete in the U. S. Open |
| A．fall far behind men players |
| B．aren’t suitable for a man’s game |
| C．are impossible to beat any man player |
| D．have a bad reputation(名声) for gambling and smoking |
| A．women players had a long way to go |
| B．she wouldn’t stop before her great achievement |
| C．she had much confidence in the game |
| D．she achieved her success because of her born gift |
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