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Don’t Take the Fun Out of Youth Sports
When I joined a private football league a few years ago, the sport meant everything to me. My coach(教练) said that I had lots of potential(潜力), and I became captain of my ___36___. That was before all the fun was taken out of ___37___.
At first, everyone on the team got ___38___ playing time. Then the team moved up to the top division after winning all its games, and the ___39___ started. Some parents, who had paid the coach extra so their daughters could have ___40___one-on-one training, got angry when she didn’t give them more playing time in our ___41___. The coach was replaced.
The new coach, however, took all the fun out of the game. All we did during practice was ___42___. I always wished to God that it would rain so we would not have the ___43___. Of course, all teams run drills; they are ___44___. But we ran so much that, afterwards, we had trouble ___45___. Younger people shouldn’t be doing exercises ___46___ for 18-year-olds.
I was very thin ___47___ I started football, but as a member of this team I wouldn’t eat much, because I was afraid of being too ___48___ to run. I feared making mistakes, and the added pressure caused me to make more than my usual ___49___.
Is all this pressure necessary? I ___50___ up leaving the football team. Four other girls did the same, and two of them stopped playing football completely. That’s ___51___, because they had so much potential. They were just burned-out with all the pressure they ___52___ from the coach or their parents.
I continued playing football at school and ___53___ my love for it. I joined a private team coached by my school coach. When I started playing ___54___ him, he told me I needed to relax because I looked nervous. After I ___55___ down, I played better. When you enjoy something, it’s a lot easier to do it well.
36. A. class B. club C. team D. board
37. A. playing B. living C. learning D. working
38. A. great B. equal C. right D. extra
39. A. business B. struggle C. attempt D. pressure
40. A. free B. private C. good D. basic
41. A. matches B. courses C. lessons D. programs
42. A. jump B. play C. run D. shoot
43. A. duty B. meeting C. operation D. training
44. A. necessary B. boring C. scientific D. practical
45. A. speaking B. moving C. sleeping D. breathing
46. A. used B. intended C. made D. described
47. A. till B. since C. before D. because
48. A. full B. tired C. lazy D. big
49. A. size B. share C. space D. state
50. A. gave B. kept C. ended D. picked
51. A. sad B. shameful C. silly D. serious
52. A. received B. suffered C. brought D. felt
53. A. reconsidered B. rediscovered C. reformed D. replaced
54. A. at B. by C. for D. around
55. A. fell B. stepped C. slowed D. calmed
答案
36---55 CABDB ACDAD BCABC ADBCD
解析
36. C。由第一段第一句知作者参加的是一个足球队，球队用team，captain of my team“球队队长”。
37. A。由选项和第一段的内容可知需要填一个动名词与football搭配，
38. B。从本段倒数第二句“有些家长想让教练多给自己的孩子一些上场的时间”可反推出刚开始大家的机会均等。
39. D。pressure“压力”。下文讲了来自父母、教练的压力，从第五段第一句和最后一句也可得到启示。
40. B。one-on-one training的意思是一对一的个别辅导，其主语their daughters，即那些给过教练好处的队员，private“私人的，个人的”比good“好的”更能体现这一层关系。
41. A。从their daughters could have private one-on-one training可知那些父母的孩子已经在训练中得到了更多的指导，所以那些父母不可能为训练生气，排除B 、C、D。
42. C。从该空后面的内容可推知他们的训练只是跑步。
43. D。这一段讲的是训练枯燥无味，所以“我”总是祈祷上帝下雨的目自然是中止训练。
44. A。由句前的Of course可知作者这里在承认跑步训练是必要的，也为下一句的转折呼应。
45. D。本句用的是so…that句型，表示结果，跑得太多的结果是上气不接下气。
46. B。非谓语动词做定语，be intended for“专门为……而设计”，意思是不应该让青少年进行适合成人的运动。
47. C。从句意上排除A、B、D三项。
48. A。这里考的是too…to…，“太饱而不能跑步”，这是作者不能多吃的原因。
49. B。share有分担的意思，这里指分内的事。
50. C。give up doing“放弃做某事”；keep up something“保持”；pick up something“拾起，学到”；end up“告终，结束”，因为各种压力作者最终不得不离开这支球队，C项最合适。
51. A。有潜力的队员却完全停止了踢球这是多么可惜的事。sad“令人悲伤的,令人难过的”；shameful“可耻的”；silly“傻的”；serious“严重的”，四个选项中sad最贴近文意。
52. D。这里需要填的是the pressure在从句中的谓语，从句的主语they指的是退役的队员，他们不是压力的带来者，排除C；正因为他们不愿意接受也受不了这种压力才选择离开，排除A；suffer后要加from。
53. B。reconsider“重新考虑”；rediscover“重新发现”；reform“改革”；replace“代替”。R这一段讲的就是作者如何重新找到对足球的喜爱的，所以选rediscover。
54. C。此题用排除法，by 和around都有在……旁边的意思，要选都要选，排除，play at后接游戏名，是做……游戏的意思，排除。
55. D 。calm down是镇定下来，平静下来，意思与教练的话相符。
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Elizabeth Clay decided to go home and spend the holiday with her parents. The next day she drove her old car home along the road. ___36___ she found she got a flat. The 22-year-old student ___37___to stop her car by the side of the road in the winter night and opened the trunk. no ___38___ tire.
At this time, a car ___39___. Paul and Diane told Clay to ___40___ them to a service station near their ___41___. They arrived to see that it had no suitable tires to ___42___ with her car. “Follow us home,” said Paul.
The couple called around to find a tire. No___43___. They decided to let her use their own car. “Here,” Paul said, handing Clay a ___44___ of keys, “Take our car. We ___45___ be using it over the holiday. ”
Clay was ___46. “But I’m going all the way to South Carolina, and I’ll be gone for two weeks,” she ___47___ them.
“We know,” Paul said. “We’ll be ___48___ when you get back. Here’s our number if you need to ___49___ us. ”
Unable to believe her eyes, Clay watched as the ___50___ put her luggage into their car and then ___51___ her off. Two weeks later she ___52___ to find her old car cleaned inside and out with three new tires and the radio ___53___.
“Thank you so much,” she said. “How much do I ___54___ you?” “Oh, no,” Paul said, we don’t want any money. It’s our ___55___. ” Clay realized that while it might have been their pleasure, it was now her duty to pass on their “do unto others” spirit.
36. A. Suddenly B. Finally C. Immediately D. Fortunately
37. A. afforded B. wanted C. allowed D. managed
38. A. spare B. free C. full D. empty
39. A. passed B. stopped C. paused D. started
40. A. help B. push C. take D. follow
41. A. garage B. house C. shop D. hotel
42. A. agree B. match C. go D. deal
43. A. way B. message C. success D. luck
44. A. set B. number C. pair D. chain
45. A. can’t B. shouldn’t C. mustn’t D. won’t
46. A. satisfied B. worried C. astonished D. disturbed
47. A. persuaded B. advised C. reminded D. promised
48. A. happy B. here C. away D. busy
49. A. get in touch with B. keep in touch with
C. be in touch with D. put in touch with
50. A. repairmen B. cleaners C. friends D. couple
51. A. sent B. shook C. watched D. drove
52. A. shocked B. happened C. returned D. came
53. A. loaded B. fixed C. tied D. rebuilt
54. A. owe B. lend C. give D. offer
55. A. wish B. job C. duty D. pleasure
We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we’ve become used to suddenly disappears. ___36___, for example, the neatly-dressed woman I ___37___ to see--or look at--on my way to work each morning.
For three years, no matter ___38___ the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 am. On ___39___days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Sometimes ___40___out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. ___41___, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I ___42___ all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how ___43___ I expected to see her each morning. You might say I ___44___ her.
“Did she have an accident? Something ___45___?” I thought to myself about her ___46___. Now that she was gone, I felt I had ___47___ her. I began to realize that part of our ___48___ life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar ___49___: the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who ___50___walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are ___51___markers in our lives. They add weight to our ___52___ of place and belonging.
Think about it. ___53___, while walking to work, we mark where we are by ___54___ a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though ___55___ person?
36. A. Make B. Take C. Give D. Have
37. A. happened B. wanted C. used D. tried
38. A. what B. how C. which D. when
39. A. sunny B. rainy C. cloudy D. snowy
40. A. took B. brought C. carried D. turned
41. A. Clearly B. Particularly C. Luckily D. Especially
42. A. believed B. expressed C. remembered D. wondered
43. A. long B. often C. soon D. much
44. A. respected B. missed C. praised D. admired
45. A. better B. worse C. more D. less
46. A. disappearance B. appearance C. misfortune D. fortune
47. A. forgotten B. lost C. known D. hurt
48. A. happy B. enjoyable C. frequent D. daily
49. A. friends B. strangers C. tourists D. guests
50. A. regularly B. actually C. hardly D. probably
51. A. common B. pleasant C. important D. faithful
52. A. choice B. knowledge C. decision D. sense
53. A. Because B. If C. Although D. However
54. A. keeping B. changing C. passing D. mentioning
55. A. unnamed B. unforgettable C. unbelievable D. unreal
“It was all his own idea,” says Pat, the wife of California high school football coach Bob Peters. Bob had ___36___ made a “motherhood contract(合同)”—declaring that for 70 days this summer he would ___37___ the care of their four children and all the housework. ___38___ he didn’t even know how to make coffee when he sighed, he was very confident.
After40 of the 70 days, he was ready to ___39___. “ I was beaten down, “ admits Bob. “Not only is motherhood a ___40___ task, it is an impossible job for any normal human being. ”
Bob and Pat were married in 1991. After the married, Pat ___41___ a secretary to help put him through university. ___42___ Bob has been the football coach while Pat raised the kids. ___43___ two years ago Pat went back to work. “ I had been ___44___ children so much,” she ___45___, “I couldn’t talk to a grown-up. ” She continued to run the household, ___46___ -- until Bob sighed the contract.
Bob tried hard to learn cooking, but the meals he prepared were ___47___. For the last three weeks, the family ___48___ a lot--- sometimes having MacDonald’s hamburgers for lunch and dinner.
___49___ housekeeping, a home economics teacher had told Bob that a room always looks clean ___50___ the bed is made. “ I found ___51___ –I shut the doors,” he says. Soon the kids were wearing their shirts inside out. “When we went to ___52___ Pat at work, I made them wear their shirts 53 side out so they would look clean. ”
Now that Bob has publicly ___54___ he was wrong, he is ___55___ the child-raising and household tasks with Pat.
36. A. only B. just C. nearly D. ever
37. A. stick to B. set about C. think about D. takeover
38. A. If B. As C. Since D. Although
39. A. carry on B. give up C. break down D. find out
40. A. strange B. pleasant C. difficult D. serious
41. A. sent B. employed C. learned from D. worked as
42. A. In time B. Before long C. Since then D. Later on
43. A. Then B. Thus C. So D. Still
44. A. near B. after C. about D. around
45. A. insists B. sighs C. jokes D. apologizes
46. A. besides B. therefore C. however D. otherwise
47. A. terrible B. tasty C. expensive D. special
48. A. starved B. traveled C. worked out D. ate out
49. A. Due to B. As for C. Along with D. Except for
50. A. until B. before C. if D. unless
51. A. an easier way B. a cheaper way C. a cleaner way D. a harder way
52. A. receive B. welcome C. greet D. fetch
53. A. good B. wrong C. right D. opposite
54. A. admitted B. suggested C. agreed D. explained
55. A. operating B. realizing C. sharing D. performing
Not too long ago, an incident that happened at Walt Disney touched me greatly. A guest___36___ out of our Polynesian Village resort（度假胜地）at Walt Disney was asked how she ___37___ her visit. She told the front-desk clerk she had had a (n) ___38___ vacation, but was heartbroken about ___39___ several rolls of Kodak color film she had not yet ___40___. At that moment she was particularly ___41___ over the loss of the pictures she had shot at our Polynesian Luau, 42___ this was a memory she especially treasured.
Now, please understand that we have no written service rules___43___ lost photos in the park. 44___, the clerk at the front desk___45___ Disney’s idea of caring for our ___46___. She asked the woman to leave her a couple rolls of ___47___ film, promising she would take care of the rest of our show at Polynesian Luau.
Two weeks later the guest received a ___48___at her home. In it were photos of all the actors of our show, 49___ signed by each performer. There were also ___50___ of the public procession（游行队伍）and fireworks in the park, taken by the front-desk clerk in her own ___51___ after work. I happened to know this ___52___ because this guest wrote us a letter. She said that ___53___ in her life had she received such good service from any business.
Excellent ___54___ does not come from policy (政策性的)handbooks. It comes from people who ___55___ —and from a culture that encourages and models that attitude.
36. A. working B. checking C. trying D. staying
37. A. expected B. realized C. paid D. enjoyed
38. A. disappointing B. wonderful C. uncomfortable D. important
39. A. taking B. dropping C. losing D. breaking
40. A. developed B. taken C. washed D. loaded
41. A. silly B. nervous C. calm D. sad
42. A. when B. where C. as D. which
43. A. covering B. finding C. making D. keeping
44. A. Excitedly B. Fortunately C. Therefore D. Quietly
45. A. understood B. reminded C. trusted D. discovered
46. A. workers B. guests C. managers D. clerks
47. A. printed B. shot C. unused D. recorded
48. A. film B. card C. camera D. packet
49. A. frequently B. personally C. alone D. actually
50. A. rules B. pictures C. handbooks D. performances
51. A. case B. work C. time D. position
52. A. story B. place C. photo D. show
53. A. only B. almost C. never D. nearly
54. A. advice B. experience C. quality D. service
55. A. care B. serve C. like D. know
You are near the front line of a battle. Around you shells are exploding; people are shooting from a house behind you. What are you doing there? You aren’t a soldier. You aren’t ___36___carrying a gun. You’re standing in front of a ___37___and you’re telling the TV ___38___what is happening.
It’s all in a day’s work for a war reporter, and it can be very ___39___. In the first two years of the ___40___ in former Yugoslavia(前南斯拉夫), 28 reporters and photographers were killed. Hundreds more were ___41___. What kind of people put themselves in danger to ___42___ pictures to our TV screens and ___43___ to our newspapers? Why do they do it?
“I think it’s every young journalist’s ___44___to be a foreign reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s ___45___ you find the excitement. So when the first opportunity comes, you take it ___46___ it is a war.”
But there are moments of ___47___. Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes, when you’re lying on the ground and bullet(子弹) are flying ___48___ your ears, you think: ‘What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.’ But that feeling ___49___ after a while and when the next war starts, you’ll be ___50___.”
“None of us believes that we’re going to ___51___,” adds Michael. But he always ___52___ a lucky charm(护身符) with him. It was given to him by his wife for his first war. It’s a card which says “Take care of yourself.” Does he ever think about dying? “Oh, ___53___, and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, ‘If you get me out of this, I ___54___ I’ll never do it again.’ You can almost hear God ___55___, because you know he doesn’t believe you.”
36. A. simply B. really C. merely D. even
37. A. crowd B. house C. battlefield D. camera
38. A. producers B. viewers C. directors D. actors
39. A. dangerous B. exciting C. normal D. disappointing
40. A. stay B. fight C. war D. life
41. A. injured B. buried C. defeated D. saved
42. A. bring B. show C. take D. make
43. A. scenes B. passages C. stories D. contents
44. A. belief B. dream C. duty D. faith
45. A. why B. what C. how D. where
46. A. even so B. ever since C. as if D. even if
47. A. fear B. surprise C. shame D. sadness
48. A. into B. around C. past D. through
49. A. returns B. goes C. continues D. occurs
50. A. there B. away C. out D. home
51. A. leave B. escape C. die D. remain
52. A. hangs B. wears C. holds D. carries
53. A. never B. many times C. some time D. seldom
54. A. consider B. accept C. promise D. guess
55. A. whispering B. laughing C. screaming D. crying
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