A Leap （跳跃）to Honor
Leapirg on a narrow balance beam( 平衡木) is not easy. But Lola Water. a 13-year-old gymnast is an expert at it.
To perfect her skills. Lola_____ for four hours a day, five days a week. At the slate championships in March，she finished seventh out of 16 girts. That's especially impressive. ___she is legaly blind, horn with a rare condition that causes her eyes to shift (转移)canstantly. She offen sees double and can't___ how far away things are.
When she was little, her mom ___ even though she couldn’t____, she was fearless. So her mom signed her up for gymnastics when she was three. She loved the____right away and gymnastics became her favorite.
Though learning gymnastics has been more_____for her than for some of her tournaments( 锦际赛). she has never quit(放弃). She doesn’t let her____ stop her from doing anything that she warts to. She likes the determination (决心）it takes to do the sport. Her biggest __ is the balance beam. Because she has double vision , she often sees two beams. She must use her sense of touch to help her during her routine. Sometimes she even clones her eyes. "You have to______your mind that it’ll take you where you want to go”, says Lola.
To be a top-level gymmast, one must be brave The beam is probably the most __ for anyone because it’s only four inches wide At the state competition, Lob didn 't____the beam, In fact, she got an 8.1 out of 10 一 her highest scone yet.
Lola doesn’t waat to be ____, differently from the other girls un her team, At the competitions, the judges don’t know about her vision____. She doesn’t tell them, because she doesn't think they need to know. Her mom is amazed by her _______altitude.
Loda never thinks about____. She is presently at level 7 while the highest is level 10 in gymnastics. Her____is to reach level 9.She says she wants to be a gymnastics coach 10____what she s learned to other kids when she grew up.
Lola is____of all her hard work and success. She says it has helped her overcome problems in her life
Outside gymnastics,too. Her __for others is “just be1ieve yourself ”.
1.A. runs B. leaches C. trains D. daneeft
2.A. since B. uritciab C. after D. ihDUgh
3.A. tell B. guess C. fancy D. pmlict
4.A. doubied B. remembered C. imagined D. noticed
5.A. deeply B. well C. ahead D. carefully
6.A. task B. sport C. event D. show
7.A. boring B. enjoyable C. difficult D. unsatisfying.
8.A. talent B. quality C. nature D. condition
9.A. doubt B. advantage C. challenge D. program
10.A. examine B. express C. open D. trust
11.A. fearful B. harmful C. unfair D. inconvenient
12.A. full down B. fall over C. fall off D. fall behind
13.A. greeted B. treated C. served D. paid
14.A. pains B. stresses C. injuries D. problems
15.A. positive B. friendly C. selfless D. devoted
16.A. defending B. quilting C. winning D. bargaining
17.A. standard B. ranga C. view D. goal
18.A. go through B. pass by C. hand down D. give out
19.A. proud B. tired C. ashamed D. confident
20.A. plan B. advice C. reward D. Responsibility
Thinking about a future career cm bung a lei of stress.1.This cuts up the question into workable issues that you and your child can enjoy dealing with throughout their childhood years.Here's how:
In your child’s lift, there are times when they are given the opportunity to see and/or diacuss a certain career Schools have Career Day. an aunt or uncle talks about what they do for a living or your child's youth group goes on a trip to a hospital und talks to the staff there.2.
When your Child shows interest in a certain career. you should do some research. Then, you can offer your child some information on that job and related jobs.3.It is a wondertul the online resoure.
Help your Child weigh the pros and cons for his or her different career interests. Encourage your child to narrow（缩小）the cboice down to five at the most.
4. This is a good time to begin ordering in college and technical school lists. Use the lists and any other information you have found as an ice breaker for more converasations with your child.
5. Make this a clear message.Teach your child that part of be ing independent is knowing when and who to lead on,trust and respect.
A.Do you fed you have open communication with your child?
B.The Occupational Oudook Handbook gives you what schooling is needed.
C. The final decision lies with your child, but you do have the right to have input.
D. Choosing the right career is one of die mm important decisions your child will make in life.
E. Figure out the path your child would have to take to obtain the schooling, for his career choices.
F. Each of these nines is an opportunity for you to ask your child what he thought of those jobs or that field of work.
G. Parents need to learn to help their child conquer this great question by dropping seeds of conversation as time goes by Bud watch them grow into ideas.
Some people surveyed tasted the sweet, salty and crunchy together with other tastes of food as they listen to different noises.It shows that louder noises reduced the reported sweetness or saltiness of food while incr eatasing the measure of crunchiness（松脆）.
It may go some way to explain Why airline food is widely complained about by both the workers and paddengers.Andy Woods,a researcher,said,“It's a general opinion that plane foods aren't fantastic,but I'm sure airlines do their best,so we wondered if there were other reasons,One thought was that perhaps the background noise may have an effect.NASA gives their space explorers very strong -tassting foods,because for some reason,they can't taste food that Strongly-^again, it may have something ti do with the background noise.”
In a studr ,48 people were fed sweet foods or salty ones, while listening tonoting or noise through earphone. Meanwhile they rated(划分等级) the foods. In noisier settings,foods were rated less or sweet than they were when it was silent,but were rated crunchier.“The evidence shows that if the background noise is loud,your food,
attention might be drawn to that, away from the food.” Dr. Woods said.
“We ae still at an early stage of progressing and this is a rather small study to really draw definitive(最完整可靠的）conclusions from,” Dr Woods said,“but they suggest that restaurants could well their choice of food for a given environment.”
Also in the group's findings there is the suggestion that the overall satisfaction with the food is also related to the degree to which people like what they are hearing .
1.How does the food taste when it is eaten m a noisy enviroment?
A. Less sallty but cronchier
B. Sweeter and saltier.
C. Sweeter but less crunchy.
D. Less sweet and crunchy.
2.Why does NASA give their space explorers very strong-tasting foods?
A. Foods become less tasty in space.
B. The explorers lose their sense of taste in space.
C. Loud noises in space may weaken The explorers' sense of taste.
D. the explorers need tastier foods to keep energetic in space.
3.what can we infer from what Dr. Woods said in the 4th paragraph?
A. The environment influences the food a restaurant sells,
B. The researchers have made an effective conclusion.
C. Music will weaken people's sense of taste while eating
D. Listening to nothing while eating is the test choice.
4.What would be the best title for the text ?
A. The best dinner environment
B. How to change p lane foods,
C. Listening to music while eating.
D. Backgrouned noise a fleets the taste of foods,
What if you arrived home to find it delicious hot meal waiting for you, prepared by your very own kitchen robot It might sound like science fiction. but professors at the university of Tokyo have taken the first steps toward making that scenario a reality. The team recently introduced a humanoid kichen robot that can pour and other drinks into cups and serve the m to guests.When teating is over, the robot can also wash the dishes and put them away.
In Califormia, another interesting kitchen robot has been developed, called Readybot. It can pick up objects and either srore them in cabinets (橱柜）or put them in the trash. It also carries a separate floor-cleaning robot that can operate by itself.Unlike the Japanse robot,Readybot just looks more like a large box with arms and wheels.
Readybot was created by engineers and designers who who etablished a called the Readybot Challlenge. They believe that in the future millions of robots will be needed in homes to perform ordinary household tasks. Readybot is just the step in their plan to create a robot that can do jobs not only in kitchens but in other rooms of homes and in offces as well.
Clearly there are tcchnogical difficulties to to solve before robots can cook a Complete dinner, and there arc diso many safety concerns (忧虑） .Not everyone (especially parents) would be comfortable with the idea of robots in their house, manipulating hot pans and sharp knives. The European Commission recently furtded(资助） a project to study these concerns. According to lead researcher Professor Chris Melhuish,“ Enabling robots to work safely with humans is a key need for the future developmem of
robots.”
1.Compared with Readybot, which of the following is true about the Japanese robot?
A. It is more popular.
B. It performs more jobs,
C. It moves inore quickly.
D. It looks more like a person.
2.What can Readybot be used to do?
A. drive you around
B. clean your kitchen
C. prepare food for you
D. work for office workers
3.what's the meaning of Ac underlined word “manipulating ” in the last paragrsph?
A. Inventing
B. Avoiding.
C. Controlling.
D. Making.
Unlike most other holidays, the history of April Fools’ Day. Sometimes called All Fools' Day, is not as the totally clear. The only point in time that can be agreed on as the beginning of this tradition was 1582,in France. Before that year, the New Year was celebrated for eight days,
beginning on March 25.The reform of the calendar celetxration reached the highest point on April l_With the riform of the calendar under Charles 1X,the
Gregorian calendar (公历, 阳历）was introduced, and New Year's Day was moved lo January 1.
However, because in those days communications were not as developed as they are today, many people did not receive the news for several years. Some people refused to accept the new calendar and continued to celebrate the New Year on April , These backward people were considered “foots” by other peopk. They were often sent on “fools” errands (徒劳无益的工作)or were made the taragets of jokes.
This developed, over time,into a tradition of playing a trick m someone on the first day of April. The tradition eventully spread to England and Scotland in the eightreenth century. It was later introduced to the American
colonies of both the Britain and Francc.April Fools’ Day thus developed into an international fun feast,so to speak,with different nationalities specializing in their own kind of humor at the expense of their friends and families.
1.Acconibg to the new calendar, which day was New Year's Day moved la in France ?
A. March 25. B. January 1.
C. April I. D. April3.
2.Which of the following first had the tradition of celebrating the April Fools’ Day?
A. Frmce B. England,
C. Scotland D. America.
3.What was people's attitude towards the new calendar?
A. They accepted it happily. B. They refused it immediately.
C. Some recognized it. D. Some laughed at it.
4.What does the passage want 10 tell us?
A. What the French did un April Fools' Day.
B. How April Fools’ Day come into being.
C. When was the new calendar introduced.
D. Why some people were fooled in France.
How old are the apps on your smartphone? Is it time for an update? Here are three apps for you. Try them out and have fun.
DuoLingo
Learning a foreign language doesn't always mean you have to sit in a class and take endless exams. An app called Duolingo has been designed to help you memorize(记住) new words and grammar in creative ways, such as online lessons, games and interesting exercises. For example, one exercise asks you to put words in the right order to make the correct sentence. You can also try translation practice.
Douban FM
A music app is necessity for almost every smartphone now. Douban FM might be the right thing for you.
There is no playlist on Douban FM—songs just keep streaming(播放) one by me, You can use the “heart”, “trash” and “skip” buttons (按钮) to mark the songs you like, don’t like and want to cut short, respectively(分別地). Those marked with a heart will be stored in another list as your favorites for you to listen to anytime you want. Douban FM also has different channels(道频). There are many types of music, such as blues, jazz, and pop. You can choose the music for outdoor activities work or studying depending on your mood (心情).
It is one of the hottest news apps right now. With Flipboard, you can make everything personal to you. All you have to do is open up the app, “flip through” to select whatever interests you, and click the button. At the end you’ll have your own magazine, complete with a front page, new articles, and information.
1.What’s the purpose of the passage?
A. To show a new way to learn English.
B. To offer a hottest news website.
C. To introduce three apps.
D. To give advice to music lovers.
2.What does Duolingo help you do?
A. Get away from endless exams.
B. Keep words and grammar in mind.
C. Have easy access to online lessons.
D. Practice speaking English correctly.
3.Which statement is true about Douban FM？
A. There is no playlist on it, making a smartphone easier to operate.
B. It has special channels where concerts are regularly broadcast live.
C. It knows about your mood based on what you are doing.
D. You can choose with it your favorite songs and music as you like.
4.According to the text, what can you do wish Flipboard?
A. Make a personalized news magazine.
B. Go through everything that interests you.
C. Safely store some personal information.
D. Contribute your articles to popular magazines.
