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What is small sided soccer? The small sided soccer starts with games of 3-on-3 from the youngest participants and progresses to 4-on-4, 7-on-7, 11-on-11, in a graduated manner for the older groups. OUT school’s training course will give kids a better chance to take part in the game and get excited about the game of soccer. The small-sided approach gives each child more individualized attention so they can each improve their skills. And, it’s FUN! Some general practical information • The cafeteria is open. • We supply participants with soccer clothes and football boots. • Please bring a water bottle for your child. Soccer season training times
Costs The cost is $70 per month for Tykes and PeeWees and $115 for all the other teams. Those who enter online will get a 10% discount. Volunteering Can I coach? Of course! Our training course is always looking for volunteer coaches. We will provide coaches with plans for activities and training, and help set up the small-sided fields. It’s a great opportunity to get involved with kids and help develop their love for sports. How can I volunteer in other ways? It’s your club and you are welcome to volunteer! There are volunteer opportunities with programs, fields, publicity, facilities, uniforms, website development and the board, to name but a few. Let us know how you’d like to help — and we’ll put you to work! Do parents stay? Yes. Parents are strongly encouraged to stay and support their children and the club. The club is a volunteer-run organization. Parents and athletes are encouraged to help with the clean-up and set-up activities. If you have any questions about program specifics, please contact recreational soccer coordinator (协调者), Pablo Vercelli, at recreationalsoccei@abfsport.nl. Tel: 043-239-4409. 1.What do you know about the training course? A.Coaches will make plans for activities and training. B.It offers three meals a day for free. C.Parents can volunteer for the training course. D.Participants need to prepare their own soccer clothes. 2.George entered for the PeeWees training time online. How much does he have to pay? A.$63. B.$70. C.$115. D.$103.5. 3.What can we learn from the passage? A.Both Tykes and BoysE&F have classes on Sunday. B.Both Tykes and PeeWees have the same charging standard. C.Pablo Vercelli was the founder of the small-sided soccer. D.Parents who help with clean-up don’t need to pay for the course.
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A few years ago, a doctor gave a wrong prescription to a 9-year-old boy because he had accidentally clicked the next medicine listed in the drop-down menu. Unfortunately, the boy died. Dr. Gidi Stein heard the story and felt forced to do something. “It was like killing someone with a spelling error. He just clicked on the wrong button,” Stein said. “One would have thought there’d be some kind of spell-checker to prevent these terrible things from happening. But apparently this is not the case.” Several things were immediately obvious to the 54-year-old Stein, who had previously studied computer science. “If you look at this problem from a bird’s eye view, there were so many places down the line where this decision could have been stopped — from the physician to the pharmacy (药房) even to the mother. All of them had all the relevant information to have a judgment call that this was just the wrong drug for the wrong patient.” For Stein, it represented a systemic failure. Stein compared this with credit cards. “If you use your credit card in the daily routine over time, a pattern of how we use our cards comes out: the grocery store, the gas station in our local town. If your credit card would appear tomorrow in Zimbabwe, it would be unusual. The credit card company would call you and say, ‘Hey, was that you?’” But nothing like that existed in the field of prescription drugs. So Stein set up a company called MedAware. He came up with a machine learning outlier detection (异常检测值) system. In other words, he trained the computers to realize if a doctor accidentally prescribed the wrong medicine. The system is already used in hospitals and doctor’s offices. To date, MedAware has used their technology to help nearly six million patients in the United States and Israel. 1.What led to the boy’s death? A.The doctor’s carelessness. B.The drawback of the computer. C.The doctor’s poor medical skill. D.The incomplete health care system. 2.What does Stein feel about this medical accident? A.Angry. B.Frightened. C.Embarrassed. D.Regretful. 3.What can MedAware’s technology do? A.Help doctor choose right medicine. B.Reminds patients to take medicine. C.Introduce new drugs to doctors. D.Check the prescription. 4.Where is this text most likely from? A.A diary. B.A guidebook. C.A magazine. D.A science fiction.
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History of amusement parks takes us back to the bar-periodic fairs, like the Bartholomew Fair which started in England. These can be considered a parent for the modern amusement park. Opening in the Elizabethan period, the fair had developed as a center of amusement with entertainment with fun, food, games, and many other attractions. The beer festival held in Munich, Germany which started in 1810 and the country and state fairs in the US, also played a part in the brief history of amusement park. Unlike the Bartholomew Fair, these annual events were usually held during an important time when crops were ripe, which deserved to be marked. Amusement parks are also known to have grown out of the pleasure gardens that became very popular at the start of the Industrial Revolution. These were the zones where one could shun the dull urban life for a short while. We can find the oldest and still-surviving amusement park in the world: Bakken in Denmark, which opened in 1583. These parks consisted of fireworks displays, rides and the modern railroad to accommodate the growing expectations from their customers. Another turning point in the history of amusement parks was the world’s fairs which began in 1851. The Crystal Palace in London, England was a landmark and celebrated the industrial achievements of the world. These were seen as symbols of economic and industrial success. In the last decade of the 19th century, the electric trolley lines became extremely popular. Mechanical amusements, dance hall, sports fields, and restaurants were included as regular entertainments, as the history of amusement parks reflects. The golden age in the brief history of amusement parks didn’t appear until people especially Americans spent less time on work and got a steady rise in their personal income. A number of amusement parks including the Kiddie Park were set up outside major cities and in the countryside, to make full use of this new economic opportunity. The original Kiddie Park is located in San Antonio, Texas and is still in operation today. 1.What was the purpose of the early Munich beer festival? A.To show local attractions. B.To celebrate harvest together. C.To found a center of amusement. D.To create a stable agricultural market. 2.What does the underlined word “shun” in Paragraph 2 mean? A.Avoid. B.Tolerate. C.Experience. D.Complain. 3.What made the amusement parks fully developed? A.The Industrial Revolution. B.More time and money for fun. C.Advances in technology. D.Development of the world’s fairs. 4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A.Bakken was originally opened in 1583 in London. B.The Crystal Palace is the oldest amusement park in the world. C.The Kiddie Park located in San Antonio is still open at present. D.The Bartholomew Fair was seen as economic and industrial success.
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Nicole Eisenberg’s older son has wanted to be a star of the stage since he was a kid. He took voice, dance and drama lessons and attended the well-known Stagedoor Manor summer camp for half a dozen years. “I had to take him on 20 auditions (试演) for musical theater. But he did it with me. I did not helicopter parent him. I was co-pilot.” Ms Eisenberg said. Helicopter parenting is a term that become popular in the 1980s and grew out of fear about children’s physical safety. It is the practice of hovering anxiously near one’s children, monitoring their every activity. In the 1990s, it meant not just constantly monitoring children, but also always teaching them. Or was she a snowplow parent? Snowplow parenting is an even more obsessive (强迫性的) form, which keeps their children’s futures obstacle-free, so they don’t have to come across failure, frustration or lose opportunities. It’s a parent’s job to support the children, and to use their adult wisdom to prepare for the future when their children aren’t mature enough to do so. It’s painful for any parent to watch their child mess up, or not achieve their goals. Now, however, the stakes (赌注) are so much high. “Increasingly, it appears any mistake could be very serious for their class outcome,” said Philip Cohen, a sociologist at the University of Maryland. “The point is to prepare the kid for the road, instead of preparing the road for the kid.” Ms Lythcott-Haims said. “You have made a role for yourself of always being there to handle things for your child, so it gets worse because your child is ill-equipped to manage the basic tasks of life.” Learning to solve problems, take risks and overcome frustration are important life skills. However, snowplowing has gone so far that many young people are in crisis, lacking these problem-solving skills and experiencing anxiety. Many snowplow parents know it’s problematic, too. But because of privilege or peer pressure or anxiety about their children’s futures, they do it anyway. 1.What do helicopter parents and snowplow parents have in common? A.They teach their children everything. B.They do everything for their children. C.They care too much about their children. D.They only fix their eyes on their children. 2.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined part in Paragraph 5? A.A thousand miles begins with a single step. B.All things are difficult before they are easy. C.Good company on the road is the shortest cut. D.Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. 3.What is the important effect of snowplowing on children? A.The shortage of problem-solving ability. B.The decrease of their anxiety. C.The satisfaction of learning. D.The pressure from their friends. 4.What is the best title for the text? A.Helicopter Parents and Their Children B.Parents Develop Problem-solving Skills C.Parents Prepare for Children’s Future D.Parents Rob Children of Adulthood
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Make Your Fitness Resolution Stick Last year, the most common New Year’s resolution was fitness-related. A study showed that approximately 50 million Americans swore to increase activities and lose weight. 1., success was hard to achieve. Two months later, only 37 percent of people in their 20s and 16 percent over age 50 had kept to their new fitness habit. 2., the benefits of such a change are clear. There is no question that exercise plays a role in the prevention and treatment of many diseases. Weekly exercise routines have been shown to reduce rates of depression and anxiety, lessen risk of heart attacks and strokes, and reduce the high rates of diabetes. 3.. It’s suggested that 150 minutes per week of moderate intensity exercise like swimming, or 75 minutes per week of intense exercise, like jogging, should be the minimum amount exercise needed to achieve maximum medical benefit if you stick to it. Often, the best way to increase your exercise is to involve movement in your everyday life. On average, urban citizen who go to work by bike or public transportation are fitter than suburban citizens who drive to work. 4.. They are good ways to increase the amount of your movement every day. Whether you determine to work out at your local gym three times a week, take 10,000 steps a day or give your dog an extra walk every day, what matters most is not your commitment to exercise but your sticking to it. 5.. A.While behavior change is tough B.Although they had good intentions C.However hard they try to make up their mind D.There is always one type of exercise that you are fond of E.Besides, taking the stairs instead of the elevator also helps F.So commit to something you love and keep to your fitness habit G.The best form of exercise is the type that someone will consistently perform
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Medi Bastoni, a 43-year-old father of four from Indonesia, is walking 800 km from his home on a volcano in East Java to Jakarta. He is doing it _________ in the hope of drawing attention to the archipelago’s (多岛屿的) quickly _________ forests. He set out on his _________, backward journey in mid-July, with the _________ of reaching the capital by August 16, a day before the Southeast Asian nation’s independence day anniversary. He just took a short break when he was _________. “Of course I’m exhausted, but I’m ___________ to do this to fight for the next generation and I just make my _________ to do it,” Bastoni said. “My home is ___________ all of its trees so I have to do something. I can _________ the pain and tiredness.” Bastoni says that when he arrives, he hopes to __________ President Joko Widodo and highlight the ____________ of deforestation (滥伐森林) across the archipelago, __________ at his home on Mt Wilis, a dead volcano. Indonesia __________ from one of the high rates of deforestation in the world, according to Greenpeace. Bastoni __________ 20 to 30 km backwards every day under the sun, with a rear-view mirror (后视镜) __________ to his backpack to avoid bumping into objects. Along the way, supporters cheer him on, __________ him meals or a place to stay overnight. But in order to stay ____________, Bastoni always leaves at dawn. “Walking backwards is meant as a __________ to Indonesians to reflect on the __________ and remember how national heroes __________ for the good of the country,” he said. 1.A.outwards B.regularly C.naturally D.backwards 2.A.shrinking B.flooding C.expanding D.growing 3.A.wonderful B.fancy C.tough D.single 4.A.theme B.belief C.goal D.direction 5.A.sad B.tired C.hungry D.excited 6.A.likely B.afraid C.nervous D.willing 7.A.effect B.difference C.change D.effort 8.A.losing B.planting C.selling D.protecting 9.A.enjoy B.take C.reduce D.seek 10.A.talk about B.meet with C.say goodbye to D.get close to 11.A.problem B.cause C.method D.benefit 12.A.surrounding B.varying C.including D.reaching 13.A.suffers B.escapes C.benefits D.prevents 14.A.cycles B.walks C.drives D.runs 15.A.attached B.compared C.exposed D.applied 16.A.lend B.offer C.watch D.show 17.A.in order B.in time C.on purpose D.on schedule 18.A.chance B.story C.signal D.relief 19.A.scene B.reality C.past D.situation 20.A.prepared B.waited C.cared D.fought
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 The fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral de Paris has raised questions about the condition of thousands of other cathedrals and historic 1. (structure) across Europe. It also raises questions about whether European government are doing enough 2. (keep) up and care for such buildings. Tibor Navracsics, the European Union’s top cultural official, told The Associated Press that “we are so used to our outstanding cultural heritage in Europe that we tend to forget that it 3. (need) constant care and attention.” Some people say the fire was a wake-up call, not just for Europe,4. for the whole world. Large fires have long robbed humanity 5. knowledge, art and treasures. In 2015, the German engineering company Siemens 6. (find) that Scotland had about ten damaging fires a year, while England lost at least a dozen listed buildings a year. In Germany, seventy historic buildings have been 7. (heavy) damaged since 2000. Experts say that 8. is needed is continuous attention and maintenance. Some say world-famous monuments like Notre-Dame are the 9. (drive) force behind tourism and should get more respect. Sneska Quaedvlieg-Mihailovic, who heads the heritage group Europa Nostra, noted the 10. (important) of such respect. “Cultural heritage is a gold mine. You cannot exploit it and then just leave the mine and go to another one.” She said.
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假定英语老师上课要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。 修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在横线下面写出修改后的词。 注意：1. 每处错误及其修改仅限一词。 2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。 Last month, I took part in a volunteer activity in a village. We start off by bus at 9 o’clock. After three-hour bus ride, we saw the village surrounded by hills. It was very difficult to drive on the rocky road, but we got off the bus and walked there. The villagers standing by the road welcomed us warm. Cooked with those vegetables grow by the villagers, the lunch was tasted delicious. After lunch, we played game with the village children. Then they visited an old man living alone on the hillside. We sang a few songs, what made him really happy. I think when doing volunteer work, you help others and you gain happiness for return.
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假如你是李华，你的英国朋友Peter得知你所在的城市将举办一个中学生艺术作品展览会，特来信询问你相关事宜。请给他回信，内容包括： 1. 展览的时间和地点； 2. 展览内容； 3. 参观时的注意事项。 注意：1.词数100左右； 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 参考词汇：艺术作品展览会 art exhibition ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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