China may be the world's most populous country ,and it won the most gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. But its prowess at soccer is lamentable. China is ranked 84th in the sport's world standing.
Chinese are huge soccer fans, and hundreds of millions are expected to tune in to the World Cup, with all the matches broadcast live on public TV. But this time the Chinese don't have their own team to root for.
"Chinese have a reputation of being good at math, but they have trouble explaining why a population of 1.3 billion cannot produce a winning 11-member soccer team," said Xu Guoqi, a history professor at the University of Hong Kong. Journalists and soccer fans offer a number of reasons, most often money issues, politics, corruption（腐败）and culture, and sometimes a combination of the four.
Even though China now boasts wealthy companies and individuals who could sponsor（赞助） teams, there is little support as long as Chinese teams are perceived as perennial losers. "This is a very bad circle," Ma said. "No results, no money. No money, no results."
Few Chinese children are playing soccer. Some sports journalists and fans attribute the lack of interest partly to schools de-emphasizing sports in general and the lack of playing venues in the country's dense urban areas. "What can Chinese kids do?” said Fan Huiming, 61, a Chinese soccer fan who grew up watching matches at Beijing's Workers' Stadium, which was built in 1958 near his childhood home. "If they play soccer, the ball may fly directly into the glass of someone's home."
For young people, soccer has largely been eclipsed by basketball, thanks in part to Chinese NBA players who are treated like rock stars. Journalists and fans say NBA's aggressive campaign of marketing and merchandise in China has helped swell the popularity of basketball. By comparison, they noted that international soccer does not even have an office in China.
Rowan Simons, a Briton who came to China more than two decades ago and discovered he wasn't able to play weekend soccer, has been on a campaign to popularize the sport here. Simons said the main problem is that soccer elsewhere has traditionally started as a series of neighborhood clubs, but in China, "there's virtually no football at community level".
"Football in China can only succeed if it's a grass-roots activity organized by the people," he said.
1.This time the Chinese don't have their own team to root for in the World Cup because__________.
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A．China is ranked 84th in soccer 's world standing. |
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B．they are angry about why China cannot produce a winning soccer team. |
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C．the Chinese huge soccer fans support other soccer teams. |
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D．the Chinese soccer team is not capable to go as far as the final part of the World Cup. |
2.Why are few Chinese children playing soccer?
A.No results, no money. No money, no results.
B.If the footballs fly directly into the glass of someone's home,they’ll be criticised.
C there is little support from wealthy companies and individuals sponsoring teams.
D.schools don’t pay much attention on sports and they lack playing venues in dense urban areas.
3.The underlined word“eclipsed”in the six paragraph can be replaced by .
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A．occupied. |
B．beaten. |
C．led. |
D．compared. |
4.According to Rowan,what can be inferred ?
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A．NBA players are more popular than soccer players in China. |
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B．The future of Chinese football is rather promising. |
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C．Chinese football should get into the life of ordinary people to survive. |
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D．Grass-roots Chinese football players can be popular . |
It was shortly before midnight, and Dr Patricia was getting ready for bed. The phone rang on the end of the line was a woman about to break a promise.
The woman was her mother’s neighbor. Flora Harris had made the neighbor swear she wouldn’t tell her daughter she’d had a heart attack and was in the hospital, for fear her daughter would worry. The neighbor wisely decided to disobey orders.
Harris desperately wanted to get to the hospital immediately, but she couldn’t. She lives in Washington, D. C, and her mother lives in California.
For the past year a half, Harris has gone to Los Angeles every other month to take care of her mother. Flora Harris takes care of her husband, James, who’s 91 and has Alzheimer’s disease. They live in their own home, and a caregiver comes to help them a few hours a day.
Harris is one of many Americans facing the heartache of how to take care of aging parents from afar. She’s often worried, not to mention exrtemely busy with a demanding job, two teenage daughters and the frequent trips to California.
In some ways, Harris is lucky. She has the resources to make the trips to Los Angeles. Plus, Harris is a doctor who treats the elderly.
“But it’s still tough,” she says. “I can foresee what the next few years are going to look like, and it’s not a pretty picture. My father’s going to need diapers (尿布). There will come a time when he won’t recognize me and he’s easily excited. I worry he’s going to be violent and hurt my mother.”
So what do you do when you live a continent away from your aging, sick parents? There are no magic answers. You can hire someone to help, but you can’t oursource it completely.
1.Why was the woman thought to have broken a promise?
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A．She failed to take care of Flora. |
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B．She was not supposed to call Harris at midnight. |
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C．She couldn’t go to hospital on time. |
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D．She told Harris about her mother’s illness. |
2.What can we learn about Patricia Harris from the passage?
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A．She thinks it harder to look after her parents the next few years. |
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B．Her parents cannot take of themselves at all. |
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C．She cannot do a demanding job. |
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D．She cannot afford to go to California often. |
3.What does the underlined word “outsource” in the last paragragh mean?
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A．Arrange somebody outside to do a job. |
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B．Work something out by oneself. |
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C．Speak something out for help. |
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D．Understand something. |
4.What’s the main idea of this passage?
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A．Aging people in the USA are increasing. |
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B．The rate of heart disease is high in America. |
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C．It is difficult to tend aging parents from afar. |
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D．Harris advises on tending aging parents from afar. |
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后31-50各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
While my friends went away to their universities in great delight, I restarted my senior high school life. My spirits 31 at the prospect of starting all over again.
32 by strange classmates, I felt as though I was in a maze（迷宫）and felt 33 for my-self. There were some complex feelings in my mind. I was frightened, nervous and lonely.
To make 34 worse, I recalled my failure again and again, 35 put more pressure on me than I could bear. As a result, I was always feeling 36 during class.
One of my teachers noticed my depression and one day he asked me to come to his office, where he told me about his 37 towards life. He said we might 38 from making mistakes, but it’s important to model ourselves into people we 39 . All the growing 40 and the embarrassing things we 41 are parts of the process. We never stop 42 , so learn from it and keep up your spirits up! If you are optimistic, things you want may 43 to you! 44 feelings rushed through me. I 45 saw the sun shining again when I stepped out of his office.
With the teacher’s help, I finally 46 my depression. From then on, I no longer 47 my head but began smiling at my classmates. I put up my hand 48 in class and tried to answer the teacher’s questions correctly.
I 49 have a thirst to go to my dream university, 50 I’m not afraid of failure because I can benefit from it.
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Since there is always a power failure in the town, they have candles_______ in the closet.
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He was looking for his gloves all morning , which turned up_________ under the sofa.
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B．immediately |
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Mr. Wang, a(n)_______editor and writer, is going to attend the conference to be held in Beijing next week.
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B．upper |
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