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It’s surprising how we spend our lives. Reach your 78th birthday and according to some back-of-the-envelope 1. (calculate) , and you will have spent nine of those years 2. (watch) television, four years driving a car, 92 days on the toilet, and so on.
But when 3. comes to time-consuming activities, there’s one that sits head and shoulders above them all.4. (live) to 78, and you may have spent around 25 years asleep. In an effort 5. (regain) some of that time it’s reasonable to ask: how long can we stay 6. (wake) – and what are the consequences of going without sleep?
Any healthy individual 7. (plan) to find out through personal experimentation will find it tough going. If we ignore all these side effects and stay up 8. days on end, our minds become insane（精神错乱的）. We get moody, paranoid（偏执狂的）, and see things that 9. (be) really there. When a shadowy apparition(幽灵) appears on the roadway, so the advice goes, it’s time to pull the lorry over. “People start to hallucinate（幻觉） and go 10. bit crazy,” says Atul Malhotra, the Director of Sleep Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.
Kobe Bryant was at the peak of his career in 2013, controlling the court by spinning, shooting and scoring. Then suddenly, as he tried to use his way around a defensive guard, he started to limp and ____ . Before the game ended, Bryant fell again, and could ____ walk.
“I remember feeling the silence and ____ . This can be the end,” Bryant ____ in his documentary. His fears were ____ founded. He had ruptured（断裂）his left Achilles tendon（跟腱）. The kind of injury ____ US All-Star player Isiah Thomas’career.
Saying farewell to a sport you love is hard. ____ Bryant took an even harder, more painful route: His goodbye lasted for nearly three year. Seven months after his injury, he was back on the ____ again. But his performance never recovered. Bryant ____ the Lakers as the team and set a record with three season losses. Over the course of this season, he got the ____ rate for shooting accuracy in the league.
But for many, Bryant ____ a legend. He started out as a basketball gift who ____ college and took his talents directly to NBA. Fans remember him as the player who helped the Lakers ____ five NBA championships. However, the ____ fact is that the Lakers may have been better off if Kobe played less this season. Last month, they won a game ____ the Golden State Warriors. Bryant spent the fourth quarter of that game ____ on the bench. But the team has otherwise efforted to thank him for decades of ____ . As teammate D’Angelo Russell told CBS, their job this season is to “ ____ Kobe the ball”.
Bryant’s ____ game is scheduled for April 13 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. For Bryant, the ____ is bitter and sweet.
1.A.rise B.fall C.climb D.stand
2.A.barely B.steadily C.totally D.smoothly
3.A.worry B.concern C.fear D.happiness
4.A.recalled B.retold C.reminded D.responded
5.A.badly B.well C.easily D.fully
6.A.ended B.began C.ignored D.lost
7.A.And B.So C.But D.Or
8.A.family B.team C.group D.court
9.A.won B.led C.lost D.taught
10.A.best B.worst C.greatest D.smallest
11.A.remains B.has C.needs D.works
12.A.went B.sent C.skipped D.left
13.A.lose B.win C.cancel D.ignore
14.A.happy B.frightening C.sad D.exciting
15.A.for B.in C.at D.against
16.A.waiting B.resting C.standing D.leaning
17.A.service B.labor C.job D.failure
18.A.handle B.hand C.keep D.leave
19.A.final B.wonderful C.early D.lasting
20.A.wish B.desire C.occasion D.secret
The biggest complaint I hear is, “I don’t have enough time.” Trust me — I get it! So here are five simple tips to keep you consistently working out.
1. Schedule it.
1. I mean it. Open up your calendar and schedule it into your day. This makes sure you do have the time each day.
2. Keep your scheduled appointment.
Now that your exercise is scheduled, keep your appointment!2. Your health and happiness is just as important as any other appointment. Honour yourself.
3. Exercise first thing in the morning.
Most of us don’t have business meetings and doctors’ appointments at 5:30 a.m. This is prime time to get your workouts done.3. But after two weeks you get used to it. I promise!
4. Mix up your workouts.
Day one, do a HIIT workout. Day two, lift heavy weights. Day three, increase joint mobility with yoga. Boredom is one of the biggest reasons why people don't stick with an exercise program. Don’t wake up and run every day. 4..
5. Make it fun.
The more fun you have while exercising, the more likely you are to do it. On weekends go for a long bike ride or hike with your family. Or, do your normal exercise routine with your family.5. I also do yoga once a week with my husband. We look forward to this date.
There you have it – five simple tips to keep workouts consistent（坚持）. The better the consistency, the better the results!
A. You have got to mix it up.
B. Don't change it or schedule it again.
C. On the weekends I work out with my girls.
D. Busy people must schedule their workouts.
E. I hardly spare a day to relax during a week.
F. You had better force yourself to work out each day.
G. I understand morning workouts sound cruel to most people.
I was sitting in a fast food restaurant with my two children, who at the time were about 6 and 9. Inside there was also a group of teens in goth（粗野的）dress and appearance. Everyone kept away from them inside the restaurant.
Outside the restaurant, the same people jumped past the homeless man searching the garbage bin, who was looking for food or perhaps a cigarette. I too had rushed past him with my youngsters, refusing his request for money but thinking maybe, just maybe, I would bring him some food. It turns out I didn't have to.
One of the goth youths jumped up, went to the counter and ordered more food, which she then took outside to the homeless man and sat on the bench with him, chatting away as he ate. He didn’t say much — he was greedy — but I think I saw a bit of a smile and a glint in his eyes as he nodded to her questions.
Writing this now, several years later I still choke up. That girl was a model citizen living the values of goodness and kindness. These are values I have always held high and hoped to teach my kids. She made my job much easier. We stopped by on our way out and thanked her for setting such a positive example for us. I hope that hearing that made as much of a difference in her life as seeing what she did has made to ours.
1.Why did people keep away form the teens in the fast food restaurant?
A.Because they were dressed in goth dress and appearance.
B.Because they were too young to pay their meal.
C.Because they liked to quarreled with others.
D.Because they killed two children.
2.What did the man want the author to do?
A.Help him get money. B.Bring him some food.
C.Provide him for money. D.Refuse to take care of him.
3.What word can the underlined word “glint” mean in paragraph 3?
A.flash B.gloom
C.surprise D.happiness
4.What can we learn about the author from the passage?
A.The author is also a model citizen like the girl.
B.The author sets a good example for the girl.
C.The author is deeply moved by the girl.
D.The author has sympathy for the girl.
Darshan Karwat is making headlines for having maintained an incredibly plain and continued lifestyle during his student years. The man gave up fast food, new clothes, and even toilet paper, until he got to a point where his trash（垃圾）for an entire year fit in just two plastic bags!
Karwat, who is originally from India, started the trash-free experiment when he lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and managed to keep it going for two and a half years. In the first year, he produced only 7.5 pounds of trash, and in the second year, he brought that number down to 6 pounds, which is a mind-blowing 0.4 percent of the 1,500 pounds of yearly trash produced by the average American.
Looking back, Karwat says that his inspiration to start the project came from a radio show The Story, on which he heard of a British couple who lived trash-free.
His trash mostly consisted of a few chip bags, glass milk-bottle caps, fruit stickers, and broken glass. He obviously had to make lots of sacrifices to achieve this – he stopped buying any kind of packaged food including cheeses, only drank milk from recycled glass bottles, and gave up on buying new clothes or stuff for his home – no gadgets, furniture, or even cups. He began carrying his own fork, spoon, plate, and a bowl everywhere he went, just to avoid plastic cutlery（餐具）.
“I needed to change the way I lived, and I had to get creative,” he added. “When a restaurant furnished a napkin-wrapped（包纸的）fork and knife, I asked the server to change them for cutlery without the napkin. I’d remember to say “No straw!” after asking for water and to make sure the veggie（素食者）burger I ordered didn’t come with a wooden pick holding it together. I did what I had to do, and it was awkward.”
1.What is the passage mainly about?
A.How a person inspires others
B.How Darshan Karwat gets famous.
C.Darshan Karwat and his no trash experiment.
D.A plain and sustainable lifestyle attracts the public.
2.Why did Darshan Karwat have the idea of living trash-free?
A.Because he is from India.
B.Because he has been in university.
C.Because he heard a story on the radio.
D.Because a British couple reminded to do so.
3.What did Karwat buy when he was making no-trash experiment?
A.Cheeses. B.Furniture.
C.Milk. D.Gadgets.
4.What Karwat said in the last paragraph shows that .
A.he seldom went to a restaurant
B.it wasn’t convenient to live the life
C.the server seemed cold to him
D.he was proud of what he had been doing
Taking breaks while studying contributes to better learning in a number of ways, and creates a major impact on the process of learning. Find out why a study break is essential, and how it helps you score the best.
Scientists conclude that the brain stops registering a constant stimulation over a gradual period of time, and declares it to be unimportant. The brain decodes（译）a monotonous（单调的）activity and gets habituated to it, no longer stimulating the brain to act in any way. Once this happens, you find yourself unable to concentrate, there by destroying the purpose of a study session-learning. A “break” does just that, it breaks the monotony for the brain. A change in place, a walk around the block, a cup of coffee; these little things can be limited in your study sessions to relax the mind, break the monotony, improve concentration levels, and finally assist the learning process.
The purpose of a study session is to study as much as possible and remember most of what has been learned in it. To be able to achieve this, it is absolutely necessary to continuously stay focused. It is highly likely that long hours of studying can become monotonous and cause you to believe that you are “learning”, when you are only just “reading”. A short rest eases out your stressed mind, brings you back on track, and allows you to start studying with new-found focus levels.
With a relaxed mind, improved concentration and focus levels, and a better capacity to retain information, it is obvious that your study session with breaks will turn out to be more productive, and you will get more benefits than you previously did. Put more such better-yielding study sessions together, and what do you get? perfect grades and a winner of the “race”.
1.What can the underlined word “habituated” in the second paragraph be replaced by?
A.Accustomed. B.Absorbed.
C.Attached. D.Related.
2.What should students do to study as much as possible?
A.Help each other. B.Remain concentrated.
C.Improve ways of learning. D.Give up the learning process.
3.If you have a good attitude to study, how your study will be?
A.Efficient. B.Improved. C.Interesting. D.Easy.
4.What can be concluded from the passage?
A.Students should concentrate on their study.
B.Students should take breaks after learning for long hours.
C.Teachers had better have a good rest before their lessons.
D.Teachers had better be strict with their students in learning ways.
