The Good Gym was created by Ivo Gormley, 29, who discovered that combining a weekly run with a visit to a housebound（足不出户的）friend of the family was just the inspiration he needed to keep him exercising. It helped that his elderly friend was a former boxer who could offer training tips. As Gormley did his suggested sit-ups, he thought about this: how few people have the time or energy to volunteer and yet use gyms to burn off energy, and how little dialogue there is between working people and the elderly.
Through working with charities and local community centers, the Good Gym matches runners with an individual（个人的）coach 一 a housebound elderly person who would like a regular visitor. They are encouraged to take a newspaper or a modest gift to the value of £1.
Cawley, 38, a hairdresser, heard about the Good Gym through Twitter. "It seemed such a great idea," she said. It took four months for her to be checked by the Criminal Records Bureau・ Then she got Mulcahy to run to, based on the distance she requested.
Having a break in her running works well from a training point of view: she does a speed run to Mulcahy's house, rests there, then does a more gentle, warm-down jog on the way home. Cawley is from Stockport and has no grandparents in London, so she enjoys chatting to her elderly coach. While the Good Gym advises runners to stay for about 10 minutes, Cawley sometimes chats to Mulcahy for an hour. Although he has family, and regular visits from professional carers, Cawley thinks he enjoys a visit from someone who does not worry like relatives and is not there out of professional duty. She didn't really know what he thought of "this person turning up and chatting to him” until she told him she was going away on holiday. He said, "I'll really miss you."
1.What inspired Ivo Gormley to start the Good Gym?
A.His elderly coach's advice.
B.People's care for the elderly.
C.His own personal experience.
D.People's craziness about sports.
2.What was Cawley's attitude towards the Good Gym?
A.Unclear. B.Supportive. C.Doubtful. D.Unconcerned.
3.Why did Mulcahy enjoy Cawley's regular visits?
A.The visiting time of Cawley is longer.
B.Cawley treated him like her granddad.
C.The care from Cawley is very professional.
D.He felt more comfortable with Cawley's visits.
My dad was a farmer in the Midwest and he spent his winters selling insurance. Dad could really talk up anyone and his favorite thing to do was find out their income. Once we were at Chicago's O'Hare airport. Dad was sitting with me as I waited for my flight to Fort Lauderdale. A Russian guy who sat down next to my dad could not speak a word of English but this did not stop my dad. He found out his business, how many children he had and of course how much he made.
I used to be a little embarrassed by this, but I changed later. It was in the last year of dad's life. As I was home visiting with my husband and twins and I was in the car with my mom, she told me a story about how she was in the doctor's office with dad and how he was his usual self-talking away to the others in the waiting room. She said he started talking to this young man in a wheel chair who could not talk, could not move his arms or head, really couldn't do anything. But dad was asking questions and got the young man to smile in response. And he carried on like that with the disabled man till he was called back to the doctor's office. When the young man and his father got up to see the doctor, the father of the young man came over and shook my dad's hands and said, "Thank you for speaking to my son. Most people just turn away when they see him.''
My father ended up dying later that month, a sudden heart attack. Fortunately, all the 9 children of his had been home that summer to visit. I told this story at his funeral（葬礼）. Truly, my dad was one who never knew a stranger.
1.What was the author's dad most interested in when talking with strangers?
A.What fields they worked in.
B.What insurance they bought.
C.How much they made yearly.
D.How many children they had.
2.The young man's father thanked the author's dad for .
A.calling in the doctor in time
B.chatting with his disabled son
C.comforting the other patients
D.teaching his disabled son to smile
3.Why did the author tell the story mentioned in Paragraph 2 at her dad's funeral?
A.To well remember her dad.
B.To entertain the whole family.
C.To introduce her dad's business.
D.To change strangers, opinion of her dad.
阅读下面短文,根据所给情节进行续写,使之构成一个完整的故事。
An 80-year-old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45-year-old highly educated son．Suddenly a crow perched on their window．
The father asked his son, "What is this？"The son replied, "It is a crow．"
After a few minutes, the father asked his son for the second time, "What is this？"The son said, "Father, I have just now told you, it's a crow!"
After a little while, the old father again asked his son for the third time, "What is this？"
At this time some expression of irritation was felt in the son's tone when he said to his father with a rebuff．"It's a crow, a crow．"A little while later, the father again asked his son the fourth time, "What is this？"
This time, the son shouted at his father, "Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again, although I have told you so many times‘IT IS A CROW'．Are you not able to understand this？"
A little later the father went to his room and came back with an old tattered diary, which he had maintained since his son was born．On opening a page, he asked his son to read that page. When the son read it, the following words were written in the diary：
注意：
1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2.至少使用5个短文中有下划线的关键词语；
3.续写部分分为两段,每段的开头语已为你写好；
4.续写完成后,请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, ____________________________________
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After reading the diary, the son _______________________________________________________________
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假定你是高一学生李华，疫情期间你的同学lily出现发热和咳嗽症状而感到无助和害怕，请你代表全班同学给此时处于焦虑和郁闷中的他写一封英文慰问信。
要点如下：1. 对其表示关心和同情。2. 对其表示安慰并提供帮助。3. 表达愿望和祝福。
注意：1. 词数80左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Lily,
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Yours,
Li Hua
I was 11 years old when asked my mom for piano lessons in 2010. We were in the fallout of the recession(经济衰退). She said a polite “no”.
That didn’t stop me. I googled the measurements for a keyboard, drew the keys on a piece of paper and stuck it on my desk. I would click _______on an online keyboard and “play” them back on my paper one - keeping the _______they made on the computer in my head. I spent six months playing without touching a real piano. Once my mom saw that I was _______, she borrowed money and bought me 10 lessons.
I still remember the first one. I was _______by how real the sound of the piano was. I sat my grade one after eight lessons. Once I started secondary school, we couldn’t _______lessons again. I passed grade three, then grade five, practicing only on my piece of paper.
One evening, When I was about 13, my mom said she had a surprise for me; it was an electronic keyboard, bought with more _______money. It was the first time I’d played for her. She was in shock.
My school didn’t offer music A-level. I found the Purcell School for young musicians. The tryouts(选拔) were _______. Some of the questions _______an estimation (评价) of the composer(作曲家) or when it was written. I felt overwhelmed. To my _______I was offered a place.
At Purcell, I spent two years working as hard as I could. I performed to ________money and saved enough to buy my first piano.
When I left Purcell, I was __________the senior piano prize and senior academic music prize. I am now at the Guildhall School in London. I feel __________: it’s been 10 years since I drew my paper piano, and I’m at one of the world’s __________ music schools.
The irony is that I continue to do a lot of my practice away from the piano: What we call ________ practice. The paper piano helped spark my __________about how music works, the building blocks that form the pieces.
1.A.notes B.lines C.music D.pictures
2.A.shape B.gesture C.move D.sound
3.A.careless B.serious C.modest D.kind
4.A.beaten B.struck C.amused D.entertained
5.A.receive B.accept C.afford D.teach
6.A.paid B.used C.chosen D.borrowed
7.A.easy B.difficult C.wonderful D.ugly
8.A.involved B.reminded C.collected D.kicked
9.A.regret B.sorrow C.amazement D.sadness
10.A.raise B.give C.donate D.deliver
11.A.lent B.rewarded C.awarded D.achieved
12.A.relaxed B.excited C.merciful D.proud
13.A.conducting B.performing C.leading D.multiplying
14.A.physical B.mental C.social D.practical
15.A.enthusiasm B.self-respect C.confidence D.self-control
Great friendships made over time
What kind of relationship do you think will provide you with more life satisfaction, better health and complete happiness? 1. A familial (家庭的) one? Surprisingly, the answer is friendship.
However, it’s not possible to have true friends without first making regular friends. Have you ever thought about how long it takes to turn an acquaintance (认识的人) into a true friend? 2. According to lead study author Jeffrey Hall, we need to spend at least 80 hours with another person to create a true friendship with them.
3. One group consisted of 429 adults who had recently relocated (搬家), while the other was made up of 112 freshmen from the University of Kansas. The results showed that the more time each person spent together, the faster friendship formed in both groups. But it seemed that Hall wasn’t satisfied with the result. 4. According to the survey, “casual” friends are generally formed after spending about 30 hours together. And people will go from casual friends to regular friends after another 50 hours. However, it takes a lot longer to get really close to someone: A “close” friendship takes about 140 hours to create and “best friends” need about 300 hours.
But spending time together isn’t the only factor (元素) when it comes to making friends. “It’s not so important to just be in the company of someone… 5.,” Since time is precious, Hall suggested taking advantage of our school years by making as many friends as we can.
A.Watch a movie together ?
B.It matters how you spend the time.
C.Hall surveyed two groups as they began new chapters in their lives.
D.A romantic relationship?
E.You can engage (参与) in friendly competition by playing video games.
F.A new study published recently might have the answer to that question.
G.He wanted to find out exactly how many hours it takes to form a friendship.
