【VIP专享】课时跟踪检测(二十九) The Great Sports Personality

课时跟踪检测(二十九)　The Great Sports Personality

Ⅰ.单项填空

1．(2014·安徽安庆市一模)—You shouldn’t have told her about the secret!

—________？No one believes her.

A．How come B．What for

C．So what D．What’s up

2．—Is your father a teacher of English in No.1 Middle School?

—No! But he ________ English there for ten years.

A．has taught B．has been teaching

C．taught D．had taught

3．(2014·枣庄模拟)It is none of your business ________ other people think about you. Believe in yourself.

A．how B．what

C．which D．when

4．(2014·潍坊高三模拟)Hard work is no ________ of an excellent school record. You have to adopt a flexible approach to your learning.

A．guarantee B．connection

C．permission D．consequence

5．(2014·枣庄市模拟)Uncertainties affecting peace and development are ________ the increase.

A．on B．with

C．in D．under

6．After he retired, the old man did all he could to protect the old temple from ________.

A．damaging B．to be damaged

C．to be damaging D．being damaged

7．(2014·江西红色六校联考)However frequently ________，the works of Shakespeare always attract many people.

A．performed B．performing

C．being performed D．to be performed

8．(2014·吉林省东北四校协作体联考)It was on the last day ________ a press conference was held by some committee members.

A．where B．that

C．when D．how

9．________ cleaning the doghouse was the last thing I wanted to do, I did it with all my

efforts.

A．Although B．As

C．As long as D．Now that

10．(2014·长春高三调研一)I’ll make some sandwiches, just________ we get hungry later.

A．even if B．as though

C．if only D．in case

Ⅱ.阅读理解

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(2014·湖南省长沙四县一市联考)Had a bad day? Extending your normal exercise routine by a few minutes may be the solution, according to Penn State researchers, who found that people’s satisfaction with life was higher on days when they exercised more than usual.

“We found that people’s satisfaction with life was directly

impacted by their daily physical activity，” said Jaclyn Maher, a graduate

student in kinesiology.“The findings stress the idea that physical

activity is health behavior with important consequences for daily well­being and should be considered when developing national policies to enhance satisfaction with life.”

The team examined the influence of physical activity on satisfaction with life among emerging adults aged 18 to 25 because their sense of well­being appears to worsen more quickly than at any other time during adulthood.

“Emerging adults are going through a lot of changes; they are leaving home for the first time and attending college or starting jobs，” said Maher.“As a result, their satisfaction with life can plummet.We decided to focus on emerging adults because they stand to benefit most from strategies to enhance satisfaction with life.”

The researchers recruited (招收) two groups of college students.The first group, with 190 individuals, entered information into a diary every day for eight days.The second group, with 63 individuals, entered information into a secure website every day for 14 days.Both groups answered questions aimed at determining participants’satisfaction with life, physical activity and self­esteem.

For the second group, the researchers wanted to further investigate whether physical activity was indeed the cause of participants’increased satisfaction with life rather than some other factors such as mental health, tiredness, or body mass index (体质指数)．

“Shifts in depression, anxiety and stress would be expected to influence a person’s satisfaction with life at any given point in time，”said David Conroy, professor of kinesiology.“In addition, tiredness can be a barrier to engaging in physical activity, and a high body mass index associated with being overweight may cause a person to be less satisfied in a