Question

Don’t Take the Fun Out of Youth Sports

When I joined a private football league a few years ago, the sport meant everything to me. My coach(教練) said that I had lots of potential(潛力), and I became captain of my ___36___. That was before all the fun was taken out of ___37___.

At first, everyone on the team got ___38___ playing time. Then the team moved up to the top division after winning all its games, and the ___39___ started. Some parents, who had paid the coach extra so their daughters could have ___40___one-on-one training, got angry when she didn’t give them more playing time in our ___41___. The coach was replaced.

The new coach, however, took all the fun out of the game. All we did during practice was ___42___. I always wished to God that it would rain so we would not have the ___43___. Of course, all teams run drills; they are ___44___. But we ran so much that, afterwards, we had trouble ___45___. Younger people shouldn’t be doing exercises ___46___ for 18-year-olds.

I was very thin ___47___ I started football, but as a member of this team I wouldn’t eat much, because I was afraid of being too ___48___ to run. I feared making mistakes, and the added pressure caused me to make more than my usual ___49___.

Is all this pressure necessary? I ___50___ up leaving the football team. Four other girls did the same, and two of them stopped playing football completely. That’s ___51___, because they had so much potential. They were just burned-out with all the pressure they ___52___ from the coach or their parents.

I continued playing football at school and ___53___ my love for it. I joined a private team coached by my school coach. When I started playing ___54___ him, he told me I needed to relax because I looked nervous. After I ___55___ down, I played better. When you enjoy something, it’s a lot easier to do it well.

36. A. class     B. club    C. team   D. board

37. A. playing B. living  C. learning     D. working

38. A. great    B. equal  C. right   D. extra

39. A. business       B. struggle      C. attempt      D. pressure

40. A. free      B. private       C. good   D. basic

41. A. matches       B. courses       C. lessons       D. programs

42. A. jump    B. play    C. run     D. shoot

43. A. duty     B. meeting      C. operation    D. training

44. A. necessary     B. boring C. scientific    D. practical

45. A. speaking      B. moving      C. sleeping     D. breathing

46. A. used     B. intended     C. made  D. described

47. A. till       B. since   C. before D. because

48. A. full      B. tired   C. lazy    D. big

49. A. size      B. share   C. space  D. state

50. A. gave     B. kept    C. ended  D. picked

51. A. sad       B. shameful    C. silly    D. serious

52. A. received       B. suffered     C. brought      D. felt

53. A. reconsidered B. rediscovered      C. reformed    D. replaced

54. A. at  B. by      C. for      D. around

55. A. fell       B. stepped      C. slowed       D. calmed

Answer 1

36---55      CABDB   ACDAD   BCABC   ADBCD          

解析:

36. C。由第一段第一句知作者參加的是一個(gè)足球隊(duì)，球隊(duì)用team，captain of my team“球隊(duì)隊(duì)長(zhǎng)”。

37. A。由選項(xiàng)和第一段的內(nèi)容可知需要填一個(gè)動(dòng)名詞與football搭配，

38. B。從本段倒數(shù)第二句“有些家長(zhǎng)想讓教練多給自己的孩子一些上場(chǎng)的時(shí)間”可反推出剛開(kāi)始大家的機(jī)會(huì)均等。

39. D。pressure“壓力”。下文講了來(lái)自父母、教練的壓力，從第五段第一句和最后一句也可得到啟示。

40. B。one-on-one training的意思是一對(duì)一的個(gè)別輔導(dǎo)，其主語(yǔ)their daughters，即那些給過(guò)教練好處的隊(duì)員，private“私人的，個(gè)人的”比good“好的”更能體現(xiàn)這一層關(guān)系。

41. A。從their daughters could have private one-on-one training可知那些父母的孩子已經(jīng)在訓(xùn)練中得到了更多的指導(dǎo)，所以那些父母不可能為訓(xùn)練生氣，排除B 、C、D。

42. C。從該空后面的內(nèi)容可推知他們的訓(xùn)練只是跑步。

43. D。這一段講的是訓(xùn)練枯燥無(wú)味，所以“我”總是祈禱上帝下雨的目自然是中止訓(xùn)練。

44. A。由句前的Of course可知作者這里在承認(rèn)跑步訓(xùn)練是必要的，也為下一句的轉(zhuǎn)折呼應(yīng)。

45. D。本句用的是so…that句型，表示結(jié)果，跑得太多的結(jié)果是上氣不接下氣。

46. B。非謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞做定語(yǔ)，be intended for“專門為……而設(shè)計(jì)”，意思是不應(yīng)該讓青少年進(jìn)行適合成人的運(yùn)動(dòng)。

47. C。從句意上排除A、B、D三項(xiàng)。

48. A。這里考的是too…to…，“太飽而不能跑步”，這是作者不能多吃的原因。

49. B。share有分擔(dān)的意思，這里指分內(nèi)的事。

50. C。give up doing“放棄做某事”；keep up something“保持”；pick up something“拾起，學(xué)到”；end up“告終，結(jié)束”，因?yàn)楦鞣N壓力作者最終不得不離開(kāi)這支球隊(duì)，C項(xiàng)最合適。

51. A。有潛力的隊(duì)員卻完全停止了踢球這是多么可惜的事。sad“令人悲傷的,令人難過(guò)的”；shameful“可恥的”；silly“傻的”；serious“嚴(yán)重的”，四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中sad最貼近文意。

52. D。這里需要填的是the pressure在從句中的謂語(yǔ)，從句的主語(yǔ)they指的是退役的隊(duì)員，他們不是壓力的帶來(lái)者，排除C；正因?yàn)樗麄儾辉敢饨邮芤彩懿涣诉@種壓力才選擇離開(kāi)，排除A；suffer后要加from。

53. B。reconsider“重新考慮”；rediscover“重新發(fā)現(xiàn)”；reform“改革”；replace“代替”。R這一段講的就是作者如何重新找到對(duì)足球的喜愛(ài)的，所以選rediscover。

54. C。此題用排除法，by 和around都有在……旁邊的意思，要選都要選，排除，play at后接游戲名，是做……游戲的意思，排除。

55. D 。calm down是鎮(zhèn)定下來(lái)，平靜下來(lái)，意思與教練的話相符。