Money, or the lack of it, changes everything, and that includes how people will be working out in 2010.
In these belt-tightening times 1 , cost-conscious workouts(锻炼)at home and at the gym topped the list of fitness trends for this year in a survey, followed 2 by shorter, more time-efficient regimens, such as 3 boot camp(强力集中训练) and circuit training.
"People are looking 4 for ways to accomplish as much as possible with as little 5 time and money as necessary," said Cedric X. Bryant, chief science officer of the American Council on Exercise (ACE), which conducted the online poll of fitness professionals.
"Last year money was on the list but this 6 year the majority of the respondents put 7 it as one of the top," he added.
Bryant said some 600 ACE-certified fitness 8 professionals responded to the annual poll 9 , which the non-profit organization has been conducting for a decade.
Other money-saving measures 10 , such as the shift from personal training sessions to small group training 11 classes and in-home workouts 12 using smaller, more portable equipment, also made the list.
"Personal trainers are seeing they've got to respond to market needs 13 . Working with two to four clients at a 14 time they can charge less 15 but still get their hourly fee," Bryant said.
Boot-camp workouts and circuit training, both of which burn 16 calories while building strength and endurance(持久性), will be among the most popular trends in 2010, as time-constrained(受压制的) consumers 17 seek shorter, more intense activities.
One bright spot is the rise of exergaming-type systems, like Nintendo's Wii Sports, Wii Fit and the PC-based Dancetown. Bryant says the fitness-based video games are turning up 18 in health clubs and senior centers.
Functional training workouts, which are geared to improving the quality of life and the ability to perform everyday tasks, will remain strong 19 , and the use of computerized tracking and online training and scheduling tools will increase 20 in the coming year.
( ) 1. A. times B. years C. centuries D. societies
( ) 2. A. caught B. followed C. covered D. conducted
( ) 3. A. such like B. in other words C. such as D. that is to say
( ) 4. A. taking B. developing C. opening D. looking
( ) 5. A. little B. much C. many D. few
( ) 6. A. that B. next C. this D. previous
( ) 7. A. manage B. put C. try D. organize
( ) 8. A. medicine B. train C. economy D. fitness
( ) 9. A. poll B. conference C. observation D. reception
( ) 10. A. measures B. procedures C. policies D. systems
( ) 11. A. speaking B. training C. exercising D. processing
( ) 12. A. work B. workouts C. rest D. race
( ) 13. A. changes B. prices C. needs D. habits
( ) 14. A. some B. no C. any D. a
( ) 15. A. less B. fewer C. more D. much
( ) 16. A. produce B. burn C. cut D. add
( ) 17. A. professionals B. students C. consumers D. trainers
( ) 18. A. turning up B. turning down C. turning around D. turning out
( ) 19. A. weak B. useful C. strong D. possible
( ) 20. A. decrease B. appear C. increase D. want
It was black in the evening. Andy, a 12-year-old boy was unwilling to go outside. But his mother, Lilly, was worried about his father and 36 he go.
About an hour ago, the husband said he had to 37 his car outside their house. ___38 enough, it seemed that the wife hadn’t heard a single 39 for a long time.
“Go and have a look. What on earth is he doing?” she said to Andy.
The boy walked out and called into the darkness “Dad?”
“Andy?” 40 was his father, who spoke slowly, in a strange way. Actually, his voice sounded 41 .
That evening, when the man had to get 42 the car to fix it, he used a forklift to lift the car. 43 , the man didn’t place the blocks in front of the car’ s front tires to keep it from 44 forward off the forks, which was exactly 45 it did afterwards.
Little Andy saw his dad’s feet 46 out from beneath the car. 47 to take a full breath, his father sank into a sleepy, half-alive 48 .
“Keep calm, mum. Everything will be all right.” The boy 49 the scared mother.
He climbed on and tried to do something to help. Finally, the car started to come off the ground and hung in the 50 .
After a few minutes, the policemen were sent for. Luckily, the father, who 51 under the car, could still breathe, alive.
It wasn’t 52 his dad was carried into an ambulance heading for the hospital that the little boy 53 and couldn’t help crying.
Andy says one satisfying change has come out of the 54 : he is able to spend more time with his dad, who hasn’t touched a car 55 his car fell on him.
A.stated B.demanded C.declared D.announced
A.clean B.buy C.fix D.sell
A.Strangely B.Interestingly C.Fortunately D.Naturally
A.word B.voice C.noise D.sound
A.He B.This C.There D.It
A.usual B.different C.calm D.upset
A.into B.onto C.beneath D.above
A.Somehow B.Anyhow C.Somewhat D.Anyway
A.sinking B.rolling C.driving D.running
A.what B.how C.why D.which
A.bringing B.moving C.sticking D.taking
A.Unable B.Unlikely C.Likely D.Able
A.circumstance B.environment C.state D.position
A.encouraged B.comforted C.required D.persuaded
A.shade B.sky C.wind D.air
A.slept B.sat C.stood D.lay
A.until B.unless C.when D.while
A.broke out B.broke down C.broke up D.broke off
A.matter B.affair C.accident D.event
A.after B.before C.when D.since
Sometimes, people are required to fill in personal information when they register online, which may lead to some unexpected trouble. Recently, the BBC is reporting that a 17-year-old girl in Australia posted a(n) 36 of her grandmother at home counting a large sum of cash that she 37 hidden in the house. Just eight hours later, two armed men 38 the girl’s house. They demanded to speak to her to find out where the grandmother’s house was, 39 they could get the money they had seen. 40 , the girl was not home at the time, so the robbers 41a small amount of cash from the mother and left.
Because the 42 is still under investigation, local police aren’t saying 43 else about it. It’s not known yet whether the girl had used privacy setting on the Facebook profile page, and even whether the robbers 44 the girl in the past.
Two other 45 were at home then, a 58-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy, the girl’s father and brother. Luckily, no one was 46 . The robbers left peacefully after 47 that the girl was not home and that no one else there knew anything about the 48 that had appeared in the photo.
Police in both Britain and Australia are using the case to 49 citizens of the dangers of posting personal information on social networks and to suggest users of websites 50 doing so. The police say it is 51 that the girl posted a comment in the past that gave clues to the address, 52 that the robbers knew the girl in another way. 53 , they suggest, a posting by a friend on their site could have 54 such information. To find it, the robbers would only have had to search for those posting on other pages that 55 the girl’s name.
A.picture B.story C.blog D.video
A.kept B.made C.let D.got
A.knocked at B.looked at C.broke into D.ran into
A.even if B.so that C.as soon as D.in case
A.Usually B.Suddenly C.Fortunately D.Finally
A.spent B.left C.asked D.took
A.robber B.family C.case D.girl
A.few B.many C.little D.much
A.ignored B.knew C.remembered D.followed
A.members B.adults C.characters D.neighbors
A.escaped B.harmed C.killed D.buried
A.showing B.realizing C.discovering D.recognizing
A.cash B.grandmother C.house D.website
A.inform B.accuse C.rob D.warn
A.enjoy B.stop C.keep D.consider
A.possible B.important C.necessary D.strange
A.so B.or C.and D.but
A.Besides B.However C.Therefore D.Instead
A.taken up B.set up C.put away D.given away
A.included B.drew C.contained D.attracted
The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during the break .She seemed so small as she pushed her way __36__ the crowd of boys on the playground . She___37__ from them all.
I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing __38__.She would practice dribbling(运球)and shooting over and over again, sometimes until __39__. One day I asked her __40__ she practiced so much. She looked __41__in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation she said, "I want to go to college. The only way I can __42__ is that if I get a scholarship, I am going to play college basketball. I want to be __43__. My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count."
Well, I had to give it in to her--- she was __44__.One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head __45_ in her arms. I walked toward her and quietly asked what was _46___. "Oh, nothing," came a soft reply. "I'm just too short." The coach told her that at her height she would probably __47__get to play for a top ranked team,__48__offered a scholarship. So she _49___stop dreaming about college.
She was __50___ and I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just didn't __51__ the power of a dream. He told her __52__she really wanted to play for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship, __53___could stop her except one thing-- her own attitude. He told her again," if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count."
The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college recruiter(招聘人员). She was indeed offered a __54__ .She was going to get the college education that she had __55___and worked toward for all those years.
A.across B.through C.over D.into
A.brought out B.showed out C.stood out D.worked out
A.only B.lonely C.simply D.alone
A.dark B.dawn C.midnight D.daybreak
A.how B.when C.why D.what
A.worriedly B.shyly C.quietly D.directly
A.go B.get C.enter D.attend
A.worse B.better C.the best D.the worst
A.encouraged B.determined C.fixed D.fascinated
A.covered B.enclosed C.dropped D.buried
A.the affair B.the matter C.matter D.the wrong
A.ever B.even C.once D.never
A.far more B.much less C.much fewer D.many more
A.should B.must C.can D.may
A.overjoyed B.moved C.embarrassed D.heartbroken
A.understand B.experience C.learn D.believe
A.even if B.as if C.that if D.only if
A.anything B.nothing C.something D.everything
A.prize B.medal C.scholarship D.position
A.dreamed of B.accepted C.thought of D.appreciated
In the clinic, I asked if Michael could be retested, so the specialist tested him again. To my 16 , it was the same score.
Later that evening, I 17 told Frank what I had learned that day. After talking it over, we agreed that we knew our son much better than an IQ test. We decided that Michael’s score must have been a 18 and we should treat him 19 as usual.
We moved to Indiana in 1962, and Michael studied at Concordia High School in the same year, he got 20 grades in the school, especially in biology and chemistry, which was a great comfort.
Michael 21 Indiana University in 1965 as a pre-medical student. Soon afterwards, his teacher permitted him to take more courses than 22 . In 1968, he was accepted by the School of Medicine, Yale University.
On graduation day in 1972, Frank and I 23 the ceremony (典礼) at Yale. After the ceremony, we told Michael about the 24 IQ score he got when he was six. Since that day, Michael sometimes would look at us and say 25 , “My dear mom and dad never told me that I couldn’t be a doctor, not until after I graduated from medical school!” It is his special way of thanking us for the 26 we had in him.
Interestingly, Michael then asked for another IQ test. We went to the same clinic where he had 27 the test eighteen years before. This time Michael scored 126, an increase of 36 points. A result like that was supposed to be 28 .
Children often do as well as what adults, particularly parents and teachers, 29 of them. That is, tell a child he is “ 30 ” , and he may play the role of a foolish child.
A.joy B.surprise C.dislike D.disappointment
A.tearfully B.fearfully C.cheerfully D.hopefully
A.joke B.mistake C.warning D.wonder
A.specially B.strictly C.naturally D.carefully
A.poor B.good C.average D.standard
A.visited B.entered C.passed D.chose
A.allowed B.described C.required D.offered
A.missed B.held C.delayed D.attended
A.high B.same C.low D.different
A.curiously B.eagerly C.calmly D.jokingly
A.confidence B.interest C.pride D.delight
A.received B.accepted C.organized D.discussed
A.imperfect B.impossible C.uncertain D.unsatisfactory
A.hear B.learn C.expect D.speak
A.wise B.rude C.shy D.stupid
A student went to college after 41__ all his school examinations. There he put his name down for world geography. 42_ after the first day, he did not go to 43_ any more. The teacher noticed that this student was 44_ absent and thought that he had changed to 45 class. He was very 46_ when he saw the boy's name on the list(名单) of students 47_ wanted to take the geography examination 48_ the end of the year.
The teacher had prepared a difficult examination paper, which covered 49 he had taught, and he was eager to see 50 this student answered the questions. He expected that his answers would be very 51_; but when he examined his paper carefully, he found only one small mistake in them. 52_ this surprised him very much, he went through the paper 53_, but was still not able to find 54 one mistake, so he sent 55 the student to question him about his work after the exam..
When the student had 56 the room, the teacher said to him, “I know that you came to my class only once on the first day and that you have been absent from all the others. Yet I have found only one small mistake in your paper. 57_ is that?”
“Oh, I'm sorry about that mistake, sir, ”answered the student. “After the examination, I realized 58 I ought to have written. I would not have made that mistake 59 I had been confused(弄糊涂) by your 60_ lecture.”
A.having B.taking C.passing D.failing
A.So B.But C.However D.And
A.it B.lesson C.college D.class
A.always B.once C.never D.sometimes
A.another B.the other C.other D.others
A.angry B.happy C.sorry D.surprised
A.that he B.he C.who D.whom
A.by B.at C.after D.in
A.everything B.something C.anything D.nothing
A.what B.when C.how D.why
A.good B.full C.nice D.bad
A.For B.As C.So D.Though
A.two times B.twice C.once D.again once
A.more than B.another C.the other D.second
A.with B.to C.x D.for
A.reached to B.arrived to C.arrived into D.come into
A.Why B.What C.How D.Which
A.where B.why C.what D.when
A.unless B.if C.because D.as
A.first B.last C.latest D.certain