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1、(江苏专用)2016届高考英语一轮复习Unit2Sportsevents课时跟踪检测B卷(必修4)Sports events课时跟踪检测B卷.完形填空(2015扬州中学高三模拟)The mental aspect of athletics is underrated. The common expression,“ athletics are 90 percent _1_and 10 percent physical,” is often used by coaches, and stresses that mindsets make a huge _2_in competitions.“Th
2、e physical aspect of the sport can only take you _3_,” said Olympic gold medalwinning gymnast Shannon Miller during an interview with the Dana Foundation. “The mental aspect has to _4_, especially when youre talking about the best of the best. In the Olympic games, everyone is talented. Everyone _5_
3、hard. Everyone does the work. What _6_the gold medalists from the silver medalists is simply the mental game. ”Many athletes have used the technique of mental imagery, or _7_, to perform at their best. Research on the brain patterns of _8_found that the patterns activated when a weightlifter lifted
4、heavy weights were activated _9_when they simply imagined lifting and some studies have suggested that mental _10_can be almost as effective as physical training. One study, published in the Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology in 1996, found that _11_weight lifting caused _12_changes in muscle ac
5、tivity.“Mental imagery _13_many cognitive(认知的) processes in the brain: motor control,attention, perception, planning, and memory,” researcher Angie LeVan wrote in Psychology Today. “So the _14_is getting trained for actual performance during visualization. Its been found that mental practices can en
6、hance motivation, increase confidence, improve motor performance and _15_your brain for success.”_16_visualizing is more than just thinking about an upcoming event._17_athletes use visualization, they truly feel the event taking place in their minds eye.“During visualization, she incorporates(整合) al
7、l of her _18_into the experience,” sports psychologist Dr. JoAnn Dahlkoetter wrote in a blog post on The Huffington Post _19_a speed skater she works with. “She feels her forefoot pushing off the track, she hears her skating splits,and she sees herself racing ahead of the competitors. She experience
8、s all of the elements of her race _20_before executing (完成) her performance.”1A.luckyBintelligentCmental Dstrategic2A.difference BimportanceCimprovement Dchallenge3A.so long Bso farCso much Dso high4A.turn on Bshow offCtake up Dset off5A.thinks BmovesCruns Dtrains6A.breaks BpushesCdecides Ddistingui
9、shes7A.activation BvisualizationCmotivation Dperception8A.athletes BgymnastsCweightlifters Dskaters9A.regularly BnormallyCfinally Dsimilarly10A.connection BpracticeCperformances Ddirections11A.imagining BconsideringCreviewing Ddreaming12A.few BusualCactual Dstrange13A.impacts BincreasesCslows Dfollo
10、ws14A.brain BbodyCattention Dmemory15A.help BapplyCuse Dprepare16A.Though BButCThus DOtherwise17A.Unless BAfterCWhen DUntil18A.observations BspiritCdetermination Dsenses19A.to BforCabout Dwith20A.in surprise Bin detailCon time Dfor example.阅读理解(2015徐州考前信息卷)DAVID Beckham didnt make it.Cristiano Ronal
11、do didnt hit it so big either.But Gareth Bale,24,has become the most expensive soccer player in the history of the game.Four years after the arrival of Ronaldo at a record cost of $125 million (765 million yuan) in 2009, Real Madrid is expected to pay $135 million for Bale. But how is it that Bale,
12、who was playing left back and being benched (当替补) by his English Premier League team a couple of years ago, now attracts such a big deal?As of years ago, the Welshman had played 24 matches for Tottenham Hotspur, and had never finished on the winning side once a record for any Premier League player.
13、Tottenham even privately considered selling him. “A player who had once looked a prodigy (神童) as a 17yearold Southampton full back, the youngest ever international for Wales already appeared, at 20, on the way down,” wrote Tim Adams at UKs The Observer.Through all the humiliations(屈辱),Bale hung on.W
14、hile he was injured and kept out of games,he worked hard to reinvent himself.Bales father Franks uncompromising (不妥协的)discipline had a great impact on his son.When he returned from injury later that season, Bale had been transformed in the gym. In a Champions League match in 2010, he established him
15、self as the socalled “IncrediBale”overnight throughout Europe. With his team four goals behind to Inter Milan at halftime, Bale surprisingly scored a hattrick before the game was over. Even former Manchester United coach,Alex Ferguson, praised him,“He had been a sixfoot, gangly (瘦长的), slim boy; then all of a sudden he was built like a light heavyweight boxer. ”With Bales help, Tottenham are flying high in the league. In the 2012 13 season, h