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1、2022-2023年江苏省连云港市大学英语6级大学英语六级学校:_ 班级:_ 姓名:_ 考号:_一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题)1.SportsMany animals engage in play, but homo sapiens is the only animal to have invented sports. Since sports are an invention, a part of culture rather than an aspect of nature, all definitions of
2、 sports are somewhat arbitrary. Whether sports are a human universal found in every known culture or a phenomenon unique to modern society depends upon ones definition of sports. Men and women have always run, jumped, climbed, lifted, thrown, and wrestled, but they have not always performed these ph
3、ysical activities competitively. Although all literate societies seem to have contests of one sort or another in which men, and sometimes women, compete in displays and tests of physical skill and prowess, sports may be strictly defined as physical contests performed for their own sake and not for s
4、ome ulterior end. According to this strict definition, neither Neolithic (新石器时代的) hunters nor contestants in religious ceremonies such as the ancient Olympic Games were engaged in sports. Insistence on the stipulation that sports must be performed for their own sake means the paradoxical elimination
5、 of many activities which are usually thought of as sports, such as exercises done for the sake of cardiovascular fitness, races run to satisfy a physical education requirement, ball games played to earn a paycheck. Strict definition also means abandonment of the traditional usage in which sport, de
6、rived from Middle English disporter, refers to any lighthearted recreational activity. In the minds of some 18th-century aristocrats, a game of backgammon (15子游戏) and the seduction of a milkmaid were both considered good sport, but this usage of the term has become archaic.Strict conceptualization a
7、llows the construction of an evolutionary history of sports in which extrinsic political, economic, military, and religious motivations decrease in importance as intrinsic motivationsparticipation for its own sakeincrease. The disadvantage, however, is that the determination that a given activity is
8、 truly a sport depends on the answer to a psychological question: What is the motivation of the participants? The question of motivation cannot be answered unambiguously. It is probable that the contestants of the ancient Olympic Games were motivated by the intrinsic pleasure of the contest as well
9、as by the religious imperatives of Greek cult. It is also probable that modern professional athletes are motivated by more than simply economic motives. Thus most scholars assume quietly that popular usage cannot be completely wrong to refer, for instance, to U. S. professional National Football Lea
10、gue games as sports.The psychological aspects of sports are more difficult to assess because factors such as motivation are more difficult to measure than the size of audience or the amount of a contract. The psychological tests that have been administered have produced such a welter of contradictor
11、y results that many specialists are ready to abandon the attempt to pinpoint motives. Some generalizations, however, seem tenable. On the whole, physical fitness and the desire for simple relaxation seem to motivate those who shun competitive sports in favour of noncompetitive physical activities su
12、ch as jogging, hiking, recreational swimming, and aerobics (although the development of aerobics contests testifies to the protean (变化多端的) nature of the competitive urge). Important to those who choose sports is the challenge of the contest, the opportunity to test ones physical and mental skills ag
13、ainst another person, against nature, or against the abstraction of the sports record. The choice of one sport over another depends on the cultural availability of the sport (few Laotians play baseball), on social group (few truck drivers own polo ponies), on gender (women are not supposed to box),
14、and on individual temperament (some people cannot enjoy golf). There is reason to believe that the distinction between team sports, which emphasize coA.Y B.N C.NG2.Most probably the word intrusive means _.3.It was not until 1947 that India became _.4.Thanks to the European anti-GM food campaign, an
15、official stopping of the growth and import of GM crops was resulted in Europe.A.Y B.N C.NG5.Part Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)Self-esteem: the Myth of Feeling Good About OneselfDirections: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions
16、on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.No one would argue that children thrive when they feel respected, important, and cared for by other persons, or that they falter when they lack the self-pride and self-confidence that accompanies such approva
