Vans, Keds, Dollies—they sound like the names of rock bands, but if you have teenagers, you'll know they're actually the latest in teenage footwear.
But experts are now warning that the latest shoes in different styles will be causing teenagers discomfort(不舒适) in the short term and storing up years of foot, knee and back pain in the future.
Here, the experts discover the problems caused by teenagers' shoe choice.
KEDS/VANS
Slip-on shoes with elastic (弹性的) sides are particularly popular among teenage boys - with Keds and Vans the most sought-after brands.
The main problem is that they are just too flat—so flat that the heel, which hits the ground first, also becomes damaged and painful.
BALLET PUMPS
The worst shoes of all are such light and thin dolly shoes. The problem is partly their flatness, as with Keds and Vans. However ballet pumps, which have no string or heel, have other specific problems.
“As the shoe has no fastening device, it relies on the toes to keep the shoe on, causing a difficult gait(步法), this leads to short- and long-term problems such as calluses(茧子), heel and knee pain.”
WEDGES AND STILETTOS
These shoes can also cause problems with gait. They may look good, but the heels on these are so high they can force the wearer's body weight forward, making them very shaky.
Teens who wear these shoes regularly are also in danger of joining those millions of women with continuous back pain.
SCHOOL SHOES
So what do podiatrists(足科医生)have on their wish list, especially for everyday wear?
Something in a natural, breathable fabric, with a string to hold it on, with a small heel and a deep toe-box that does not press the toes, such as Clark's, Marks & Spencer or Rhino.
If your teen insists on wearing 'bad' shoes, get them some simple foot orthotics(矫形器) in the shoes. These support and correct the movement of the foot and, properly fitted by a podiatrist, can often change their walk and halt the damage.
1.Of all the shoes mentioned(提到) in the passage, which can cause the worst problems?
A.Marks & Spencer. B.Wedges & Stilettos.
C.Keds and Vans. D.Ballet Pumps.
2.Which pair of shoes may not be found on the podiatrists’ wish list?
A. B. C. D.
3.The underlined word “halt” in the last paragraph probably means _______.
A.increase B.worsen C.stop D.cause
4.In which column of Mail Online can you find this passage?
A.Sports. B.Science. C.Health. D.Shopping.
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Vans, Keds, Dollies—they sound like the names of rock bands, but if you have teenagers, you'll know they're actually the latest in teenage footwear.
But experts are now warning that the latest shoes in different styles will be causing teenagers discomfort(不舒适) in the short term and storing up years of foot, knee and back pain in the future.
Here, the experts discover the problems caused by teenagers' shoe choice.
KEDS/VANS
Slip-on shoes with elastic (弹性的) sides are particularly popular among teenage boys - with Keds and Vans the most sought-after brands.
The main problem is that they are just too flat—so flat that the heel, which hits the ground first, also becomes damaged and painful.
BALLET PUMPS
The worst shoes of all are such light and thin dolly shoes. The problem is partly their flatness, as with Keds and Vans. However ballet pumps, which have no string or heel, have other specific problems.
“As the shoe has no fastening device, it relies on the toes to keep the shoe on, causing a difficult gait(步法), this leads to short- and long-term problems such as calluses(茧子), heel and knee pain.”
WEDGES AND STILETTOS
These shoes can also cause problems with gait. They may look good, but the heels on these are so high they can force the wearer's body weight forward, making them very shaky.
Teens who wear these shoes regularly are also in danger of joining those millions of women with continuous back pain.
SCHOOL SHOES
So what do podiatrists(足科医生)have on their wish list, especially for everyday wear?
Something in a natural, breathable fabric, with a string to hold it on, with a small heel and a deep toe-box that does not press the toes, such as Clark's, Marks & Spencer or Rhino.
If your teen insists on wearing 'bad' shoes, get them some simple foot orthotics(矫形器) in the shoes. These support and correct the movement of the foot and, properly fitted by a podiatrist, can often change their walk and halt the damage.
1.Of all the shoes mentioned(提到) in the passage, which can cause the worst problems?
A.Marks & Spencer. B.Wedges & Stilettos.
C.Keds and Vans. D.Ballet Pumps.
2.Which pair of shoes may not be found on the podiatrists’ wish list?
A. B. C. D.
3.The underlined word “halt” in the last paragraph probably means _______.
A.increase B.worsen C.stop D.cause
4.In which column of Mail Online can you find this passage?
A.Sports. B.Science. C.Health. D.Shopping.
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改写后的课文内容填空 (共10个空格,每空1分,满分10分)
Many m(1) meet and f(2) a band because they like to write and play their own music. They may start as a group of high school students. Sometimes they may play to passers-by in the street or subway so that they can e(3) some extra money for themselves or to pay for their i(4). Later they may give p(5) in p(6) or clubs. They hope to make records in a s(7) and sell millions of copies to become m(8)! H(9), there was one band that started in a different way. It was c(10) the Monkeys and began as a TV show.
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—Jason, do you know a famous band called the Monkees ?
—Of course. It about 1970, but happily they reunited in the mid-1980s.
A. got down B. got up C. broke up D. set down
高一英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Ways to Make People Like You
1.Remember a person's name.
It is said that the sweetest sound to a person's ears is their own name. "The average person is more interested in their own name than in all the other names in the world put together." People love their names so much that they will often donate large amounts of money just to have a building named after themselves.1.
2. Be a good listener.
Encourage others to talk about themselves. The easiest way to become a good conversationalist is to become a good listener. To be a good listener, we must actually care about what people have to say.2. They just want someone who will listen to them.
3. Talk in terms of the other person's interest.
3. If we talk to people about what they are interested in, they will feel valued and value us in return.
4.4.
"You can make more friends in two months by being interested in them than in two years by making them interested in you." The only way to make quality, lasting friendships is to learn to be genuinely interested in them and their interests.
5. Make the other person feel important ﹣ and do it sincerely.
5. We love to feel important and so does everyone else. People will talk to us for hours if we allow them to talk about themselves. If we can make people feel important in a sincere and appreciative way, then we will win all the friends we could ever dream of.
A. Become genuinely interested in other people.
B. We should think of questions in the shoes of other people.
C. Many times people don't want an entertaining conversation partner.
D. We should offer as much time as we can to other people who talk to us.
E. The golden rule is to treat other people as we would like to be treated.
F. The royal road to a person's heart is to talk about the things he or she treasures most.
G. We can make people feel extremely valued and important by remembering their name.
高一英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析
What kind of music does the man like?
A.Jazz. B.Rock. C.Opera.
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听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题。
1.What kind of music does the man like?
A. Rock. B. Jazz. C. Country.
2.What does the woman think of rock music?
A. It will cause stomachache. B. It makes people relaxed. C. It is too noisy.
3.What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Favourite music. B. Favourite songs. C. Favourite food.
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The idea of cloning your pet sounds like a laughable waste of money, because it is. But it starts to seem a little less laughable when your own beloved pet starts getting older. If I had had a few hundred thousand dollars to spare, I know I would have half-seriously considered it for my dear little cat, who died last year. One couple that does happen to have a few hundred dollars to spare is Barry Diller and Diane, who have reportedly cloned their beloved Jack Russell Terrier (a kind of dog), Shannon, and now have two identical Jack Russell Terrier named Deena and Evita.
When your pet dies, you just want your pet back, or at least as close a copy as you can get. So it’s really no surprise that of the around 600 dogs cloned by Sooam Biotech Reaserch Foundation most were cloned for sad pet owners. The lab in Seoul, South Korea, is now the only place on the planet in the business of cloning pet dogs for pet owners.
But, in fact, the technology won’t give you your pet back. There don’t yet appear to be any studies on the behaviour of cloned pets, but research on cloned cows and pigs has so far shown marked differences in behaviour and even looks in cloned animals. The DNA is exactly the same, but there are still differences in personality and appearance.
Even if Diller and Von Furstenburg raise their new dogs in the exactly same environment in the exactly same way that they raised Shannon, the new dogs will still behave differently. “The promise of pet cloning is that your cloned pet is going to behave and look like the one you already have --- and that will not be the case,” said Professor Jorge Piedrahita at N.C. State. “We have cloned animals that were raised in the same environment, but they still didn’t act the same.”
1.What can we learn about the lab in Seoul?
A. It was set up by some pet owners. B. It has cloned hundreds of pet dogs.
C. It charges nothing for its services. D. It has cloned a cat for the author.
2.Why does the author mention the studies on cloned cows and pigs?
A. To explain why farm animals are cloned.
B. To discuss why pet cloning is so popular.
C. To show cloned animals are very different from each other.
D. To prove cloning is not a good way to bring pets from the dead.
3.What will the couple be likely to find out about their new dogs?
A. They’ll grow in a very strange way. B. They’ll dislike their new environment.
C. They’ll act differently from Shannon. D. They’ll have the same personality as Shannon.
4.What was Piedrahita’s attitude towards the lab’s promise of pet cloning?
A. He disbelieved it. B. He was worried about it.
C. He was curious about it. D. He showed much interest in it.
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You might have noticed that the ringing sound of basketballs was almost like the beat to a song. But did you know that it could be taken seriously as music?
The music group STOMP has taken everyday objects and turned them into instruments. The music it has created is a hit all over the world.
STOMP was formed by British musicians Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas. They met in the early 1980s when they were both working as buskers, the British term for street performers. Cresswell and McNicholas were part of a busking group called Pookiesnackenburger that became very popular throughout Britain.
Cresswell was a drummer (鼓手) for the group. Because they performed on the street, he could not set up a traditional drum set. Instead, he wore one drum that hung around his shoulders. To be able to make different sounds, Cresswell began beating on everyday objects that he could find during performances. This creative drumming led to the idea for STOMP.
STOMP made its first public appearance at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre in 1991. The performers used one-of-a-kind instruments, such as empty water bottles, basketballs, and matchboxes to create music. Wearing overalls and T-shirts, they danced around on a stage made to look like a closed warehouse (仓库). STOMP was a great success, winning many theater awards and drawing huge crowds (人群).
In 1994, STOMP came to the United States and played at the Orpheum Theater in New York City. Years later it is still playing there! To celebrate its ten-year anniversary (周年纪念), the then New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg renamed the street outside the theater STOMP Avenue.
STOMP has now toured all over the United States and most of the world. One reason STOMP is so popular is that anyone can enjoy it. There are no words or story. People from all cultures can understand it, no matter which language they speak.
1.What makes STOMP a special music group?
A.There are few words in its music.
B.It usually performs in warehouses.
C.The performers wear special clothes.
D.It uses everyday objects as instruments.
2.What can we learn about STOMP?
A.It was created in 1980.
B.It was formed in Britain.
C.It was named after a street.
D.It was part of Pookiesnackenburger.
3.Who was behind the creative idea for STOMP?
A.Luke Cresswell. B.A busking group.
C.Steve McNicholas. D.Michael Bloomberg.
4.Which shows the correct order of the following events?
a. STOMP began performing at the Orpheum Theater.
b. STOMP began performing at the Bloomsbury Theatre.
c. Michael Bloomberg named a street STOMP Avenue.
d. Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas worked as buskers.
A.d-b-a-c. B.d-a-b-c.
C.b-a-c-d. D.b-a-d-c.
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Speech—the act of uttering sounds to convey meaning—is a kind of human action. Like any other constantly repeated action, speaking has to be learned, but once it is learned, it becomes a generally unconscious and apparently automatic process.
As far as we can determine, human beings do not need to be forced to speak; most babies seem to possess a sort of instinctive drive to produce speech like noises. How to speak and what to say are another matter altogether. There actions are learned from the particular society into which the baby is born; so that, like all conduct that is learned from a society—from the people around us—speech is a patterned activity.
The meandering(漫目无地的)babble(咿呀学语)and chatter of a young child are eventually channeled by imitation into a few orderly grooves that represent the pattern accepted as meaningful by the people around him. Similarly, a child’s indiscriminate(不加分辨的)practice of putting things into his mouth becomes limited to putting food into his mouth in a certain way.
The sounds that a child can make are more varied and numerous than the sounds that any particular language uses. However, a child born into a society with a pattern of language is encouraged to make a small selection of sounds and to make these few sounds over and over until it is natural for him to make these sounds and not others.
1.For an adult, the process of speaking usually involves___________________ .
A.conscious selection of sounds | B.imitation of those around him |
C.a drive to make noises | D.unconscious actions |
2.The selection says that most babies have an instinctive drive to __________ .
A.express ideas in words | B.make speech like noise |
C.convey meaning | D.imitate sounds around them |
3.Conduct that is learned from a society may be called___________________ .
A.instinctive drive | B.selection | C.automatic activity | D.patterned activity |
4.The sounds that a child is able to make are ___________________ . .
A.not as varied as those used in language |
B.more varied and numerous than those in any language |
C.far fewer than those needed to form a language |
D.completely different from the sounds of language |
5.We may say that a child has learned to speak if he ___________________ . .
A.makes varied sounds |
B.carefully considers each sound he makes |
C.makes only certain sounds naturally |
D.imitates people around him |
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Last week the British university system offered a record number of places. That sounds like good news—but do we really need more people to go to university? For that matter, does the world need more universities?
The answer feels like it should be yes.
Education is good, is it not? But everything has a cost.
Education takes time. We could insist that everyone study full-time until the age of 45 but that would surely be too much. And perhaps half the population studying until they’re 21 is also too much. As for universities, they consume financial and intellectual resources—perhaps those resources might be better spent elsewhere.
My own personal opinion is strongly in favor both of going to university, and of simply having universities around.
The main skill I learnt at university was to write about economics, and I use that skill every day of my professional life, even an abstract education seems practical to me. And I now live in Oxford, one of the world’s most celebrated (著名的) university cities. Oxford’s experience certainly suggests that universities have much to offer.
The city’s architecture and green spaces have been shaped—greatly for the better, on balance —by the 900-year-old institution at its heart. The beauty attracts tourists and locals too.
But these are samples of one. Many people do not find themselves using the skills and knowledge they accumulated at university. And Oxford’s dreaming spires (尖顶) aren’t terribly representative of global universities as a whole.
1.Which of the following is the most proper title?
A. Does the world need more universities?
B. Is education really necessary?
C. Is British university system the best?
D. Do you prefer universities abroad?
2.Which of the following about the writer is TRUE?
A. He is an economist now.
B. He likes Oxford’s architecture and green spaces most.
C. The skill he learnt at university is practical in his career.
D. He holds the view that going to univeristy is a waste of resources.
3.The writer develops the passage by ______.
A. comparing his experience with others’
B. persuading us with his own experience and opinion
C. describing and sharing his own university experience
D. informing us of the advantages of universities
4.What’s the meaning of the word “consume” in Paragraph 4?
A. use B. provide
C. delight D. raise
5.In the following part, the writer is likely to ______.
A. list more supporting details about his opinion
B. show more disadvantages about going to universities
C. present some opposite opinions about universities
D. draw a conclusion about the topic
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