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浙江省杭州市2018届英语高考模拟卷二
How old is "old"? Two hundred years ago, you were old at 35. That was the average life then. At the turn of this century, as medical knowledge advanced, the average life span(长度) increased to 45. In 1950, 70-year-olds were really old. Today, a healthy 70-year-old is looking forward to many more active years.
So, how old is old? The answer is one you've heard many times, from all sorts of people. "You are as old (or young) as you feel!" The calendar(日历) simply tells you how many years you have lived.
Once an unknown author wrote," Nobody grows old by living a number of years; people grow old by giving up their goals."
Alice Brophy, when she was with the New York City commission for the Aging, said, "It upsets me when people say, 'Gee, you look young for your age!' What does that mean? Is there some model that you're supposed to look a certain way at 65 and 75 and 85? You know you can die old at 30 and live young at 80"
There are many wrong ideas about aging. Here are some of the more common ones. For example, most older people are in poor health, or older people are unable to change.
A. It's extremely terrible to be grown old.
B. Youth is not a time of life but it is a state of mind.
C. These ideas stereotype(固化) people on the basis of age.
D. Old is a point of view.
E. Older people are stubborn, unable to change.
F. The answer has changed over the years.
G. Your body tells you how well you've lived.
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A. Then try and surf along the surface of the wave B. I can experience this same fun when bodysurfing C. but it does have its own unofficial world championship D. that can be practised by using nothing but the human body E. which is looked down on by professional athletes, however F. Famous bodyboarders in the great surfing history have also competed G. A wetsuit is also advisable to use unless you are bodysurfing in tropical (热带的) seas |
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Bodysurfing involves riding on a wave with no help from any device (装置) such as a surfboard, which makes it the "purest" form of surfing. In fact, it is one of very few extreme sports—free climbing and cliff diving are others—{#blank#}2{#/blank#}.
However, it is more enjoyable and safer if you use flippers (脚蹼). This is because they enable you to swim faster, and so catch waves and surf along them more easily. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. Another aid is a handboard, a mini-surf board about the size of an iron, held in one hand to generate more speed along the wave.
To catch a wave, swim to where the waves break and, as one approaches, start swimming towards the beach. You must try to travel at the same speed as the wave and, if you do it correctly, you will feel the wave lifting you and pushing you forwards. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}.
Bodysurfing is not a professional sport, {#blank#}5{#/blank#}—the Pipeline Bodysurfing
Classic—held each year at the legendary Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii. Local bodysurfers compete against athletes from places such as Australia, Brazil, Japan or France, in terrifying walls of water above the sharp coral reef.
For me no other sport is as much fun as bodysurfing. There's a good reason why dolphins choose not to use surfboards!
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