Basketball stars are usually tall．The stars of other sports are sometimes short．Some of the best football players are not very tall．

Short people often have better balance than tall people, so they do not fall over（摔倒）very often．In some sports the players must have good balance, for example, table tennis and running．

You do not need long legs to run fast! Some of the fastest runners in the world are not very tall．Some are tall and some are short．There is no medicine to make people grow taller or to make people shorter．

The tallest woman in the world is Sandy Allen．She is 2．317 meters tall and lives in the United States．

The shortest person in the world is Gul Mohammed from India．He is only 57 centimeters （厘米）tall．

Today young people in many countries grow taller than their parents．This is because they eat better food today．Good food can help children grow．

根据短文内容，回答下列问题：

1．How many different sports do we talk about in this passage （段落）? What are they?

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2．Is there any medicine to make people grow taller or to make people shorter?

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根据短文内容，补全下列句子（每空填一个单词或数字）：

3．The tallest person in the world is ________ meters taller than the shortest one．

4．_______ _______ helps young people today grow taller than their parents．

5．将短文中划线的句子译成汉语：

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Mrs Smith has three children, Peter, Jenny and Linda. Jenny is the oldest and Linda is the youngest. Peter is in the     , but he is the tallest one. Peter is very     , so he is on a diet(节食). He tries not to      too much meat. He also      every day. He runs every day. Now Peter is becoming thinner and stronger. Jenny is a     . Maybe she is the busiest person in the family. She      rests(休息) at home and her family can often see her reporting news      TV. As a housewife, Mrs Smith is the      in the family. she can do everything she likes. she likes both      and taking pictures .      she often shows the pictures of the delicious food she cooks on her blog(博客). She has a lot of fans.

1.A. middle       B. front             C. black          D. late

2.A. short         B. thin              C. young        D. fat

3.A. sell          B. work             C. eat           D. drink

4.A. does housework B. does some shopping

C. does exercise   D. watches TV

5.A. teacher       B. reporter          C. doctor         D. actor

6.A. sometimes    B. always           C. almost         D. hardly

7.A. in           B. on              C. for            D. to

8.A. most important B. poorest          C. most beautiful   D. freest

9.A. cooking      B. singing          C. speaking        D. painting

10.A. But         B. So             C. If              D. Though

The little boy entered the house, unhappy. His mother was  31      cakes in the kitchen. She smiled as she    32      but stopped when she saw his face. “Tyler,    33       happened? Is everything okay?”

“Nothing is okay, mom.” said the boy, “Today, in our science lesson, Mrs. Green was talking about the   34        .She said that the whole world is getting dirtier and that many animals and plants are dying. She wants us to think of something we can do to help. I thought all the way, but there is  35     I can do to make a difference.”

“Let me tell you    36     .” the mother said after thinking for a while. “One morning a man was walking down a beach, there he saw thousands of dying starfish covering the beach, they were pushed up by the     37    , and it was too far up for them to make their way back by    38        . The man shook his head as he walked along, ‘What a pity! So many starfish will die on the beach.’ The man felt very sorry    39      those starfish. He went on walking and just at that time he was    40       to find a boy in front who was throwing the starfish back into the sea as    41   as he could, ‘how silly you are! My     42   ,’ the man said, ‘There are so many starfish, can you throw all of them back?’ The boy didn’t stop but kept throwing, ‘ 43          I can’t help them all .I can make a difference to this one, and this one, and this one, and this one.”

“Thinking for a moment, the man    44       to help return the starfish to their home. He smiled and said to himself, ‘Sometimes the biggest lesson in life comes from the   45      person.

  1. A. drinking          B. making            C. selling          D. washing

  2.A. turned around      B. turned down        C. turned on        D. turned off

3.A. what             B. when              C. where          D. why

 4.A. air               B. land              C. water         D. environment

5.A. something         B. anything           C. everything       D. nothing

6.A. a lie              B. a joke             C. a story          D. a truth

7.A. wind             B. rain               C. waves           D. sands

8.A. himself           B. itself              C. ourselves       D. themselves

9.A of                B. for                C. from            D. forward

10.A. afraid            B. surprised            C. sad             D. angry

11.A. slow             B. fast                C. soon           D. high

12.A. father            B. mother             C. son             D. daughter

13.A. Or               B. So                 C. Because         D. Though

14.A. began            B. continued            C. forgot          D. waited

15.A shortest           B. tallest               C. smallest         D. biggest