Saying goodbye to a sport you love is hard. B...

Saying goodbye to a sport you love is hard. But Kobe Bryant took an even harder,　　 _____1.______(pain) route: His goodbye lasted for nearly three years.

For many, Bryant is a legend. He started out as a basketball prodigy(神童) ____2.___skipped college and took his talents directly to NBA. It was his quick action and aggressive personality _____3.___earned him the nickname Black Mamba. __4.____ competing in the finals or practicing jump shots after midnight in an empty gym, Kobe has an unconditional love for the game. Fans remember him_5.____ the player who helped the Lakers win five NBA championships in his two-decade long career.

Bryant’s final game ______6._____(hold) on April 13 at the Staples Center in his home city of Los Angeles. For Bryant, the occasion was bittersweet. In __7.______ interview with ESPN, Bryant explained _8.___ much these last few games meant to him. “There’s _9.____I love more than being able to play this entire season,” Bryant said, “to go through these tough times, and to play in these buildings one last time.”

Kobe's millions of fans around the world congratulate him on an outstanding NBA career and thank him for so many 10.___(thrill) memories.

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You may think that sailing is a difficult sport, but it is really not hard to learn it. You do not need to be strong. But you need to be quick. And you need to understand a few basic rules about the wind.

First, you must ask yourself, “Where is the wind coming from? Is it coming from ahead or behind or from the side?” You must think about this all the time on the boat. The wind direction tells you what to do with the sail.

Let’s start with the wind blowing from the behind. This means the wind and the boat are going in the same direction. Then you must always keep the sail outside the boat. It should be at a 90° angle (角度) to the boat. Then it will catch the wind best.

If the wind is blowing from the side, it is blowing across the boat. In this case, you must keep the sail half way outside the boat. It should be at a 45° angle to the boat. It needs to be out far enough to catch the wind, but it shouldn’t flap (摆动). It shouldn’t look like on a flagpole. If it is flapping, it is probably out too far, and the boat will slow down.

Sailing into the wind is not possible. If you try, the sail will flap and the boat will stop. You may want to go in that direction. It is possible, but you can’t go in a straight line. You must go first in one direction and then in another. This is called tacking. When you are tacking, you must always keep the sail inside the boat.

1.What should you consider first while sailing?

A．Sailors’ strength.  B．Wave levels.       C．Wind directions.    D．Size of sails.

2.What does the word “It” underlined in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A．The boat.          B．The wind.          C．The sail.           D．The angle.

3.What do you have to do when sailing against the wind?

A．Move in a straight line.                   B．Allow the sail to flap.

C．Lower the sail.                          D．Tack the boat.

4.Where can you probably find the text?

A．In a popular magazine.                   B．In a tourist guidebook.

C．In a physics textbook.                    D．In an official report.

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阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

Kobe Bryant wasn't the first NBA player to visit China. But he was the first player to help China grow into a basketball-crazed nation.

Kobe's first visit was in 1998, and in conducting basketball clinics （篮球训练营），doing business and participating in charity, he was warmly welcomed in the basketball-loving country. Once, nearly 15,000 people showed up at 9 am for an event at which Kobe was scheduled to appear at 4 pm.

USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo saw firsthand Kobe's popularity during Kobe's time with Team USA at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when as captain he led the team to a gold medal. "There were tens of thousands of people on the streets, yelling, 'Kobe! Kobe!' It was unbelievable, just unbelievable," Colangelo said.

"It's harder for me to walk around here than in the United States," Kobe once told reporters in China in 2013. “It's uncontrollable. Fans rush you and surround you, and it gets to the point where you can't go out."

His last visit was in August last year for the 2019 FIBA World Cup. He told reporters, “I watched the country develop from the ground up. I watched Beijing grow. I watched the passion for the game develop. My goal is to develop the country's basketball to a level where they can compete with the best basketball countries in the world,", Kobe said.

Kobe was and perhaps remains China's favourite NBA player, and fans in the country were shocked by his death in a helicopter crash in January this year. Tencent, the NBA's digital partner in China, posted a memorial page that drew more than five million visitors in less than five days.

Just two days before Kobe died, he posted a short video on the Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo, wishing Chinese fans a happy new year. How sorrowful his fans are when they watch the video again!

1.Apart from being an excellent NBA players, what else makes Kobe Bryant special to Chinese fans? (no more than 15 words)

2.What does the author want to prove, telling us what Jerry Colangelo saw at the 2008 Beijing Olympics? (no more than 10 words)

3.What does the underlined phrase "from the ground up" mean in paragraph 5? (no more than 8 words)

4.What made Kobe Bryant confident that China's basketball can be one of the best in the world? (no more than 15 words)

5.How do you find Kobe Bryant? Please give your reason, (no more than 20 words)

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“Love your neighbor as yourself”is a saying familiar to most of us. It means that you must have he ability to love and accept yourself in order to form and keep satisfying relationship with others self-esteem means accepting yourself for who you really are, and believing that you are indeed a worthwhile person who is deserving of love and respect from others.

Self-esteem is our sense of how good we feel about ourselves. It is based on our judgment of ourselves, not on other people's assessment, but simply on our own. Our self-esteem is not dependant on our talent. Some very ordinary people feel very good about themselves, while other extraordinarily high achievers hold low opinions of themselves.

Self-esteem is the primary key to long-term stress management. Why? The first three sources of stress are: predictable life event, unexpected changes and build-up of daily stresses, These are much easier to handle when we believe in ourselves, A positive, healthy self-esteem gives us the “hardiness”(强健) to deal with the difficulties of life, and to see them as challenges to be met, rather than threats to be feared.

The forth category of stress is entirely the result of a low self-esteem. It is the category of stress that is most common and tiring over the long run. This kind of stress cannot be overcome, or even changed, until the self-esteem problems that cause it are corrected.

Learning to love yourself for who you are is the key to overcoming stress. Self-esteem comes form the self, and cannot be promoted by others. A person who feels that his self-esteem comes from the approval of those around him or her is bound to self-destruct(自毁), One cannot keep the level of “performance” required to please everyone else, especially if that performance disagrees with who you are and is simply a facade that makes you popular with the world. When the applause is gone, there is nothing left.

Only those who can feel the strength of knowing who they are and those who can feel good about that will survive the stresses of life. Self-esteem is the basis of contentment and positive living.

1.What is self-esteem?

A．A kind of positive lifestyle.

B．The impression we have on other people.

C．Our sense of how good we feel about ourselves.

D．Our understanding of how we are seen by others.

2.What is the key to overcoming stress according to the passage?

A．Removing yourself from stressful situation．

B．Learning to love yourself for who you are．

C．Facing the stress and dealing with it．

D．Getting help from friends．

3.What does the underlined word "facade" （in Para 5） mean?

A．A false appearance． B．A big worry．

C．A wrong action．      D．A strange feeling．

4.The passage is written to ______．

A．tell people how to overcome stress

B．help people form good relationship with others

C．show the importance of feeling good about yourself

D．provide the different methods to get a clear view of yourself

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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

There are three children in Bryant’s family. Kobe Bryant is the　 1. (young) child and only son of Joe and Pam Bryant. His parents named him　 2.　 a kind of steak: the famous beef of Kobe, Japan, which they saw on a restaurant menu. At　 3. age of six, Kobe, his parents and two older sisters moved to Italy,　 4. his father began playing professional basketball. He became accustomed to the lifestyle and became fluent in　 5. (Italy). At an early age, he learned to play soccer and his favorite team was AC Milan. Bryant once said that if he 6.(stay)in Italy, he would have 7.(stick)with soccer and would have tried to become a professional soccer player. In 1991, the Bryants moved back to the United States. In the Philadelphia suburb of lower Merion high school, a spectacular high school career brought national 8.(recognize). Although his SAT score of 1080 guaranteed him various basketball scholarships from top universities, the 17-year-old made a controversial 9. (decide)to enter the NBA 10. (direct).

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LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant is a winner in retirement, too. The former Los Angeles Lakers star won an Oscar in the animated short category for “Dear Basketball,” a poem he wrote after ending his 20-year career on the court in 2016.

He’ll add it to an already jammed trophy collection that includes five NBA championships with the Lakers, two Olympic gold medals, NBA Finals most valuable player awards, a league MVP award and four All-Star game MVP awards.

As executive producer, Bryant accepted his golden Oscar statue from “Star Wars” star Mark Hamill on Sunday night. He shared the award with Disney animator Glen Keane.

Among those offering their congratulations via Twitter were Hall of Famers Magic Johnson, Bill Russell and Shaquille O’Neal, Bryant’s former Lakers teammate who admitted, “I’m jealous!”

Since hanging up his basketball shoes, Bryant has thrown himself into business (a new Nike shoe) and various forms of storytelling.

“As basketball players, we’re told to shut up and dribble,” Bryant said on stage. “I’m glad we did a little bit more than that.”

He thanked his wife, Vanessa, and his three daughters, naming each of them. He spoke a few words of Italian — a language he learned as a child growing up in Italy — and closed by telling them, “You are my inspiration.”

1.According to the passage, Kobe Bryant won the Oscar because of_________.

A. his taking part in the animation movie

B. his famous reputation in basketball

C. his poem written after his former career

D. his winning in the animated short category

2.Which of the following can replace the underlined word “trophy”?

A. award

B. present

C. harvest

D. possession

3.Where is the passage most probably taken from?

A. A personal diary

B. A science report

C. A newspaper

D. A textbook

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Here is a letter from the Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe Bryant on The Players' Tribune website on November 30th.

“...This season is all I have left to give. My heart can take the pounding(重击).My mind can han-dle the grind(苦差事)but my body knows it's time to say goodbye-.-"

“Kobe Bryant is one of the greatest players in the history of our game. Whether competing in the Fi-nals or hoisting jump shots after midnight in an empty gym,　 Kobe has an unconditional love for the game.

I join Kobe's millions of' fans around the world in congratulating him on an outstanding NBA career and thank him for so many thrilling memories.”

——Adam Silver, NBA commissioner(总裁)

“We're all sad. This era of Lakers basketball has been one of the most fun, exciting prosperous eras we could imagine. We're in full support of him. But it's still very sad.”

——Jeanie Buss, Lakers president

“I know his purpose is to finish out this season and play. It's always sad when greatness decides to hang it up" 'I thought he had at least another year in him.”

——Byron Scott, Lakers coach, and Bryant's teammate during the 1996-97 season

¨He pushed me to be better more than any player I've faced. Kobe is the greatest competitor I have ever faced. I am glad he has found peace. I don't know if we'll see another one like him.”

——Shane Battier, of the Miami Heat

“Hard to believe @ kobe bryant is finally going to hang it up. One of the NBA's great champions. En-joy the rest of this season, my friend.”

——Scottie Pippen, retired NBA All-Star

1.What can we learn from Kobe Bryant's letter?

A. He has lost passion for basketball.

B. He'll return to basketball court soon. .

C. He'll finish this season before he retires.

D. He'll retire immediately after the letter.

2.According to Byron Scott, _ 　　　 .

A. Kobe has an unconditional love for basketball

B. Kobe is supposed to play at least for another year

C. Lakers team has played very well this year

D. it is difficult to find another player like Kobe

3.Where can we most probably read the comments?

A. From an Internet page.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. In a newspaper.

C. In a sports magazine.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. In a TV program.

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Despite his knee and finger injuries, Kobe Bryant ignores his pains as the NBA season nears. He is leading the Los Angeles Lakers in their attempt to win a third NBA championship in a row, as they did at the beginning of the century. The Los Angles Lakers superstar has the perfect record since his start in 1996. He has five NBA championships, 12 NBA All-Stars and a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.

But along with the awards, there has long been talk about Bryant. People say he is a selfish player with only a few friends. He won three NBA championship titles with Shaquille O’Neal, but rather than becoming friends, they couldn’t get along　　 well with　　 each other. Lakers Coach Phil Jackson still remembers a talk he and Bryant had. “I talked to him a little bit about leadership and his ability to be a leader, and he said he was ready to be a captain ” Jackson told ESPN. “ But I said no one was ready to follow him. Bryant’s path of self-discovery took him Light years. O’Neal left the Lakers in 2004. Bryant went on to lead the team to victory last year and again this summer. Last week,　　 NBA rookies(新秀）voted Bryant their favorite player.

Mark Medina, sports reporter with the Los Angles Times has seen Bryant grow. “ Kobe has been improving

his relationship with teammates and accepts that sometimes less　　 is more,” he wrote. “ He has learned that he has to give to get back in return. And so he has become a giver rather than a demanding leader. That has been great for him and great to watch,” Jackson told Medina. Bryant has shown through talent　　 and　　 hard work that others can follow his lead.

1.What can we know about Kobe and O’Neal?

A. They were in conflict.　　 B. They were good friends.

C. They envied each other.　　 D. They often helped others.

2.What can we learn from Jackson’s words?

A. He didn’t like Kobe or O’Neal.

B. Kobe had no talent for leadership.

C. Kobe’s leadership should be improved.

D. Kobe’s teammates preferred O’Neal to him.

3.Kobe developed his relationship with his teammates by　　　　 .

A. inviting O'Neal to come back　　 B. learning to become a giver

C. winning the trust of the coach　　 D. turning a demanding leader

4.What may be the best title for the passage?

A. A grown-up NBA star

B. A hard-working NBA star

C. The high praise from Kobe’s coach

D. The relationship between two NBA stars

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—Mike, do you want Kobe Bryant shoes or James shoes?

—Daddy, _______ I choose? I like both pairs.

A. shall                                 B. must                                C. can                                   D. may

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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Kobe Bryant is a famous basketball player. His talent can 1. （see） not only on the court （(球 场））,but also in his writing. His book The Wizenard Series: Training Camp came 2. in March.

The story is about the West Bottom Badgers, a youth basketball team. It's made up of five books, with each 3. （focus） on the story of one character: Rain, Twig, Cash, Peno and Lab. All of the kids on this team come from a poor neighborhood. No one 4. （have） faith（信心）in the kids to succeed, 5. things change after a new coach joins the team. .

After 6. （read） the book, we got to interview Bryant. He said he didn't think he was going to be an author, but that he often tells stories to his daughters. This is one of the 7. （reason） why he wrote his own book. The book is based on parts of Bryant's real-life experience, 8. （especial） when he played for the Los Angeles Lakers.

Bryant had two different jersey （球衣）numbers-8 and 24- during his career. 9. number 24 means you need to work hard 24 hours a day 10. （succeed）.

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