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___1___ . One of the best things you can possibly do is to start you own club. It’s great fun especially if you are the sort of person who feels there’s never anything to do during the school holidays.
The first thing you need to come up with is an idea for your club. What are you interested in? Pets, clothes, pop music or dancing groups, sports, or making things? ___2___ .
Next you need some friends to be in your club with you. ___3___ . All you need is three or four other people who are interested in the same thing as you.
___4___ . You should all sit down somewhere together with lots of pieces of paper and write down every name you can think up. That'll keep you busy for ages.
At your first meeting you should make up a rule book. And the first rule should be no grown — ups or little/big brothers or sisters! The best clubs are always secret!
Now you have just about everything you need, except membership cards. These are very important and again you will spend a lot of time making them. Use a bright thick pen to make a special design. Why not leave some space for a photo of yourself? ___5___ .
So there you are, get clubbing! Once you get started you’ll think of loads of more interesting things to do!
A．That’s easy.
B．The list is needed.
C．Enjoy your own club!
D．Invite a designer to join you.
E．The school holidays is just around the corner.
F．Then you need to pick a name for your club.
G．That will make the membership card really look like it.
Blind Olympic Athletes Show the Universal Nature
Tune into any sports coverage on TV, and you will see many athletes proudly raise their arms and heads in victory, while a much larger number hang their shoulders and necks in defeat. Studies have revealed why—they are universal behaviours, performed by humans in response to success and failure.
The discovery came from Jessica Tracy from the University of British Columbia and David Matsumoto from San Francisco State University, who wanted to see how people showed feelings of pride and shame. ____6____ They tried to find a large group of people, and it was critically important that some of these subjects had never seen other people reacting to success or failure before.
The answer was Athens, during the 2004 Olympic Games. Its sister competition—the Paralympics—included many athletes who were born blind. ____7____ Working with a professional photographer, Tracy and Matsumoto compared the body language of 108 competitors, 41 of whom had lost their sight, and 12 of whom were blind from birth. The ph
otographer repeatedly took pictures of these athletes after their competitions, and the researchers carefully recorded the positions of their heads, arms and bodies. ____8____ The winners tilted their heads up, smiled, lifted their arms and puffed out their chests, while shoulders bent forward and narrowed chests were the marks of losers.
____9____ Men and women who have never seen other people behave in these ways still make exactly the same movements. And while it’s possible that parents may have taught their blind children some of these actions, it’s very unlikely that they could have taught them all—particularly the expansion or narrowing of the chest.
These actions were also remarkably consistent between contestants from every part of the world. Tracy and Matsumoto argue that pride and shame deserve a place alongside other primary emotions like happiness, fear and surprise. ____10____
A．They are inborn behaviours and are accompanied by their own distinct sets of actions.
B．In fact, the culture was found to have only a very small effect on their body language.
C．Therefore, they could not have witnessed how other people reacted to winning and losing.
D．The result suggested that the athletes were showing their pride based on careful observation.
E．The athletes’ behaviours give strong evidence that they have had the actions naturally since birth.
genreF．Analyzing the data, they found that the sighted and sightless athletes behaved in almost exactly the same ways.
G．In particular, they wanted to know whether these expressions were culturally determined and learned through observation.
How old is “old”?
How old is “old”? ___11___ More than two hundred years ago, you were old at 35. That wa
s the average life then. At the turn of the 20th 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. ___12___

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