easily accessed?

Determine your participation style. Choose what’s best for you——a class or going solo? Morning

or night hours? 74

Start slowly. Most people are overeager and sometimes overdo it. Record a baseline of your

regular activities and determine a reasonable plan.

Make a date. Find a friend to exercise with you and keep you motivated.

Set specific short-term and long-term goals. Plan for activity in your day and make it a priority.

Remind yourself what your goals are. If it hurts, don’t do it. 75 And once you’ve reached

your goal, treat yourself for the good job you’ve done, so it will encourage you to continue.

A. Make a list.

B. Exercise Tips for Seniors to Start a Healthy 2010

C. Know your choice.

D. Learn to work around pain, not through it.

E. Indoor or outside exercise?

F. All the Seniors Should Be Careful Before Exercise

G. Get a thorough examination.

Keys: B G C E D

Exercise 2:

All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live

longer.

71 They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited

when their player or team wins.

72 Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all

countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake,

whether in China, Egypt or Italy! 73 Think how many lovers to skate or ski in Japan,

Norway or Canada.

Some sports or game go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for

example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a

hundred years old yet. 74 Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.

People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game

together they often become good friends. 75 One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win

without pride and to lose with grace.

A. And think of people in cold countries.

B. Sports help to train a person’s character.

C. Not a few people participate in different sports competitions themselves.

D. Many people like to watch others play games.

E. People aren’t inventing new sports or games.

F. Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere take part in them.

G. People are inventing new sports or games all the time.

Keys: D F A G B

Exercise 3:

Competitors who wear red win more than those that are dressed in any other color, according to

study in Germany.

71 Experts believe that red could make individuals and teams feel more confident as well as