During the Beijing Winter Paralympics, Li Man worked at an altitude of over 2,000 meters, tirelessly carrying a medical rescue kit on her back 【小题1】(weigh) about 15 kilograms.

As one of the 38 Chinese rescue staff on duty to protect the disabled athletes, Li and her team members call 【小题2】(they) the “ski doctors”. “We come from different hospitals and departments 【小题3】(insure) rescue work is as comprehensive as possible,” said Li, 【小题4】 comes from the China Rehabilitation Research Center in Beijing.

With competitors capable of hitting top speeds of up 【小题5】 100 kilometers per hour, para alpine skiing is a dangerous sport. Once emergency happens, the athletes need doctors immediately. Ski doctors 【小题6】(require) to reach an injured person within four minutes,【小题7】 in fact, they often arrive within one minute. “Since 2018, we’ve visited a resort for ski training for around a month each year to make sure that we could reach the injured people as fast and as 【小题8】(safe) as possible,” said Li. Li added that they were given 【小题9】(profession) first aid training, and online and offline English training to make sure that they can communicate smoothly with foreign athletes and staff in international 【小题10】(event). She hopes that China’s ski medical rescue system will continue to grow and more recruits will join.

Regular exercise and a healthy diet can be potentially beneficial to your life. But could speaking more than one language have healthy benefits for your brain? A team at Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute in Canada【小题1】(seek) the answer to that question. 【小题2】 (get) it, they studied the medical records of 211 people. Based on medical examinations, all of the subjects were apparently suffering from Alzheimer’s disease (老年前期痴呆). Typically, such people are 【小题3】 (confuse) easily about times and dates, have trouble 【小题4】 (remember) recently acquired information, and find 【小题5】 difficult to solve problems and make plans. Among the people participating in the Canadian study, about half spoke two languages and the other half only one.

【小题6】 the researchers found was a clear link between the bilingualism (双语能力) of the first group and a delayed onset (开始) of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s. In the study, the group that spoke two languages showed 【小题7】 (sign) of Alzheimer’s five years later than the group that spoke only one language did.

People who 【小题8】 (regular) communicate in two languages have stronger control of language 【小题9】 are able to keep their speech ability longer. The Canadian study followed earlier work that was conducted in 2007. That research showed that 【小题10】 (be) bilingual improves attention and cognitive control in both children and adults.

It’s 【小题1】 long-term question for teachers: 【小题2】 do you get children who hate physical activity to take part in PE lessons? A Northampton primary school believes it has the answer.【小题3】(Design) to make the least active pupils take an interest in their fitness, a program 【小题4】(introduce) at Lings Primary School recently. And not only have the pupils developed an interest in activities ranging from football to ballroom dancing, according to the school, but their school work has also improved 【小题5】(significant).

The students also turn up on time—Ling now has the best 【小题6】(attend) record in the country at 98 percent.   The turnaround had been achieved by simply making PE fun. Instead of 【小题7】(climb) wall bars and running on the spot, the pupils practice exercises such as moving like animals. One routine involves crawling around the floor like a bear and moving around like gorillas. In 【小题8】, the children try to maintain their balance on the boards made of rubber, all of which stretch their muscles and improve fitness.

Baroness Campbell, who chairs the Youth Sport Trust, which designed the program, said, “We want 【小题9】(show)young people that physical activity is fun and a great way to learn skills which will stay with them 【小题10】 life.”