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What fun it was to play games rather than take special exercise when you were a pupil! Back then, racing around the playground or skipping rope for hours, you weren’t thinking fitness, you were thinking entertainment. But in this age of high-tech home equipment and underused gym memberships, the simple joy of jumping rope has been forgotten. Rediscovering it will give you a total-body exercise you can find.    Although considered an excellent form of exercise, jumping rope has never gained widespread acceptance because of two fundamental reasons. First, most people recognize jumping rope as an excellent form of cardiovascular（心血管的）exercise, but they also believe that it is simply too difficult. In other words, they don’t think they’ll be able to continue jumping for the near 20 minutes that it takes to achieve a beneficial physical outcome. Second, many view it as somewhat boring and overly repetitive not as something fun or enjoyable.    As a matter of fact, jumping rope can be great fun if you find a proper way to practice it. Instead of doing the usual two-foot bounce over and over again, people good at rope-jumping often change their pattern every 10 or 20 jumps. A single bounce, a double-bounce, a skip, a knee-up, side swings, as well as a variety of other easy-to-learn free-style rope-jumping.    Now researchers are learning that jumping rope also prepares the brain for learning. It is an exercise allowing both brain hemispheres to perform in parallel to each other. In short, jumping rope can be a life-long activity requiring little equipment, time and space, yet leading to a much healthier life.

28．We can learn from the first paragraph that          .

A．advanced equipment has replaced jumping rope.

B．people like to go to gyms to take exercise.

C．jumping rope has been out of mind.

D．jumping rope is only an entertainment.

29．Why has jumping rope never gained widespread acceptance?

A．Because it is harmful to cardiovascular.

B．Because it is time-consuming and less enjoyable.

C．Because it takes more time and energy.

D．Because it has disappeared in modern society.

30. The author writes this article to           .

A．advise people to pick up and enjoy jumping rope

B．object to the high-tech home equipment

C．make people aware of the importance of health

D．analyze why jumping rope has not widely spread

31．The best title of the text would be           .

A．Jumping Rope Is Full of Joy and Fun

B．Jumping Rope Doesn’t It the Old People

C．Jumping Rope Has Gained Widespread Acceptance

D．Jumping Rope Is an Easy Exercise Beneficial to Health

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