56. ## 第二节(共 10 小题;每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分)
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My first time doing tai chi
For the first 15 minutes of my tai chi (太极) class, we remain56(entire) in one spot to warm up. Angela, a tai chi57 (instruct) with twenty-eight years of experience, says that a successful hour of tai chi is an hour with no negative thoughts. “Your mind58body go together. That's all that matters."
Although not a morning person, I begin my lesson with Angela and about twenty others at a Sydney community centre courtyard at 7 am. “Put your59(foot) parallel (平行), and use your dan tian to hold up your body," she says.
In tai chi, the dan tian is your qi core and qi in Chinese means life force. Now, I 60 (suppose) to feel the weight on my legs and sink my dan tian.
We move on to tai chi positions, of61there are forty-two in the style that Angela teaches. Today, we will only be doing the first nine. The movements have62 (describe) names like holding the bowl" and
grabbing the bird's tail."
During most of the class, we follow Angela and concentrate on making tiny, isolated (单独) movements. Then, Angela gets us to try the nine movements on our own. I keep my eyes 63 a woman to my right and try to copy her movements, but unfortunately I soon lose focus.
At the end of the lesson, I feel wide awake, despite it still64 (be) early at 8 am. It's time for my dan tian 65(meet) another life force: coffee.