At the age of 7, Rudolph Ingram Jr. also known as “Blaze the Great” has already broken several records and has become the fastest boy in the country, showing early signs of possibly becoming the next Usain Bolt.
Blaze’s father Rudolph Ingram Sr. shared that the little boy started training when he was only 4 years old right after watching the Olympics. Since then, he has shown great athleticism. His most recent 100-meter dash clocked at 13.48 seconds, breaking the USA Track and Field records for his age group.
“I feel great, anyways I trained for it,” said Blaze, who dreams “to get into the National Football League” someday.
His father has always been hands-on in his training to prepare for his future, but still lets him be a kid.
“He watched the Usain Bolt documentary, he has seen a lot of those people’s documentaries and he realizes that they were doing the same thing that he was doing at that age. So he could see where this would lead to,” he said.
Blaze has caught the attention of many people, including football players O.J. Howard and Mike Evans from Tampa Bay Bucs and basketball star LeBron James. His social media account @blaze_813 has more than 500,000 followers. Moreover, when talking about what he has accomplished and will accomplish in the future, his father Rudolph Ingram Sr. said, “This is my baby. I feel like he’s a one in a million children. I don’t like saying it because he’s my child but I definitely feel like he does great things.”
1. What kind of person is Blaze’s father according to the text?| A．Open-minded and supportive. | B．Warm-hearted and determined. |
| C．Powerful and strict. | D．Patient and calm. |
| A．His great athleticism. | B．Watching the Olympics. |
| C．Sports stars’ stories. | D．His father’s requirement. |
| A．He has gained fans from all over the world. |
| B．He has made friends with many sports stars. |
| C．His father is very proud of him. |
| D．His performance is beyond his father’s expectation. |
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【推荐1】One afternoon, while staying with friends at their house there, my husband and I decided to go for a walk along the traffic-free country road in the area. We met a beautiful Golden Retriever. He seemed exceptionally friendly so we stopped to play with him, throwing a stick which he retrieved (取回) several times happily. When we continued our walk, he followed us. I couldn’t deny that we were enjoying his company.
After about twenty minutes, we found ourselves walking along a dirt road in an unfamiliar area. One house, almost hidden by tall trees, seemed somehow strange. I wanted to get as far away from that place as possible.
Just then, the door to the house opened and five dogs rushed out, barking as they ran toward us. I felt terrified and couldn’t move. All of a sudden, our new friend appeared between the dogs and us. He faced them-all five of them-barking and baring his teeth. I was amazed to see the attacking dogs stop in their tracks ten feet away from him. Our protector held them there while we escaped.
At a safe distance, we looked back and saw the five dogs heading back toward their house. But the Golden Retriever was nowhere in sight. I felt an ache in my heart; I missed our friend already.
With a feeling of emptiness, we made our way back to the house, hoping the whole way that we would see him again. But it was not to be.
When I told our friend about the encounter, her eyes flew wide open as she exclaimed, “It was an angel!”
To this day I have no doubt, a four-legged angel protected us.
1. While meeting the house hidden by tall trees, the author may feel _________.| A．curious | B．frightened | C．peaceful | D．excited |
| A．Loyal. | B．Brave. | C．Cruel. | D．Lovely. |
| A．A Romantic Walk | B．A Beautiful Encounter |
| C．A Four-Legged Angel | D．A Terrible Experience |
| A．May the ford answer you when you are in trouble, may the name of the God of Jacob protect you. —Psalm |
| B．Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach. —George Sheehan |
| C．Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. —Robert Browning |
| D．There’s a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there’s a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect. —Roseanne Barr |
【推荐2】The Matschie’s tree kangaroo is one of 10 species of tree kangaroos, all of which are endangered or threatened. A tree kangaroo is typically about the size of a raccoon (浣熊) and weighs around 19 pounds. They live in the high canopy (树冠) of the rainforest, about 100 to 150 feet in the air. The Matschie’s tree kangaroo is orange and brown with a face that looks like a teddy bear. They can leap 60 feet to the ground from trees without getting hurt.
In 1996, Dr. Lisa Dabek helped found the Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program (TKCP). Now, 16 years later, though still endangered, the population of the Matschie’s tree kangaroo is stabilizing. Much of the success is due to the work of Dabek, Senior Conservation Scientist at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington, and Director of the TKCP.
According to Dabek, the TKCP needed to cooperate with the local clans (部落), some of whom kill them for food and ceremonial clothing. Dabek said, “We and the clans made a compromise. The clans would dedicate a part of their land as a ‘no hunting area’. But they could continue to hunt on their other land. Together they set aside 180,000 acres of land. They called this a ‘Wildlife Bank’.”
Animal behavior has always been interesting to Dr. Dabek. She said, “When I was 8 years old, a friend and I wrote down what we wanted to be when we grew up and sealed it inside an envelope to open when we were teenagers. When I opened it I was reminded that I wanted to be an animal trainer. And that is kind of what I am today.”
1. We know that Matschie’s tree kangaroo .| A．live at the bottom of trees in the rainforest |
| B．are orange from head to foot |
| C．are the only species of tree kangaroos |
| D．face the possibility of extinction |
| A．disappointing | B．amazing |
| C．ridiculous | D．meaningful |
| A．stop hunting the Matschie’s tree kangaroo completely |
| B．leave all their land to the Matschie’s tree kangaroos |
| C．set aside a “no hunting area” |
| D．hunt the Matschie’s tree kangaroos for special events |
| A．Dr. Dabek, a Famous Naturalist |
| B．The Protection of the Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo |
| C．The Living Habits of the Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo |
| D．How Dabek Became an Animal Lover |
【推荐3】The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report stating that the world is quickly running out of time to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. To get there, the world would have to cut current emissions by 45 percent by 2030.That sounds absurdly unlikely.
But before we give in to hopelessness，we should remember that the technology to deal with climate change is going along at high speed. The largest source of U. S. carbon emissions is transportation，and a Green New Deal for motor vehicles would be quite straightforward. The reason is simple：with some government subsidies (补贴), electric cars and buses are now cost-competitive with fossil-fuel vehicles. Electric buses have made the greatest speed into the market, because they are a logical choice for electrification. By the end of 2018, electric vehicles were replacing about 280,000 barrels of oil demand per day — about 84 percent of which was mainly consumed by buses.
The electric car market is also reaching maturity, with appealing designs, longer range, and a quickly-expanding rapid charging network in many countries. It’s worth emphasizing that most of the infrastructure (基础设施) necessary to recharge electric vehicles already exists. People often tend to think that we need to replace every gas station, but actually all homes and businesses already have an electrical connection which can be easily improved for fast charging. All that is needed to go fully electric is enough battery capacity and fast charging stations to deal with long trips.
Now America would have to repair its electricity production, freight rail, shipping, and so on to fully decarbonizes (脱碳) the transportation sector, which will be considerably more difficult than simply rooting out fossil fuel vehicles from the market.
But greening America’s vehicle would be straightforward, relatively cheap, and a huge step forward on climate. The politics of climate change are so fearful that being hopeless can seem logical, but the first step to achieving a tough goal is the confident belief that it can be done. And this particular step wouldn’t even be that tough.
1. How’s the goal of keeping global warming below 1.5 Celsius according to Paragraph 1?| A．Reasonable. | B．Safe. |
| C．Realistic. | D．Impossible. |
| A．are cost-competitive with government subsidies |
| B．run at a greater speed on the road |
| C．deal with longer trips |
| D．look more appealing |
| A．Replace as many as gas stations. |
| B．Build more infrastructures for recharging. |
| C．Make businesses have electrical connections. |
| D．Solve the problem of long trips. |
| A．Negative. | B．Supportive. |
| C．Uncertain. | D．Indifferent. |
【推荐1】Here’s the list of skiers, who have won four consecutive (连续的) world championships: Nobody.
Well, nobody besides Mikaela Shiffrin, who did it last Saturday in Are, Sweden. The Colorado skier, still just 23, is the best story, really, of this sports winter in the slalom (障碍滑雪).
She pulled it off, despite an illness that challenged her breathing. Shiffrin told NBC after her win that her mother, Eileen, advised her before her second run: You don’t have to do this. But Shiffrin told herself what she had told herself many times before: “I just need 60 seconds.” So she did it, and she got it. Shiffrin is closing in on her third World Cup overall title. She’s ranked No. 1 on the planet in slalom.
In women’s skiing, the mountain is now Shiffrin’s. She’s earned it. Those two (and soon three) World Cup overalls; 56 World Cup individual victories; and, oh yeah, right, three Olympic medals, two of them gold. Shiffrin is already considered a serious threat to Ingemar Stenmark’s record of 86 World Cup victories, and Lindsey Vonn’s 82, though the 34-year-old surely would have collected more had she not suffered repeated injuries during her career. Of course, Shiffrin may wind up chasing someone else’s mark—Austria’s brilliant Marcel Hirscher, 29, now has 68 World Cup wins.
At the same time, Shiffrin loathes all the talk about the numbers and records. “People see the records and statistics. They are asking for more, more, more…it looks easy, but it isn’t. Nowhere close,” Shiffrin wrote. “What I see is training, sleepless nights, pain, doubt, delayed lights, canceled flights, lost luggage, expense, adventure, and some races mixed in there.”
That’s what happens when you’re as good as she is. But nobody’s been as good as she is. In a sense, Shiffrin is just getting started. It’s very possible she will be at her peak powers when the Winter Olympics arrive in Beijing in 2022.
1. What do we know about Mikaela Shiffrin in her recent slalom race?| A．She was not in her best physical condition. |
| B．She pulled out of the race in the second run. |
| C．She followed her mother’s advice and succeeded. |
| D．She told herself a one-minute story before the race. |
| A．Eileen Shiffrin’s. | B．Ingemar Stenmark’s. |
| C．Lindsey Vonn’s. | D．Marcel Hirscher’s. |
| A．Summarizes. | B．Gives away. | C．Dislikes. | D．Focuses on. |
| A．Shiffrin Is Moving Mountains | B．Shiffrin Is At Her Peak |
| C．The Rise And Fall Of A Colorado Skier | D．The Most Popular Winter Sports |
【推荐2】James Cleveland Owens was the son of a farmer and the grandson of black slaves. His family moved to Cleveland when he was 9. There, a school teacher asked the youth his name.
“J.C,” he replied.
She thought he had said “Jesse”, and he had a new name.
Owens ran his first race at age 13. After high school, he went to Ohio State University. He had to work part time so as to pay for his education. As a second year student, in the Big Ten games in 1935, he set even more records than he would in the Olympic Games a year later.
A week before the Big Ten meet, Owens accidentally fell down a flight of stairs. His back hurt so much that he could not exercise all week, and he had to be helped in and out of the car that drove him to the meet. He refused to listen to the suggestions that he give up and said he would try. He did try, and the results are in the record book.
The stage was set for Owens’ victory at the Olympic Games in Berlin the next year, and his success would come to be regarded as not only athletic but also political. Hitler did not congratulate any of the African American winners.
“It was all right with me,” he said years later. “I didn’t go to Berlin to shake hands with him, anyway.”
Having returned from Berlin, he received no telephone calls from the president of his own country, either. In fact, he was not honored by the United States until 1976, four years before his death.
Owens’ Olympic victories made little difference to him. He earned his living by looking after a school playground, and accepted money to race against cars, trucks, motorcycles and dogs.
“Sure, it bothered me,” he said later. “But at least it was an honest living. I had to eat.”
In time, however, his gold medals changed his life.“They have kept me alive over the years,” he once said. “Time has stood still for me. That golden moment dies hard.”
1. Owens got his other name “Jesse”when________.| A．he went to Ohio State University |
| B．his teacher made fun of him |
| C．his teacher took “J.C” for “Jesse” |
| D．he won gold medals in the Big Ten meet |
| A．hurt himself in the back |
| B．succeeded in setting many records |
| C．tried every sports event but failed |
| D．had to give up some events |
| A．he was not of the right race |
| B．he was the son of a poor farmer |
| C．he didn't shake hands with Hitler |
| D．he didn't talk to the US president on the phone |
| A．have been changed for money to help him live on |
| B．have made him famous in the US |
| C．have encouraged him to overcome difficulties in life |
| D．have kept him busy with all kinds of jobs |
| A．Jesse Owens, a great American athlete |
| B．Golden moment — a lifetime struggle |
| C．Making a living as a sportsman |
| D．How to be a successful athlete |
【推荐3】In November 2020, US climber Emily Harrington, 34, took on El Capitan--a 3000 foot(914 meters) rock formation(岩层) in Yosemite National Park, US. She accomplished her feat within a day and became the first woman to free-climb the Golden Gate route.
It used to take weeks for rock climbers to reach the top of El Capitan, even with the help of a partner and climbing aids. In recent years, only three people--all men-- had free-climbed the Golden Gate route on El Capitan in 24 hours, according to CNN.
Although rock climbing has long been dominated by men, the number of female climbers has been rising in recent years. Even in the pandemic, many of them have made great achievements and pushed human limits.
“I spent a lot of years feeling like I didn't belong, like maybe I hadn't earned my place to be a Yosemite climber,” she told the San Francisco Chronicle. “But throughout this experience I learned that there is no belonging or not belonging, no formula to achievement up there.”
The rising number of female climbing enthusiasts should come as no surprise. According to the website Climbing.com. “Climbing is one of the few sports where it's possible to level the playing field. Women's flexibility helps offset anything we may lack in strength, bridging the gap between the sexes.”
Legendary Austrian climber Angela Eiter is another strong female figure in the climbing world. In 2020 Eiter made news as she climbed the unknown face she calls Madame Ching in her home country.
According to the New York Post, the route was free of traces. That means Eiter has to search for the holds and predict how the moves were going to play out by herself. Worse still, the rock there is really fragile and some holds had to be fixed with glue. But after intensive indoor training to visualize(构思) the route and build up her strength, Eiter, who stands 154 cm high and weighs 46 kg, made it.
“I am not the strongest woman and I am very small, and I am happy that I can show other women that they can also do it,” she told the New York Post.
As Climbing.com noted, this battle with oneself embodies(体现) the spirit behind the sport. “Maybe that's why more women feel more empowered to find their own way, break free of the mold(模式) and climb what we want to climb. Women have decided to follow their hearts.”
1. What did Emily Harrington accomplish?| A．She was the first person to take on El Capitan successfully. |
| B．She reached the top of El Capitan within a day. |
| C．She free-climbed the Golden Gate route within weeks. |
| D．She climbed the Golden Gate route with climbing aids. |
| A．bring about | B．make up for | C．build up | D．make for |
| A．There were no traces to follow. |
| B．There were no holds to use. |
| C．Her prediction about the route was wrong. |
| D．she didn't bring necessities like glue. |
| A．Work hard to be a role model. | B．Find where you belong. |
| C．Always battle others. | D．Be brave and pursue your goal. |
