The documentary displays Lang’s inspiring journey from her gold medal victory as a volleyball player in the 1984 Olympics to her amazing career as a successful coach for both Team USA from 2005 to 2008 and China since 2013. She was the first person to win Olympic volleyball gold as a player and coach. Lang Ping revealed the secret to such remarkable achievements in the documentary. As she said, “
But illness is certainly not the only difficulty Lang has faced. In 2005, she struggled with balancing raising her daughter Lydia Bai Lang, who lived in the US, and her coaching career. She eventually decided to work for USA Volleyball that year.
There is no doubt that Lang is one of the greatest players and coaches in history. As an American athlete commented in the documentary,
| A．Who is Lang Ping? |
| B．Lang is the hardest to defeat. |
| C．I believe volleyball was my life. |
| D．What makes one a great person? |
| E．Glory and challenges go hand in hand. |
| F．Lang Ping is like Michael Jordan in our minds. |
| G．This decision aroused a lot of negative comments in China. |
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【推荐1】The 71st annual Boston Marathon was held on April 19, 1967. This day was filled with freezing rain, snow and strong winds. However, for one participant named Kathrine Switzer, the weather conditions were the least of her worries. Kathrine was the first and only registered female runner in the marathon and she had something to prove.
The first few miles were a piece of cake for Kathrine. Then around mile four, she realized someone was chasing her. She turned around and was startled to see an angry face just inches away. It was the race director (赛事总监), Jock Semple.
“Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers!” Jock yelled. As he said this, he grabbed Kathrine and tried ripping her race numbers off her sweatshirt. Kathrine was so shocked and terrified. As Jock clung to her sweatshirt, Kathrine struggled to break free.
Kathrine felt awful. She thought about dropping out, but soon she knew that wasn’t an option. “If I quit, nobody would ever believe that women had the capability to run 26-plus miles. If I quit, everybody would say it was a show. If quit, it would set women’s sports back, way back, instead of forward…”
While all this thinking was going on, Kathrine continued, until she found herself nearing the finish line. Completely soaked and greeted by only a handful of reporters, none of whom cheered, Kathrine completed the race in a time of 4 hours and 20 minutes. The race was over, but her pursuit of change was just beginning.
She was a primary force behind getting women officially accepted into the Boston marathon in 1972. Her leadership also paved the way for the International Olympic Committee to admit the women’s marathon into the 1984 Olympic Games. Her number 261 on that historic day in Boston has also become a symbol of fearlessness for millions of women worldwide.
1. What did Kathrine hope to achieve in the 71st Boston Marathon?| A．Being a registered runner. | B．Proving women’s athletic ability. |
| C．Instructing her friend as a coach. | D．Providing service as a volunteer. |
| A．To follow her pace. | B．To defeat her in the race. |
| C．To force her to quit. | D．To remind her of the rules. |
| A．Her leadership. | B．Her ambition. |
| C．Her popularity. | D．Her contribution. |
| A．Caring and sensitive. | B．Fearless and responsible. |
| C．Adventurous and kind. | D．Courageous and determined. |
This is an eight-hour course for beginners who want to learn how to use a 35mm camera. The teacher will cover such areas as kinds of film, light, and lenses(镜头). Bring your own 35mm camera to the class.
Course Charge: $150
Jan. 10, 12, 17, 19, Tues. & Thurs. 6-8p.m.
Marianne Adams is a professional photographer whose photographs appear in many magazines.
Understanding Computers
This twelve-hour course is for people who don’t know very much about computers, but who need to learn about them. You will learn what computers are, what they can and can’t do, and how to use them.
Course Charge: $75
Equipment Charge: $10
Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28, Sat. 9-12 a.m.
Joseph Saimders is a professor of computer science at New Urban University. He has over twelve years of experience in the computer field.
Stop Smoking
Do you want to stop smoking? Have you already tried to stop and failed? Now it is the time to stop smoking using the latest methods. You can stop smoking, and this twelve-hour course will help you do it.
Course Charge: $30
Jan. 4, 11, 18, 25 Mon. 4-7 p.m.
Dr.John Goode is a practicing psychologist(心理学家)who has helped hundreds of people stop smoking.
Typing
This course on weekdays is for those who want to type as well as those who want to improve their typing. You are tested in the first class and practice at one of eight different skill levels. This allows you to learn at your own speed. Each program lasts 20 hours. Bring your own paper.
Course Charge: $125
Materials Charge: $25
Two hours each evening for two weeks.
This course is taught by a number of business education teachers who have successfully taught typing courses before.
1. The word “professional” in this advertisement most probably means “_____”
| A．spiritual | B．journalist |
| C．professor | D．experienced |
| A．Basic Photography | B．Understanding Computers |
| C．Stop Smoking | D．Typing |
| A．$50 | B．$30 | C．$10 | D．$125 |
| A．Basic Photography | B．Understanding Computers |
| C．Typing | D．Stop Smoking |
【推荐3】Not so long ago, most people didn’t know who Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was going to become. She was just an average high school athlete. There was every indication that she was just another Jamaican teenager without much of a future. However, one person wants to change this. Stephen Francis observed then eighteen-year-old Shelly-Ann at a track meet and was convinced that he had seen the beginning of true greatness. Her times were not exactly impressive, but even so, he sensed there was something trying to get out, something the other coaches had overlooked when they had assessed her and found her lacking. He decided to offer Shelly-Ann a place in his very strict training sessions. Their cooperation quickly produced results, and a few years later at Jamaica’s Olympic trails in early 2008, Shelly Ann, who at that time only ranked number 70 in the world, beat Jamaica’s unchallenged queen of the sprint (短跑).
“Where did she come from?” asked an astonished sprinting world, before concluding that she must be one of those one-hit wonders that spring up from time to time, only to disappear again without signs. But Shelly Ann was to prove that she was anything but a one-hit wonder. At the Beijing Olympic she swept away any doubts about her ability to perform consistently by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 meters Olympic gold. She did it again one year on at the World Championship in Berlin, becoming world champion with a time of 10.73 — the fourth fastest ever.
Shelly-Ann is a little woman with a big smile. She has a mental toughness that did not come about by chance. Her journey to becoming the fastest woman on earth has been anything but smooth and effortless. She grew up in one of Jamaica’s toughest inner-city communities known as Waterhouse, where she lived in a one-room apartment, sleeping four in a bed with her mother and two brothers. Waterhouse, one of the poorest communities in Jamaica, is a really violent and overpopulated place. Several of Shelly-Ann's friends and family were caught up in the killings; one of her cousins was shot dead only a few streets away from where she lived. Sometimes her family didn’t have enough to eat. She ran at the school championships barefooted because she couldn’t afford shoes. Her mother Maxime, one of a family of fourteen, had been an athlete herself as a young girl but, like so many other girls in Waterhouse, had to stop after she had her first baby. Maxime’s early entry into the adult world with its responsibilities gave her the determination to ensure that her kids would not end up in Waterhouse's roundabout(循环) of poverty. One of the first things Maxime used to do with Shelly-Ann was taking her to the track, and she was ready to sacrifice everything.
It didn't take long for Shelly-Ann to realize that sports could be her way out of Waterhouse. On a summer evening in Beijing in 2008, all those long, hard hours of work and commitment finally bore fruit. The barefoot kid who just a few years previously had been living in poverty, surrounded by criminals and violence, had written a new chapter in the history of sports.
But Shelly-Ann’s victory was far greater than that. The night she won Olympic gold in Beijing, the routine murders in Waterhouse and the drug wars in the neighbouring streets stopped. The dark cloud above one of the world’s toughest criminal neighbourhoods simply disappeared for a few days. “I have so much fire burning for my country,” Shelly said. She plans to start a foundation for homeless children and wants to build a community centre in Waterhouse. She hopes to inspire the Jamaicans to lay down their weapons. She intends to fight to make it a woman’s as well as a man’s world.
As Muhammad Ali puts it, “Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them. A desire, a dream, a vision.” One of the things Shelly-Ann can be proud of is her understanding of this truth.
1. What did the sprinting world think of Shelly-Ann before the 2008 Olympic Games?| A．She would become a promising star. |
| B．She badly needed to set higher goals. |
| C．Her sprinting career would not last long. |
| D．Her talent for sprinting was known to all. |
| A．Her success and lessons in her career. |
| B．Her interest in Shelly-Ann’s quick profit. |
| C．Her wish to get Shelly-Ann out of poverty. |
| D．Her early entrance into the sprinting world. |
| A．She was highly rewarded for her efforts. |
| B．She was eager to do more for her country. |
| C．She became an athletic star in her country. |
| D．She was the envy of the whole community. |
| A．The Making of a Great Athlete |
| B．The Dream for Championship |
| C．The Key to High Performance |
| D．The Power of Full Responsibility |
【推荐1】This time there was no showboating for the cameras — or dark and long nights of the soul. Instead, on a heart-warming afternoon at the Genting Snow Park, the Winter Olympics witnessed the greatest story in its history.
For 16 years Lindsey Jacobellis has been known as the snowboarder who was miles clear of the Turin 2006 Olympics board cross final — until she fell on the last jump while showing off by taking a celebratory grab (抓取) of her board. It was an act that turned gold into silver, and led to her spending years trying to process what had happened. Yet somehow, in her fifth Olympics, the woman sprang a considerable shock by finally winning a gold medal at the age of 36.
For good measure, her gold in the snowboard cross was also her nation’s first of these Games. As Jacobellis motored towards the finish in the final, she could hear the French boarder Chloé Trespeuch closing. But this time she wasn’t going to let gold slip away. Afterwards she acknowledged that without that mistake in 2006 she may never have won gold in Beijing. “ Probably not, and I probably would have quit the sport at that point because I wasn’t really having fun with it. There was so much pressure on me to be the golden girl. I’d won so many races going into it and it’s a lot for a young athlete to have on their plate, ” she said.
But this day was mostly about Jacobellis, a five-time snowboard cross world champion, who finally secured the first prize. Afterwards she said that when she got to the start line of the final, she felt unusually calm. She said, “ They can keep talking about it all they want. Because it really shaped me into the person that I am. It kept me hungry and really helped me to keep fighting in the sport. ”
1. What does the author mainly want to convey in Paragraph 1?| A．There were dark and long nights in the winter of Beijing. |
| B．There was a champion born in the Beijing Winter Olympics. |
| C．There was a heart-warming story happening in the boating race. |
| D．There was the greatest photo taken in the competition in 2022. |
| A．She fell on her last jump as grabbing her board to celebrate. |
| B．She had a mental disorder during her board cross competition. |
| C．She had her leg broken while training before the competition. |
| D．She was forbidden to join in the competition for some reason. |
| A．Warm-hearted. | B．Strong-minded. |
| C．Well-educated. | D．Born-gifted. |
| A．To stress the power of social media. | B．To mark an experience of an athlete. |
| C．To show the importance of not giving up. | D．To share the greatest joy with others. |
【推荐2】Kobe Bryant was born with basketball already in his blood. His dad was a former NBA star. When Kobe was six years old, his dad started playing basketball in Europe, so his family moved to Italy. The family stayed there for seven years. While living in Italy, Kobe learned to speak fluent Italian and started playing basketball.
The family moved back to the United States when Kobe was 13 and he started playing high school basketball. Kobe figured he was already good enough to play in the NBA, so he skipped college and was selected right after high school by the Charlotte Hornets in the first round of the 1996 NBA Draft. In a trade the Hornets are still crying about, they sent Kobe to the LA Lakers. Despite not going to college, Kobe was a quick learner on the courts of the NBA. He played in the NBA All-Star Game for the first time in 1998 and by 2000, Kobe had developed into one of basketball’s best players. Kobe and Shaquille O’Neal teamed up to lead the LA Lakers to three straight NBA Championship Titles from 2000 to 2002.
In 2003, Kobe was caught by the police. In 2004, the case against Kobe was dropped, but Kobe still had to live with a damaged reputation.
In 2004, Kobe tried to prove that he could lead the LA Lakers without Shaq. After Kobe told the Lakers he wouldn’t be wearing the purple and gold if Shaq was in the team, O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat before the 2004-2005 season. The trade was good news for the Heat, who won the NBA championship with O’Neal. In the next few years, Kobe grew disappointed as his team repeatedly suffered first round exits. The 2007-2008 season is when the LA Lakers finally got over the hump. They went on to have the best record of any team.
1. By the first sentence, the author means __________.| A．Kobe’s blood was special when he was born |
| B．all of Kobe’s family members are basketball players |
| C．Kobe liked to play with a basketball as a baby |
| D．Kobe was born to be a basketball player |
| A．Kobe was confident about his playing before high school |
| B．in 1998, Kobe became one of basketball’s best players |
| C．the LA Lakers have won three NBA Championship Titles till now |
| D．the Charlotte Hornets regretted trading Kobe |
a. Shaq was traded to the Heat.
b. Kobe was caught by the police.
c. Kobe’s family moved to Italy.
d. Kobe played in the NBA All-Star Game for the first time.
| A．cbad | B．dcab | C．cabd | D．cdba |
| A．gained the advantage |
| B．went through the hard times |
| C．lost the game |
| D．traded a better player |
| A．give us a brief introduction of Kobe |
| B．tell us how to become a basketball star |
| C．give us some news about the NBA All-Star Game |
| D．introduce the LA Lakers |
【推荐3】Over the weekend, social media was excited about a heart-stopping gymnastic routine and we have UCLA athlete Katelyn Ohashi to thank. The routine itself is only ninety seconds long, but the 21-year-old athlete jumped, flipped, turned, and showed off her incredible talent across the floor to a combination of R&B and soul music. Ohashi earned a well-deserved perfect 10 from the judges and her performance eventually led the UCLA to victory at the end of the competition.
But the best part? This isn’t the first time she’s gone viral — it’s the second time in a year she’s achieved eye-catching fame, and it’s for good reason. At the 2018 Pac 12 Championships, Ohashi performed an awesome floor routine set to a combination of Michael Jackson’s hits.
Ohashi exudes (流露) joy in her performances, and she’s not afraid to smile widely when she knows she’s done well. It’s acceptable, because it’s clear she’s having fun, a rare sight in the field of professional sports. Born in Seattle, Ohashi did four years on the USA Gymnastic’s junior national team, and won the 2013 American Cup. But behind the scenes, things weren’t so great.
Ohashi was under intense pressure competing at the elite (精英) level. Fans told her she wasn’t good enough, and she was under pressure to be thin. Ultimately, she decided to walk away from elite gymnastics to become a college athlete. She underwent surgery for a broken back and two torn shoulders in 2014. These injuries kept her away from the sport until 2015 when she joined the UCLA Bruins gymnastics team for the 2015–16 season.
“There was a time when I was on top of the world, an Olympic hopeful. I was unbeatable until I wasn’t,” Ohashi said. “It hurt. But it also took me finding Ms. Val and the UCLA and having a different goal and path to follow, to finally find joy and love within the sport again, which I haven’t been able to feel in a long time.”
1. Which is closest in meaning to the phrase “gone viral” underlined in paragraph 2?| A．Become popular. | B．Appear suddenly. |
| C．Change surprisingly. | D．Succeed unexpectedly. |
| A．She was little-known until recently. |
| B．Her gymnastic skills improved in the UCLA. |
| C．She won her first victory in the UCLA. |
| D．Her gymnastic career wasn’t always full of joy. |
| A．Regretful. | B．Appreciative. | C．Humorous. | D．Confused. |
| A．Regain self-confidence |
| B．Battle against ill remarks |
| C．Go beyond physical limits |
| D．Rediscover joy of gymnastics |
