69-year-old Xia Boyu recently became the oldest double amputee (双侧截肢者) to climb Mount Qomolangma. That is amazing, but even what is more impressive is the fact that he did it after he tried four times.
Xia Boyu’s first try to reach the top of Mount Qomolangma was in 1975, as part of an expedition (远征) by the Chinese Government. With only 250 meters to go from reaching the top, the team was stopped by bad weather. To make sure that everyone made it back alive, the team decided to turn back and finish their dream another time.
On the way, Xia Boyu gave his sleeping bag to one of his teammates who was in worse shape than him. Unluckily, this selfless act made him lose both his feet to frostbite (冻伤).
In 1996, Xia Boyu got cancer. But it also didn’t stop the mountain climber from realizing his dream of climbing the world’s highest peak. “Climbing Mount Qomolangma is my dream, ” Xia said. “I have to realize it. It also stands for a personal challenge, a challenge of fate. ”
Over twenty years after losing his feet, Xia Boyu trained to get his body ready for another try at climbing Mount Qomolangma. In 2014, he tried again, but finally had to turn back because of bad weather. The same thing happened the following year, as well as in 2016.
In 2018, Xia Boyu finally reached the top of Mount Qomolangma on his fifth try. He thus became only the second double amputee to climb the world’s highest mountain top, after Mark Inglis from New Zealand, who did it in 2006, and the first to do it from the Nepal (尼泊尔) side.
Answer the following questions with no more than 7 words.
1. How many times did Xia Boyu try to climb Mount Qomolangma?
2. Who is the first double amputee to climb the world’s highest mountain top?
3. When was Xia Boyu’s first try to reach the top of Mount Qomolangma?
4. Why did Xia Boyu give up trying while climbing Mount Qomolangma in 2014?
5. What happened to him after Xia Boyu gave his sleeping bag to his teammate?
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【推荐1】In 1969, watching the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon on TV from his parents’ farm in Canada, Chris Hadfield was amazed and excited. On that day, at only nine years old, Chris made the most important decision of his life: He was going to be an astronaut.
There wasn’t even a training program in Canada to become an astronaut, but Chris was determined. He spent a great deal of time studying and fixing engines. After school he joined the Canadian army where he learned to fly many different types of planes. Chris did a lot of research for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA)in the United States and had special training. Finally, in 1995, he rode his first rocket into space.
Chris became the first Canadian astronaut to walk in space, and went on a number of space missions throughout his career. The most memorable was his five-month stay on the International Space Station(ISS)as commander, between December 2012 and May 2013. He posted on social media thousands of photos of Earth and videos of himself explaining how things work in zero gravity. His followers could watch him sleeping, brushing his teeth, washing his hands, or preparing “space” snacks in zero gravity, which turned him into a social media phenomenon.
Today, Chris travels the world giving talks about his work. He once said, “Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you’d be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don’t let life randomly kick you into the adult you don’t want to become. ”
1. What led Chris to make up his mind to be an astronaut?| A．The life on his parents’farm. | B．Apollo 11’s landing on the Moon. |
| C．His ability to fly various planes. | D．His passion for studying engines. |
| A．Serving in the Canadian army. | B．Receiving a lot of training from the NASA. |
| C．Working as commander on the ISS. | D．Being the first Canadian astronaut to walk in space. |
| A．The space tasks he conducted in his life. | B．His great contributions to Canada’s space industry. |
| C．His strong determination to pursue his dream. | D．The pictures and videos he posted online. |
| A．Courage is what it takes to overcome difficulties. | B．The secret of success lies in the firm aim. |
| C．From small beginnings come great endings. | D．Opportunities go hand in hand with challenges. |
【推荐2】Winston and Christian Edmondson have recently graduated from a Texas police academy together, which set the record for graduating together as a father and son duo (搭档) from the academy in recent memory.
“As we all know, being a policerman is very challenging and it was very refreshing that a father and son duo wanted to actually come,”officer Damon Ing said. According to Winston, the father, his decision to become a police officer was a long time coming, and something he hoped would ultimately become a family affair. “I had been thinking about getting into law enforcement (执法) and I had been encouraging both my sons to get into it,” he explained to KTVT.
After he and Christian decided to join the academy, the two said they found themselves pushing one another to be better.“My dad and I are really competitive,” Christian said. “This academy was good for both of us, I think, because it gave us a bond.”Winston added, “There were a few times I got the better of him. But not often.”
Though they graduated side by side, the father and son may be going separate ways in their careers，as Christian, was officially sworn into the Flower Mound Police Department on Thursday, while his dad continued to consider offers.
And surprisingly enough, the Edmondsons weren’t the only ones to grab attention at Tanant County College’s Law Enforcement Academy graduation. William Shaw also left his mark by completing the police academy at 64 years old, according to KTVT. ”The age doesn’t matter. If your son push yourself and persevere (坚持不懈), you’ll get there,” Shaw said.
1. Why did the father and son duo in Texas attract peopled attention?| A．They graduated from the same police academy together. |
| B．They graduated with honors from the police academy. |
| C．The son took over his father’s job as a policeman. |
| D．The father was the oldest of all the graduates. |
| A．He wanted to be a policeman for a long time. |
| B．He held high expectations for his sons. |
| C．He won great support for his career. |
| D．He was born in a family of police. |
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| A．Hard work pays off. | B．Doing is better than saying. |
| C．A good beginning makes a good ending. | D．It’s never too late to achieve your dream. |
【推荐3】Abandoned outside an orphanage as a baby and adopted at the age of three by a family in the Netherlands, 16-year-old model Abbing has become known around the world, as a model who has appeared in fashion magazines-but also as an inspiring representative of the albino(白化病人)community.
When it comes to modelling, Abbing has found her difference more of a blessing: She is represented by the Zebedee Talent agency, which aims to make people who have disabilities more visible in the world of fashion.
“I want to help people to see that being different is good, and definitely not some curse (诅咒), as they believe in countries like Tanzania and Malawi, ” said Abbing. “Some companies try to include models who are different, but sometimes for the wrong reason, because they want to say: ‘Hey, look at us! We are also including people with differences or people of different color’. ”
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Abbing loves travelling, meeting new people and particularly working with artists. The teen also pours her creativity into decoration artwork. ”Because I see the world from a different angle, my artwork turns out a little different as well, " she said.
1. What is the main reason for Abbing’s being chosen by Zebedee?| A．Her physical disability. |
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| C．Her success in the fashion world. |
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| A．Creative and honest. |
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| D．Athletic and humorous. |
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【推荐1】阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, Tennis, Cricket — anything with a round ball, I was useless.” he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England’s rural Devonshire.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man’s cold-water exploits (成就): Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future.
Journey s to the Pole aren’t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy. “John Ridgway was one of the few who didn’t say, ‘You are completely crazy,’” Saunders says.
In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition to ward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite (冻疮), had a closer encounter with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.
Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more in the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.
This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.
1. What was the turning point at which Saunders took to sports?(No more than 15 words)【推荐2】Overcoming extreme cold, cruel ice and people dismissing him as mad, Slovenian Davo Kamicar became the first person to ski non-stop down Mount Everest.
After a dramatic fall over almost sheer cliffs of snow, stones and ice, 38-year-old Kamicar emerged in his base camp after five hours of skiing. “I feel only absolute happiness and absolute tiredness,” he said.
At one stage he had to speed over stretches of ice that collapsed and broke underneath him and could have sent him falling into the deep crevasses (裂缝) that dot the mountain.
The descent (下落) had been seen by many as insanely dangerous. The Darwin Awards website, which documents deaths which are foolhardy, urged people to log on to Internet broadcasts of the attempt. “Keep your eyes peeled for a live Darwin Award,” it said.
However, the only body to make the news was the corpse (尸体) of an unknown mountaineer which Kamicar zipped past as he descended, one of an estimated 120 corpses, thought to litter the slopes.
“This mountain is always full of surprises. Seeing a dead man out there was a really shocking experience,” he said.
Thanks to strategically placed cameras on the mountain and one attached to his safety helmet, hundreds of thousands of people witnessed his descent on the Internet, which was one of the record highs ever. During the run more than 650,000 hits were registered on his expedition website jamming it for a time as others tried to access the site.
Weather conditions were so severe that Kamicar had to abandon plans to rest on the summit before attempting to descend. Instead, suffering from fatigue, as soon as he reached the top he put on his skis and flung himself back down the mountain.
Dealing with the mountain had already cost Kamicar two fingers when a previous failed attempt saw him get frostbite as a fierce storm lashed the peak.
Kamicar comes from a skiing family and took part in his first Himalayan skiing expedition in 1989. Since then, he has been tireless in raising funds and sponsorship for more expeditions, with Everest as the permanent goal.
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| B．descending Mount Everest within the shortest time ever |
| C．attracting largest number of audience online for his descent |
| D．becoming the first to film his descent down Mount Everest |
| A．sudden and hard to accept | B．taking unnecessary risks |
| C．attracting public attention | D．working hard to fool others |
| A．Kamicar saw about 120 dead bodies littering the slope. |
| B．The broadcast of his descent online was cancelled because of the website jam. |
| C．Kamicar’s family had a tradition to conquer Mount Everest. |
| D．This was not Kamicar’s first attempt on Mount Everest. |
| A．Mad man skis down Everest | B．Darwin Award for Davo Kamicar |
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【推荐3】Space X has launched the third test flight of its Starship spacecraft, the largest and most powerful rocket, ever built, which aims to carry astronauts to the moon and, eventually, to Mars. The 120-metre system, which weights about 5,000 tonnes when fully fuelled, took off from Space X’s spaceport, named Starbase, on the Gulf of Mexico in Boca Chica, Texas. It entered space several minutes later and the six Raptor engines powered it to its expected orbit.
Two previous attempts ended in the explosion of both the spacecraft’s 33-engine booster, nicknamed Super Heavy, and the cruise vessel, which is designed to eventually carry up to 100 astronauts. Stacked together, they stand at 10 metres taller than the Saturn V rocket that sent humans to the moon in 1969.
Space X is much more tolerant of risk than Nasa and has a flight-testing strategy that aims to frequently push its spacecraft prototypes to the limit, and, beyond. Its first Starship launch attempt lasted four minutes and, the second lasted eight, with the latter reaching space. The company says frequent flight testing will provide valuable data that will help it design and, develop a more robust rocket.
“Each of these flight tests continue to be just that: a test,” Space X said in a statement before the third launch attempt, in an apparent attempt to manage expectations in case the system exploded. “They aren’t occurring in a lab or on a test stand, but are putting flight hardware in a flight environment to maximize learning.”
The third flight aimed to conduct the first ever re-light of Space X’s signature Raptor engine while in space, open a payload door, and make a controlled re-entry of Starship in the Indian Ocean. Both the upper and lower segments of Starship are designed to eventually power themselves safely back to Earth for a soft landing so that they can be reused, which will be significantly cheaper than building entirely new parts for each mission.
Elon Musk, Space X’s billionaire founder, hopes Starship will be the first step on a human journey further into space that ever before. To do this, Musk intends to begin the colonization of Mars so that humanity can survive a planet-destroying event on Earth. Several other Starship systems are already in production for future tests. The company has announced longer term plans to use the spacecraft as a shuttle for commercial travel on Earth, promising trips from London to Tokyo in less than an hour.
1. What set the third test flight apart from the other two?| A．Being the first to make a controlled re-entry of Starship. |
| B．Being significantly cheaper than the other launches. |
| C．Being the first ever to enter the expected orbit. |
| D．Being the first starship spacecraft to enter the space. |
| A．Space X’s first Starship launch attempt lasts eight minutes. |
| B．Both Space X and Nasa have a flight-testing strategy. |
| C．Space X’s first Starship travels farther than the second. |
| D．Space X will make the best of the frequent flight-testing data. |
| A．To manage expectations in case the system exploded. |
| B．To maximize learning in a flight environment. |
| C．To push its spacecraft prototypes to the limit, and beyond. |
| D．To protect the earth from being destroyed by disasters. |
| A．Space X will make Starship power itself back to Earth safely. |
| B．Space X will adjust the starship system and commercial travel. |
| C．Space X has launched the third test flight of its Starship spacecraft. |
| D．Elon Musk aims to carry astronauts to the moon and then to Mars. |
