The marathon runner, born in 1984 in Kenya, has succeeded in running a 42 - kilometer marathon in under two hours, which was considered physically impossible. He made the breakthrough in 2019. Now he has won the most male World Marathon Major races, nine in total.
Kipchoge loved running during his childhood. He ran to school, covering 3.2 km every day. Kipchoge also cycled to the local market, taking several gallons of milk that his family would sell. When he was a teenager, thanks to his neighbor and former Olympic athlete, Sang, Kipchoge took on professional(专业的)running. Sang became his coach and lifelong friend. With the help of Sang, Kipchoge’s training became more and more effective.
Kipchoge has talent. But he is also a “true believer” fighting against himself, always ready to push his own limits. In 2016, at the Rio Olympics, Kipchoge won the gold medal for the marathon with a time of 2:08:44. Only two years later, in 2018, he finished the Berlin Marathon in a time of 2:01:39. The result was not just the fastest Berlin marathon run in history, but also the fastest marathon ever run at the time.
Still, Kipchoge didn’t stop. He believed he could go on challenging where no other human had succeeded. At the age of 35, with good preparations, he finished the race in 1:59:40.20, breaking the two -hour limit. He set the new record and proved to the world that no human is limited.
Though Kipchoge has won so much, he didn’t stop running. In 2021, he won the gold medal for Tokyo Olympics male marathon with a time of 2:08:38 and in 2022, the Berlin Marathon 2:01:09.
Apart from his talent as well as working hard, his shoes are also helpful during his running.It is a pair of special ones with a special kind of foam(海绵式橡胶). They can take in runners’ energy when their feet touch the ground and then return part of the energy to the runners, which helps Kipchoge run faster.
Nothing is impossible. Kipchoge proves that the saying is true.
1. What helped Kipchoge start professional training?| A．He got support from his family. |
| B．He ran 3.2 km to school every day. |
| C．He became the student of an Olympic athlete. |
| D．He went cycling to the local market to sell milk. |
| A．To show science technology helps sports. |
| B．To prove success is based on hard work only. |
| C．To explain energy can stay in the shoes for a long time. |
| D．To recommend more marathon runners buy this kind of shoes. |
| A．Shy and energetic. | B．Friendly and creative. |
| C．Outgoing and humorous. | D．Talented and hardworking. |
| A．A sports magazine. | B．A science lecture. |
| C．A health website. | D．A travel diary. |
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【推荐1】A one-armed 13-year-old basketball player in a video moves China. He is Zhang Jiacheng, from Guangdong Province. In the video, facing a taller, stronger, and older opponent (对手), he isn't afraid at all.
Attracted by his good skills in the video, many people even fail to know that Zhang Jiacheng has only one arm. Although the young boy lost one of his arms in an accident, he became crazy about playing basketball at 12. "Work hard or just give up," he always says. Thus, he spent all of his free time on it without considering his body condition.
People's attention has encouraged him to work harder towards his goal---to become a top basketball player. "I just keep practising every day to improve myself whether at home or in the playground," he says, "My biggest challenge is to control the ball much better." After only a year of hard practising, Zhang Jiacheng has improved his skills greatly. Through patience, confidence and determination, the young basketball player is getting closer to his life goal.
His effort and courage finally caught the attention of Yi Jianlian, a Chinese professional (职业的) basketball player, who shared the video on his own Weibo.
1. Why do people fail to know the boy has only one arm?| A．Because his good skills attract people. |
| B．Because his life goal encourages people. |
| C．Because he jumps to an amazing height. |
| D．Because he hides the other arm carefully. |
| A．Controlling the ball better. | B．Keeping his balance. |
| C．Making some more friends. | D．Getting closer to his family. |
| A．To live a comfortable life. | B．To become a top basketball player. |
| C．To set up a basketball team. | D．To build a large gym for his school. |
| A．Yi Jianlian's cute pets. | B．Yi Jianlian's courage. |
| C．The video's influence. | D．The video's quality. |
【推荐2】French writer Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature on Oct 6. She is the first French female to win the prize. In the words of the Nobel committee, Ernaux was given the award for the courage and sharp insight of her writing.
Having spent over five decades as a writer, the 82-year-old winner has published more than 20 books to her name, including Cleaned Out, Shame, a 2008 memoir called The Years and A Girl’s Story. Rather than consider herself a writer of fiction, Ernaux has used the term “an ethnologist (民族学家) of herself” to describe herself.
Born in 1940 in a rural village in Normandy, France, Ernaux grew up in a working-class environment as her parents ran a combined grocery store and cafe. She worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer.
According to CNN her “upbringing and experiences navigating adolescence and adulthood” inspire many of her works. For example the book Shame explores the theme of childhood trauma while A Girl’s Story follows a young woman’s coming of age in the 1950s.
Though the matters Ernaux describes in her books are serious and even sometimes heavy, they are always written in plain language. Ernaux described her style as “flat writing” through which she aims to tell her stories objectively, “unshaped by florid description or overwhelming emotions.” noted Fox News.
“She writes about things that no one else writes about, for instance her jealousy, her experiences as an abandoned lover and so forth, I mean, really hard experiences,” Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature said after the award announcement in Stockholm. He went on to say, “She gives words for these experiences that are very simple and striking. They are short books, but they are really moving.”
1. What can we learn about Annie Ernaux from the text?| A．She is the first French person to win the Nobel Prize. |
| B．The Nobel committee described her as “an ethnologist of herself”. |
| C．She was awarded for the bravery and observations shown in her writing. |
| D．She started working as a full-time writer in 1974. |
| A．Her students’ lives. | B．The stories of guests to her cafe. |
| C．The history of her hometown. | D．Her personal experiences. |
| A．Objective and easy to understand. | B．Plain and relaxing. |
| C．Descriptive and serious. | D．Emotional and touching. |
| A．She shares painful feelings through her writing. | B．She suffered a lot of hardships. |
| C．Her works are about unexplored subjects. | D．Her works are short and moving. |
【推荐3】Mark Twain, the famous American writer, liked to play jokes on others. But once a joke was played on him.
One day Mark Twain was asked to give a talk in a small town. At lunch he met a young man he knew who told him that he had an uncle who never laughed or smiled.
The young man told Mark Twain that nobody and nothing could possibly make his uncle smile or laugh.
“You bring your uncle to my talk tonight,” said Mark Twain. “I’m sure I can make him laugh.”
That evening the young man and his uncle sat in the first row. Mark Twain spoke directly at the old man. He told some rather interesting stories, which made everyone in the hall laugh. But the old man never even smiled. Mark Twain told the most interesting stories he knew. But the old man’s face was still a blank. At last Mark Twain stopped. He felt tired and discouraged.
Some days later, Mark Twain told a friend of his about what had happened. “Oh,” said his friend, “I know that old man. He has been deaf for years.”
1. Which of the following statement is NOT true?| A．Mark Twain could make everyone in the hall laugh except the old man. |
| B．Mark Twain liked to play jokes on others |
| C．Mark Twain was an English writer. |
| D．Once a young man played a joke on Mark Twain. |
| A．his uncle liked to listen to Mark Twain’s talk |
| B．his uncle could not possibly be made to laugh or smile |
| C．his uncle never laughed at people |
| D．his uncle liked laughed |
| A．to bring his uncle to lunch | B．to ask his uncle to talk there that night |
| C．he could make his uncle laugh | D．to sit in the first row with his uncle |
| A．the old man | B．the young man |
| C．Mark Twain himself | D．a friend of Mark Twain’s |
【推荐1】Tom Brady is the oldest active player in the National Football League, and somehow he’s won yet another Super Bowl trophy (“超级碗”奖杯). Here are key secrets to Brady’s success.
1.
One of the least appreciated reasons why Brady has been able to hold on is that he has been changing the way he plays the game to accommodate (适应) his age.
One example: Early in his career, Brady was known for waiting for the perfect moment to make long, hard, accurate passes.
2. He achieves work-life balance.
Brady is crazy about football to the exclusion (排除) of almost everything except family, at least according to the journalists who have spent a lot of time with him. It’s balance,
“He would be the first to tell you that there is no more or less to his reality right now than the sport of football and his family,” wrote Ben Court of Men’s Health. “
3. He sets achievable goals.
He set the goal to improve his team — to win at least one Super Bowl with them.
| A．He adapts to win. |
| B．And that’s not at all easy. |
| C．He devotes all his lifetime to his career. |
| D．But the balance is between only two things. |
| E．Whenever Brady talks about his family, he comes to life. |
| F．It’s one thing to say you want to be playing the greatest role of all time. |
| G．In his 40s, however, he changed to faster, shorter passes, and more of them. |
【推荐2】With an MLB caster dad, Patrick Mahomes II has been training to become a professional athlete almost his whole life. “Ever since I could remember, I was playing something. I didn’t think I would be a football player, but I thought I would be a professional athlete for sure…a baseball or basketball player,” the Kansas City Chiefs star tells CNBC Make It.
Mahomes has had the same trainer since he was 10, and though he didn’t focus on football until his second year at Texas Tech, he’s known for an unimaginable ability to do with what’s happening around him on the field. He also practices every single kind of wild throw he might make in a game. With that knack for top performance, during four seasons in the NFL Mahomes had led the Chiefs to their first Super Bowl in 50 years, for which he was named the game's MVP. At 25, Mahomes has also signed the largest sports contract in history: In July, he signed a deal with the Chiefs worth nearly $500 million over 10 years.
But for all his wins, Mahomes says a defeat like the Chiefs’ 9-31 Super Bowl loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers can be more useful. “People see me on the field playing and winning a lot of football games, and they see the contract and the different businesses that I work with, and they think that everything doing is kind of just working out,” Mahomes tells CNBC Make It. But “I think defeat helps you more than success,” he says. “I just do whatever I can to be better and learn from the mistakes.”
Here, Mahomes talks to CNBC Make It about his mental state on the field, his routine, the advice he will give his younger self and more.
1. What can we learn about Mahomes from the text?| A．He is deeply influenced by his father. |
| B．He likes playing baseball and basketball. |
| C．He has much confidence in playing football. |
| D．He began to be devoted to playing football at 10. |
| A．Game. | B．Season. | C．Skill. | D．Deal. |
| A．Technology is power. | B．Failure is the mother of success. |
| C．Where there is will, there is a way. | D．He who makes no mistakes will do nothing. |
| A．Lessons learned from defeat. | B．His game-day state of mind. |
| C．Advice for younger players. | D．His plans for football playing. |
【推荐3】Roger Federer, who recently became the oldest man to hold the No. 1 ranking in men’s tennis at the age 36, will bring a 12-match winning streak (连胜) to the BNP Paribas Open, which starts this week at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
Federer, a five-time winner of the hard-court event and a 20-time Grand Slam singles champion, on Tuesday was seeded No. 1 in a field that has been given up by injuries to several excellent players. Among those missing are world No. 2 Rafael Nadal (hip injury), Stan Wawrinka (knee), who lost to Federer in the 2017 final, David Goffin (eye) and Andy Murray (hip surgery).
Federer, who has spent 305 weeks of his career at the top the Assn of Tennis Professional world rankings, must reach the semifinals (半决赛) at Indian Wells to keep his No. 1 status. If he exits sooner than that, Nadal would regain the top spot. Federer has a first-round bye (轮空) and a seemingly easy projected route to the quarterfinals, where he likely would face No. 5 seed Dominic Thiem of Austria.
Five-time Indian Wells champion Novak Djokovic, who had a small medical intervention (干预) on his troublesome right elbow earlier this year, was seeded 10th in the tournament. Djokovic has played only four matches this year because of his elbow problems and hasn’t played a tournament since he lost to Hyeon Chung of South Korea in the round of 16 at the Australian Open in January.
Maria Sharapova of Russia will face Naomi Osaka of Japan on Wednesday with their match scheduled for not before 5:00 p.m.
On Thursday, Serena Williams will play Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan and Victoria Azarenka of Belarus will play Heather Watson of the United Kingdom during the evening session (7 p.m. start).
1. Why does Federer have a seemingly easy projected route to the quarterfinals?| A．Because he is seeded No. 1 |
| B．Because many excellent players are missing. |
| C．Because he is well enough to beat any player. |
| D．Because he has a first-round bye. |
| A．Rafael Nadal. | B．Novak Djokovic. |
| C．Dominic Thiem. | D．Maria Sharapova. |
| A．He was seeded 10th in the tournament. | B．He has played fewest matches. |
| C．He lost to Hyeon Chung. | D．He has elbow problems. |
| A．Because he is seeded No. 1. |
| B．Because will bring a 12-match winning streak. |
| C．Because he is the oldest to hold the No. 1 ranking and was seeded No. 1. |
| D．Because the author believes he can beat anyone in the tournament. |
