1 . Most people who ran the marathon last month spent days before resting up and days after recovering. But not Jacky Hunt-Broersma. In total, she ran 104 marathons in 104 days. If it’s confirmed by Guinness World Records, that would be a new world record. And she did it all with one leg and a prosthesis (假肢).
“Someone able-bodied had done it previously. I wanted to see if I could do it on a prosthetic leg and see what would happen,” she said. “I thought it would be a great way to inspire others to push their limits because I truly believe that we’re stronger than what we think. And I’ve been so pleasantly surprised that my body is held up, everything is held up and I’ve made it to 104.”
She actually did not pick up the sport until after she lost the lower part of her left leg in 2001 to a type of cancer called Ewing sarcoma. Runners using a prosthetic leg can’t use a regular one. They need a running blade (刀锋式跑步义肢). Hunt-Broersma has two, but she was only able to run with one because of the swelling she experienced in her left leg that made it impossible to connect to the other blade. But even with the pain that occurred, she has been able to put up with it and continued.
All together, Hunt-Broersma ran over 4, 385 kilometers. During that time she has had a lot of time to think and has learned a few things about herself. “It has taught me how strong one can be and how important absolute determination is. If you’re mentally strong, you can do anything,” she said. “And our bodies are just amazing ... This whole journey was impressive and super hard, but it’s told me how strong I can be as a person and how far I can push myself.”
1. Why did Hunt-Broersma decide to run marathons?| A．She wanted to set a new record. |
| B．She intended to challenge herself. |
| C．She was driven by her interest. |
| D．She was inspired by people like her. |
| A．She didn’t get professional training. |
| B．She found it hard to keep her balance. |
| C．She suffered discomfort in her left leg. |
| D．She couldn’t use regular running blades. |
| A．Rome wasn’t built in a day. |
| B．Time works wonders. |
| C．A good beginning is half the battle. |
| D．Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. |
| A．Annoyed. | B．Sympathetic. |
| C．Admiring. | D．Humorous. |
2 . Olympian weight-lifter Thodoris Iakovidis shocked the public that he cannot continue with the multiple financial difficulties he faces.
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Iakovidis’ statement shocked ordinary Greeks first of all. They launched a campaign on Twitter and Instagram to increase his followers and also attract sponsors.
Speaking to Open TV on Sunday, Iakovidis said thanking his new supporters: “The problem is not to fix my thing.
Stressing that he will continue if the conditions change, he added, “But I do not think it’s moral to continue with sponsors for another three years. Many others have to go through the same difficulties as now. I want the state mechanism to help all the athletes.”
| A．I’m sorry for my failure. |
| B．Real actions are a necessity. |
| C．There are so many other Thodoris. |
| D．He announced that he would end his career. |
| E．Dozens of companies are sponsoring the event. |
| F．Overnight his followers rose from 3, 000 to 120, 000. |
| G．I’m not crying because I did not have a good performance. |
推选人物：李宁。
推选理由：
1.多次获得中国、世界最佳运动员，多次获得各种荣誉称号；一共获得了14个世界冠军，106枚国内外体操比赛金牌；独创多个体操动作并以其名字命名。
2.创办“李宁品牌”系列运动服装，非常热心公益事业。
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参考词汇：体操gymnastic；公益事业public service
Dear editor,
I am delighted to learn that you are holding an activity to choose “Outstanding Sportsperson”.
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Yours,
Li Hua
4 . Shizo Kanakuri, known as the “father of the Japanese marathon”, was one of only two Japanese athletes to compete in the 1912 Stockholn Olympics. The media gave little attention and the government did not cover athletes’ travel costs. As a result, Kanakuri’s fellow college students organized a nationwide fundraiser (资金筹集活动) to collect money.
The trip to Sweden took 18 days, first by ship and then by the Trans-Siberian Railway. At stations, whenever the train stopped, Kanakuri would jump for a quick workout before hurriedly getting on the train again. The difficult journey had taken its toll, and when he finally arrived in Sweden, he discovered that the local food didn’t agree with his stomach. To make matters worse, Kanakuri’s coach had to stay in bed due to a serious disease which prevented him from giving two athletes, including Kanakuri, enough pre-race training.
On the day of the race, the heat was scorching (灼热的). One Portuguese runner was hospitalized and died the next day, the first reported death during the Olympics. About halfway into the race, suffering from the heat, Kanakuri stopped at a house and asked the locals for a glass of water. After drinking, Kanakuri lay down and against his better judgment fell asleep. When he woke up, it was the next morning.
Kanakuri wrote in his journal the next day, “It’s the morning after my defeat. My heart is aching with regret for the rest of my life. I was a weak quitter.” Kanakuri did not tell the race officials, and quietly returned to Japan, thus many people thought he “disappeared” in the middle of the race.
Once back in his country, Kanakuri renewed training and determined to race again in the future. In 1967, Kanakuri returned to Stockholm and finished the race. When he finally crossed the finish line, his time was announced as 54 years 8 months 6 days 5 hours 32 minutes 20.3 seconds. Kanakuri joked, “It was a long trip. Along the way, I got married, had six children and 10 grandchildren.”
1. What happened to Kanakuri during his first journey to Sweden?| A．He was exposed by national media. | B．He fell ill due to the local climate. |
| C．He tried his best to keep training. | D．He was sponsored by the government. |
| A．Had had a bad effect on him. | B．Had aroused his will to fight. |
| C．Had given him a chance. | D．Had come to an end. |
| A．Ashamed. | B．Touched. | C．Excited. | D．Confused. |
| A．Pride hurts, modesty benefits. | B．Failure is the mother of success. |
| C．Interest is the best teacher. | D．Practice makes perfect. |
5 . For most of her school years, Tamika Catchings kept a secret from her classmates and teachers. She was born with hearing loss in both ears. If someone spoke too quietly or with their back to her, she was unable to know what they were saying. She taught herself to read lips. To keep up with her schoolwork, she depended on textbooks for instruction.
Though Catchings had hearing aids, she refused to wearing them. One day, she took them off and threw them away in a field. Then she began her new life. She worked hard in the classroom and at sports. Soon, even without her hearing aids, she did better than most of her schoolmates and her teammates.
While attending high school in Illinois, Catchings led her basketball team to the state championship in 1995. That same year she and her mother moved to Duncanville, Texas. There, many college basketball coaches noticed her talent. She chose to attend the University of Tennessee, partly because she admired the coach Pat Summitt.
Apart from helping her team at the university, Catchings made a big change in her life. Coach Summitt convinced (使相信) Catchings that wearing hearing aids would not only help her be a better player but also help others who were hearing-impaired (听力受损的), allowing her to serve as a role model. So Catchings started wearing her hearing aids and finally began to speak openly about her hearing loss. Catchings has even written a book to tell others her story. In 2004 Catchings founded the Catch the Stars Foundation, an organization that encourages children to set goals and dream big.
But those achievements were just a stepping stone to another important goal for Catchings. The little girl who once tried to hide her disability (残疾) now encourages others with a disability to appreciate how special they are. She wants all children, whether they have a disability or not, to believe that they can “catch their dreams one star at a time”.
1. What is Catchings’ secret?| A．She can’t hear very well. | B．She has very good eyesight. |
| C．She is especially good at sports. | D．She often studies in her free time. |
| A．She thought her hearing would improve as she got older. |
| B．She knew she would play professional basketball one day. |
| C．She wanted to be noticed by her classmates and teammates. |
| D．She was determined to do her best in many areas of her life. |
| A．She threw away her hearing aids. |
| B．She attended the University of Tennessee. |
| C．She led her high school team to the state championship. |
| D．She decided to stop hiding her disability while in college. |
| A．Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. | B．Great minds think alike. |
| C．Well begun is half done. | D．Seeing is believing. |
6 . Andrea Martínez, a 21-year-old law student at the National Autonomous University of México, has been admitted as the country’s first female college football (橄榄球) player. When Martínez tried out for the team, she assumed the school had a women’s team where she might be placed, but was told she would be playing alongside the men.
Martínez got her start as a soccer player before trying out for the university’s football team after they posted an open call for kickers. Martínez wasn’t out to play football specifically, but saw that she could apply her talents as a soccer player to a new game. “The decision I made was to try a new sport. Nothing else,” she said. “I was very happy when I heard the news that I had been the girl selected.”
Martínez is not the only soccer player turning to football, especially as it becomes more popular throughout the country. It is estimated that there are about 48 million football fans in Mexico and the numbers are growing. Martínez is also not the first female college football kicker, although she is the first one in Mexico. In 1997, Liz Heaston became the first woman in the US to play that position on a college team. However, Ashley Martin was the first woman to score a point as a kicker in 2001.
It was never Martínez’s intention to become famous, but that’s exactly what has happened. So far, Martínez has done more than 80 interviews and has seen herself on the cover of every major newspaper in the country and even on national television, a rarity (罕见的事) for any college football player.
“There are little girls and boys who come and ask me for a photo or come up and say very nice words to me,” she said. “It’s the most satisfying thing I’ve ever felt, realizing that perhaps I’m inspiring them a little.”
1. What do we know about Andrea Martínez from the text?| A．She has scored a point as a kicker. |
| B．She always plays with men players. |
| C．She started by playing football. |
| D．She is a football kicker in Mexico. |
| A．To play alongside the men. |
| B．To join the women’s football team. |
| C．To win the championship. |
| D．To be reported in major newspapers. |
| A．She was bored with playing soccer. |
| B．She’d like to try a different sport. |
| C．She hoped to prove herself as a kicker. |
| D．She preferred football to soccer. |
| A．She is famous all over Mexico. |
| B．She is admired by others. |
| C．She has a good influence on others. |
| D．She encourages girls to play football. |
7 . Zheng Qinwen announced herself as a major new force in women’s tennis with an import French Open debut (首秀) last month. Now the Chinese teenager hopes the fighting spirit she showed at the Grand Slam (大满贯) tournament can encourage kids starting out in the sport to chase their dreams on the court with the same determination.
“If tennis is your dream, I think you always have to fight for your dream. Because we only have one life, you shouldn’t have any regrets,” Zheng said last week in an interview.
The 19-year-old showed she possesses the talent to be a contender at the very top level of tennis with a breakout campaign at French Open.
Accounting for two-time Grand Slam winner Simona Halep along the way, Zhengs journey was ended in the fourth round by a three-set defeat to eventual champion Iga Swiatek. Zheng, though gave the Polish world No. 1 a big scare, battling back from 3-0 down in the first set to force, and win, a tiebreak (平分决胜局)。
“That was the first time I had played the world No.1, so I really wanted to grab this chance so I could judge her level and test myself,” said Zheng. “I didn’t want to give her the match so easy like that. It was pretty difficult for me to hold on in that match because of what my body was going through, but I wanted to show her I'm not easily beaten.
Looking back at Zheng Qinwen’s performances in this year’s French Open, there’s no doubt that she’s a true fighter. Zheng says she avoids being discouraged by higher-ranked opponents by simply focusing on the next point, one shot at a time.Supported by her team, she hopes she can one day win a Grand Slam title.
Zheng’s impressive French Open run has inevitably led to comparisons with China’s solitary Grand Slam singles championLi Na, who won the 2011 French Open and 2014 Australian Open titles.
“When I was a kid, Li Na showed that Asian people also can do something really good in tennis. She was the first one. I will just focus on my own game and then let’s see if I can really compete at the highest level,” said Zheng.
1. What does the underlined word “contender” in paragraph 3 mean?| A．Organizer. | B．Announcer. | C．Competitor. | D．Designer. |
| A．Iga Swiatek beat Zheng easily. |
| B．Zheng lost to Iga Swiatek at last. |
| C．Zheng won the match despite her pain. |
| D．Iga Swiatek lost because of her mistakes. |
| A．To explain why Li Na has achieved a lot |
| B．To prove failure is the mother of success. |
| C．To show how excellent Zheng Qinwen is. |
| D．To compare the difference between Zheng Qinwen and LI Na |
| A．Optimistic and generous. |
| B．Struggling and determined |
| C．Independent and helpful. |
| D．Adventurous and realistic. |
8 . The UMass program Brown is taking over presents different challenges from the one he helped rebuild in 2018. The Minutemen are 2-23 over the past three seasons.
As an independent program, UMass has to work on its own to put together schedules and negotiate television contracts. But Brown doesn't like to look at the past, bad or good. He says he doesn't even watch film of previous games. “I haven't worried about what's happened behind me but what's in front of me, ”Brown says.
He emphasizes the importance of a well-conditioned team. He's already looking forward to winter workouts. “When I'm chasing guys around the mat room, I feel pretty good,” Brown says. Brown also emphasizes playing fundamental football, preferring to keep his focus on the immediate future.
Brown, 66, will be one of the oldest head coaches next season. He signed a five-year deal with UMass. “You can see his passion. He's got a lot of energy to build our program and a lot of pride in it,” Scott, president of UMass says. “We're gonna take advantage of that to build back a winning program that we all want.” Brown knows what UMass looks like as a winning program. He's made it his mission to get the Minutemen back there.
“It will mean a lot. I'm going to work tirelessly to make it happen. I have no doubt that we're going to get there,” Brown says. “Won't it be nice to be playing in a bowl game? That's the beauty there. We will get ourselves into a bowl game and bring our first bowl cup home at this level. It will be a special moment.”
1. What do we know about Brown?| A．He is a football coach. | B．He used to be a teacher. |
| C．He likes recalling the past. | D．He came to Umass in 2018. |
| A．Sensitive. | B．Cooperative. | C．Ambitious. | D．Generous. |
| A．It's tough. | B．It's uncertain. | C．It's hopeless. | D．It's bright. |
| A．The UMass program will be famous |
| B．The UMass has abandoned the past |
| C．Brown still believes in the future |
| D．Brown takes over a winning program |
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