2 . Simone Biles was a bright, bouncy little girl. She couldn’t sit still, and her favorite place was the trampoline (蹦床) in her grandparents’, backyard, where she jumped and twisted (扭动) in the air for hours.

Simone was born in 1997. When she was 6 years old, her day-care group went on a field trip to a gym. Simone loved watching the gymnasts train and perform. She couldn’t just watch them, though-she had to try their moves. She was so good that one of the coaches sent a letter home with her, inviting Simone to take gymnastics (体操) classes.

Simone loved the classes, and she was excellent at climbing, swinging and jumping. She had a lot to learn, though. Most of the gymnasts in her class had started lessons when they began to learn to walk. At 6, Simone was the oldest child in her class. But that would change quickly.

Several times a year, the gym held exhibitions to demonstrate the gymnasts’ skills. At one of these, young gymnasts had to climb 10 feet up a rope, using just their arms and holding their legs straight in front of them. Simone was so strong that she climbed 20 feet into the air.

At 9, Simone learned why she couldn’t sit still: She had ADHD(多动症). Her brain moved fast and her body did too, which made it hard for her to concentrate in school. “The challenges we face help us become who we are, ” Simone wrote. “My challenge is also my superpower: ADHD. ” Simone’s superpower would help make her one of the most brilliant gymnasts ever seen.

At age 16, she won two gold medals at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, including the all-around. She has now won 25 world medals, 19 of them gold. That’s the most in world gymnastics history. So outstanding is she that several signature moves have been named after Simone.

1. What does the underlined word “bouncy” in paragraph 1 mean?

A．Confident.

B．Active.

C．Curious.

D．Gifted.

2. What does the writer want to show with the exhibition in paragraph 4?

A．Simone liked to show off.

B．Simone didn’t need to learn more.

C．How excellently Simone performed.

D．Why Simone fell behind her classmates.

3. What does the last paragraph focus on?

A．Simone’s superpower.

B．Simone’s signature moves.

C．Simone’s great achievements.

D．Simone’s experience in competitions.

4. What does Simone’s story convey?

A．Practice makes perfect.

B．Interest is the best teacher.

C．Talent is the key to success.

D．Challenges can be superpower.

3 . Eric Moussambani is the first swimmer from Equatorial Guinea to compete in the Olympics. He found his passion for swimming shortly after high school. At the time, he didn’t know how to swim, but he knew it was a sport he wanted to pursue.

Unfortunately, there were no standard swimming pools in his country. Eventually, he found a hotel pool where he could only swim three hours a week. When he couldn’t use the pool, he trained in rivers and the sea, with the local fishermen guiding him on how to use his legs and arms.

After about eight months of swimming, Eric gained entry into the 2000 Summer Olympics through a program designed to encourage sports development in developing countries.

In Sydney, Eric saw an Olympic-size swimming pool for the first time. It was so big that Eric said he was so frightened to compete in it. In preparing for his event, Eric trained at the same time as the US team and took the opportunity to study their techniques closely. A South African coach gave him a pair of competition trunks (泳裤) and some goggles (护目镜), which were what he needed badly.

On September 19, 2000, Eric stepped out for the men’s 100m freestyle competition. With his two fellow competitors stopped from taking part for making false starts, Eric suddenly found himself racing on his own. “I swam the first 50m really well,” said Eric after the competition. “I focused all my energy on telling myself to keep going.” After turning for the second length, however, Eric began to pay for spending so much energy on the first. As his legs stiffened (变僵硬), he felt he was going nowhere. “It was then that I heard the crowd shouting, encouraging me to ‘Go, go, go’. It gave me the strength to make it to the end.”

Eric finished the race with a time of 1:52.72, the slowest recorded time in Olympic history. But the audience did not care. They cheered him as if he had broken the world record. To this day, Eric is still an Olympic hero.

1. What is true about Eric before he participated in the Sydney Olympics?

A．He had nobody to teach him how to swim.

B．He had never trained in a standard swimming pool.

C．He developed his love for swimming from his childhood.

D．He entered the Olympics by beating all the other competitors.

2. What can we learn from paragraph 4?

A．Eric had made full preparations for his event.

B．The US team offered to teach Eric some techniques.

C．Eric was eager to compete in the Olympic swimming pool.

D．Eric didn’t even have proper equipment for the competition.

3. Which of the following best describes Eric’s 100m freestyle competition?

A．Inspiring.

B．Competitive.

C．Successful.

D．Meaningless.

4. What is Eric mainly remembered for?

A．His outstanding talent for swimming.

B．His strong willpower to reach his goal.

C．His record-breaking performance at the Olympics.

D．His great achievements in the world’s sports development.