1 . Time magazine named its choice of the 100 “Most Influential (有影响力的) People in the World” on Wednesday. On the
Jeremy Lin, New York Knicks starting point guard, is a person that many
“Jeremy Lin’s story is a great lesson for kids everywhere. In life, there are many prejudices (偏见) that
“It’s great to see good values and the right attitude
We spoke to Lin’s
A.road | B.way | C.world | D.list |
A.children | B.stars | C.athletes | D.players |
A.criticised | B.praised | C.attacked | D.disliked |
A.influential | B.skilful | C.talented | D.selfless |
A.lesson | B.skill | C.move | D.knowledge |
A.graduate | B.professor | C.student | D.coach |
A.fortunately | B.surprisingly | C.amazingly | D.unfairly |
A.common | B.untrue | C.necessary | D.useful |
A.coach | B.work | C.succeed | D.fail |
A.useful | B.possible | C.easy | D.difficult |
A.poor | B.lazy | C.excellent | D.normal |
A.rewarded | B.forgotten | C.replaced | D.covered |
A.country | B.fame | C.money | D.team |
A.family | B.teammates | C.friends | D.parents |
A.modest | B.optimistic | C.excited | D.happy |
It was at the 2012 1SU World Figure Skating Championships that I first saw Japanese figure skater Hanyu Yuzuru. He was competing in free skating with a piece of music from Romeo and Juliet. I was
Yuzuru has been
Yuzuru has always trained hard despite the suffering from asthma (哮喘). He bravely
3 . 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. |
4 . A marathon is a long running race of 42,195 kilometers, Runners must not only be fast, but they must be strong enough to keep their speed up over a very long distance.
On Sunday, Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa shocked the running world by smashing the women’s world record for the marathon by over two minutes. Assefa finished the Berlin Marathon in just 2 hours 11 minutes and 53 seconds.
Assefa’s record was far beyond what most people could expect. After all. it was only her third time running a marathon. “I wanted to break the marathon world record.” she said. “But I couldn’t imagine that it would result in a time under 2 hours and 12 minutes.”
When Assefa was younger, she started by running short races, Then she ran the 800-meter race. Her best time in the 800 meters was about 1 minute and 59 seconds. Last March, she ran her first marathon. Then last September, she entered the Berlin Marathon. She won, and set a new women’s record for the course, finishing in 2 hours15 minutes and 37 seconds. This year, she ran almost four minutes faster than she did last year. In both races. Assefa ran faster in the second half of the race than she did in the first half.
Though Assefa made winning the race look easy, she said it was the result of hard work. Assefa was coached by Gemedu Dedefo, who has helped train many Ethiopian star runners. Besides, the shoes Assefa wore are built in such a special way that they collect energy every time the runner lands and give a special spring as the runner’s foot leaves the ground again. Though the shoes are expensive, they only last for a few hours of running.
1. What does the underlined word “smashing” in paragraph 2 mean?A.breaking. | B.checking. | C.equaling. | D.keeping. |
A.The rules of the Berlin Marathon. | B.The secret to setting world records. |
C.Assefa’s efforts to win the marathon. | D.Assefa’s growth process in the marathon. |
A.Assefa was lucky enough to win the Berlin Marathon. |
B.Assefa’s running speed was the same throughout the race. |
C.The shoes Assefa wore were designed to last for several years. |
D.Dedefo played an important role in Assefa’s training and success. |
The home crowd erupted when China’s Eileen Gu
6 . Wilma Rudolph was born in 1940 in a very large and poor African-American family in Tennessee. When she was four years old, a deadly illness made her left leg useless. She had to wear an iron leg brace. Her doctors told her she would never walk like a normal person without the brace. Yet she was lucky in having a mother who encouraged her to have faith and courage.
At nine years of age, the little girl removed the leg brace and took the first step, which her doctors had said was impossible. Then she got the idea that she would like to be the worlds greatest woman runner.
At the age of thirteen, she began to enter races, but she came in last in every race. Everyone asked her to give up. One day, however, she came in next to last. Then there came a big day when she won a race. From then on, Wilma Rudolph won every race that she entered.
In 1957, Wilma went to Tennessee State University, where she met a coach named Ed Temple. He trained her so well that in 1960 she went to the Olympic Games in Rome. There she beat a German girl named Jutta Heine, the greatest woman runner of the day. Wilma had just won two Olympic gold medals both in the 100-metre race and the 200-metre race. Then came the 400-metre relay. Wilma Rudolph had got her third Olympic gold medal in the 17th Olympic Games.
That day Wilma made history as she became the first woman to win three gold medals in the same Olympic Games. Later she said, “The triumph can’t be had without the struggle. I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share the importance of being a woman first in the world of sports, so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.”
1. What was the turning point in Wilma Rudolph’s racing career?A.When she won her first race. |
B.When she came in last in every race. |
C.When she got her third Olympic gold medal. |
D.When she started racing at the age of thirteen. |
A.Defeating someone. | B.Earning a lot of money. |
C.Overcoming difficulties. | D.Being famous and recognized. |
A.Determined and positive. | B.Courageous and outgoing. |
C.Brave and friendly. | D.Hardworking and modest. |
A.Wilma Rudolph’s Career Life |
B.Wilma Rudolph’s Olympic Glory |
C.Wilma Rudolph’s Sports Legends |
D.Wilma Rudolph’s Race Experiences |
7 . In the ever-changing world of women’s artistic gymnastics, there has been a gymnast for more than three decades: Oksana Chusovitina.
The 48-year-old had said with certainty that her final competition would be the Tokyo 2020 Games. With no fans in the stands to honor her legendary career (职业生涯) , judges, coaches and other athletes did their best to give her a party worthy of all she’d given the sport. After she thanked them through tears in her eyes, she told media that was her swansong.
However, just a few months after the Tokyo Olympics, Chusovitina said that she would return to training, dreaming of one final medal at a major competition —the Asian Games—for Uzbekistan. “I just can’t finish my career without a medal for my motherland,” she said on her Instagram story.
Chusovitina first competed in the 1992 Olympics as part of the Unified Team and won a team gold medal there. Though she represented (代表) Uzbekistan in the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics, her second Olympic medal came some 16 years later in the 2008 Olympics. Chusovitina, then representing her third nation, Germany, where better medical treatment was provided for her sick son, got the silver medal.
And now, her story continues. The historic eight-time Olympian has started her ninth trip to the 2024 Paris Olympics. At the first two World Cup stops of the season she won bronze medals. “Thank you all so much for the support,” she wrote on Instagram. “First start, first medal.”
“More to come,” added the gymnast, whose motto is “I’d rather try today than regret tomorrow”.
1. What does the underlined word “swansong” mean in paragraph 2?A.A popular song. | B.A great honor. |
C.The last performance. | D.The wonderful career. |
A.Personal glory. | B.National pride. |
C.Economic situation. | D.International pressure. |
A.To win more medals. | B.To receive better education. |
C.To get medical treatment for her son. | D.To learn skills from the national team. |
A.Determined. | B.Generous. | C.Creative. | D.Curious. |
For Chinese swimmer Qian Hongyan, competing at the 4th Asian Para Games (亚残运会) is more about testing her limits. More
In 2007, she began training in swimming. It
Coach Zhang Honghu has seen Qian’s growth from a shy girl into an excellent athlete. “I hope she will keep pushing her limits and have a great life in the years
9 . Every time Oksana Chusovitina competes in a gymnastics event, she catches the audience’s attention. The Hangzhou Asian Games proved no exception. When the 48-year-old Uzbek gymnast took part in the event on Monday, thousands of audiences cheered for “Qiu Ma”, which translates to “Mother Chusovitina”.
“I’m touched by Chusovitina’s story. She tried to save her son and just never gave up. She is beautiful both as an athlete and as a mother,” said Zhang Anqi, a Hangzhou local who attended the event.
After completing her competition, Chusovitina blew a kiss to the audience and formed a “heart” shape with her hands. “It is the love and support of the people that keep me going and give me the strength to achieve more,” Chusovitina said. “I am not very satisfied with my performance tonight. Actually, I was a little over-excited. I will increase the difficulty in the final,” she added.
Chusovitina has a storied history at the Asian Games, having won eight medals, including two golds in 2002. Her Olympic journey began in 1992, representing the former Soviet Union. She later stood for Uzbekistan. When Chusovitina’s son got a serious illness in 2002, she chose to take German citizenship (国籍) to compete at global events for a higher income and better medical treatment. She took her Uzbek citizenship in 2013 again.
Her heartfelt feeling, “I dare not grow old until you are well,” has moved many. After her son’s recovery, Chusovitina continued her gymnastics journey simply out of love for the sport. Though she announced her retirement after the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, she decided to return shortly after. “The biggest power is my desire. I want to perform. I love gymnastics, and it brings me great joy. I’m just doing what I love, so why should I stop?” Chusovitina said.
1. What made Chusovitina a beautiful mother?A.Her attractive personality. |
B.Her determination to save her son. |
C.Her being a good example to her son. |
D.Her ability to balance work and family. |
A.Her love for gymnastics. |
B.Her strong desire to win. |
C.Her joy of her son’s recovery. |
D.Her eagerness for higher income. |
A.Deep Love for Gymnastics |
B.A Great Athlete and Mother |
C.Chusovitina’s Return to Gymnastics |
D.A Touching Story of Mother and Son |
10 . Born in California and representing the United States before switching to China, teenager Gu Ailing will be most likely to be one of the faces of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
The 17-year-old is a freeskier (自由式滑雪运动员) and grade-A student with an American father and Chinese mother. She grew up and still lives in the United States, but in June 2019 she made the “quite difficult” decision to compete for China. She wrote on Instagram that she was “proud of my heritage and equally proud of my American upbringings (培养)”.
As for the decision to compete on behalf of China, she said it is a “valuable opportunity to help inspire millions of young people in China where my mom was born”.
Gu graduated from a San Francisco high school last year and is focusing on her Beijing 2022 training. It is reported that she scored 1,580 points out of a maximum 1,600 in the SAT (美国大学入学考试), and has been offered a place at Stanford.
Gu started on the snow at the age of 3, was competing in national competitions at 9 and won her first World Cup event at 15. She won two gold medals and a silver for China at the 2020 Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. On Jan. 30th, 2021, Gu made her debut (首次亮相) at the X Games in Aspen, Colorado and won two golds and a bronze.
“My goal is to win Olympic gold,” she told the official Olympic website. “It’s the top achievement. And that would be rewarding for all the work that I’ve done to achieve greatness in the sport.”
1. In the first paragraph, the underlined part “switching to” means in Chinese ________ .A.打开 | B.关闭 |
C.突变 | D.转变 |
A.She grew up in China. | B.She is an average student. |
C.She will graduate from a high school. | D.She decided to compete for China. |
A.Helpful and knowledgeable. | B.Modest and hard-working. |
C.Clever and ambitious. | D.Creative and confident. |
A.Gu Ailing—An American Freeskier | B.Gu Ailing—A Stanford Graduate |
C.Gu Ailing—A talented Chinese Freeskier | D.Gu Ailing—An Olympic Champion |