1 . Do you think you are too old to do something? Just go online and ________ the video of John Harrison doing the 50m backstroke in 2014.
He ________ the 100-104 years world record by 15 seconds! Yes, you read that ________. The 100-104 years group! A time of 1:29.78. The first ever British man to set records in that age group. The applause (掌声) is long-lasting and heartfelt from all the crowd. A(n) ________ moment.
John loved swimming. He still tried to keep ________ by swimming in his last years before he passed away at the age of 105 in January 2020. Many of John’s friends speak ________ of him saying he was a “wonderful man”.
John was born in Farnborough on 25 July, 1914. And his ________ in swimming was unusual. “When I was five years old, on the way home from school, I came across a small pond,” he said ________, “so I went swimming. It taught me two things. One, to swim; and two, not to drink the water.”
“My parents ________ two years later that I was still doing it. They were ______ at first. But their anger soon ________” when I said, “I didn’t get asthma (哮喘病) last winter. They then bought me a costume and ________ me swimming skills.”
However, John didn’t start swimming ________ until his wife told him to stop teaching swimming and life-saving classes and ________ the sport for himself at the age of 79. From then on, he didn’t look back and was full of praise for everyone who ________ him during his successes.
1. A.change | B.watch | C.use | D.make |
2. 3. A.carefully | B.proudly | C.correctly | D.freely |
4. A.interesting | B.brief | C.private | D.amazing |
5. 6. A.simply | B.highly | C.openly | D.lightly |
7. A.position | B.belief | C.start | D.success |
8. A.humorously | B.angrily | C.finally | D.shortly |
9. A.guessed | B.discovered | C.hoped | D.repeated |
10. A.happy | B.curious | C.sad | D.mad |
11. A.began | B.increased | C.disappeared | D.remained |
12. A.taught | B.forced | C.advised | D.reminded |
13. A.competitively | B.dramatically | C.comfortably | D.necessarily |
14. A.work out | B.take up | C.depend on | D.go through |
15. A.found | B.answered | C.supported | D.introduced |