1 . Figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu, who won men’s singles Olympic gold medals in 2014 and 2018, said Tuesday he was retiring from competition.
He won the men’s singles gold at the Sochi Games in 2014 and again at the Pyeongchang Games in South Korea in 2018, becoming the first men’s skater to achieve consecutive (连续不断的) golds in the category since Dick Button in 1948 and 1952. At this year’s Winter Games in Beijing, he attempted to become the first man to complete a quadruple axel-4 rotations (旋转) in the air at the Olympics, a jump that he had previously come close to achieving in Japan. In Beijing, he came just short of completing the required rotations for the quadruple axel and fell on his rear, but he expressed satisfaction with his effort afterward and hinted he was ready to retire.
“In terms of how it feels for me, I don’t imagine it being all that different.” he said. “Of course, I feel strongly that I’d like to achieve success with the quadruple axel.”
Beyond his jumping ability, Hanyu’s gift for the dramatics and his gentle appearance made him popular among admirers. Some said he looked as if he had danced off the pages of a Japanese cartoon. They would throw Winnie the Pooh stuffed bears—reportedly his favorite cartoon character—on the ice after his performances. In China, crowds gathered outside the Beijing venue to express devotion to their favorite, and one Chinese follower on social media called Hanyu “the most beautiful icy fairy in my heart”.
In recent years, Hanyu has been suffering from injuries. He said he had constantly thought about retiring from competition since the 2018 Winter Games. “If we’re talking about when I considered turning professional. I was thinking about that at every single competition,” Hanyu said. He said he made the final decision after the Beijing Games as he was recovering from his ankle injury.
1. What can we know from Hanyu’s many experiences?| A．He won the first Olympic gold medal of skiing in 2014. |
| B．He is the first men’s skater to win two golds continuously. |
| C．He is the first to perform the quadruple axel successfully. |
| D．He first indicated his retirement in Beijing. |
| A．Because of his favourite stuffed bear. |
| B．Because of the Japanese cartoon pages. |
| C．Because of his popularity on social media. |
| D．Because of his looking and performance. |
| A．Unexpected. |
| B．Long-awaited. |
| C．Encouraging. |
| D．Thrilling. |
| A．Ice Prince Yuzuru Hanyu Retires from Competition |
| B．Figure Skater Yuzuru Hanyu, Satisfied with Victory |
| C．Being Injured, the Ice Prince Sticks to His Dream |
| D．The Consecutive Golds Winner Has Made His Glory |
2 . As the door finally slipped into place at the end of the mile-long steel tube, the WARR Hyperloop team rushed to a nearby tent, where they spent the next 20 minutes waiting anxiously as pumps took nearly all the air out of the tube. They were the third and final team to get a run in the last stage of Elon Musk's Hyperloop Competition. The only standard for winning? Speed.
When many people hear the word hyperloop, they think it's some sort of magic vehicle that Musk suggested five years ago. Rather, it's more a new concept of transportation than a single invention. The basic concept calls for a vehicle running inside a nearly airless tube at extremely high speeds. The details—how to power it, what shape it should be, and so on—are anyone's guess. Musk just laid out the concept in a 2013 white paper, but the people are trying to bring it to life.
On May 7, 2021. 700 members of 25 teams from around the world gathered at the SpaceX headquarters for the second annual hyperloop competition. To add to their excitement, Elon Musk also stood among the students, gazing over their shoulders at the big screen that showed the speeds of the vehicle from inside the white tube. When the WARR Hyperloop topped the 192-mph mark set by Hyperloop One with its full-sized vehicle in its own test tube in the Nevada desert last month, Musk shouted over the cheers that erupted from the students, "200 miles an hour for a student-built vehicle. It is incredible!"
That 20-second run beat out Paradigm Hyperloop's 63 miles per hour, and Swiss Hyperloop's 25 miles per hour at the competition.
But he immediately asked for more. "Our goal for the next competition will be 384 miles per hour!" he said.
His final goal, of course, is to reach a speed that can help him realize the wild dream of transporting passengers and goods from San Francisco to Los Angeles in half an hour: 760 miles per hour. Judged by the cheers, the students will try anything to make it a reality.
1. What are the competitors most concerned about?| A．Speed. | B．Safety. | C．Power costs. | D．Vehicle shape. |
| A．Hyperloop One. | B．Swiss Hyperloop. | C．Paradigm Hyperloop. | D．WARR Hyperloop. |
| A．200 miles per hour. | B．384 miles per hour. | C．760 miles per hour. | D．965 miles per hour. |
| A．The challenges for the hyperloop. | B．The concept of the hyperloop. |
| C．The possibility to build the hyperloop. | D．A competition for the hyperloop. |
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