One athlete from the host country on behalf of all the competitors had to ______.
第1题
根据短文回答{TSE}题。
What Makes a Soccer Player Great?
Soccer is played by millions of people all over the world, but there have only been few players who were truly great How did these players get that way--was it through training and practice, or are great players "born, not made"? First, these players came from places that have had famous stars in the past--players that a young boy can look up to and try to imitate (效仿) In the history of soccer, only six countries have ever won the World Cup--three from South America and three from Western Europe There has never been a great national team--or a really great player from North America or from Asia Second, these players have all had years of practice in the game Alfredo Di Stefano was the son of a soccer player, as was Pale Most players begin playing the game at the age of three or four Finally, many great players come from the same kind of neighborhood (聚居区)—a poor, crowded area where a boy's dream is not to be a doctor, lawyer, or businessman,but to become a rich, famous athlete or entertainer For example, Liverpool, which produced the Beatles (甲壳虫乐队), had one of the best English soccer teams in recent years Pale practiced in the street with a "ball" made of rags (破布) And George Best learned the tricks that made him famous by bouncing the ball off a wall in the slums (贫民窟) of Belfast All great players have a lot in common, but that doesn't explain why they are great Hundreds of boys played in those Brazilian streets, but only one became Pale The greatest players are born with some unique quality that sets them apart from all the others
{Page}According to the author, which of the following statements is true?
A.Great soccer players are born, not made
B.Truly great players are rare
C.Only six countries have ever had famous soccer stars
D.Soccer is the least popular sport in North America and Asia
第2题
What Makes a Soccer Player Great?
Soccer is played by millions of people all over the world, but there have only been few players who were.truly great. How did these players get that way-was it through training and practice, or are great players "born, not made"? First, these players came from places that have had famous stars in the past-players that a young boy can look up to and try to imitate (效仿). In the history of soccer, only six countries have ever won the World Cup--three from South America and three from Western Europe. There has never been a great national team-or a really great player-from North America or from Asia. Second, these players have all had years of practice in the game. Alfredo Di Stefano was the son of a soccer player, as was Pele.Most players begin playing the game at the age of three or four.
Finally, many great players come from the same kind of neighbourhood (聚居区)-a poor, crowded area where a boy's dream is not to be a doctor, lawyer, or businessman,but to become a rich, famous athlete or entertainer. For example, Liverpool, which produced the Beatles (甲壳虫乐队), had one of the best English soccer teams in recent years. Pele practiced in the street with a "ball" made of rags (破布). And George Bestlearned the tricks that made him famous by bouncing the ball off a wall in the slums (贫民窟) of Belfast.
All great players have a lot in common, but that doesn't explain why they are great.Hundreds of boys played in those Brazilian streets, but only one became Pele. The greatest players are born with some unique quality that sets them apart from all the others.
第 31 题 According to the author, which of the following'statements is true?
A.Great soccer players are born, not made,
B.Truly great players are rare.
C.Only sixcountries have ever had famous soccer stars.
D.Soccer is the least popular sport in North America and Asia.
第3题
Which of the following is INCORRECT according to the speaker?
A.Yao Ming will be one of the spokespersons for Special Olympics.
B.Yao Ming is the highest profile athlete in China.
C.Yao Ming will participate in the Special Olympics.
D.Yao Ming is the top NBA center for the Houston Rockets and promises to be even better.
第4题
根据材料,回答题。
What Makes a Soccer Player Great?
Soccer is played by millions of people all over the world, but there have only been few players who were truly great. How did these players get that way was it through training and practice, or are great players "born, not made" ? First. these players came from places that have had famous stars in the past players that a young boy can look up to and try to imitate. In the history of soccer, only six Countries have ever won the World Cup three from South America and three from western Europe. There has never been a great national team or a really great player——from North America or from Asia. Second. these players have all had years of practice in the game.
Alfredo Di Stefano was the son of a soccer player, as was Pele. Most players begin playing the game at the age of three or four.
Finally. many great players come from the same kind of neighborhood a poor, crowded area where a boy"s dream is not to be a doctor, lawyer, or businessman, but to become a rich, famous athlete or entertainer. For example, Liverpool. which produced the Beetles, had one of the bestEnglish soccer teams in recent years. Pele practiced in the street with a "ball" made of rags. AndGeorge Best learned the tricks that made him famous by bouncing the ball off a wall in the slumsof Belfast.
All great players have a lot in common, but that doesn"t explain why they are great.
Hundreds of boys played in those Brazilian streets, but only one became Pele. The greatest play-ers are born with some unique quality that sets them apart from all the others.
According to the author, which of the following statements is true? 查看材料
A.Great soccer players are born, not made.
B. Truly great players are rare.
C. Only six countries have ever had famous soccer stars.
D. Soccer is the least popular sport in North America and Asia.
第5题
Why does Mr. Smith receive a scholarship from the school?
A.He is teaching a bowling class.
B.He is working at the university as a faculty member.
C.He is leaving the university this fall.
D.He is a student athlete at the university.
第6题
听力原文: A world-champion body builder has no more muscles than does a 90-pound weakling. So what makes him so strong? What other qualities does be need?
Muscles are made of thousands of stringy fibers—a number that is fixed during childhood—which contract when doing work. Strength does not depend on the number of fibers but on the function of their thickness and how many of them contract simultaneously.
Exercise actually damages the muscles. During the recovery stage, the muscle fibers increase in size. Exercise also trains more muscle fibers to work at one time. If a muscle is weak or untrained, for example, only about 10 percent of its fibers will contract, whereas up to 90 percent of the fibers in a weight lifter's bulky biceps will contract.
Aside from strength, two other ingredients go into making an athlete: fitness and endurance. Fitness is related to the condition of the heart. During exercises, there is an increase in the amount of blood returning to the heart from the muscles. A typical volume for a runner at rest is about 5 quarts a minutes, compared with 30 quarts during a vigorous trial. This greater volume means more work for the heart a muscular balloon that expands and contracts to take in blood and squeeze it out. Like any other muscle, the heart enlarges and gets stronger with routine exercise.
Endurance, or the length of time muscles can work, depends in part on how much fuel—in this case sugar—the muscles can store. A muscle that is continually exercised until it is exhausted of sugar tends to store more when it refuels at the next meal. And more sugar can translate into greater endurance the next time the muscle is put to the test.
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A.Because the fibers of his muscles are very thick.
B.Because he has more muscles.
C.Because his muscles are made of more stringy fibers.
D.Because the number of his muscles was fixed during his childhood.
第7题
On what occasion is the author likely to be moved?
A.A young person cheated of the best firings in life.
B.A genius athlete breaks a world record.
C.A little girl suffers from an incurable disease.
D.When the curtain comes down on a touching play.
第8题
Major-league baseball is an insecure society; it pays a lavish salary to an athlete and then, when he reaches thirty-five or so, it abruptly stops paying him anything. But the tragedy goes considerably deeper than that. Briefly, it is the tragedy of fulfillment.
Each major leaguer, like his childhood friends, always wanted desperately to become a major leaguer. Whenever there was trouble at home, in school, or with a girl, there was the sure escape of baseball; not the stumbling, ungainly escape of an ordinary ballplayer, but a sudden, wondrous metamorphosis into the role of a hero. For each major leaguer was first a star in his neighborhood or in his town, and each rived with the unending solace that there was one thing he could always do with grace and skill and poise. Somehow, he once believed with the most profound faith he possessed, that if he ever did make the major leagues, everything would then become ideal.
A major-league baseball team is comprised of twenty-five youngish men who have made the major leagues and discovered that, in spite of it, life remains distressingly short of ideal. In retrospect, they were better off during the years when their adolescent dream was happily simple and vague. Among the twenty-five youngish men of a ball club, who individually held the common dream which came to be fulfilled, cynicism and disillusion are common as grass. So Willie Mays angrily announces that he will henceforth charge six hundred dollars to be interviewed, and Duke Snider shifts his dream-site from a ball park to an avocado farm overlooking the Pacific, and Peewee Reese tries to fight off a momentary depression by saying, "Sure I dreamt about baseball when I was a kid, but not the night games. No, sir. I did not dream about the fights. "
For most men, the business of shifting and reworking dreams comes late in life, when there are older children upon whose unwilling shoulders the tired dreams may be deposited. It is a harsh, jarring thing to have to shift dreams at thirty, and if there is ever to be a major novel written about baseball, it will have to come to grips with this theme.
The first paragraph indicates that______.
A.winning and losing ball games are both heartbreaking experiences
B.no baseball player can escape the tragedy inherent in major-league baseball
C.tragedy catapults baseball players into creatures of imposing stature
D.Hardy, the novelist, wrote ennobling stories about athletes
第9题
The Ancient Greek Olympics
Today's Olympic Games are based on what took place at Olympia, in Greece, nearly three millennia ago. What were the ancient Olympics like, and how different were they from those of modern times?
Origins
Traditionally it has always been said that the Games started at Olympia in 776 BC, about the time that Homer was born. But for several centuries before that date Olympia had been a cult(祭祀仪式) site for the worship of Zeus, a numinous (精神上的) location away from human dwellings, overlooked by a hill, with the sacred River Alph flowing through it.
What was it that caused people to change from honouring Zeus solely with dedicatory offerings, to honouring him through athletics? Several factors seem to have been involved. One is the rise of the Greek polls(城邦), or city-state. As city-states in different locations grew, each wanted a means of asserting its supremacy, so would send representatives to Olympia to become supreme in physical competition.
Connected with this is the development of military training. The Games were an attractive means of getting men fit. Another factor is the traditional Greek view that the gods championed a winner, so by establishing a competition aimed at producing supreme winners, they were thereby asserting the power and influence on humans of the supreme god, Zeus.
Earliest Races
For the first 13 Olympics there was only one event, the stadium race, which was a running race up one length of the stadium. How long this race was is a matter for conjecture(猜想), as the ancient stadium, 192 meters long, visible at Olympia now, did not exist then.
Boxing, wrestling, and the pancration (the ' all-power' race, combining all types of physical attack) soon followed, along with the pentathlon (五项全能), and horse-and-chariot racing. A race while wearing armour was introduced in 520 BC, and even a mule race (in 500 BC, but it was not generally popular).
Religion and Politics
Religion pervaded the ancient Olympics. Zeus was thought to look down on the competitors, favouring some and denying victory to others. ' You could spur on a man with natural talent to strive to wards great glory with the help of the gods', says Pindar in a victory-ode. If an athlete was fined for cheating or bribery (human nature stays much the same over a few millennia) , the money exacted was used to make a cult statue of Zeus.
A grand sacrifice of 100 oxen was made to Zeus during the Games. Olympia was home to one of Greece's great oracles, an oracle to Zeus, with an altar to him consisting of the bonfire-heap created by burnt sacrificial offerings. As the offerings were burnt, they were examined by a priest, who pronounced an oracle -- an enigmatic and often ambiguous prediction of the future -- according to his interpretation of what he saw. Some athletes consulted the oracle to learn what their chances in the Games were. The Greeks tried to keep some aspects of politics out of the Olympics, but their efforts met then, as such efforts do now, with limited success. The Olympic truce was meant to lead to a cessation of hostilities throughout Greece, to allow competitors to travel and participate safely, but it was not al ways observed.
And it is clear from the victory odes of Pindar and Bacchylides that the Sicilian tyrants in the fifth century aimed to strengthen their grip on affairs by competing in the equestrian events at the Games, and by commissioning famous poets to compose and publicly perform. odes celebrating their victories.
Nakedness and Women
Sow naked, plough naked, harvest naked', the poet Hesiod (a contemporary of Homer) advises. He might have added ' compete in the Games naked' , for that is usually understood to be the standard practice among the ancient Greeks. Some dispute this, for although the visual evidence for it -- the
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