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Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps【C1】______Sunday that he had【C2】______in "regrettable" behav
【C1】
A.declared
B.realized
C.admitted
D.promised
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【C1】
A.declared
B.realized
C.admitted
D.promised
Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
A.Franklin, the Famous Swimming Teacher.
B.Franklin, the Great Inventor.
C.Franklin, the Founder of Swimming Schools.
D.Franklin, the Well-known Swimmer.
There is a unique form. of pressure on Japan's athletes. Competitors from every country face enormous expectations to win , to make the years of hard work and training pay off, to achieve greatness on the preeminent world stage. American cyclist Lance Armstrong ,winner of two consecutive Tour de France races after surviving a contest with cancer, noted last week that, "If I loses the Olympics, they'll say, 'I thought he was supposed to be a good cyclist.'" "But whereas failure to win gold might cost Americans a fat endorsement contract, for Japanese a disappointing performance is even more disastrous, as individual failure is somehow wrapped up with a sense of national identity. "For non-Japanese, it's very peculiar for athletes to say they are sorry. "says Mitsunori Urushibara, a professor of sports philosophy at Shikoku Gakuin University. "Failure is never just an individual matter in Japan. Athletes always face the terror of being excommunicated from the group."
Understanding the culture in which Japanese athletes compete makes watching their defeats all the more painful. The agony of gymnast Naoya Tsukahara, whose hopes for an individual all-around medal were dashed last Wednesday when he inexplicably fell off the pommel horse, was obvious as he seemed to sleepwalk through his other events. His body was limp, his expression blank. "I didn't want to disgrace my nation," he said. Another young swimmer, Tomoko Hagiwara, climbed out of the pool after finishing seventh in her 200-m individual-medley qualifying heat last Monday, her shoulders hanging downward, her head tilted downward. "What was the cause of your poor performance?" snapped a reporter for NHK, the national TV network. Hagiwara answered that she didn't shift smoothly between strokes and that her turns were poor. "Please remember those points and try to do better in the next race," the reporter lectured. "You feel as ff everyone in Japan feels ashamed of you, "former Olympic swimmer Hiroko Nagasaki commented on a Fuji TV broadcast.
A memory that still haunts many in Japan is that of Kokichi Tsuburaya, the marathon, runner who finished third at the 1964 Tokyo Games. Four years later, while in training for the Mexico City Olympics, Tsuburaya killed himself by cutting his wrist in his dormitory. He was found holding his bronze medal. "I remember Tsuburaya' s comments before he committed suicide," follow marathoner Kenji Kimihara told the Nikkan Sports newspaper this year. "He said 'I committed an inexcusable mistake in front of the Japanese people. I have to beg their pardon by running and hoisting the Hinomaru [national flag] in Mexico."
The media are partly responsible for the pressure, but they reflect the general attitudes of the population. And the nation's fans don't seem to be having much fun. Last week, hundreds of Japanese endured a horrific schedule to watch their team battle Brazil in soccer. They took a nine hour flight from Osaka to Brisbane, traveled by bus to the stadium, dutifully watched the game and left immediately for the airport for the return trip to Osaka. They were home in time for work the next morning. "They got there and acted like the cheering was compulsory," says Urushibara. "They didn' t seem to really enjoy the game. It is work. It is what members of the group do."<
A.They think their failures are wrapped up with a sense of national identity.
B.They think their failures are due to carelessness.
C.They have acted stupidly in the Olympic.
D.They have lost the chance of a fat endorsement contract with the Americans.
In sport the sexes are separate. Women and men do not run or swim in the same races.
Women are less strong than men. That at least is what people say. Women are called "the weaker sex", or, if men want to please them, "the fair sex". But boys and girls are taught together at schools and universities. There are women who are famous Prime Ministers, scientists and writers .And women live longer than men. A European woman can expect to live until the age of 74, a man only until he is 68. Are women&39; s bodies really weaker?
The fastest men can run a mile in 4 minutes. The best women need 4.5 minutes. Women&39;s speeds are always slower than men&39; s, but some facts are surprising. Some of the fastest women swimmers today are teenage girls. One of them swam 400 metres in 4 minutes 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first "Tarzan" in films was an Olympic swimmer, Johnny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 metres was 4 minutes 59.1 seconds, which is 37.9 seconds slower than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are catching men up. Conditions are very different now, and sport is much more serious. It is so serious that some women athletes are given hormone(荷尔蒙) injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems sad that sport has such problem. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes!
Women are called "the weaker sex" because __________. 查看材料
A.women do as much work as men
B.people think women are weaker than men
C.sport is easier for men than for women
D.in sport the two sexes are always together
The Key to Success
A five-year study of 120 of the nation's top artists, athletes and scholars has concluded that drive and determination, not great natural talent, led to their extraordinary success.
"We expected to find tales of great natural gifts," said University of Chicago education professor Benjamin Bloom, who led the team of researchers who studies the careers of America's top performers, "We didn't find that at all. Their mothers often said it was their other child who had the greater gifts."
The most brilliant mathematicians often said they had trouble in school and were rarely the best in their classes. Some world-class tennis players said their coaches viewed them as being too short ever to be outstanding, and the Olympic swimmers said they remembered getting regularly "clobbered"(打垮) in races as 10-year olds.
Anonymous Interviews
The foundation-supported research team conducted in-depth, anonymous interviews with the top 20 performers in the some fields, as judged by national championships or similar honors.
They also interviewed their families and teachers, hoping to learn how these individuals developed into extraordinary performers.
Instead, the researcher heard accounts of an extraordinary drive and dedication through which, for example, a typical swimmer would tell of getting up at 5:30 every morning to swim two hours before school and then two hours after school to attain his or her goal of making the Olympic team.
Bloom, an eminent educational researcher, said his findings "remind me of the old joke about the young man walking down a New York street who stops to ask a little old lady, 'How do I get to Carnegie Hall?' and she looks up and says, 'Practice, young man. Practice.'"
Although practice and motivation seemed to explain their success, the top performers, regardless of their field, appeared to follow a similar course of development, the researchers found.
In practically every case, the parents played the key role, first by exposing their children at an early age to music, sports or learning. The vast majority of the parents were not themselves outstanding musicians, athletes or scholars. For example, few than half of the parents of the distinguished pianists had ever played any musical instrument.
Valued Competition
But the parents of the swimmer and tennis players did enjoy sports and valued competition, Bloom reported. The families of the pianists appreciated art and music, while the parents of the research scientists displayed a great love for learning.
The parents of scientists reported that their children showed both an unusual curiosity about how things work and an "independent nature" that allowed them to play or work alone for hours.
Although it is not uncommon for children to ask repeatedly "Why?", "What appears to make the parents of scientists unique is the nature of their children's questions," Bloom wrote, "They responded to the questions seriously, often encouraging even more questions."
"These parents placed great stress on achievement, on success and on doing one's best at all times. They were models of the 'work ethic', believing that work should come before play and that one should always work toward distant goals." Bloom said. The results of the research will be published this week in a book entitled Developing Talent in Young People.
The families said in the interviews that they wanted their children to have "normal" childhoods and that they had no inkling(略知) that the children would achieve unusual success.
Parents Encouraged Them
But once a child displayed an interest and enthusiasm in a particular area, these parents encouraged them at every step and were willing to spend countless hours shuttling them to and from piano, tennis or swimming lessons.
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In sport the sexes are separate. (76) Women and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men. That at least is what people say. Women are called "the weaker sex" ,or, if men want to please them, "the fair sex". But boys and girls are taught together at schools and universities. There are women who are famous Prime Ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. A European woman can expect to live until the age of 74, a man only until he is 68. Are women' s bodies really weaker7
The fastest men can run a mile in 4 minutes. The best women need 4.5 minutes. Women' s speeds are always slower than men' s, but some facts are surpising. Some of the fastest women swimmers today are teenage girls. One of them swam 400 metres in 4 minutes 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first "Tarzan" in films was an Olympic swimmer, Johnny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 metres was 4 minutes 59.1 seconds, which is 37.9 seconds slower than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are catching men up. Conditions are very different now, and sport is much more serious. It is so serious that some women athletes are given hormone(荷尔蒙) injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems sad that sport has such problem. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes !
Women are called "the weaker sex" because______.
A.women do as much work as men
B.people think women are weaker than men
C.sport is easier for men than for women
D.in sport the two sexes are always together
听力原文: In sports the sexes are separate. Women and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men. That at least is what people say. Women are called "the weaker sex", or, if men want to please them, "the fair sex". But boys and girls are taught together at schools and universities. There are women who are famous Prime Ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. A European woman can expect to live until the age of seventy-four, a man only until he is sixty eight. Are women's bodies really weaker?
The fastest men can run a mile in under four minutes. The best women need four and a half minutes. Women's times are always slower than men's, but some facts are a surprise. Some of the fastest women swimmers today are teenage girls. One of them swam four hundred meters in 4 minutes and 21.2 seconds when she was only sixteen. The first "Tarzan" in films was an Olympic swimmer, Johnny Weissmuller. His fastest four hundred meters was 4 minutes and 59.1 seconds, which is 37.9 seconds slower than a girl fifty years later! This does not mean that women are catching men up. Conditions are very different now, and sport is much more serious. It is so serious that some women athletes are given hormone injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems sad that sport has such problems. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes!
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A.Because women do much work than men.
B.Because people think women weaker than men.
C.Because sport is easier for men than for women.
D.Because in sport the two sexes are always separate.
Many athletes say that they have benefited from the therapy. Phelps used the therapy in the fall of 2014 and has used it about twice a week since, reported ABC News. Another US swimmer, Dana Vollmer, also believes that “it really helps with blood flow”.
However, some have said that the supposed health effects result from people’s feeling that the treatment works, rather than any physical effect of the treatment. To figure out cupping therapy has any physical effect, last year researchers from Germany carried out a test in which a false treatment was provided.
In the study, the same type of cups was used in the real treatment and the false treatment. But in the false treatment, the cups had a hole at the top so that they couldn’t create the proper suction(吸力).
The tested patients, who suffered from a disorder that caused a lot of pain, were told that they would receive either traditional cupping or “soft cupping”. But they were not informed that the so-called “soft cupping” was a false treatment.
It turned out that most patients correctly guessed which kind of cupping they had received. In both groups, patients also experienced about the same reductions in pain. “ The results suggest the effects of cupping therapy might come from factors that are not necessarily part of the treatment itself,” the researchers told the Live Science website.
The question of whether cupping therapy works still needs to be answered. “But because the treatment is relatively safe and it could be helpful for some people, the therapy can be used as part of a comprehensive treatment program involving other exercises, nutritional choices and lifestyle changing, ” Dr. Brent Bauer, director of the US Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program at Mayo Clinic, told Live Science.
1.Why is Michael Phelps mentioned in the passage?
A.To give athletes a new way to swim faster.
B.To provide athletes with a new way of treatment.
C.To introduce the topic on cupping therapy.
D.To show swimmers suffer from disorders.
2.The purpose of the test by researchers from Germany was to _____.
A.promote the health effects of cupping therapy
B.see whether cupping therapy has a physical effect
C.compare traditional cupping with soft cupping
D.compare cupping therapy’s effects on different groups of people
3.What can be learned from the passage?
A.Different people need different types of cupping therapy.
B.The real treatment and false treatment almost have the same effects.
C.The results show that cupping therapy is not part of the treatment.
D.Cupping therapy is only effective when used with lifestyle changing.
4.According to Dr. Brent Bauer, cupping therapy _____.
A.is a fast and easy treatment for people to carry out
B.is a newly invented way to cure some diseases
C.needs a long period of time to take effect
D.can be used together with other treatments
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Sports and Sexes
In sports the sexes are separate.【C1】______and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men. That【C2】______is【C3】______people say. Women are【C4】______"the weaker sex", or if men want to please them, "the fair sex". But boys and girls are taught【C5】______schools and universities. There are women【C6】______are famous prime ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men.【C7】______European woman can expect【C8】______until the age of 74; a man only until he is 68. Are women's bodies really weaker? The fastest men can run a mile in【C9】______4 minutes. The best women need 5 minutes. Women's times are always slower than【C10】______, but some facts are a surprise. Some of the【C11】______women swimmers today are girls. One of them swam 400 metres【C12】______4 minutes and 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first "Tartan" in films was【C13】______Olympic swimmer, Jonny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 metres was 4 minutes and 59.1 seconds,【C14】______is 37.9 seconds【C15】______than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are【C16】______men【C17】______. Conditions are very different now, and sport is much【C18】______serious. It is【C19】______serious that some women are given hormone injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check【C20】______the women are really women or not. It seems like that sport has many problems. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes.
【C1】
A.woman
B.womans
C.women
D.females
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