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The triathlon(铁人三项运动) promises to be one of the most popular Olympic sports.Recently it has drawn huge crowds attracted by athletes swimming 1,500mcycling 40kmthen running 10km without stopping.But what makes an attractive 17?year?old girl give up everything for the doubtful pleasure it offers?

Melanie Sears has not yet learnt those often?repeated phrases about personal satisfactionmental challenge and higher targets that most athletes use when asked similar questions.“You swim for 1,500mthen run out of the water and jump on your bikestill wet.Of coursethen you freeze.When the 40km cycle ride is overyou have to run 10kmwhich is a long way when you’re feeling exhausted.But it’s great funand all worth it in the end” she says.

Melanie entered her first triathlon at 14 and she won the junior section.Full of confidenceshe entered the National Championshipsand although she had the second fastest swim and the fastest runshe came nowhere.“I was following this man and suddenly we came to the sea.We realised then that we had gone wrong.I ended up cycling 20 kilometres too far.I cried all the way through the running.”

But she did not give up and was determined that she never will.“Sometimes I wish I could stopbecause then the pain would be overbut I am afraid that if I let myself stop just onceI would be tempted(诱惑) to do it again.”Such doggedness draws admiration from Steve Trewthe sport’s director of coaching.“I’ve just been testing her fitness” he says, “and she worked so hard on the running machine that it finally threw her off and into a wall.She had given it everythingand she just kept on.”

Melanie was top junior in this year’s European Triathlon Championshipsfinishing 13th.“I was almost as good as the top three in swimming and runningbut much slower in cycling.That’s why I’m working very hard at it.” She is trying to talk her long?suffering parentswho will carry the 1,300 cost of her trip to New Zealand for this year’s world championshipsinto buying a 2,000 bikeso she can try 25km and 100km races later this year.

But there is another price to pay.“I don’t have a social life”she says.“After two hours’ hard swimming on Friday nightI just want to go to sleep.But I phone and write to the other girls in the team.” What does she talk aboutBoysClothes“Nowhat sort of times they are achieving.”

1.How does Melanie differ from other athletesaccording to the writer?

AShe worries less than they do.

BShe expresses herself differently.

CHer family background is not like theirs.

DHer aims are different from theirs.

2.What upset Melanie during the National Championships?

AShe was tricked by another competitor.

BShe felt she had let her team?mates down.

CShe made a mistake during part of the race.

DShe realized she couldn’t cycle as fast as she thought.

3.What is Melanie trying to persuade her parents to do?

ABuy an expensive bike for her.

BGive her half the cost of a bike.

CLet her compete in longer races.

DPay for her to go to New Zealand.

4.What does Melanie say about her relationships with her team?mates?

AShe would like to see them more often.

BShe only discusses the triathlon with them.

CShe thinks they find her way of life strange.

DShe dislikes discussing boys or clothes with them.

 

【答案】

1.B

2.C

3.A

4.B

【解析】

1.

解析 细节理解题。由第二段可知,其他运动员在接受采访时都会说自己参加铁人三项赛是为了获得满足感、挑战心理等等,而Melanie Sears却回答说这很有趣,她的回答与众不同。

2.2】 C

解析 细节理解题。由第三段可知,Melanie Sears参加全国锦标赛时,走错了路,导致她没有取得名次。

3.3】 A

解析 细节理解题。由倒数第二段可知,Melanie Sears极力劝说她的父母给她买一辆价值2 000英镑的自行车,用来参加今年的比赛。

4.4】 B

解析 细节理解题。文章最后一句告诉我们Melanie Sears和队友们聊的也是铁人三项赛的事情。

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