HITTING the water with almost superman’s love and strength, Sun Yang has made history after his excellent performance at the London Olympic Games.

The 20-year-old Sun became the first Chinese man to win gold in swimming. He took home four medals in total, two golds, one silver and one bronze.

Sun said his success was down to hard work. For years he has made it a rule to swim 20km every day. “When I trained in Australia, it was winter. Although the weather was cold and I was tired, I started training at 4:30am,” he said. The post-1990 athlete is popular not only because of his victory in London, but also his sportsmanship.

Nicknamed “Sun Mengmeng” online, which in Chinese refers to his innocent (清白的。无辜的) appearance and charming (魅力)personality, Sun has gained more than 10 million followers on Sina Weibo. His first message about his trip back to his hometown, Hangzhou, after the Olympics, received thousands of responses. “The high-speed train on my way home has been blocked for three hours due to Typhoon Haikui,” it said. “Is it possible for me to arrive home tonight?” Some Weibo users even visited his page to give funny replies, such as, “Why not swim home?”

Sun may dream of matching his idol (偶像), American Michael Phelps, who has won 22 Olympic medals. But as a third-year student in Zhejiang University, he says he has a long way to go.

“Sun works hard in class. His diligence shows the choices of a new generation of Chinese athletes, who are making more time for their education and not just focusing on sport,” said his professor, Zheng Fang.

86. Is Sun Yang the first Chinese man to win gold in swimming?

87. Why is Sun Yang, the post-1990 athlete, so popular?

88. What does Sun Yang’s nickname refer to?

89. What did Sun’s first message about his trip back to his hometown mean?

90. Would you like to be a person like Sun Yang? Why?

  When I was at university, I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn’t do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time drinking in the Students’ Union than working in the library.

  Once at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. In my room the night before the test, Fred was watching TV. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan. “It’s very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I’ll take a coin into the examination room. I haven’t studied a chemistry book for months, so I’ll just toss (扔,抛) the coin. That way, I’m sure I’ll get half the questions right.”

 The next day, Fred came happily into the exam room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.

 The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor (过道 ,走廊).  “Oh, good,” he said, “Have you got the result of the test ? ” The professor looked at him and smiled, “Ah, it’s you, Baines. Just a minute.” Then he reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.

 “I’m terribly sorry, Baines,” he said, “You failed!”

81. This story mainly wants to tell us ________.

 A. chemistry is really hard to learn

B. there were too many questions for students to prepare for

C. good exam results needs hard study   D. tossing a coin can not always decide the result

82. Fred Baines was one of those who ________.

A. did just enough to pass the exam          B. didn’t work hard enough for their studies

C. had too much other work for the Students’ Union  D. were quite good at passing exams

83. Fred came happily into the exam room because ________.

A. he had got ready for the exam            B. he knew the answers already

C. the other students would be behind him    D. he had his way to finish the exam

84. The chemistry exam in fact ________.

A. was not very hard                    B. took the other students an hour to finish

C. had more than one hundred questions     D. needed to be done by tossing a coin

85. The professor tossed the coin to tell Baines that ________.

A. he was satisfied with his way for the exam    B. he wanted to make friends with him

C. his way for the exam would never work      D. the exam result depended on the coin

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