题目内容
Surfing: It's Not Just for Boys AnymoreIf you asked high school girls to name their favorite sports, most would probably say basketball or volleyball. I happen to be one of the few girls who would 1 : surfing (冲浪运动). But isn't that a boy thing? Some people 2 . Most certainly not.
I started surfing about five years ago and 3 in love with the sport on the very first day. Riding that first 4 was the best feeling I had ever experienced. When I try to 5 surfing with other things, I find it very difficult because, in my 6 , there's nothing like it. It involves (牵涉到) body, 7 , and soul. There's sand between my toes and cool, salt water all 8 us. The feeling I get when I'm surfing across that 9 , becoming one with the 10 , is like I'm weightless.
The one thing I can 11 from surfing and not any other sport is endless challenge (挑战). You can never be the “best surfer” because the ocean 12 an uncountable variety of waves that nobody can ever master. The variations of surfing styles are wonderful. Some surfers are free and flowing; others are very aggressive (活跃有力的) and 13 . All of these things attract me to surfing and make it 14 from any other sport.
I've 15 to tell every girl I know to do something that people don't think girls can do. It's part of being human to advance to new 16 , so shouldn't it be expected that girls should step up and start 17 the limits of things boys and men used to dominate (主宰)?
There're women 18 side by side with the President of our country, so why not side by side with the boys 19 the football team or out in the water surfing? Give girls a chance to 20 , and they will.
1.
A. tell B. answer
C. give D. realize
2.
A. wonder B. understand
C. reply D. believe
3.
A. stayed B. came
C. dropped D. fell
4.
A. wave B. storm
C. sail D. boat
5.
A. bring B. connect
C. compare D. tie
6.
A. work B. study
C. holiday D. life
7.
A. mind B. effort
C. health D. time
8.
A. along B. above
C. around D. by
9.
A. beach B. water
C. board D. lake
10.
A. sky B. world
C. earth D. ocean
11.
A. take B. get
C. make D. keep
12.
A. catches B. includes
C. offers D. collects
13.
A. sharp B. great
C. hard D. calm
14.
A. known B. right
C. far D. different
15.
A. chosen B. tried
C. learned D. promised
16.
A. levels B. points
C. steps D. parts
17.
A. reaching B. accepting
C. pushing D. setting
18.
A. sitting B. walking
C. fighting D. working
19.
A. of B. from
C. on D. with
20.
A. think B. succeed
C. perform D. feel
解析:
| 1.我就是一个会回答“冲浪”的女孩。
2.有些人想知道。 3.Fall in love with sth./ sb.爱上…。 4.在海浪上驰骋是我所经历过的最棒的感觉。 5.Compare sth. with sth.将…同…进行比较。 6.In one’s life,在某人的生活中。 7.因为有body,因此这里要用mind。 8.Around sb. 在某人周围。 9.因为是冲浪,因此这里是穿越水的时候。 10.在冲浪的时候,当然是同大海融为一体。 11.Get sth. from sth.从…那里获得…。 12.海洋提供了数不胜数的无法控制的海浪。 13.其他冲浪者非常活跃有力和敏捷。 14.使之不同于其它运动。 15.Try to do sth.试图做某事。 16.到达新的境界。 17.Reach the limits of sth.达到…的极限。 18.Work side by side with sb.同某人一起工作。 19.在足球队,要用介词on. 20.给女孩们一个成功的机会,她们就会成功的。
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提示:
SYDNEY 2005-01-01 08:33—Mother of two, Jillian Searle, had to choose between her children when she made a life-or-death decision.
Swept up by mountainous tsunami (海啸) waves at a Thai resort ( 旅游胜地), she could not hold on to both her young sons and survive . Fighting to stay above the waters , she had to choose which one would have to take his chances in the swirling torrent (漩流).
“I knew I had to let go of one of them and I just thought I’d better let go of the one that’s the older,” she told Sky News television in a report broadcast on Thursday. She said she was accompanied by the two boys, Lachie, 5, and two-year-old Blake, and their father, Brad, who had watched the drama helplessly from their first-floor hotel room, when the waves struck. “And I was screaming, trying to find him, and we thought he was dead,” she told reporters on arrival back in Australia. Lachie was found alive about 2 hours later clinging to a door and, looked uninjured as his mother spoke to reporters.
British surfer (冲浪运动员) Martin Markwell is also a lucky man. He had always dreamed of catching that perfect wave –but when it finally came along, it was a nightmare. He was on his surfboard when he was swept up by a tsunami wave.
“It was really terrible because I was surfing, I was really surfing on a wave I wasn’t supposed to be on,” he said. “As an experienced surfer, when I saw the wave come I realized something was wrong, but I couldn’t escape because my surfboard was tied to my ankle.”
His wife Vicki and son Jake looked on in horror from a hotel balcony as he crashed towards the shore. Luckily , he stayed on top of his board until he reached the hotel , jumped off and got to safety as the ocean rolled back to feed a much larger tsunami wave on its way . The family regrouped and ran to safety just minutes before a giant tsunami wave 10 meters high.
57. When the waves struck, the father Brad .
| A. reported the disaster to Sky News television |
| B. was watching a drama play on TV in the hotel |
| C. tried to find his son lost in the waters |
| D. watched things going on , unable to do anything |
58. The underlined word “him” refers to .
| A. an old man | B. Lachie | C. Brad | D. Blake |
59. Which of the following is wrong ?
| A. Lachie and Martin were both with their family members when the disaster happened. |
| B. Lachie and Martin both survived from the high waves when tsunami struck. |
| C. Lachie and Martin were both travelers from Europe on holiday in Thailand. |
| D. Lachie and Martin were both alive owing to their good luck. |
60. The best title of this news story would be .
| A. Narrow Escape | B. Disaster Caused by Tsunami |
| C. Exciting Surfing Experience | D. Struggle Against Tsunami |