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【題目】 Two summers ago, Spencer Seabrooke stepped off the edge of a cliff and out into the air. He was held up by a narrow band of fabric, three centimetres wide. The slackline (扁帶) went over a deep channel on the top of Stawamus Chief Mountain in Squamish, Canada. The plan was to walk across without safety equipment. The ground was 290 metres below Seabrook’s feet. A fall meant death. The walking distance of 64 metres would mark a world record in free solo slacklining.

“You’re standing on nothing,” Seabrooke said at the time. “Everything inside your body is telling you this is wrong.” Several steps into the crossing, Seabrooke looked down. He lowered his body to steady himself and reached with his hands to hold the slackline. He suddenly turned over but hung on. He righted himself, let out a few screams, and stood again. He had walked the same slackline-with assistance-many times before. Finally, he crossed in four minutes and made it.

Slacklining became known in the early 1980s, around the rock climbing scene at Yosemite National Park in California. Scott Balcom, in 1985, was the first to walk on a 17-metre highline on Lost Arrow Spire, the valley bottom some 880 metres below. Charles “Chongo” Tucker, who has been living in Yosemite for a long time, was there in slacklining’s earliest days. Later, in 1994, he was one of the next people to walk the Lost Arrow Spire highline. “As scared as I was, it was as cool as anything I’ve ever done in my life,” said Tucker.

Seabrooke grew up in Peterborough, Canada, in love with the outdoors. He saw a documentary in 2012 that was about Andy Lewis, a slackliner and free solo pioneer who performed at the Super Bowl. Seabrooke was attracted and devoted himself to the sport. Three years later, he walked his record free solo highline on the Stawamus Chief.

The attention Seabrooke won led to work, everything from commercials to paid appearances at slackline festivals from Poland to China. “When you step out into the air, there’s something so clean about it,” said Seabrooke. “Height makes it real.”

【1】What do we know about Seabrooke’s slacklining experience two years ago?

A.It was record-breaking.

B.It was done in Yosemite.

C.It involved materials for security.

D.It presented no challenge to him.

【2】What did Seabrooke’s words in Paragraph 2 imply?

A.He was very confident.

B.He made a wrong decision.

C.Slacklining was a dangerous sport.

D.Slacklining was done without any support.

【3】What was Tucker’s attitude to slacklining?

A.Negative.B.Ambiguous.

C.Frustrated.D.Favorable.

【4】What encouraged Seabrooke to start slacklining?

A.The Super Bowl.

B.A slackline festival.

C.Its commercial promise.

D.A slackliner’s performance.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】D

【4】D

【解析】

本文是一篇記敘文。文章主要講述了一位走扁帶運動愛好者的親身經(jīng)歷。

【1】

細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段中The walking distance of 64 metres would mark a world record.(步行64米的距離將創(chuàng)下世界紀(jì)錄) 和第二段中Finally, he crossed in four minutes and made it(最終他在四分鐘內(nèi)穿過，成功了) 可知，Seabrooke通過這次走扁帶破了世界紀(jì)錄。故選A。

【2】

推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二段中Seabrooke 所說的You're standing on nothing(你是站不住腳的) 和Everything inside your body is telling you this is wrong.(你內(nèi)心的一切告訴你這是錯誤的) 可推知這項運動極其危險。故選C。

【3】

推理判斷題。根據(jù)第三段中Tucker所說的As scared as I was, it was as cool as anything I’ve ever done in my life(雖然我很害怕，但它和我這輩子做過的任何事情一樣酷) 可知，雖然這項運動非常危險，但是Tucker 覺得很酷。也就是說，他對這項運動的態(tài)度是Favorable(贊許的)。故選D。

【4】

細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的He saw a documentary in 2012 that was about Andy Lewis, a slackliner and free solo pioneer who performed at the Super Bowl. Seabrooke was attracted and devoted himself to the sport.( 他在2012年看了一部關(guān)于安迪·劉易斯的紀(jì)錄片，他是一位走扁帶愛好者，是超級碗表演的自由單人表演先驅(qū)。Seabrooke被吸引并全身心投入這項運動。) 可知，2012年Seabrooke在一部紀(jì)錄片中看到走扁帶的精彩表演，從此開始這項運動。故選D。