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    SYDNEY: As they sat sharing sweets beside a swimming pool in 1999, Shane Gould and Jessicah Schipper were simply getting along well, chatting about sport, life and “anything else that came up.”

    Yet in Sydney next month, they will meet again by the pool, and for a short time the friends will race against each other in the 50-meter butterfly(蝶泳)in the Australian championships at Homebush Bay.

    Gould, now a 47-year-old mother of four,  has announced she will be making a return to elite competition (頂級(jí)賽事) to swim the one event, having set a qualifying (合格的) time of 30.32 seconds in winning gold at last year’s United States Masters championships. Her comeback comes32 years after she won three golds at the Munich Olympics.

    Schipper, now a 17-year-old from Brisbane with a bright future of going to Athens for her first Olympics, yesterday recalled (回憶) her time with Gould five years ago.

    “I was at a national youth camp on the Gold Coast and Shane had come along to talk to us and watch us train,” Schipper explained. “It seemed as if we had long been good friends. I don’t know why. We just started talking and it went from there.”

    “She had a lot to share with all of us at that camp. She told us stories about what it was like at big meets like the Olympics and what it’s like to be on an Australian team. It was really interesting.”

    Next time, things will be more serious. “I will still be swimming in the 50m butterfly at the nationals, so there is a chance that I could actually be competing against Shane Gould, ” said Schipper, who burst onto the scene at last year’s national championships with second places in the 100m and 200m butterfly.

1. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Stories happening in swimming competitions.

B. Two women swimmers winning Olympic golds.

C. Lessons learned from international swimming championships.

D. Friendship and competition between two swimmers.

2. Gould and Schipper are going to ________.

A. talk about sport and life

B. go back to elite competition

C. set a qualifying time and win gold

D. take part in the same sports event

3. Gould won her three Olympic golds when she was ______.

A. 15

B. 17

C. 22

D. 30

4. The underlined word “it” in the fifth paragraph probably refers to ______.

A. the Olympics

B. the youth camp

C. the friendship

D. the Australian team

5. What Schipper said showed that she _______.

A. was no longer Gould’s friend

B. had learned a lot from Gould

C. was not interested in Gould’s stories

D. would not like to compete against Gould

 

Answer 1

答案：DDACB
解析：

1. 提煉主旨大意題。本文以發(fā)自悉尼的報(bào)道形式，介紹兩位游泳運(yùn)動(dòng)員Shane Gould和Jessicah Schipper通過相識(shí)、相知和比賽，彼此互相了解，從而建立起來的良好關(guān)系的過程。因此，本文的中心思想應(yīng)為D項(xiàng)最恰當(dāng)。 2. 細(xì)節(jié)判斷題。從原文第二節(jié)“Yet in Sydney next month they will meet again by the pool,…will race against each other in the 50-meter butterfly…”中的“they”即指Gould and Schipper。她們下月將再次相遇，同時(shí)參加50米蝶泳�？梢�，本題D項(xiàng)是正確答案。 3. 細(xì)節(jié)判斷題。原文第三節(jié)“Gould, now a 47-year-old mother of four, has announced she will be making a return to elite competition… Her comeback(她的復(fù)出)comes 32 years after she won three golds at the Munich Olympics.”中清楚地表明：Gould現(xiàn)年47歲，在她獲得慕尼黑奧運(yùn)會(huì)三塊金牌之后32年的今天復(fù)出，可見，她獲金牌的時(shí)間為47歲減去32歲，等于15歲。 4. 語境詞義判斷題。原文第五節(jié)中，年輕有為的Schipper回憶起她五年前和Gould相見時(shí)的情況時(shí)說，“…Shane had come along to talk to us and watch us train. It seemed as if we had long been good friends. I don’t know why. We just started talking and it went from there.”那時(shí)，她們互相交談，Shane還看她們訓(xùn)練，好像她們已是多年的老朋友似的。Schipper解釋她都不清楚為什么她們從交談中產(chǎn)生了解和友情。故it 意為the friendship最貼切。 5. 歸納綜合題。從本文倒數(shù)第二、第三節(jié)Schipper的解釋中，尤其是“She had a lot to share with all of us at the camp. She told us stories about what it was like at big meets like the Olympics and what it’s like to be on an Australian team.”可以清楚感覺出，她作為新秀，從老將Gould身上學(xué)到很多。而本題A、C、D都使用了否定詞was no longer, was not interested, would not like，顯然與Schipper的解釋背道而馳的。