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　　After the Summer Olympics are over, when all the athletics have gone home and the television audience has switched off, another group of athletics and fans will arrive at the host city, and another competition will begin．These are the Paralympics, the games for athletes with a disability．But in Beijing in 2008, for the first time, one of the greatest Paralympics will not be taking part．

　　She is a British athlete by the name of Tanni Grey-Thormpson．Born with spine hifida(脊椎裂)which left her paralysed from the waist, Bown Tanni used a wheelchair from the age of 7．At first, she was not keen on sport, apart from horse-riding, which gave her a sense of freedom．But in her teens, she started taking sports more seriously．She tried swimming, basketball and tennis．Eventually she found athletics, and never looked back．

　　Indeed, Tanni's athletic career took off．In 1984, when she was 15, she pulled off a surprise victory in the 100metres at the Junior National Wheelchair Games．

　　In 1988, Tanni went to her first Paralympic Games in Seoul．She won bronze in the 400 metres．Even greater success followed at the 1992 Barcelonn．Paralympics．Tanni won gold in the 100, 200, 400 and 800 metres relay, setting two world records in the process．In the same year she achieved she first of her six London Wheelchair Marathon victories．

　　Tanni's enduring success had been part motivation(動機), part preparation,“The training I do that enables me to be a good sprinter(短跑運動員)enables me to be good at a marathon too．I train 50 weeks of the year and that keeps me prepared for whatever distance I want to see…．I am still competing at a very high level, but as I get older things get harder and I want to retire before I fall apart．”

　　Indeed Tanni retired finally after the Visa Paralympic World Cup in 2007．Her wish is to coach young athletes for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games．

　　In spite of ups and downs, she never take her fate lying down．In her splendid life, she has won an amazing eleven gold medals, four silvers and one bronze in series of Paralympics-a top level athletic career covering two decades．She has won the London Wheelchair Marathon six times, more than any other competitor, and she has set over thirty world records．

　　What advice does she have for young athletes?“Work hard at your studies, and then train, train and train again．”

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閱讀理解

　　After the Summer Olympics are over, when all the athletics have gone home and the television audience has switched off, another group of athletics and fans will arrive at the host city, and another competition will begin．These are the Paralympics, the games for athletes with a disability．But in Beijing in 2008, for the first time, one of the greatest Paralympics will not be taking part．

　　She is a British athlete by the name of Tanni Grey-Thormpson．Born with spine hifida(脊椎裂)which left her paralysed from the waist, Bown Tanni used a wheelchair from the age of 7．At first, she was not keen on sport, apart from horse-riding, which gave her a sense of freedom．But in her teens, she started taking sports more seriously．She tried swimming, basketball and tennis．Eventually she found athletics, and never looked back．

　　Indeed, Tanni’s athletic career took off．In 1984, when she was 15, she pulled off a surprise victory in the 100metres at the Junior National Wheelchair Games．

　　In 1988, Tanni went to her first Paralympic Games in Seoul．She won bronze in the 400 metres．Even greater success followed at the 1992 Barcelonn．Paralympics．Tanni won gold in the 100, 200, 400 and 800 metres relay, setting two world records in the process．In the same year she achieved she first of her six London Wheelchair Marathon victories．

　　Tanni’s enduring success had been part motivation(動機), part preparation, “The training I do that enables me to be a good sprinter(短跑運動員)enables me to be good at a marathon too．I train 50 weeks of the year and that keeps me prepared for whatever distance I want to see…．I am still competing at a very high level, but as I get older things get harder and I want to retire before I fall apart．”

　　Indeed Tanni retired finally after the Visa Paralympic World Cup in 2007．Her wish is to coach young athletes for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games．

　　In spite of ups and downs, she never take her fate lying down．In her splendid life, she has won an amazing eleven gold medals, four silvers and one bronze in series of Paralympics- a top level athletic career covering two decades．She has won the London Wheelchair Marathon six times, more than any other competitor, and she has set over thirty world records．

　　What advice does she have for young athletes? “Work hard at your studies, and then train, train and train again．”

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閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項(A、B、C和D)中，選出最佳選項。

　　Jack London had endured more hardships by the age of twenty-one than most people experience in a lifetime．His struggles developed in him sympathy for the working class and a lasting dislike of hard work and provided inspiration for his career as a writer．

　　London grew up in San Francisco in extreme poverty．At an early age, he left school and supported himself through a succession of un skilled jobs －working as a paper boy, in bowling alleys, on ice wagons, and in canneries(罐頭食品廠) and mills．Despite working long hours at these jobs, London was able to read constantly, borrowing travel and adventure books from the library．

　　The books London read inspired him to travel, and his job experiences led him to become active in fighting for the fights of workers．He sailed to Japan on a journey aiming at catching seals and joined a cross-country protest march with a group of unemployed workers．After being arrested for vagrancy near Buffalo, New York, London decided to educate himself and reshape his life．He quickly completed high school and entered the University of California．

　　After only one term, however, the appeal of fortune and adventure proved uncontrollable．London gave up his studies and traveled to the Alaskan Yukon in 1897 in search of gold．Jack London was among the first of these miners．He may have searched for more than gold, however．London once commented, “ True, the new region was mostly poor; but its several hundred thousand square miles of coldness at least gave breathing space to those who else would have choked at home．” Although he was unsuccessful as a miner, London's experiences in Alaska taught him about the human desire for wealth and power and about humankind's inability to control the forces of nature．While in Alaska, London also absorbed memories and stories that would make him known one hundred years later．

　　Once back in California, London became determined to earn a living as a writer．He rented a typewriter and worked up to fifteen hours a day, spinning his Alaskan adventures into short stories and novels．

　　According to legend, London's piles of rejection slips from publishers grew to five feet in height!

　　Even so, London preserved．In 1903, he earned national fame when he published the popular novel The Call of the Wild．He soon became the highest paid and most industrious writer in the country．During his career, he produced more than fifty books and earned more than a million dollars．Several of his novels, including The Call of the Wild(1903),the Sea-Wolf(1904),the White Fang(1906),have become American classics．In fact, he was a creative writer whose fiction explored several regions and their cultures：the Yukon, California, Hawaii, and the Solomon Islands．He experimented with many literary forms, from traditional love stories and dystopias(反面烏托邦小說)to science fantasy．His noted journalism included war communication, boxing stories, and the life of Molokai lepers(麻風病患者)．He was among the most influential figures of his day, who understood how to create a public persona and use the media to market his self-created image of poor-boy-turned-success．London's great passion was agriculture, and he was well on the way of creating a new model for spreading through his Beauty Ranch when he died of kidney disease at age 40．He left over fifty books of novels, stories, journalism, and essays, many of which have been translated and continue to be read around the world．His best works describe a person's struggle for survival against the powerful forces of nature．“To Build a Fire”, for example, tells the story of a man's fight to survive the harsh cold of the Alaskan winter．

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