Question

While watching the Olympics the other night, I came across an incredible(难以置信的) sight. The  36  was swimming and started with only three men. For one reason or another, two of them had a 37 start, so they were disqualified. That would have been difficult enough, not having anyone to  38 against.

I watched the man  39  off the blocks and knew immediately that something was wrong. Now I’m not an expert  40  but I do know a good dive 41 a poor one, and this was not exactly medal  42  . I listened to the crowd begin to  43 this poor man that was clearly having a  44  time. Finally he made his turn to start back. It was 45  he made a few desperate(拼命的) stroke(划水) and you could tell he was exhausted.

But in those few  46 strokes, the crowd had changed. No longer were they laughing, but beginning to  47 . Some even began to  48  things like, “Come on, you can do it!” and he 49  finished his race. The crowd went  50 . Even though he recorded one of the  51 times in Olympic history, this man gave more heart than any of the other 52 .

In a competition where athletes remove their silver medals, feeling they have  53 been cheated out of gold, or when they act so  54  in front of their competitors, it is nice to watch an underdog(败者), a man that gave his all --- knowing that he had no chance, but competed because of his  55  and the spirit of the games.

1.                A．view           B．event          C．game D．match

2.                A．false           B．nervous        C．strange   D．violent

3.                A．fight           B．struggle         C．defend   D．race

4.                A．set            B．bounce         C．dive D．fall

5.                A．swimmer       B．coach          C．judge D．adviser

6.                A．from           B．in             C．beyond   D．between

7.                A．feature         B．quality          C．example  D．sign

8.                A．break off       B．stand by        C．laugh at   D．focus on

9.                A．happy          B．wonderful       C．satisfying  D．tough

10.               A．hopeful        B．pitiful          C．boring D．skillful

11.               A．intellectual      B．smart          C．awkward  D．excellent

12.               A．support        B．quit           C．cheer D．hesitate

13.               A．speak          B．present        C．conclude  D．yell

14.               A．eventually      B．hardly          C．successful D．nearly

15.               A．wild           B．angry          C．sad   D．grey

16.               A．fastest         B．luckiest         C．worst D．slowest

17.               A．companion      B．competitors     C．volunteers D．partners

18.               A．somehow       B．already         C．even D．anyway

19.               A．poorly         B．carelessly       C．sharply    D．proudly

20.               A．advantage      B．independence   C．determination  D．principle

Answer

1.B

2.A

3.D

4.C

5.A

6.A

7.B

8.C

9.D

10.B

11.C

12.C

13.D

14.A

15.A

16.D

17.B

18.A

19.D

20.C

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述的例子旨在证明人应该努力挑战自己，全力以赴，并非是努力获得金牌，也非再试一次，更不是破纪录。

1.考查名词及上下文的呼应。view风景；event事件，大事；game游戏，比赛；match比赛：match的基本意思是“比赛,竞赛”,多指网球、足球、高尔夫球等运动项目的比赛,主要用于英式英语,是可数名词。game用作名词的意思是“游戏,运动,比赛”,也可表示比赛中的“一局、一盘或一场,比分,比赛规则”。引申可表示“策略,诡计”,是可数名词。因为the Olympics奥运会为大事，故选B。

2.考查形容词及上下文的呼应。so they were disqualified.既然取消了比赛资格，肯定出现了错误，故选A。

3.考查动词及上下文的呼应。race against与……竞赛；本来是想当难的比赛，这次没有人与他竞争了，故选D

4.考查动词及上下文的呼应。从上文知道这是游泳项目，故选C。

5.考查名词及上下文的呼应。“我”不是游泳专家，故选A。

6.考查介词及上下文的呼应。know from区别于，虽然“我”不是游泳专家，但是能区分游泳的好坏来，故选A。

7.考查名词及上下文的呼应。feature 特色；quality 特性；example 例子；sign符号。这不是金牌的水平，故选B。

8.考查动词短语及上下文的呼应。“我”听到观众也在嘲笑这位水平不高的人，故选C。

9.考查形容词及上下文的呼应。由于观众的嘲笑，这位运动员很显然也是不好过，故选D。

10.考查形容词及上下文的呼应。真让人同情他做了几次拼命的划水，故选B。

11.考查形容词及上下文的呼应。Intellectual聪明的； smart聪明的； awkward笨拙的；excellent极好的。从那几次笨拙的划水中，人们的想法改变了，故选C。

12.考查动词及上下文的呼应。人们不再嘲笑他了，开始为他加油，故选C。

13.考查动词及上下文的呼应。yell叫喊；有些人开始像这样的喊，“加油，你能行”，故选D。

14.考查副词及上下文的呼应。Eventually最后，终于； hardly几乎不； successful成功的； nearly几乎，差不多。他最终完成了比赛，故选A。

15.考查形容词及上下文的呼应。因为他完成了比赛，人们开始变得有点狂热，故选A。

16.考查形容词及上下文的呼应。因为上文有交代说这个人的游泳水平相当低，所以他是历史上的游泳速度最慢的一个，故选D。

17.考查名词及上下文的呼应。即使他是历史上的游泳速度最慢的一个，但是他却比其他的运动员有了更多的关注，故选B。

18.考查副词及上下文的呼应。somehow 不知怎么地；感觉到他们已经以某种方式被骗去金牌,不知何故A

19.考查副词及上下文的呼应。或当他们做出如此自豪地在竞争对手面前，故选D。

20.考查名词及上下文的呼应。是很高兴看到一个失败者的勇气和决心，故选C。

考点：这是一篇记叙文。