Question

    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 (扁带) 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.A

2.C

3.D

4.D

【解析】

本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了一位走扁带运动爱好者的亲身经历。

1.

细节理解题。根据第一段中The walking distance of 64 metres would mark a world record.(步行64米的距离将创下世界纪录) 和第二段中Finally, he crossed in four minutes and made it(最终他在四分钟内穿过，成功了) 可知，Seabrooke通过这次走扁带破了世界纪录。故选A。

2.

推理判断题。根据第二段中Seabrooke 所说的You're standing on nothing(你是站不住脚的) 和Everything inside your body is telling you this is wrong.(你内心的一切告诉你这是错误的) 可推知这项运动极其危险。故选C。

3.

推理判断题。根据第三段中Tucker所说的As scared as I was, it was as cool as anything I’ve ever done in my life(虽然我很害怕，但它和我这辈子做过的任何事情一样酷) 可知，虽然这项运动非常危险，但是Tucker 觉得很酷。也就是说，他对这项运动的态度是Favorable(赞许的)。故选D。

4.

细节理解题。根据倒数第二段中的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年看了一部关于安迪·刘易斯的纪录片，他是一位走扁带爱好者，是超级碗表演的自由单人表演先驱。Seabrooke被吸引并全身心投入这项运动。) 可知，2012年Seabrooke在一部纪录片中看到走扁带的精彩表演，从此开始这项运动。故选D。