Passage 12
（2008 福建 A）

after the Summer Olympics are over, when all the athletes and viewers have gone home and the television audience has switched off, another group of athletes 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 paralympians will not be taking part.

She is a british athlete by the name of Tanni Grey-Thompson.born with spine bifida （脊椎裂）which left her paralysed from the waist down.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 100 metres 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 barcelona 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 the first of her six London Wheelchair Marathon victories.

Tanni's enduring success has been part motivation（動(dòng)機(jī)），part preparation.“The training I do that enables me to be a good sprinter （短跑運(yùn)動(dòng)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 went to race…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 takes her fate lying down.In her splendid life, she has won an amasing eleven gold medals, four silvers and one bronze in a series of Paralympics—a top lever 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.”

1.Which of the following sports did Tanni like before thirteen?

A. basketball.

B. Swimming.

C. Tennis.

D. Horse-riding.

2.When did Tanni win her first Olympic gold medal?

A. In 1984.

B. In 1988.

C. In 1992.

D. In 2007.

3.The underlined word "that'' in the 5th paragraph refers to ______.

A. fifty weeks' training

B. being a good sprinter

C. training almost every day

D. part motivation and part preparation

4.What's the right order of the events related to Tanni?

A. She works as a coach.

B. She took up athletics.

C. She won four gold medals in barcelona.

D. She competed in she first Paralympic Games.

E.She achieved a victory in her first London Wheelchair Marathon.

A. b-d-c-e-a

B. a-d-b-c-e

C. a-d-c-e-b

D. b-d-a-e-c

5.What can we learn form Tanni's success?

A. Union is strength.

B. Never too late to learn.

C. Well begun is half done.

D. No pains, no gains.

【重點(diǎn)詞匯】

viewer n.觀眾

switch off 切斷，關(guān)掉

host city 主辦城市

Paralympics n.殘奧會

disability n.傷殘，無力

paralysed adj.癱瘓的，麻痹的

apart from 除了……之外

pull off 努力實(shí)現(xiàn)，贏得

enduring adj.持久的，永久的

ups and downs 高低，起伏，興衰，沉浮

【疑難長句】

1.After the Summer Olympics are over, when all the athletes and viewers have gone home and the television audience has switched off, another group of athletes and fans will arrive at the host city, and another competition will begin.

本句有兩個(gè)時(shí)間狀語，分別由after和when引導(dǎo)，主句采用了并列句結(jié)構(gòu)，由and連接。句中的viewers指的是現(xiàn)場觀眾，television audience則是指電視機(jī)前的觀眾。

（參考譯文）在夏季奧運(yùn)會結(jié)束后，當(dāng)所有運(yùn)動(dòng)員和觀眾回家、電視觀眾關(guān)掉電視機(jī)的時(shí)候，另一群運(yùn)動(dòng)員和粉絲們將會抵達(dá)主辦城市，另一場競賽將會開始。

2.The training I do that enable me to be a good sprinter （短跑運(yùn)動(dòng)員）enable me to be good at a marathon too.

本句是個(gè)繞口令式的復(fù)合句，“I do”和“that enable me to be a good sprinter”同為定語，修飾training，主句的謂語動(dòng)詞也是enable，marathon意思是馬拉松賽跑。

（參考譯文）我所做的訓(xùn)練能夠使我成為一名優(yōu)秀的短跑運(yùn)動(dòng)員，也能夠使我擅長馬拉松賽跑。