问题 阅读理解

阅读理解。

     I woke up one morning last week to read a story about an athlete who had seemed to have

everything.

     US track star Marion Jones owned a trophy (奖杯) case filled with medals. She had worldwide

fame. She held the high honor of being the first female track and field athlete to win five medals at an

Olympics- the 2000 Sydney Games.

     But last Friday, the 31-year-old track star tearfully confessed that she had lied to fans, sports

official and US federal agents about taking steroids.

The five Olympic medals in her trophy case? Gone. Meaningless. The worldwide fame? Exchanged

for infamy. The honor of being the first female track and field athlete to win five medals at an

Olympics? Forgotten, wiped off the record books.

     "It is with a great amount of shame that I stand before you and tell you that I have betrayed your

trust." Jones confessed.

     She'd posed for pictures with fans. She'd attended parties and talked about her accomplishments.

But for years she'd slept - or tried to sleep - knowing that much of what she had done was built on a lie.

     Now, finally, she'd decided to tell the truth.

     "If she had trusted her own natural gifts and allied them to self-sacrifice and hard work, I sincerely

believe that she could have been an honest champion at the Sydney Games." IAAF President Lamine

Diack said over the weekend. "Instead, Mario Jones will be remembered as one of the biggest frauds

in sporting history."

     Sadly, she won't be the last. There are still others lurking(潜伏) behind their trophies. They too

appear to have everything. They're superstars, the envy of every young person who has played a

 sport. But for how long? And at what cost? Every time they look at their trophies and medals they

remember that the awards really belong to someone else.

1. The main character in this passage is__________.

A. the writer himself

B. Marion Jones

C. IAAF president

D. US federal agents

2. It is still a worry that __________.

A. Marion Jones has cheated the public so long

B. Marion Jones may be remembered as a fraud in sporting history

C. IAAF president will not forgive Marion Jones

D. cheating is still widely existing in sports competition

3. The writer values __________ most in this passage.

A. Marion Jones' deciding to tell the truth

B. the honesty and hard work in sports competition

C. trophies, medals and champions

D. the spirit of Olympic Games          

答案

1-3: BDB

阅读理解与欣赏

阅读文本选段,完成第1~4题。

  童年时的第二件事也给我留下深刻的印象。我八岁时曾听过一个故事,此后它一直留在我的脑海里。记得我的中学老师给班里讲了一个已故伟大科学家的故事。他们极其崇敬地讲到他,称他是整个人类历史上最伟大的科学家。他们说很少有人能够理解他的思想,但是他的发现却改变了整个世界和我们周围的一切。我不理解他们想告诉我们的许多东西,但是最使我对此人感兴趣的是他未能完成自己的伟大发现就撒手人寰。他们说他多年潜心于这个理论,但是他死之后,他的未完成的论文仍然摆放在自己的办公桌上。

        我被这个故事迷住了。对于一个孩子,这是很神秘的。他未完成的工作是什么?他桌上论文的内容是什么?什么问题可能会如此难以解决而又非常重要,值得如此伟大的科学家把他的有生之年花费在这种研究之中?由于好奇,我就决定学习我能学到的关于爱因斯坦的一切以及他的未完成的理论。我记得,我花了好多时间静静阅读我能够找到的关于这个伟人和他的理论的每一本书。这种记忆到现在仍然温暖如春。我读完当地图书馆的书之后,就开始在全市搜寻图书馆和书店,急切地查找有关线索。不久我就知道这个故事比任何的神秘谋杀故事更加激动人心,也比我曾想象的任何事情都重要。我决定要对这一秘密刨根究底,纵然为此而必须成为一名理论物理学家也在所不辞。

        不久,我就知道爱因斯坦桌上未完成的论文就是他企图构造的所谓的统一场论。这个理论能解释所有的自然规律,从细小的原子到浩瀚的星系。然而,作为一个孩子,我却不能理解,畅游在茶园池水中的鲤鱼和爱因斯坦桌上未完成的论文可能存在着某种联系。对于用更高的维数可能是解决统一场论的关键这一点我不理解。

1.“童年时的第二件事也给我留下深刻的印象”一句中的 “第二件事”是什么?

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2.“他们说很少有人能够理解他的思想,但是他的发现却改变了整个世界和我们周围的一切。”对这句话你是如何理解的?

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3.“我决定要对这一秘密刨根究底,纵然为此而必须成为一名理论物理学家也在所不辞。”“这一秘密”具体是指什么?用文中的话来回答。

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4.“畅游在茶园池水中的鲤鱼和爱因斯坦桌上未完成的论文可能存在着某种联系”一句中“可能”为什么不能换用肯定的说法?

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