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Argentina's Lionel Messi has won the Golden Ball awarded to the European Footballer of the Year, becoming the sixth Barcelona player to take the award and the first since Brazilian Ronaldinho in 2005.

Messi beat last year's winner Cristiano Ronaldo into second place while Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernandez finished third in the poll results released by France Football magazine early Tuesday.

Praised by Argentina great Diego Maradona as his successor, Messi won an unprecedented treble(三重) in Spain last season with Barcelona as the Catalan side swept the Champions League, the Spanish title and the Copa del Rey.

The 22-year-old Messi, the first Argentine to win the world-famous award, was the top scorer in last year's Champions League with nine goals, including his superb header(足球中的头球) in the 2-0 victory over Manchester United in the final.

Messi, who scored 473 of a possible 480 points, largely controlled the voting and won with a record-margin of 240 points. Real Madrid winger Ronaldo had 233 and Xavi had 170.

"Honestly, I knew that I was among the favorites because Barcelona had a fruitful year in 2009," Messi was quoted as saying by the magazine.

"But I didn't expect to win with such a margin. The Golden Ball is very important to me. All the players who won it were great players, and some great players never won it."

Barcelona had three players in the Top 5 with Andres Iniesta taking fourth ahead of former Barca player Samuel Eto'o.

In an outstanding season, Messi netted(把…踢进网) 38 goals in 51 games in all competitions, often leaving defenders in his wake(在…之后) with a combination of speed, extraordinary abilities and his effective left-footed strike.

Messi, who led Argentina to next year's World Cup in South Africa, recently signed a new contract with Barcelona through 2016.

Messi had a good start to this season - already scoring nine goals - and put on a great display to help his club defeat archrival Real Madrid 1-0 last Sunday.

"It won't be easy to confirm after a year like the one we just went through," Messi said.

"I hope the next one will reach the same standards. But to win the Golden Ball two years in a row is not an easy thing."

(Read by Guanny Liu. Guanny Liu is a multimedia journalist at the China Daily Web site.)

小题1:Which of the following is the suitable title?

A. Messi beats C. Ronaldo to win the European Footballer of the Year

B. Ronaldinho beats Messi to win the European Footballer of the Year

C. Messi beats Xavi to win the European Footballer of the Year

D. Ronaldinho beats Xavi to win the European Footballer of the Year

小题2: Messi has some advantages over others EXCEPT _________.

A.a rapid speed

B.a new contract with Barcelona

C.outstanding abilities

D.his effective left-footed strike小题3: By saying “But I didn't expect to win with such a margin.”, Messi means _____.

A.he didn’t think he won unexpectedly

B.he didn’t want to win at all

C.he didn’t expect he won extraordinarily

D.he couldn’t wait to win小题4: Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A.Xavi Hernandez finished second in the poll.

B.Messi treated Maradona as his successor.

C.The 22-year-old Messi was the first European Footballer.

D.Messi said Barcelona had a fruitful year in 2009.

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小题1:A

小题2:B

小题3:C

小题4:D

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When you make a mistake, big or small, cherish it as the most precious thing in the world. Because in some ways, it is.

60 . Most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakes are bad. And we are reminded that we should try to avoid mistakes. We’ve been scolded when we make mistakes — at home, school and work. Maybe not always, but probably enough times to make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.

Yet without mistakes, we could not learn or grow.  61   . We don’t really consume information and instantly know it or know how to do it. Instead, we get information about something, from reading or from another person or from observing usually; then we construct a model in our mind, test it out by trying it in the real world, make mistakes, revise the model based on the results of our real-world experimentation and repeat, making mistakes, learning from those mistakes, until we’ve pretty much learned how to do it well.

62   . If you succeed at something, it’s probably something you already knew how to do it. You haven’t really grown much from that success — at most it’s the last step on your journey, not the whole journey. Most of the journey is made up of mistakes. By trial and error, we try out new strategies and make new discoveries, thus leading to higher payoffs. So if you value learning, if you value growing and improving, then you should value mistakes.    63  

A.Just think about how we learn.

B.Everyone can make mistakes in their life.

C.Mistakes are how we learn to do something new.

D.It is natural that we are in a bad mood when we make mistakes.E. Mistakes are amazing things that make a world of brilliance possible.

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