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Sports Events and Outdoor Activities
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Session 2
Section III Maintaining a Sharp EyePassage I
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Passage IThe Triathlon’s Great Attraction
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1. What is your favorite sport?
Give your reasons.
Warm-up questions Warm-up questions
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2. Do you know anything about
triathlon?
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Reading of the passage Reading of the passage
The Triathlon’s Great Attraction
passage
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Reading comprehension Reading comprehension
Fill in the blanks with the
information about Melanie
Sears.
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Information about Melanie Sears
Name: ______________ Age: _______
Sex: ___________
Sport item: ___________
Motivation for triathlon:
____________________________________.
Melanie Sears 17
Female
Triathlon
It is a great fun and all efforts are worth it
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Information about Melanie Sears
Achievement at 14: _________________
_______________________________
Reasons for failure in National Championship: ___________________
Weakness of the three items: _________
Big trouble faced:
_____________________________
Winning the junior section in her first triathlon match
Took the wrong wayCycling
No one of her age to train with
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her personal ideas about triathlon her parents’ opinion about triathlon her first match in triathlon the reason of her failure in the National Championship her performance in the European Championship
Reading comprehension Reading comprehension Role-play a TV sports talk show with Melanie Sears. Ask Melanie Sears the following questions:
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2. Thank you, and hello, everyone.
3. ……
4. ……
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The talk could start like this:
1. Hello, everybody. Today we are very pleased to be able to have Miss Melanie Sears with us. Welcome to the Sports Talk Show, Melanie.
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a. promise to do:be likely to do; have the chance to do
这座新的摩天大厦将成为本市最高的建筑。(skyscraper, promise to be）
This new skyscraper promises to be the highest building in the city.
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b. be worth (doing) sth.:
having a certain value of doing sth.
我认为这项工作值得我们花时间和精力去做。
I think the work is worth the time and energy we spent.
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c. end up doing sth.:complete sth.; with the result of
Having different opinions about the matter, ________ (结果我们激烈争论起来 ).
we end up debating heatedly
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d. all the way:in the whole course of…; during
来不及了，看来我得一路跑着去学校了。
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It’s late. It seems that I have to run
all the way to school.
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e. be tempted to do: be attracted to do
很多学生被网络游戏所吸引。
Many students are tempted to play the games online.
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f. sooner or later: in the end
他们迟早会认识到保护环境的重要性。(realize, protect environment)
They will realize the importance of protecting the environment sooner or later.
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ExercisesExercises Key to Ex. 5:
1. What has made the triathlon one of the most attractive Olympic sports?
2. In order to do the research project,
many scientists have given up their personal happiness.
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3. The audience has got tired of these often-repeated phrases.
4. It will do us a lot of good to take part in more social activities.
5. She is confident to come first at the Olympic Games.
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6. He is not quite sure if it is worth doing.
7. They will realize the importance of environmental protection sooner or later.
8. It’s late. It seems that I have to run all the way to school.
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1. Susan promises to be an
outstanding student.
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This new skyscraper promises
to be the highest building in
this city.
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2. What makes the professor
devote so much time to his
work?
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What makes the parents feel
so satisfied with the school?
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3. The performance seemed so interesting that all the people in the entire crowd is attracted.
The cookery seemed so fascinating that I’m eager to try at once.
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4. Curiously, the children watched the experiment with full attention.
Hopefully, he entered the final competition.
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5. We realized then that we had made a wrong decision. We ended up losing a very good opportunity.
She realized then that they had cheated her. Her company ended up losing $100,000.
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6. I’m afraid that if he doesn’t follow our advice, he will run into trouble.
I’m afraid that if you miss the chance, it will be hard for you to get a second one.
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7. I was almost as good as my mother in cooking, but much less skilled in knitting.
I was almost as good as they are in speed, but much weaker in endurance.
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8. With her devotion to the research, she will find a way to cure the disease sooner or later.
With his devotion to writing, his novel will be published sooner or later.
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1. Recite the first paragraph of
Passage I.
2. Preview Passage II and the
exercises.
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The triathlon promises to be one of the most popular Olympic sports. Recently it has drawn huge crowds attracted (and worried) by athletes swimming 1500m, cycling 40km, and then running 10km without stopping. Great for those watching, maybe, but what makes the triathletes want to punish their bodies so much? And what makes an attractive 17-year-old, with excellent academic results, give up everything for the strange pleasures it offers?
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Melanie Sears has not yet learnt those often-repeated phrases about personal satisfaction, mental challenge and higher objectives that most athletes always use when asked similar questions. "You swim for 1500m, then get out of the water and jump on your bike, still wet. Of course, then you freeze. When the 40km cycle ride is over, you have to run 10km, which is a long way when you're feeling very tired. But it's great fun, and all worth it in the end," she says. Melanie entered her first triathlon at 14. "I won the junior section—but then I was the only junior taking part. It seemed so easy that I was waving at my team-mates as I went round."
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Confidently, Melanie Sears entered the National Championships, and although she had the second fastest swim and the fastest run, she got nowhere. "I was following this man and suddenly we came to the sea. We realized then that we had gotten lost. I ended up cycling 20 kilometers too far. I cried all the way through the running."
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But she did not give up and is determined that she never will. "Sometimes I wish I could stop, because then the pain would be over, but I am afraid that if I stop just once, I would be tempted to do it again. It's dogged that does it."
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Melanie was top junior in this year's European Triathlon Championships, finishing 13th. "I was almost as good as the top three in swimming and running, but much slower at cycling. That's why I'm working very hard at it. The big trouble is, I have no one of my age to train with," she says. Funny, that.
Melanie is truly a teenager with a taste for endurance. With her devotion to the triathlon, she will succeed sooner or later.