英语每日一练

　　Choose the best answer and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

　　Passage One

　　Sometimes a race is not enough. Sometimes a runner just wants to go further. That’s what happened to Dennis Martin and Brooke Curran.

　　Martin, 68, a retired detective form New York City, took up running after his first wife died. Curran, 46, a philanthropist (慈善家) from Alexandria, started running to get out of the house and collect her thoughts. Both she and Martin got good at running but felt the desire to do more. “The more I trained, the better I got,” Curran said,” but I would cross the finish line with no sense of accomplishment.”

　　Eventually, they worked up to running marathons (马拉松) (and longer races) in other countries, on other countries. Now both have achieved a notable -and increasingly less rate- milestone; running the 26.2-mile race on all seven continents.

　　They are part of a phenomenon that has grown out of the running culture in the past two decades, at the intersection of athleticism and leisure: “runcations,” which combine distance running with travel to exotic places. These trips, as expensive as they are physically challenging, are a growing and competitive market in the travel industry.

　　“In the beginning, running was enough,” said Steen Albrechtsen, a press manager. “The classic marathon was the ultimate goal, then came the super marathons, like London and New York. But when 90,000 people a year can take that challenge, it is no longer exciting and adventurous .Hence, the search for new adventures began.”

　　“No one could ever have imagined that running would become the lifestyle activity that it is today,” said Thom Gilligan, founder and president of Boston-based Marathon Tours and Travel. Gilligan, who has been in business since 1979, is partly responsible for the seven-continent phenomenon.

　　It started with a casual talk to an interviewer about his company offering trips to every continent except Antarctica. And then in 1995, Marathon tours hosted its first Antarctica Marathon on King George Island. Off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula; 160 runners got to the starting line of a dirt-and ice-trail route via a Russian icebreaker through the Drake Passage.

　　1.At the beginning, Martin took up running just to __________.

　　A. meet requirements of his job

　　B. win a running race

　　C. join in a philanthropic activity

　　D. get away from his sadness

　　2. Martin and Curran are mentioned as good examples of __________.

　　A. winners in the 26.2-mile race on all seven continents

　　B. people who enjoy long running as a lifestyle activity

　　C. running racers satisfied with their own performance

　　D. old people who live an active life after retirement

　　3.A new trend in the travel industry is the development of __________.

　　A. challenging runcations

　　B. professional races

　　C. Antarctica travel market

　　D. expensive tours

　　4. The classic marathon no longer satisfies some people because __________.

　　A. it does not provide enough challenge

　　B. it may be tough and dangerous

　　C. it involves too fierce a competition

　　D. it has attracted too many people

　　5. The first Antarctica Marathon on King George Island indicates that __________.

　　A. international cooperation is a must to such an event

　　B. runcations are expensive and physically challenging

　　C. Marathon Tours is a leader of the travel industry

　　D. adventurous running has become increasingly popular

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　　正确答案

　　1.【答案】A

　　【解析】句中词option选择。

　　A. choice 选择

　　B. definition 定义

　　C. channel 海峡;频道;途径

　　D. reason 理由

　　【译文】可以通过几种不同的选择来上网。

　　2.【答案】D

　　【解析】句中词ray射线、光束。

　　A. mineral矿物质

　　B. substance 物质

　　C. gas 气体

　　D. beam 光束

　　【译文】地球拥有大气层，能够防止地球表面受到有害光束的影响。

　　3.【答案】A

　　【解析】句中词hostile敌意的，敌对的。

　　A. unfriendly 不友善的，有敌意的

　　B. optimistic 乐观的

　　C. impatient 不耐烦的

　　D. positive 积极的

　　【译文】因女销售员对顾客持有的敌意态度，经理给了她一个责备的眼神。

　　4.【答案】B

　　【解析】句中词carry out实施，执行。

　　A. revise 校对

　　B. implement 实施，执行

　　C. review 复习

　　D. improve 改善，提高

　　【译文】既然现在改变注意已经晚了，那么我就下定决心去执行该计划。

　　5.【答案】C

　　【解析】句中词disperse分散，散布。

　　A. arrest 逮捕

　　B. stop 停止

　　C. scatter分散，驱散

　　D. watch 观看

　　【译文】警卫驱散了聚集在美国国会大厦周围的人群。