高三英语培优外刊阅读
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外刊精选｜冬奥会拿金牌，还得有“锦鲤”体质？
【背景介绍】冬奥会正如火如荼地进行，冰雪项目不仅仅是速度与激情的挑战，更是分毫间定胜负的勇敢者对决。在开幕式上，多国选手都参与的高山滑雪项目成功“出圈”。然而，奖牌归属的决定因素不仅仅有实力，还有好运。运气和偶然，究竟在滑雪项目中扮演了怎样的角？一块冬奥金牌的背后，还有哪些秘密故事？欢迎收听今天的讲解。
Why the World's Best Skiers Don't Always Win at the Olympics中国冬奥会金牌获得者
By Matthew Futterman
At this point, Mikaela Shiffrin has gotten used to a certain rhythm to her life. Every four years, the world appears on her doorstep and asks how many medals she is going to win at the Olympics.
After all, she is, by many accounts, the best skier in the world.
Yet for several years now, Shiffrin has been trying to explain that Alpine skiing, with its microscopic margins for error and its laundry list of uncertainties, is not that predictable. A shift as subtle as a gust of wind, or the movement of a cloud that allows sunlight to soften the snow in the middle of a race, can make the difference between a gold medal and 11th place.
In Yanqing, an exposed, blustery and rocky peak, skiers have been saying for days that the wind could be the leading differentiator between the podium and also-rans, which means a life-changing medal could be determined by the luck of the bib draw that assigns starting places. "A difference of half a second," Travis Ganong of the United States said after his training run on Friday.
"Control what you can control," Shiffrin said. "Just try not to get too disappointed about the rest."
【词汇过关】
请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。
1.blustery [ˈblʌstəri] adj. _______________________________
2.rocky [ˈrɒki] adj. _______________________________
3.podium [ˈpəʊdiəm] n. _______________________________
4.also-rann. _______________________________
【词块学习】
请从文章中到下面中文相对应的文词块。
1.习惯某种生活节奏_______________________________
2.从很多方面来说，在很多人的眼里_______________________________
3.高山滑雪_______________________________
4.低容错率_______________________________
5.详细清单，引申为一长串的某样东西_______________________________
6.区分两件事情的关键因素_______________________________
7.出场顺序的抽签_______________________________
【长难句学习】
请选出下列句子各画线部分的语法名称，并翻译句子。
1.(1)Yet for several years now, (2)Shiffrin has been trying to explain (3)that Alpine skiing, with its microscopic margins for error and its laundry list of uncertainties, (4)is not that predictable.
A.时间状语  B.宾语从句  C.主句主语  D.主句谓语动词
(1)_______________(2)______________(3)_____________(4)____________
翻译：________________________________________________________________________
2.(1)A shift as subtle as a gust of wind, or the movement of a cloud (2)that allows sunlight to soften the snow in the middle of a race, (3)can make the difference between a gold medal and 11th place.
A.主句主语  B.主句谓语动词  C.定语从句
(1)_______________(2)______________(3)____________
翻译：________________________________________________________________________
拓展练习
Female figure skaters aren’t really expected to be able to do triple axels(三周半跳). Especially not older ones---in the Olympics, that means older than 20. Mirai Nagasu did both, nailing the jump in competition at 24 during the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. She was the first American woman to land a triple axel in the Olympic Games-and only the third woman to do it.
Nagasu’s been pursuing her own path since she was just 5. “My parents used to take me golfing(打高尔夫球)every day because that was the career they wanted me to have,” she wrote. “They took me ice skating one day because we couldn’t go golfing due to the rain, and after that, I kept asking to be taken to go skating.” Her ambition paid off eventually, beginning with a host of Four Continents and ISU World Junior Championship medals and ending with two World Championship and two Olympic appearances each.
Unlike other popular athletes who’ve traded childhood for training, Nagasu had to attend public school by day and help her parents in their restaurant by night. “They really taught me to work for what I want,” she said. That lesson was put to the test in 2014, when despite taking third place at the U. S. Figure Skating Championships, Nagasu was passed over for the Olympic team in favor of fourth-place finisher Ashley Wagner. Some athletes might have taken off their skates for good at that point. Instead, Nagasu got a new coach and learned the triple axel. After two years under his instruction, she displayed her new skill in the U. S. National Championships. By the time she tried it on Olympic ice in 2018, she’d perfected it. Nagasu performed the difficult three-and-a-half jump, helping her team win a b
ronze medal(铜牌) in the end.