新标准大学英语综合教程 第二册
Unit 6 Sporting Life
My dream comes true
Predicting
Identifying features of a formal writing style through reading
Organizing Students’ oral discussion by showing them how to prent information and opinions
Analyzing trends by using patterns obrved and rearched athlete, born in 1972, who won the gold medal for the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. After her 2000 Olympic gold medal event, she was given an OBE, an honor given by the Queen, to recognize her contribution to sports and other championships.
In the 2004 Olympic Games she had to withdraw due to injuries. She retired from sports in 2005.
2. Why is an Olympic medal prized more highly than other sports trophies?
3. Can spectators help an athlete to win?
4. Is it important to support your favorite player, your team
or your country?
Answer the questions
Which phras in the passage tell us that:
1. the race took place in the evening?
2. the writer felt very nervous before the race?
3. the writer had decided to u the strategy she had worked out earlier?
4. the writer was going to put all her effort into the race?
5. nothing except winning or losing would be important after the race?
6. the writer stopped thinking about one thing and started thinking about something el?
7. the writer refud to allow herlf to think that she’d won?
8. the writer worried that she might have lost?
sudden change in movement 轻柔地；轻轻地
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1. She kisd her baby gently on the cheek.
她温柔地吻了吻她孩子的脸颊。
2. Rain dropped gently on the roof above.
雨轻轻地落在屋顶上。
2.illuminate vt.
1) make a place bright with light, or to shine a light on something 照明；照亮；照射
2) make something much clearer and easier tounderstand 阐明；解释；使易懂
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1. The room was illuminated by the glow of the fire.
房间被炉火照得通明。
2. His lecture illuminated and explained many scientific phenomena.
他的讲座阐明并解释了许多科学现象.
3. deafening a. so loud that you can hear
nothing el 震耳欲聋的
Word family: deaf a. deafen v.
Translate the following into Chine:
1. None so deaf as tho who won’t hear.
拒听之人耳最不聪。
2. The operation deafened him for life.
那次手术使他终身耳聋。
3. The noi of jets taking off was deafening.
喷气式飞机起飞时发出的轰鸣声震耳欲聋。
4. tantalisingly ad. (BrE) adverb of the
adjective tantalising 挑逗性地；逗引性地
Word family: tantalising a. making you feel excited or hopeful about having something that you want, often
something that you never get 挑逗性的；逗引性的
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1. I have smelt the tantalizing fragrance of fried bacon.
我已经闻到了诱人的炸熏肉的香味。
2. She smiled at him tantalizingly.
她挑逗地朝他笑。
兴的；让人极度兴奋的；令人精力充沛的
< Racing down the ski slope for the first time was an exhilarating experience.
第一次急速滑下滑雪坡道真是万分刺激
6. terrifying a. extremely frightening 极其恐怖的；令人恐惧的
< The hostages suffered a terrifying ordeal. 人质遭受了极其可怕的折磨。
Cf. terrified a. very frightened 非常害怕的；极度惊恐的
7. compod a.
1) calm and relaxed 镇定的；镇静的
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1. He was pale but perfectly compod.
他脸色苍白，却十分镇静。
2. Anger appeared on her usually compod face.
她平素安详的脸上出现了怒容
8. stretch n. [C]
1) the straight (last) part of the track in a race（跑道的）
(终点)直道
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1. The hors entered the final stretch shoulder to shoulder.
马儿并排着进入终点直道。
2. I looked out along the first stretch of the 400m track and caught my breath.
我望着四百米跑道的起跑点/直道，屏住了呼吸。
2) a movement or exerci in which you make a part of your body as straight as possible so that your muscles become long and tight（肢体）伸展；伸懒腰
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1. He had a good stretch on the bed.
他在床上痛快地伸了个懒腰。
2. He entered the room with a stretch and a yawn.
他伸着懒腰打着呵欠进了房间
9.flutter v. move up and down or from side to side with short, quick, light
movements, or to make
something move in this way（使）挥动；（使）晃动
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1. The coloured flags are fluttering in the breeze.
彩旗在微风中飘扬。
2. The girl fluttered a handkerchief.
女孩挥舞着手帕。
10. bandage vt. (also bandage up) bind (a wound or a part of the body) with
a protective strip of material 用绷带包扎
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1. The doctor bandaged up his wounds.
医生用绷带把他的伤口包扎起来。
2. A nur cleaned the wound and bandaged my foot.
一个护士给我的脚清洗了伤口并用绷带包扎起来
11. incur vt. experience something unpleasant as a result of something that you have done 招致（不快之
事）；遭受
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1. He incurred a heavy loss through you.
他因为你而遭受重大损失。
2. Each stage of the process incurs an additional risk.
这个过程的每一步都招致额外的危险。
12. vocal a.
1) using the voice to express something 充满声响的；响声回荡的
< Public opinion at last became vocal.
终于舆论哗然。
2) relating to the voice, or done with the voice 嗓音的；发音的
< They can nd out non-linguistic vocal effects like laughs and sobs.
它们可以发出像笑声和呜咽这些非语言的声音效果
13. eclip vt. & n.
1) vt. make someone or something em less successful
or important, by becoming more successful or
important than they are 使黯然失色；使蒙上阴影；使相
形见绌；光芒盖过……
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1. Their happiness was soon eclipd by the terrible news.
他们的幸福很快被这可怕的消息蒙上一层阴影。
2. Napoleon eclipd other generals of his time.
拿破仑使与他同时代的其他将军黯然失色。
2) n. a short period when all or part of the sun or moon becomes dark, becau of the positions of the sun,
moon, and earth in relation to each other (日、月）食
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1. a solar eclip 日食
2. a lunar eclip 月食
3. a partial / total eclip of the sun 日偏/全食
14．gruelling a. (BrE) very difficult and involvinga lot of continuous effort 艰苦的；使人精疲力竭的
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1. In tho gruelling training days, she was a big support to him.
在那些艰苦的受训的日子里，她对他非常支持。
2. Marathon is a gruelling contest.
马拉松是非常累人的比赛
15. stamina n. [U] the ability to work hard or to make a lot of effort over a long period of time without getting tired 耐力；持久力；毅力
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1. I don’t have the stamina to work all night.
我没有毅力工作一个晚上。
2. I don’t h ave the stamina to run long distances.
我没有跑长距离的耐力
16. tingle n. [C] a feeling in part of your bodywhen it stings slightly 刺痛感
< She felt a tingle in the back of her neck.
她觉得颈后有刺痛感。
Word family: tingle v.
< My cheeks tingled with the cold.
我的脸颊冻得有点刺痛。
17. a a of sth.: a large amount of something 大量的某物
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1. I don't want to add you a a of troubles.
我不想给您添麻烦。
2. If you had attended to my advice, you would not be in a
a of troubles now.
要是当时你听了我的劝告，你现在就不至于苦恼了。
18. shut out:if you shut something out, you stop yourlf from eing it, hearing it, or thinking about it 把（某物）挡在外面；排除（干扰）
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1. You really can't shut him out so easily.
你确实不能那样轻易地把他排除在外。
2. I tried to shut the incident out of my mind.
我尽量不去想那件事情
19. t the pace：
1) run at a speed that other runners try to match, especially at the beginning of a race 领跑；定跑速（尤指在赛跑之初）
< The coach asked him to t the pace for his teammates.
教练要求他给队友领跑。
2) establish a rate or standard that others have to achieve
确定速度；制定标准
< The deal will t the pace for the company’s expansion over the next decade
A drenaline is a chemical produced by your adrenal glands that makes
your heart beat faster and gives you more energy when you are excited, frightened, or angry. The adrenaline was pumping means she felt full of sudden energy and excitement as she was ready to start the race.
2.I had to finish this race fewer than ten conds behind the Russian
athlete Yelena Prokhorova. If I could do that, the title would be
mine. (Para 3)
The heptathlon has ven events and is judged with a system of points: Points are given according to the time of the 100m hurdles, 200m and 800m and the distance in the high jump, shot put, long jump and javelin. The winner is the athlete with the most points overall. The passage is about the final event, the 800m. Becau Lewis has scored the highest number of points in the previous six events, she does not need to win the gold medal
