2023年中考英语阅读理解热点话题练习 专题23 冬奥印象（PDF版，含答案）

2023年中考英语阅读理解热点话题练习
(中考真题+名校最新模拟真题)
专题23冬奥印象
(2022-江苏常州.中考真题)The Beijing2022 Olympics was the most gender-balanced(性别平衡的)
Winter Olympic Games in history,with more than 1,300 female athletes-a record number-competing at the
events,making up more than 45 percent of all athletes.Here are some female athletes whose achievements in
Beijing amazed the world.
Team China's teenage hero Gu Ailing,18,is the youngest athlete to win three medals at a Winter
Olympics.The freeski player won two gold medals and a silver in three events.
Russia's skating silver medalist Alexandra Trusova,17,amazed the world with five quadruple
jumps (during free skate at the Beijing Winter Olympics.No other woman has ever finished five
quadruple jumps in an Olympic competition.
British women's curling (team won the country's only gold medal by having a 10-3 win
against Japan on the last day of the Beijing Winter Olympics.This was also the country's first curling gold after
2002.
Almida de Val,a 24-year-old Swedish IT engineer,together with her teammate,took the third
place in curling mixed doubles.She took a leave from her company to take part in the Olympics.
1.How many athletes took part in the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games
A.Around 1.300.
B.Around 1,580.C.Around 2,880.D.Around 4,460.
2.Who took a silver medal in the competition
A.Gu Ailing.
B.British women's curling team.
C.Almida de Val.
D.Almida de Val's teammate.