Unit 2 Sports culture 单元复习导学案（含答案） -2024-2025学年高中英语牛津译林版（2020）选择性必修第二册
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XB2U2 复习单
Reading : The Olympic Games
Every four years, thousands of highly trained and （有天赋的） athletes gather together in the spirit of friendship,solidarity, and fair play, ready to test their abilities against each other （怀着...的希望）being recognized （作为） the best of the best.This is the Olympics——an extraordinary sporting event that was first celebrated about 3,000 years ago.
The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BCE.During the early Games only Greek men were allowed to participate.They competed in such events as boxing,running and the long jump.The ancient Olympic Games were held at Olympia in Greece every four years for almost 12 centuries until they eventually （消亡） around the year 393.
participate同义词
die out 同义词
More than 1,500 years later,however, the Games rose again.The modern Olympics were first held in 1896,in Athens.It was a Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin, who brought the Olympics back to life.（固定句型是 ）。His dream was that the Olympics would help people of different racial origins and from different cultures live （共存） in peace. For over a century, people from （多样的） backgrounds have made （共同努力） to help realize Coubertin’s dream. （被,,,激发） the Olympic motto“Faster,Higher,Stronger"many well-known athletes, both male and female,have devoted themselves to achieving sporting excellence and （推动人类成就的极限） 。
bring the Olympics back to life
different racial origins
diverse backgrounds
motivate （同义词）
devote oneself to
boundary≈limit≈（同义词）
One such Olympian was the boxer Cassius Clay.He came to public attention during the 1960 Rome Olympics,when he won the light heavyweight gold medal for the USA demonstrating great talent and personality in the process.Afterwards, this young man proceeded to become the world heavyweight champion in 1964 and later changed his name to the one we all know-Muhammad Ali.He returned to the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games to light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony. By the time he died in 2016, Ali (recognize) as one of the greatest boxers of all time.
come to public attention进入公众的视野
Proceed to （同义词）
Another sportsperson that should be applauded is Jessica Ennis-Hill.Her story is a remarkable example
of hard work and devotion can lead to sporting excellence.A former track and field athlete from the UK she won an Olympic gold medal in her home country in 2012. As if that were not enough, she would not have returned to the Olympics and won a silver medal in 2016, just two years after giving birth to her first child. In an interview she revealed that the secret of her consistent good performance was the training that she never missed.
12 reveal (同义词)
The 2008 Beijing Olympics （号召） the whole world to join in the Olympic spirit and build a better future for humanity with the slogan“One World, One Dream".In addition to hosting the Olympics （首次） ,China also ranked first in the medal table. This success is truly remarkable if you consider that just 24 years before, at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Xu Haifeng won our country's first-ever gold medal. Since then the upward trend for Chinese sport has been （stop）. At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games， Liu Xiang became the first Asian （win）the gold medal in the men’s 110-metre hurdles while at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the Chinese women’s volleyball team won a hard-fought victory in the final. The year 2022 will be another (history) moment for China as Beijing won the election to host the Winter Olympics.
call on(同义词)
the upward trend
unstoppable≈irresistible≈overwhelming
a hard-fought victory
The Olympic Games bring joy and excitement to people across the world. Coubertin believed,“With the Olympic Games each generation celebrates its advent, its joy of living,its faith in the future its ambition and its will to ascend."翻译
Grammar Usage
My heart was beating rapidly in my chest as I found a shady place to rest my tired body. My cheeks were red,and I could hear myself breathing heavily as I looked up at the blue sky.When my breathing returned to normally reflected on what had just been achieved. Six weeks ago. my friends told me that a city half-marathon for amateurs was being organized to help raise money for charity and encouraged me to take part.Despite my lack of running experience, I agreed.In order not to hurt my knees or ankles,I started my training very gently by running just one kilometre on the first day.Over the next six weeks,I gradually increased the distance I ran in each training session and also made sure to allow my body enough time to rest and recover after each run.Soon I was running distances I had never thought possible. The day of the half-marathon finally arrived and I felt well prepared.I ate a hearty breakfast so I knew I could get through to the end.I ran my race relaxed and confident, even though my limits were being tested like never before.I was happy to learn that a lot of money had been raised for charity. I felt really proud of myself, and my friends and I agreed to run in the next city marathon!
My heart was beating rapidly in my chest
a shady place
a hearty breakfast
Extended Reading: Sports idioms
Every language has its idioms,which are groups of words with meanings different from the meanings of the individual words.Idioms make language more colourful and expressive. since sport is an (不可分离的)part of day-to-day life. there are lots o sports idioms that have found their way into everyday language.Let's take a look at some of them!
Football
Football (or soccer, as it is called in the USA) is one of the most popular sports in the world and many countries have their own football leagues. The English language is full of idioms which are
thought to have come from football.
As you know,in a football match players try to kick or head the ball into the opposing teams
goal, which is the net between two big goalposts （被固定在地上）.Can you imagine that every time you have a chance to score, the goalposts are moved That would be not only difficult,but also upsetting.If someone“moves the goalposts in everyday life（翻译） , it means they unfairly change the rules or requirements for something. An insurance salesman who is about to reach his annual sales target（翻译） , only for the company to make the target higher,could rightly complain about the company moving the goalposts.
Thankfully, goalposts do not really move-but when a player scores an own goal, he or she might wish they did. “Scoring an own goal（翻译） "in football means accidentally kicking or heading the ball into one's own net and it is one of the worst things that can happen to a football player. If someone makes a bad mistake which unintentionally （intend（v） ,(n) ,(adj) ）harms their own interests, they are said to have scored an own goal. You might see this expression in the newspapers when the local council makes a decision which backfires terribly!
the opposing teams
fixed ≈immovable≈immobile
21.annual ≈
22 .Scoring an own goal
Baseball
Baseball is an old and popular sport that has given the English language many different idioms.You might have heard expressions like “in the ballpark" or “a ballpark estimate”. The venue a baseball game is played is called a ballpark. So, even if we do not know exactly where the ball is during the game, we can assume that it is somewhere in the ballpark. this reason, people use the expression“in the ballpark" or “a ballpark estimate” to talk about rough( ) estimates.
in the ballpark/a ballpark estimate
assume≈suppose≈presume
Another common baseball expression is“throwing someone a curveball”( 翻译) . Curveballs are balls that suddenly turn in the air and these are of course difficult for the other team to handle（同义词 ）. We use this expression to describe things that are unexpected and difficult to respond . “Three strikes and you are out"（翻译） is another idiom that comes from baseball. As it suggests, in baseball this means that a batter (the person with the baseball bat in his or her hands) is out after making three unsuccessful attempts to hit the ball. This idiom is often used to talk about situations people fail after wasting three chances.
Boxing
English also has a large number of idioms connected with boxing, which has been a popular sport for thousands of years.A boxer is not allowed to use his or her fists to hit the opponent（词义 ，（v） (n) (adj) (adj) （同义词） ） below the waist.Hence comes the idiom “below the belt"(句型 ). In day-to-day life,if someone makes an unfair（词义 ，反义词 ，同义词 ，） and cruel（词义 ，名词 ） remark, we can describe（词义 ，同义词 ） it as“below the belt"（翻译 ）.
“Throwing in the towel"（翻译 ） is another common idiom that comes from boxing. When a boxer is losing badly and is too tired or confused to give up on his or her own. the coach will literally throw a towel into the ring to end the fight. In everyday life, this idiom simply means admitting defeat and giving up（同义词 ）.
Sport is challenging and so is life.However, when you are thrown a curve ball,do not throw in the towel-work hard be careful not to score an own goal and you are sure to make it!
Sport is challenging and so is life.However, when you are thrown a curve ball,do not throw in the towel-work hard be careful not to score an own goal and you are sure to make it!（翻译）
恭喜你又完成了一个单元的复习。
XB2U2 复习单
Reading : The Olympic Games
Every four years, thousands of highly trained and gifted/talented （有天赋的） athletes gather together in the spirit of friendship,solidarity, and fair play, ready to test their abilities against each other in the hope of （怀着...的希望）being recognized as （作为） the best of the best.This is the Olympics——an extraordinary sporting event that was first celebrated about 3,000 years ago.
The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BCE.During the early Games only Greek men were allowed to participate.They competed in such events as boxing,running and the long jump.The ancient Olympic Games were held at Olympia in Greece every four years for almost 12 centuries until they eventually died out （消亡） around the year 393.
participate同义词 join in/ join /go in for/attend
die out 同义词 extinct/
More than 1,500 years later,however, the Games rose again.The modern Olympics were first held in 1896,in Athens.It was a Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin, who brought the Olympics back to life.（固定句型是 强调句）。His dream was that the Olympics would help people of different racial origins and from different cultures live side by side（共存） in peace. For over a century, people from diverse （多样的） backgrounds have made joint efforts （共同努力） to help realize Coubertin’s dream. （被,,,激发）motivated by the Olympic motto“Faster,Higher,Stronger"many well-known athletes, both male and female,have devoted themselves to achieving sporting excellence and （推动人类成就的极限）pushing the boundaries of human achievement .
bring the Olympics back to life 使奥林匹克重换生机
different racial origins 不同的种族起源
diverse backgrounds 多样化的背景
motivate （同义词） pique/stimulate/prompt/inspire
devote oneself to bend oneself to /commit oneself to/ apply oneself to /hammer at
boundary≈limit≈（同义词）
One such Olympian was the boxer Cassius Clay.He came to public attention during the 1960 Rome Olympics,when he won the light heavyweight gold medal for the USA demonstrating great talent and personality in the process.Afterwards, this young man proceeded to become the world heavyweight champion in 1964 and later changed his name to the one we all know-Muhammad Ali.He returned to the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games to light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony. By the time he died in 2016, Ali had been recognized (recognize) as one of the greatest boxers of all time.
come to public attention进入公众的视野
Proceed to （同义词）
Another sportsperson that should be applauded is Jessica Ennis-Hill.Her story is a remarkable example
of how hard work and devotion can lead to sporting excellence.A former track and field athlete from the UK she won an Olympic gold medal in her home country in 2012. As if that were not enough, she would not have returned to the Olympics and won a silver medal in 2016, just two years after giving birth to her first child. In an interview she revealed that the secret of her consistent good performance was the training that she never missed.
12 reveal (同义词) unmask /uncover/disclose/expose/
The 2008 Beijing Olympics called on/appealed to （号召） the whole world to join in the Olympic spirit and build a better future for humanity with the slogan“One World, One Dream".In addition to hosting the Olympics （首次） for the first time ,China also ranked first in the medal table. This success is truly remarkable if you consider that just 24 years before, at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Xu Haifeng won our country's first-ever gold medal. Since then the upward trend for Chinese sport has been unstoppable （stop）. At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games， Liu Xiang became the first Asian to win （win）the gold medal in the men’s 110-metre hurdles while at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the Chinese women’s volleyball team won a hard-fought victory in the final. The year 2022 will be another (history) moment for China as Beijing won the election to host the Winter Olympics.
The Olympic Games bring joy and excitement to people across the world. As Coubertin believed,“With the Olympic Games each generation celebrates its advent, its joy of living,its faith in the future its ambition and its will to ascend."翻译 随着奥运会一代又一代地庆祝它的到来，庆祝它的生活乐趣，庆祝它对未来的信念，庆祝它的雄心壮志和向上的意志。
Grammar Usage
My heart was beating rapidly in my chest as I found a shady place to rest my tired body. My cheeks were red,and I could hear myself breathing heavily as I looked up at the blue sky.When my breathing returned to normally reflected on what had just been achieved. Six weeks ago. my friends told me that a city half-marathon for amateurs was being organized to help raise money for charity and encouraged me to take part.Despite my lack of running experience, I agreed.In order not to hurt my knees or ankles,I started my training very gently by running just one kilometre on the first day.Over the next six weeks,I gradually increased the distance I ran in each training session and also made sure to allow my body enough time to rest and recover after each run.Soon I was running distances I had never thought possible. The day of the half-marathon finally arrived and I felt well prepared.I ate a hearty breakfast so I knew I could get through to the end.I ran my race relaxed and confident, even though my limits were being tested like never before.I was happy to learn that a lot of money had been raised for charity. I felt really proud of myself, and my friends and I agreed to run in the next city marathon!
My heart was beating rapidly in my chest
a shady place 一个阴暗的地方
a hearty breakfast 丰盛的早餐
Extended Reading: Sports idioms
Every language has its idioms,which are groups of words with meanings different from the meanings of the individual words.Idioms make language more colourful and expressive. since sport is an inseparable/indispensable/ (不可分离的)part of day-to-day life. there are lots o sports idioms that have found their way into everyday language.Let's take a look at some of them!
Football
Football (or soccer, as it is called in the USA) is one of the most popular sports in the world and many countries have their own football leagues. The English language is full of idioms which are
thought to have come from football.
As you know,in a football match players try to kick or head the ball into the opposing teams
goal, which is the net between two big goalposts fixed to the ground （被固定在地上）.Can you imagine that every time you have a chance to score, the goalposts are moved That would be not only difficult,but also upsetting.If someone“moves the goalposts in everyday life（翻译） 改变条件或规则 , it means they unfairly change the rules or requirements for something. An insurance salesman who is about to reach his annual sales target（翻译）达到他的年度销售目标 , only for the company to make the target higher,could rightly complain about the company moving the goalposts.
Thankfully, goalposts do not really move-but when a player scores an own goal, he or she might wish they did. “Scoring an own goal（翻译） 进乌龙球 "in football means accidentally kicking or heading the ball into one's own net and it is one of the worst things that can happen to a football player. If someone makes a bad mistake which unintentionally （intend（v） 意图 ,(n)intention ,(adj) intentional ）harms their own interests, they are said to have scored an own goal. You might see this expression in the newspapers when the local council makes a decision which backfires terribly!
Baseball
Baseball is an old and popular sport that has given the English language many different idioms.You might have heard expressions like “in the ballpark" or “a ballpark estimate”. The venue where a baseball game is played is called a ballpark. So, even if we do not know exactly where the ball is during the game, we can assume that it is somewhere in the ballpark. for this reason, people use the expression“in the ballpark" or “a ballpark estimate” to talk about rough( approximately ) estimates.
in the ballpark/a ballpark estimate 差不多估计
Another common baseball expression is“throwing someone a curveball”( 翻译) 给某人出难题 . Curveballs are balls that suddenly turn in the air and these are of course difficult for the other team to handle（同义词 wrestle with/cope with/tackle ）. We use this expression to describe things that are unexpected and difficult to respond to . “Three strikes and you are out"（翻译）三振出局 is another idiom that comes from baseball. As it suggests, in baseball this means that a batter (the person with the baseball bat in his or her hands) is out after making three unsuccessful attempts to hit the ball. This idiom is often used to talk about situations where people fail after wasting three chances.
Boxing
English also has a large number of idioms connected with boxing, which has been a popular sport for thousands of years.A boxer is not allowed to use his or her fists to hit the opponent（词义 对手 ，（v） oppose (n) (adj) opposed (adj) opposite （同义词） ） below the waist.Hence comes the idiom “below the belt"(句型 全部倒装 ). In day-to-day life,if someone makes an unfair（词义 不公正的 ，反义词 fair ，同义词injustice/injust/justify ，） and cruel（词义 残忍的、残酷的 ，名词cruelty ） remark, we can describe（词义 描述 ，同义词 depict/showcase ） it as“below the belt"（翻译 不公正的，伤人的 ）.
“Throwing in the towel"（翻译 认输 ） is another common idiom that comes from boxing. When a boxer is losing badly and is too tired or confused to give up on his or her own. the coach will literally throw a towel into the ring to end the fight. In everyday life, this idiom simply means admitting defeat and giving up（同义词 abandon ）.
Sport is challenging and so is life.However, when you are thrown a curve ball,do not throw in the towel-work hard be careful not to score an own goal and you are sure to make it!
Sport is challenging and so is life.However, when you are thrown a curve ball,do not throw in the towel-work hard be careful not to score an own goal and you are sure to make it!（翻译）
运动是充满挑战的，生活也是如此。然而，当你被抛出一个曲线球时，不要放弃——努力工作，小心不要自摆乌龙，你一定会成功的！
恭喜你又完成了一个单元的复习。
Reading : The Olympic Games
Every four years, thousands of highly trained and （有天赋的） athletes gather together in the spirit of friendship,solidarity, and fair play, ready to test their abilities against each other （怀着...的希望）being recognized （作为） the best of the best.This is the Olympics——an extraordinary sporting event that was first celebrated about 3,000 years ago.
The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BCE.During the early Games only Greek men were allowed to participate.They competed in such events as boxing,running and the long jump.The ancient Olympic Games were held at Olympia in Greece every four years for almost 12 centuries until they eventually （消亡） around the year 393.
participate同义词
die out 同义词
More than 1,500 years later,however, the Games rose again.The modern Olympics were first held in 1896,in Athens.It was a Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin, who brought the Olympics back to life.（固定句型是 ）。His dream was that the Olympics would help people of different racial origins and from different cultures live （共存） in peace. For over a century, people from （多样的） backgrounds have made （共同努力） to help realize Coubertin’s dream. （被,,,激发） the Olympic motto“Faster,Higher,Stronger"many well-known athletes, both male and female,have devoted themselves to achieving sporting excellence and （推动人类成就的极限） 。
bring the Olympics back to life
different racial origins
diverse backgrounds
motivate （同义词）
devote oneself to
boundary≈limit≈（同义词）
One such Olympian was the boxer Cassius Clay.He came to public attention during the 1960 Rome Olympics,when he won the light heavyweight gold medal for the USA demonstrating great talent and personality in the process.Afterwards, this young man proceeded to become the world heavyweight champion in 1964 and later changed his name to the one we all know-Muhammad Ali.He returned to the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games to light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony. By the time he died in 2016, Ali (recognize) as one of the greatest boxers of all time.
come to public attention进入公众的视野
Proceed to （同义词）
Another sportsperson that should be applauded is Jessica Ennis-Hill.Her story is a remarkable example
of hard work and devotion can lead to sporting excellence.A former track and field athlete from the UK she won an Olympic gold medal in her home country in 2012. As if that were not enough, she would not have returned to the Olympics and won a silver medal in 2016, just two years after giving birth to her first child. In an interview she revealed that the secret of her consistent good performance was the training that she never missed.
12 reveal (同义词)
The 2008 Beijing Olympics （号召） the whole world to join in the Olympic spirit and build a better future for humanity with the slogan“One World, One Dream".In addition to hosting the Olympics （首次） ,China also ranked first in the medal table. This success is truly remarkable if you consider that just 24 years before, at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Xu Haifeng won our country's first-ever gold medal. Since then the upward trend for Chinese sport has been （stop）. At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games， Liu Xiang became the first Asian （win）the gold medal in the men’s 110-metre hurdles while at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the Chinese women’s volleyball team won a hard-fought victory in the final. The year 2022 will be another (history) moment for China as Beijing won the election to host the Winter Olympics.
call on(同义词)
the upward trend
unstoppable≈irresistible≈overwhelming
a hard-fought victory
The Olympic Games bring joy and excitement to people across the world. Coubertin believed,“With the Olympic Games each generation celebrates its advent, its joy of living,its faith in the future its ambition and its will to ascend."翻译
Grammar Usage
My heart was beating rapidly in my chest as I found a shady place to rest my tired body. My cheeks were red,and I could hear myself breathing heavily as I looked up at the blue sky.When my breathing returned to normally reflected on what had just been achieved. Six weeks ago. my friends told me that a city half-marathon for amateurs was being organized to help raise money for charity and encouraged me to take part.Despite my lack of running experience, I agreed.In order not to hurt my knees or ankles,I started my training very gently by running just one kilometre on the first day.Over the next six weeks,I gradually increased the distance I ran in each training session and also made sure to allow my body enough time to rest and recover after each run.Soon I was running distances I had never thought possible. The day of the half-marathon finally arrived and I felt well prepared.I ate a hearty breakfast so I knew I could get through to the end.I ran my race relaxed and confident, even though my limits were being tested like never before.I was happy to learn that a lot of money had been raised for charity. I felt really proud of myself, and my friends and I agreed to run in the next city marathon!
My heart was beating rapidly in my chest
a shady place
a hearty breakfast
Extended Reading: Sports idioms
Every language has its idioms,which are groups of words with meanings different from the meanings of the individual words.Idioms make language more colourful and expressive. since sport is an (不可分离的)part of day-to-day life. there are lots o sports idioms that have found their way into everyday language.Let's take a look at some of them!
Football
Football (or soccer, as it is called in the USA) is one of the most popular sports in the world and many countries have their own football leagues. The English language is full of idioms which are
thought to have come from football.
As you know,in a football match players try to kick or head the ball into the opposing teams
goal, which is the net between two big goalposts （被固定在地上）.Can you imagine that every time you have a chance to score, the goalposts are moved That would be not only difficult,but also upsetting.If someone“moves the goalposts in everyday life（翻译） , it means they unfairly change the rules or requirements for something. An insurance salesman who is about to reach his annual sales target（翻译） , only for the company to make the target higher,could rightly complain about the company moving the goalposts.
Thankfully, goalposts do not really move-but when a player scores an own goal, he or she might wish they did. “Scoring an own goal（翻译） "in football means accidentally kicking or heading the ball into one's own net and it is one of the worst things that can happen to a football player. If someone makes a bad mistake which unintentionally （intend（v） ,(n) ,(adj) ）harms their own interests, they are said to have scored an own goal. You might see this expression in the newspapers when the local council makes a decision which backfires terribly!
the opposing teams
fixed ≈immovable≈immobile
21.annual ≈
22 .Scoring an own goal
Baseball
Baseball is an old and popular sport that has given the English language many different idioms.You might have heard expressions like “in the ballpark" or “a ballpark estimate”. The venue a baseball game is played is called a ballpark. So, even if we do not know exactly where the ball is during the game, we can assume that it is somewhere in the ballpark. this reason, people use the expression“in the ballpark" or “a ballpark estimate” to talk about rough( ) estimates.
in the ballpark/a ballpark estimate
assume≈suppose≈presume
Another common baseball expression is“throwing someone a curveball”( 翻译) . Curveballs are balls that suddenly turn in the air and these are of course difficult for the other team to handle（同义词 ）. We use this expression to describe things that are unexpected and difficult to respond . “Three strikes and you are out"（翻译） is another idiom that comes from baseball. As it suggests, in baseball this means that a batter (the person with the baseball bat in his or her hands) is out after making three unsuccessful attempts to hit the ball. This idiom is often used to talk about situations people fail after wasting three chances.
Boxing
English also has a large number of idioms connected with boxing, which has been a popular sport for thousands of years.A boxer is not allowed to use his or her fists to hit the opponent（词义 ，（v） (n) (adj) (adj) （同义词） ） below the waist.Hence comes the idiom “below the belt"(句型 ). In day-to-day life,if someone makes an unfair（词义 ，反义词 ，同义词 ，） and cruel（词义 ，名词 ） remark, we can describe（词义 ，同义词 ） it as“below the belt"（翻译 ）.
“Throwing in the towel"（翻译 ） is another common idiom that comes from boxing. When a boxer is losing badly and is too tired or confused to give up on his or her own. the coach will literally throw a towel into the ring to end the fight. In everyday life, this idiom simply means admitting defeat and giving up（同义词 ）.
Sport is challenging and so is life.However, when you are thrown a curve ball,do not throw in the towel-work hard be careful not to score an own goal and you are sure to make it!
Sport is challenging and so is life.However, when you are thrown a curve ball,do not throw in the towel-work hard be careful not to score an own goal and you are sure to make it!（翻译）
恭喜你又完成了一个单元的复习。
XB2U2 复习单
Reading : The Olympic Games
Every four years, thousands of highly trained and gifted/talented （有天赋的） athletes gather together in the spirit of friendship,solidarity, and fair play, ready to test their abilities against each other in the hope of （怀着...的希望）being recognized as （作为） the best of the best.This is the Olympics——an extraordinary sporting event that was first celebrated about 3,000 years ago.
The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BCE.During the early Games only Greek men were allowed to participate.They competed in such events as boxing,running and the long jump.The ancient Olympic Games were held at Olympia in Greece every four years for almost 12 centuries until they eventually died out （消亡） around the year 393.
participate同义词 join in/ join /go in for/attend
die out 同义词 extinct/
More than 1,500 years later,however, the Games rose again.The modern Olympics were first held in 1896,in Athens.It was a Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin, who brought the Olympics back to life.（固定句型是 强调句）。His dream was that the Olympics would help people of different racial origins and from different cultures live side by side（共存） in peace. For over a century, people from diverse （多样的） backgrounds have made joint efforts （共同努力） to help realize Coubertin’s dream. （被,,,激发）motivated by the Olympic motto“Faster,Higher,Stronger"many well-known athletes, both male and female,have devoted themselves to achieving sporting excellence and （推动人类成就的极限）pushing the boundaries of human achievement .
bring the Olympics back to life 使奥林匹克重换生机
different racial origins 不同的种族起源
diverse backgrounds 多样化的背景
motivate （同义词） pique/stimulate/prompt/inspire
devote oneself to bend oneself to /commit oneself to/ apply oneself to /hammer at
boundary≈limit≈（同义词）
One such Olympian was the boxer Cassius Clay.He came to public attention during the 1960 Rome Olympics,when he won the light heavyweight gold medal for the USA demonstrating great talent and personality in the process.Afterwards, this young man proceeded to become the world heavyweight champion in 1964 and later changed his name to the one we all know-Muhammad Ali.He returned to the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games to light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony. By the time he died in 2016, Ali had been recognized (recognize) as one of the greatest boxers of all time.
come to public attention进入公众的视野
Proceed to （同义词）
Another sportsperson that should be applauded is Jessica Ennis-Hill.Her story is a remarkable example
of how hard work and devotion can lead to sporting excellence.A former track and field athlete from the UK she won an Olympic gold medal in her home country in 2012. As if that were not enough, she would not have returned to the Olympics and won a silver medal in 2016, just two years after giving birth to her first child. In an interview she revealed that the secret of her consistent good performance was the training that she never missed.
12 reveal (同义词) unmask /uncover/disclose/expose/
The 2008 Beijing Olympics called on/appealed to （号召） the whole world to join in the Olympic spirit and build a better future for humanity with the slogan“One World, One Dream".In addition to hosting the Olympics （首次） for the first time ,China also ranked first in the medal table. This success is truly remarkable if you consider that just 24 years before, at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Xu Haifeng won our country's first-ever gold medal. Since then the upward trend for Chinese sport has been unstoppable （stop）. At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games， Liu Xiang became the first Asian to win （win）the gold medal in the men’s 110-metre hurdles while at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the Chinese women’s volleyball team won a hard-fought victory in the final. The year 2022 will be another (history) moment for China as Beijing won the election to host the Winter Olympics.
The Olympic Games bring joy and excitement to people across the world. As Coubertin believed,“With the Olympic Games each generation celebrates its advent, its joy of living,its faith in the future its ambition and its will to ascend."翻译 随着奥运会一代又一代地庆祝它的到来，庆祝它的生活乐趣，庆祝它对未来的信念，庆祝它的雄心壮志和向上的意志。
Grammar Usage
My heart was beating rapidly in my chest as I found a shady place to rest my tired body. My cheeks were red,and I could hear myself breathing heavily as I looked up at the blue sky.When my breathing returned to normally reflected on what had just been achieved. Six weeks ago. my friends told me that a city half-marathon for amateurs was being organized to help raise money for charity and encouraged me to take part.Despite my lack of running experience, I agreed.In order not to hurt my knees or ankles,I started my training very gently by running just one kilometre on the first day.Over the next six weeks,I gradually increased the distance I ran in each training session and also made sure to allow my body enough time to rest and recover after each run.Soon I was running distances I had never thought possible. The day of the half-marathon finally arrived and I felt well prepared.I ate a hearty breakfast so I knew I could get through to the end.I ran my race relaxed and confident, even though my limits were being tested like never before.I was happy to learn that a lot of money had been raised for charity. I felt really proud of myself, and my friends and I agreed to run in the next city marathon!
My heart was beating rapidly in my chest
a shady place 一个阴暗的地方
a hearty breakfast 丰盛的早餐
Extended Reading: Sports idioms
Every language has its idioms,which are groups of words with meanings different from the meanings of the individual words.Idioms make language more colourful and expressive. since sport is an inseparable/indispensable/ (不可分离的)part of day-to-day life. there are lots o sports idioms that have found their way into everyday language.Let's take a look at some of them!
Football
Football (or soccer, as it is called in the USA) is one of the most popular sports in the world and many countries have their own football leagues. The English language is full of idioms which are
thought to have come from football.
As you know,in a football match players try to kick or head the ball into the opposing teams
goal, which is the net between two big goalposts fixed to the ground （被固定在地上）.Can you imagine that every time you have a chance to score, the goalposts are moved That would be not only difficult,but also upsetting.If someone“moves the goalposts in everyday life（翻译） 改变条件或规则 , it means they unfairly change the rules or requirements for something. An insurance salesman who is about to reach his annual sales target（翻译）达到他的年度销售目标 , only for the company to make the target higher,could rightly complain about the company moving the goalposts.
Thankfully, goalposts do not really move-but when a player scores an own goal, he or she might wish they did. “Scoring an own goal（翻译） 进乌龙球 "in football means accidentally kicking or heading the ball into one's own net and it is one of the worst things that can happen to a football player. If someone makes a bad mistake which unintentionally （intend（v） 意图 ,(n)intention ,(adj) intentional ）harms their own interests, they are said to have scored an own goal. You might see this expression in the newspapers when the local council makes a decision which backfires terribly!
Baseball
Baseball is an old and popular sport that has given the English language many different idioms.You might have heard expressions like “in the ballpark" or “a ballpark estimate”. The venue where a baseball game is played is called a ballpark. So, even if we do not know exactly where the ball is during the game, we can assume that it is somewhere in the ballpark. for this reason, people use the expression“in the ballpark" or “a ballpark estimate” to talk about rough( approximately ) estimates.
in the ballpark/a ballpark estimate 差不多估计
Another common baseball expression is“throwing someone a curveball”( 翻译) 给某人出难题 . Curveballs are balls that suddenly turn in the air and these are of course difficult for the other team to handle（同义词 wrestle with/cope with/tackle ）. We use this expression to describe things that are unexpected and difficult to respond to . “Three strikes and you are out"（翻译）三振出局 is another idiom that comes from baseball. As it suggests, in baseball this means that a batter (the person with the baseball bat in his or her hands) is out after making three unsuccessful attempts to hit the ball. This idiom is often used to talk about situations where people fail after wasting three chances.
Boxing
English also has a large number of idioms connected with boxing, which has been a popular sport for thousands of years.A boxer is not allowed to use his or her fists to hit the opponent（词义 对手 ，（v） oppose (n) (adj) opposed (adj) opposite （同义词） ） below the waist.Hence comes the idiom “below the belt"(句型 全部倒装 ). In day-to-day life,if someone makes an unfair（词义 不公正的 ，反义词 fair ，同义词injustice/injust/justify ，） and cruel（词义 残忍的、残酷的 ，名词cruelty ） remark, we can describe（词义 描述 ，同义词 depict/showcase ） it as“below the belt"（翻译 不公正的，伤人的 ）.
“Throwing in the towel"（翻译 认输 ） is another common idiom that comes from boxing. When a boxer is losing badly and is too tired or confused to give up on his or her own. the coach will literally throw a towel into the ring to end the fight. In everyday life, this idiom simply means admitting defeat and giving up（同义词 abandon ）.
Sport is challenging and so is life.However, when you are thrown a curve ball,do not throw in the towel-work hard be careful not to score an own goal and you are sure to make it!
Sport is challenging and so is life.However, when you are thrown a curve ball,do not throw in the towel-work hard be careful not to score an own goal and you are sure to make it!（翻译）
运动是充满挑战的，生活也是如此。然而，当你被抛出一个曲线球时，不要放弃——努力工作，小心不要自摆乌龙，你一定会成功的！
恭喜你又完成了一个单元的复习。
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