Question

2．Michael Phelps has broken a 2，000-year-old Olympic record by winning more individual titles than Leonidas of Rhodes．Who was this athlete whose record （12 individual titles） has taken 2000 years to beat？
Phelps has a total of 22 Olympic gold medals，but in terms of individual titles he has only just passed the greatest athlete of the ancient world．Leonidas of Rhodes competed in four Olympiads in 164 BC，160 BC，156 BC and 152 BC and in each of these he won three different foot races．
The three events at which he won were the stadion，a sprint（短跑）of roughly 200m；the diaulos，which was twice the distance of the stadion； and the race in armour（盔甲）．
Unlike most races，the race in armour required competitors to wear heavy armour，possibly including a helmet，a breastplate，shin armour and a shield made from bronze and wood．
"He broke through the distinction between sprinters and endurance（耐力）athletes，"says Paul Cartledge，professor of classics at the University of Cambridge．The race in armour had not previously been considered suitable for sprinters．"They were running in armour，the temperature would be 40℃．You can imagine how it would be in that race．It required completely different muscles and gymnastic skills．"
"There is very little biographical information about Leonidas，and no images of him survive，"says Cartledge．But his name-coming from the Greek word for lion-suggests he was a man of distinction．After his death，"he was respected as a local god in Rhodes，"says Swaddling，the director of a museum．He was also venerated in ancient Greek literature．Pausanias described him as"the most famous runner"．In the 3rd Century，Philostratus the Athenian wrote in his Gymnastikos that Leonidas's achievement proved that not all received wisdom about athletic training and body types was true．
A statue of him in Rhodes displayed the legend："He had the speed of a God．"Quite a reputation for Phelps to live up to．

28．How many individual titles has Phelps won in the Olympics？B
A.22．
B.13．
C.12．
D.9．
29．What can be inferred from the text？A
 A．The conditions of race in armour were unpleasant．
 B．Leonidas was a swimmer with speed and endurance．
 C．Leonidas didn't have his picture drawn in his day．
 D．Phelps owed his success to the influence of Leonidas．
30．The underlined word"venerated"is closest in meaning toD．
A．accepted      
B．collected     
C．shaped      
D．honoured
31．What question does the author mainly discuss？C
A．Who was Philostratus the Athenian？
B．Who is Michael Phelps？
C．Who was Leonidas of Rhodes？
D．Who is Paul Cartledge？

Answer 1

分析 本文是一篇人物故事类阅读，属于记叙文，迈克尔•菲尔普斯打破了一个2000岁的奥运会纪录赢得比列奥尼达，是个人冠军的记录为12项个人冠军的 运动员，本文以此展开谈论，主要向我们介绍了 Leonidas of Rhodes．

解答 28．答案：B．细节理解题．根据Michael Phelps has broken a 2，000-year-old Olympic record by winning more individual titles than Leonidas of Rhodes．Who was this athlete whose record （12 individual titles） has taken 2000 years to beat？可知，Michael Phelps在奥运会上获得了13项个人冠军．故选B．
29．答案：A．细节理解题．根据The race in armour had not previously been considered suitable for sprinters．"They were running in armour，the temperature would be 40℃．You can imagine how it would be in that race．It required completely different muscles and gymnastic skills．"可知，盔甲竞赛的条件是不愉快的．故选A．
30．答案：D．词义猜测题．根据上下文内容可知，He was also venerated in ancient Greek literature．句意为他也推崇古希腊文学．故venerated意为推崇，崇敬．故选D．
31．答案：C．主旨大意题．阅读全文，根据文章内容可知，本文主要讲述了 Leonidas of Rhodes．作者主要讨论了Who was Leonidas of Rhodes？．故选C．

点评 本文是一篇人物故事类阅读，题目涉及多道细节理解题，词义猜测题，主旨大意题．做题时学生应仔细阅读原文，把握文章主要内容，联系文章上下文内容并结合所给选项含义，从中选出正确答案，一定要做到有理有据，切忌胡乱猜测．