Paula Radcliffe, chasing (角逐) a third London marathon title(冠軍), says she has became a stronger person after her terrible experience at the 2004 Athens Gaines.
Radcliffe, who failed to complete the Olympic marathon and the 10,000m last August, said: "Athens made me a stronger person and it made me care less about criticism (批評)"
"In the past I wanted to please everyone, but now I am going to listen even more to the people around me."
She didn't care about criticism made at the weekend by Liz McColgan, who felt Radcliffe should have rested and let her body recover after her failure in
"Liz is someone I look up to but she hasn't spoken to me since last year and if she really eared for me, I'm sure she would have contacted (聯系) me."
Instead Radcliffe won the New York City marathon just 11 weeks after
"In New York I wasn't in my best state but I did know I was good enough to win the Radcliffe insisted her only goal in Sunday's race would be winning a third title and not chasing world records.
However, RadcIiffe has not ruled out(排除) m the future chasing her "final" world record time and questioned sayings that marathon runners have the ability in their career to produce only four or five world-class times.
"I don't think that -- although I can't put a number on it," said. RadcLiffe. "That changes from person to person."
Radcliffe is sure she can better her winning London 2003 performance at some point in the future. Following a successful three-month training period in the
Radcliffe clocked a time of 2:18:56 in her first 42.2-kdnmetre race three years ago.
Afterwards she set a "mixed course" mark of 2:17:18 five months later In Chicago before lowering that to a time of 2:15:25 m the 2003
63. Radcliffe's failure in
A. develop respect for Liz B. love people around her more
C. rest for five months D. face criticism calmly
64. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. Radcliffe broke the world record in the
B. Radcliffe didn't fully recover before the
C. Radcliffe won her first marathon title in the
D. Radcliffe had a 3-month training before the
65. By saying "I can't put a number on it," Radcliffe means she's not sure _____ .
A. if she has the ability to set a new world record
B. if she can win another race though she has won many tunes
C. how many times a marathon runner can set the world record
D. if she has the ability to produce four or five world-class times
66. According to the text, Redcliffc bas won ____
A. four B. three C. two D. one [C]
67. What can we learn from Radcliffe's story?
A. Practice makes perfect. B. Well begun is half done.
C. A friend in need is a fried indeed. D. Where there is a will there is a way.科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：閱讀理解
The discovery of a dwarfed (矮個的) "human being" who lived in Flores, Indonesia, up to 18,000 years ago is changing the way we think about the human family. This "Flores Human" was three foot tall and her brain was smaller than that of the average chimp (黑猩猩), yet she and her relatives apparently lived fully human lives. They seem to have made tools, worked together to find food and cook it, and perhaps even buried their dead with ceremony.
It was a major surprise to find tools associated with the new human family member. The tools are like those formerly seen only with European fossils (化石) from our own species, Homo sapiens (智人), and the oldest of them were made 94,000 years ago. Homo sapiens is thought to have arrived in the island about 40,000 years ago, much too late to be responsible for the tools. If this tiny human made the tools, then the inside structure (結構) of its brain must have been more like our own than a chimp's, despite being just a third the size of ours.
This "'new human" was suspected to be a dwarfed branch of Homo erectus (直立人). When creatures are separated in regions with rare resources but few enemies, being big is a disadvantage, and evolution tends to shrink them, a process known as island dwarfing. Could natural selection make a human smaller while keeping -- even improving mental ability? Quite possibly, believes Christopher Wills of the
Has the "Flores Human" even shown the ability of language? "I find it difficult to imagine that people ，could make tools, use fire, and kill large animals without fairly
advanced communication." Wills says. Did "Flores Human" possess the basic components
of human culture -- such as the burying of the dead with ceremony? Emiliano Bruner of the
Italian Institute points out that
reasonable to assume, he says, that the 18,000-year-old bones of the most complete Flores
woman were well-preserved because she was buried with special care.
67. According to the passage, "Flores Human"_____.
A. lived a partly human life B. was a branch of Homo sapiens
C. used tools before Homo sapiens arrived
D. had a brain as large as a common chimp's
68. The underlined part "this tiny human" in Paragraph 2 refers to
A. a chimp B. Flores Human C. Homo sapiens D. Homo erectus
69. This passage mainly talks about______.
A. the tools made by "Flores Human" B. the language used by "Flores Human"
C. the evolution of "Flores Human"
D. the major surprising findings about "Flores Human"
70. According to the passage, it is believed that "Flores Human"______.
A. was dwarfed by its enemies B. could use language
C. left a lot of fossils in the hot and wet environment
D. reached Flores 40,000 years ago
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