Question

【題目】 A new urban sport, parkour, is hitting the streets. It has evolved from obstacle course training into a fitness option for young people. In parkour, the outside world is the gym! 【1】 The goal of parkour is a direct route from one place to another. You meet an obstacle, you overcome it.

Mark Toorock, who teaches the techniques of parkour at his fitness gym, says that parkour is a method to train the body and mind using obstacles as the medium. He says that this new sport is demanding and takes years to master. 【2】

But Toorock, who used to be a martial arts expert, says that everyone can benefit from learning the basic skills involved in parkour like running, jumping and crawling (爬行). These are the things that humans used to have to do all the time. 【3】 The original idea of parkour was to return to running and jumping as basic elements in moving from one place to another.

Georges Hebert, a French navy officer, was so impressed by the effortless athleticism of African tribes that he devised a training method based on running, climbing, jumping, balancing and throwing. The word parkour comes from parcours de combatant, the French term for a military obstacle course. 【4】

Dr Kenneth Kao explains that the sport of parkour is not extreme — it is the environment which is extreme and dangerous. Being outside, jumping off railings and flipping over park benches can be quite frightening, so parkour courses in gyms concentrate on practicing all the individual moves to make everything easier. 【5】 However, that is not real parkour because it’s indoors with a fixed obstacle. The goal for everyone is to go outdoors.

A.Gyms provide thick floor matting (墊子) for rolling and rubberized boxes for jumping over.

B.The bridges, buildings and railings (欄桿) of each and every city are the equipment.

C.Every action in parkour is natural, so everyone must have the ability to move in this way.

D.Parkour was introduced into china in recent years and has gained popularity.

E.But today, due to modern transport, these basic skills are no longer used on a regular basis.

F.The French word for people who participate in the sport is traceurs or traceuses.

G.Beginners should realize that they won’t be jumping over buildings any time soon!

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】G

【3】E

【4】F

【5】A

【解析】

這是一篇說明文。文章主要介紹了一種流行的運(yùn)動(dòng)—跑酷（障礙訓(xùn)練）。

【1】根據(jù)上一句In parkour, the outside world is the gym.可知，外面的世界是健身房，B項(xiàng)：The bridges, buildings and railings (欄桿) of each and every city are the equipment.(而橋梁、建筑物、欄桿則是健身房當(dāng)中的器械。)與之呼應(yīng)。故選B。

【2】根據(jù)上一句this new sport is demanding and takes years to master可知，這項(xiàng)新運(yùn)動(dòng)要求很高，需要幾年才能掌握。G項(xiàng)：Beginners should realize that they won’t be jumping over buildings any time soon!(新手應(yīng)該明白不可能朝夕之間就能輕易翻越障礙。)與之對(duì)應(yīng)。兩句話連接緊湊，合乎邏輯。故選G。

【3】上文提及人類自古以來就會(huì)奔跑、跳躍、爬行，E項(xiàng)：But today, due to modern transport, these basic skills are no longer used on a regular basis.(但今天，由于現(xiàn)代交通，這些基本技能不再定期使用。)與之構(gòu)成轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系，一句寫古時(shí)候，一句轉(zhuǎn)折寫現(xiàn)如今，合乎邏輯。故選E。

【4】本段主要講述跑酷運(yùn)動(dòng)的起源以及“跑酷”這一名稱的法語詞源。F項(xiàng)：The French word for people who participate in the sport is traceurs or traceuses.(參加這項(xiàng)運(yùn)動(dòng)的人的法語單詞是traceurs或traceuses。)正是圍繞這一中心內(nèi)容展開的細(xì)節(jié)信息。故選F。

【5】根據(jù)下文this is not real parkour because it’s indoors with a fixed obstacle可知，這不是真正的跑酷，因?yàn)樗�是在有固定障礙物的室內(nèi)，A項(xiàng)：Gyms provide thick floor matting (墊子) for rolling and rubberized boxes for jumping over.(健身房提供厚厚的地板墊（墊子）用于滾動(dòng)，并為跳躍提供橡膠箱。)，此處的it’s indoors與A選項(xiàng)中Gyms對(duì)應(yīng)，a fixed obstacle與rubberized boxes for jumping over對(duì)應(yīng)。故選A。