Section C Task Two: Zooming In on the Details

Listen to the recording again and fill in each of the blanks according to what you have heard. 1) Most __________________ are capable of jogging without extra help.

2) Pushing yourself too hard can be _________, especially if you are jogging alone.

3) Running downhill is actually worse for your _________ than running on a flat surface. 4) To start jogging, wait ____________________________________ after eating.

5) Be careful if you jog in _________ heat or cold. If it is hot, drink __________________ and stop to _________ if you feel faint. If it is cold, protect your ___________________________. ▇ Answers for reference:

1) Most healthy individuals are capable of jogging without extra help.

2) Pushing yourself too hard can be dangerous, especially if you are jogging alone. 3) Running downhill is actually worse for your knees than running on a flat surface. 4) To start jogging, wait at least thirty minutes after eating.

5) Be careful if you jog in extreme heat or cold. If it is hot, drink extra water and stop to rest if you feel faint. If it is cold, protect your hands and feet.

Script:

Jogging

These days it is not easy to find the time to exercise. Nonetheless, doing exercise regularly can help you live a healthier and happier life. Jogging is a great way to get at least part of the exercise your body needs, and most healthy individuals are capable of jogging without the need to buy special exercise equipment.

There are a few jogging tips to keep in mind if you plan to take advantage of these benefits. The first tip is that running should ideally be an aerobic exercise. Starting off, you should find a pace at which you can jog for about half an hour. Try to keep this pace each time you jog until you have worked your way up to a full hour. Then, if you still want to keep building endurance, begin to increase your pace. Always be careful not to push yourself too hard; doing so can be dangerous, especially if you are jogging alone.

Once you have gained enough strength and endurance and started to consider increasing your pace, however, you should consider other options first. Anyone who knows great jogging tips can tell you that jogging, though great exercise, is not always good to your knees. Consider jogging on a route that takes you up more hills if you are looking for a more intense workout. Running downhill is actually worse for your knees than running on a flat surface.

In addition, it is important to be hydrated when you jog, but you should not have a stomach full of water. Wait at least thirty minutes after drinking any fluids or eating to start jogging. Also be careful jogging in extreme heat or cold. If it is hot, drink extra water and stop to rest if you feel faint. If it is cold, make sure your hands and feet are protected and try to breathe through your nose as much as possible to warm your breath before it reaches your lungs. Jogging can be a great form of exercise, but you should always do it safely.

Part III Read and Explore

Text A

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Section A Discovering the Main Ideas

Exercise 1: Answer the following questions with the information contained in Text A. 1) Why wasn’t Owens worried in the face of Hitler’s ―master race‖ theory?

2) What made Owens angry with Hitler? What was the consequence of his anger? 3) How did Luz Long help Owens?

4) How was it that Owens and Long formed a real friendship during the Games although they were rivals in the competition?

5) Why did Owens think Long was the perfect example of what Pierre de Coubertin had conceived of as the spirit of the Games?

▇ Answers for reference:

1) He had been well-prepared and had performed very well especially in the running broad jump. In fact, a year before, as a sophomore at Ohio State University, he had set the world’s record of 26 feet 8-1/4 inches. That’s why he was confident and very sure of his success in this event.

2) Hitler had intentionally kept the world in the dark about an excellent athlete by the name of Luz Long, who had a good chance of winning the running broad jump. If Long won, Hitler would prove to the world that Aryans were better than any other races. Hitler’s intention angered Owens. The consequence of his anger was that he made mistakes twice in the three qualifying jumps.

3) Long reassured Owens that he didn’t believe in Hitler’s theory. Then he offered Owens a useful tip to avoid fouling again in the third qualifying jump.

4) Despite the fact that they were fierce competitors, Long helped Owens qualify for the finals, which meant Long himself might miss the gold medal. Then they poured out their hearts, sharing their views on life and sports. When Owens won, Long congratulated him heartily and sincerely. Their friendship was thus forged.

5) Because what Long did for Owens well illustrates the Olympic spirit advocated by Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games. According to him, the important thing in the Games is not winning but taking part. This spirit is also true of life, the essence of which is not conquering but fighting well.

Exercise 2: Text A can be divided into three parts with the paragraph number(s) of each part provided as follows. Write down the main idea of each part.

Part Para(s). Main Idea

Jesse Owens was determined to get gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games, especially in the running broad jump where he

1-5 had already set the world record. Due to his anger with Hitler and One

the tension arising from it, however, he fouled twice in the first two qualifying jumps. He would probably fail to qualify for the finals. With Luz Long’s help, Owens overcame his tension. He qualified

6-18 for the finals and won the gold medal eventually. Major rivals as Two

they were, they formed a true friendship despite the anger of Hitler. Owens cherished his friendship with Long dearly and in the

19 meantime he realized that Long perfectly symbolized the Olympic Three

spirit—not winning but taking part.

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Section B In-Depth Study

At the 1936 Olympic Games, Jesse Owens, a black athlete from America, amazed the world by winning four gold medals, including the one for his achievement in the broad jump. Now Owens tells this story about putting differences aside for the spirit of the Games. His well-cherished friendship with the German broad jumper Luz Long bears out the Olympic spirit, which is, in Pierre de Coubertin’s words, “The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.”

My Greatest Olympic Prize

Jesse Owens

1 It was the summer of 1936. The Olympic Games were being held in Berlin. Because Adolf Hitler childishly insisted that his performers were members of a ―master race,‖ nationalistic feelings were at an all-time high.

2 I wasn’t too worried about all this. I’d trained, sweated and disciplined myself for six years, with the Games in mind. While I was going over on the boat, all I could think about was taking home one or two of those gold medals. I had my eye especially on the running broad jump. A year before, as a sophomore at Ohio State University, I’d set the world’s record of 26 feet 8-1/4 inches. Everyone kind of expected me to win that Olympic event hands down.

3 I was in for a surprise. When the time came for the broad-jump trials, I was startled to see a tall boy hitting the pit at almost 26 feet on his practice leaps! He turned out to be a German named Luz Long. I was told that Hitler had kept him under wraps, evidently hoping to win the jump with him.

4 I guessed that if Long won, it would add some new support to the Nazis’ Aryan-superiority theory. After all, I am a Negro. A little hot under the collar about Hitler’s ways, I determined to go out there and really show Der Fuhrer and his master race who was superior and who wasn’t. 5 An angry athlete is an athlete who will make mistakes, as any coach will tell you. I was no exception. On the first of my three qualifying jumps, I leaped from several inches beyond the take-off board for a foul. On the second jump, I fouled even worse. ―Did I come 3,000 miles for this?‖ I thought bitterly. ―To foul out of the trials and make a fool of myself?‖

6 Walking a few yards from the pit, I kicked disgustedly at the dirt. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned to look into the friendly blue eyes of the tall German broad jumper. He had easily qualified for the finals on his first attempt. He offered me a firm handshake.

7 ―Jesse Owens, I’m Luz Long. I don’t think we’ve met.‖ He spoke English well, though with a German twist to it.

8 ―Glad to meet you,‖ I said. Then, trying to hide my nervousness, I added, ―How are you?‖ 9 ―I’m fine. The question is: How are you?‖ 10 ―What do you mean?‖ I asked.

11 ―Something must be eating you,‖ he said—proud the way foreigners are when they’ve mastered a bit of American slang. ―You should be able to qualify with your eyes closed.‖ 12 ―Believe me, I know it,‖ I told him—and it felt good to say that to someone.

13 For the next few minutes we talked together. I didn’t tell Long what was ―eating‖ me, but he seemed to understand my anger, and he took pains to reassure me. Although he’d been schooled in the Nazi youth movement, he didn’t believe in the Aryan-supremacy business any more than I did. We laughed over the fact that he really looked the part, though. An inch taller than I, he had

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a lean, muscular frame, clear blue eyes, blond hair and a strikingly handsome, chiseled face. Finally, seeing that I had calmed down somewhat, he pointed to the take-off board.

14 ―Look,‖ he said. ―Why don’t you draw a line a few inches in back of the board and aim at making your take-off from there? You’ll be sure not to foul, and you certainly ought to jump far enough to qualify. What does it matter if you’re not first in the trials? Tomorrow is what counts.‖ 15 Suddenly all the tension seemed to ebb out of my body as the truth of what he said hit me. Confidently, I drew a line a full foot in back of the board and proceeded to jump from there. I qualified with almost a foot to spare.

16 That night I walked over to Luz Long’s room in the Olympic village to thank him. I knew that if it hadn’t been for him I probably wouldn’t be jumping in the finals the following day. We sat in his quarters and talked for two hours—about track and field, ourselves, the world situation, a dozen other things.

17 When I finally got up to leave, we both knew that a real friendship had been formed. Luz would go out to the field the next day trying to beat me if he could. But I knew that he wanted me to do my best—even if that meant my winning.

18 As it turned out, Luz broke his own past record. In doing so, he pushed me on to a peak performance. I remember that at the instant I landed from my final jump—the one which set the Olympic record of 26 feet 5-5/16 inches—he was at my side, congratulating me. Despite the fact that Hitler glared at us from the stands not a hundred yards away, Luz shook my hand hard—and it wasn’t a fake ―smile with a broken heart‖ sort of grip, either.

19 You can melt down all the gold medals and cups I have, and they couldn’t be a plating on the 24-carat friendship I felt for Luz Long at that moment. I realized then, too, that Luz was the perfect example of what Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, must have had in mind when he said, ―The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.‖

▇ 课文参考译文

我最珍贵的奥运奖牌

杰西·欧文斯

1 那是1936年的夏天。奥林匹克运动会正在柏林举行。阿道夫·希特勒天真地坚持认为自己的运动员来自―优等民族‖，这使得民族主义情绪空前高涨。

2 对这一形势我并不十分忧虑。六年来，我训练、流汗、严于律己，头脑里装的就是奥运会。我乘船渡海，所思所想的就是夺一两枚金牌回家。我尤其期待跳远项目的冠军。一年前，当我还是俄亥俄州立大学二年级学生的时候，就以26英尺8.25英寸的成绩打破了世界纪录。人人都有些许期待：我在这个奥运项目上会轻而易举地夺冠。

3 事情却令我措手不及。跳远预赛的时间到了，我看见一个高个子男孩在跳远练习时以近乎26英尺的成绩跳入沙坑，这让我震惊！原来他是德国人，叫卢兹·朗。我听说，希特勒一直将其雪藏，明显是希望他赢了跳远项目。 4 我暗自思量，卢兹·朗若赢，定会为纳粹的―雅利安人优越‖理论增添新的证据。我毕竟是一个黑人。我对希特勒的做法有点恼火，决定去拼搏，让这个纳粹元首、让他的优等民族实实在在地看看孰优孰劣。

5 带着怒气的运动员会犯错，任何教练都会这样说。我不例外。三轮资格赛的第一轮，我越过跳板几英寸起跳，犯规了。第二次起跳，违规程度更严重。―我越洋三千英里，难

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