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2013上海徐汇、松江、金山二模英语试题及答案(4)

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  (A)

  The butterfly, which is competitive swimming’s newest stroke(划水), was developed in the mid-1930s, but it wasn’t allowed in the Olympics until 1956. The story of the butterfly is a good illustration of how coaches and swimmers are constantly searching for ways to improve stroke efficiency.

  During the 1920s, the Japanese Olympic coaches used underwater photography to research stroke mechanics, and their efforts paid off when Japanese competitors won five of the six men’s swimming gold medals at the 1932 Games in Los Angeles.

  It was a wake-up call to the rest of the swimming world, and one of the top US coaches – David Armbruster at the University of Iowa – began doing his own filming.

  Armbruster was seeking to make the breaststroke faster. He knew that the action of bringing their arms forward underwater slowed breaststrokes down, so he came up with a method of bringing the arms forward over the water. The revised stroke (he kept the breaststroke kick) brought great improvements in speed.

  The following year, Jack Sieg, an Iowa swimmer, developed a technique involving swimming on his side and beating his legs in unison(一致) similar to a fish tail. As Armbruster later explained in the book Weissmuller to Spitz: The History and Background of the Olympic Games: “Sieg tried the same action while swimming face down. Sieg synchronized his leg action with the butterfly arm action using two leg beats to each arm pull.” But the kick was ruled illegal because the legs moved in the vertical (垂直的) plane.

  Within a few years, nearly every breaststroker was using this overarm butterfly action without the kick. The pure butterfly wasn’t legalized for some two decades, but at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne ‘the fly’ became an official event.

  65. The best title of the article is _____.

  A. Why did the coaches and swimmers improve stroke efficiency?

  B. How did the butterfly come into being?

  C. How did the Japanese wake up the swimming world?

  D. When did ‘the fly’ become an official event?

  66. The Japanese coaches use underwater photography in order to ______.

  A. wake up the swimming world

  B. be paid more money

  C. know how to be a mechanic.

  D. improve stroke efficiency.

  67. Before the pure butterfly was officially recognized, ______ years or so had passed 。

  A. 15 B. 20 C. 30 D. 35

  68. According to the passage, which statement is NOT true?

  A. The Japanese coaches improved butterfly stroke.

  B. David Armbruster used filming to study stroke mechanics.

  C. Sieg came up with the idea of beating legs like a fish tail.

  D. The butterfly was added to the Olympics in 1956.

  (B)

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