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Running a marathon
Have you ever taken part in a marathon? A marathon is 42km long. It is the longest race in the world. To make the runner's body work, harder training is quite necessary. A runner should start to prep are for a marathon at least three months before. Preparation may have races, many hours of running at different speeds and chang es in diet (饮食).During the training time the runner must eat a fit diet. The diet should have lots of things needed in training the players.
In the early days of training, runners run 80km per week. The running is increased every two or three weeks and at least two long runs per week are needed. Two weeks before the marathon, the training programme becomes less, from 100km per week down to 60km and then to 30km in the final week. On the last two days they may not run at all.
Breakfast should be eaten at least three hours before the race. Easily digested (消化) food such as cereal (麦), toast (烤面包) and scrambled (捣碎) egg is best, with as much fluid (液体) as possible. Runners should drink water about half an hour before the race to keep up t he body fluid.
( )1.According to the passage, when should a marathon runner begin his training?
A. A month before the race.
B. A week before the race.
C. Three or four months before the race.
D. A year before the race.
( )2.What should a runner have for his breakfast o n the day of the race?
A. A light meal.
B. A big meal.
C. Lots of meat.
D. Oily food.
( )3.What is the length of the modern marathon?
A.100km.
B.60km.
C.30km.
D.42km.
B
Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833, but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father, Imma nuel, made a strong position for himself in the engineering industry. Immanuel Nobel invented landmine (地雷) and made a lot of money from the government during the Crimean War, but went bankrupt soon after. Then, the family returned to Sweden in 1859, where Alfred began his own study of explosives in his father's lab. He had never been to school or university but had taught himself, and by the time he was twenty, he became a skillful chemist and excellent linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian,
German, French and English. He built up over 80 companies in 20 different countries. He was always searching for a meaning to life. He spent much time and money working on how to end the wars, and the peace between nations, until his death in Italy in 1896.His famous last will, in which he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature and peace, is a memorial to his interests and ideas. And so, the man is remembered and respected long after his death.
( )1.Alfred Nobel was born in ________.
A. France
B. Stockholm
C. Russia
D. Moscow
( )2.What did Immanuel Nobel invent during the Crimean War?
A. The engineering industry.
B. A strong position.
C. Landmine.
D. Study of explosives.
C
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