高二英语b5m5听力原文材料

Module5, Book 5 Listening material
Listening
Good evening and welcome to Sportsnight. Tonight's programme is a very special one - we're going to _vote for the greatest sports personality of all time. Or rather you are - at the end of the programme you can _ring us and tell us your choice. We've got our own ideas, of course, but we want to hear fromyou. You can vote for anyone - just ring us at the _special numbers we’ll give you at the end of the programme and tell us h is or her name. But first we’ve asked our own Sportsnight __repoters to give us their choices for the sports personality _of all time Presenter: Let's _starts with _ you, Desmond.
1st Journalist: Well for me there's only one choice - Muhammad Ali. He called himself the greatest, and he really was the greatest. He was born with the name Cassius Clay, but he changed this to Muhammad Ali when he changed his religion and became a Muslim. That was just after he became world champion in 1964. He became a _professional boxer in 1960 after winning a gold medal at the Rome Olympics, after that he dominated the sport for nearly twenty y ears. Anyway, he was world champion until 1978 and he actually fought and won 22 out of 24 world championship fights. Outside the ring, he was known as a poet. He
wrote poems about his fights. He often predicted the exact moment in the fight when he was going to win!
Presenter: Wow! That's quite a talent
Lynne, who's your choice?
2nd Journalist: Well I'm going to choose an athlete - the Kenyan middle distance runner
Kip Keino. I really think he was extraordinary. For me, Kip Keino is what the Olympic Games are all about. He was almost unknown when he arrived in Mexico for the 1968 Olympics. His first race was the 10,000 meters. He was in the lead, but just before the end he was in terrible pain and had to pull out of the race. Four days later he won t he silver in the 5,000 metres. But the pain returned and doctors told him to stay in bed for the rest of the games. But he was entered for another race - the 1500 metres. On the day of the race he got out of bed and took a bus. But the got stuck in traffic jam - so what did he do? He got out of the bus and ran to the Olympic stadium. He a rrived just before the start of the race. The rest is history - he took the gold medal, beating the world record holder the American Jim Ryan, in 3 minutes 34.9 seconds, an extraordinary time for the high altitude of Mexico.
Presenter: As you say, an athlete in the best Olympic tradition. Finally, your choice
_, Simon.
3rd Journalist: My choice is the greatest player of the world's greatest game - I'm talking about football, of course. And the greatest footballer was Pele. When he began playing football as a teenager he worked cleaning shoes. He played in his first World Cup when he was just seventeen and scored two goals in the final. Altogether he played in four World Cup competitions
, the last one was in 1970 and Brazil won that too. They played Italy in the final and Pele scored a fantastic goal with his head. Afterwards he said it was his favourite goal. He retired
in 1974 after scoring 1,280 goals.
Presenter: Yes, I think that must be a record, too. Well, there you have three ideas for the sports personality of all time, but the choice is up to you, and you can start ringing us n ow at the following number - 287 ...。