高考英语时文阅读5篇

高考英语时文阅读5篇

Passage 1

Touched by greatness

(篮球巨星乔丹亚洲之行首站北京，令众多球迷梦想成真。)

MICHAEL Jordan (迈克尔.乔丹)is best known for his "air walk" but it was Beijing students who were flying high when the American basketball legend(传奇人物) visited the capital last week.

The former NBA star attended the final of the 2004 China High School Basketball League at Beijing Workers' Gymnasium (北京工人体育馆) on Thursday. Presenting the trophy to the winners, he gave the youngsters some simple advice: "Love the game, enjoy the game, and play the game."

(Michael Jordan celebrates with the winning team from

Shenyang No 31 Middle School. XINHUA)

Shenyang No 31 Middle School tasted

victory in the tournament（锦标赛）last year.

But this year's 62-54 victory over Shanghai Nanyang Model Middle School had an added sweetness: the players received the champion's cup from Jordan himself.

"I was very excited taking the trophy（奖杯）from him," said Li Yuzhang, who won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award. "I'm lucky to have been able to hold the cup after it was touched by Jordan."

Another player said: "We have been waiting for this day for almost a month. We trained very hard because we knew we would get to celebrate our victory with Michael Jordan."

With cameras flashing around them, the players couldn't hide their excitement as they stepped onto the podium（领奖台）alongside their hero. Li and team captain Feng Wenxu were also lucky enough to have Jordan sign their jerseys（运动衫）.

"I will keep this precious jersey for the rest of my life," said Feng.

The 5,000-strong audience of young students was also stirred up (鼓动) by the appearance of one of basketball's greatest-ever players. Play was even delayed a little while, such was the excitement when he arrived during the fourth quarter of the match.

"I'm here to see Jordan," said a girl from nearby Huiwen Middle School. "It's a pity we can't see him playing, but a glimpse（一瞥、一看）of him today is enough."

It was the NBA legend's first formal visit to China. Jordan particularly enjoyed walking on the Great Wall last Wednesday — he said that doing so meant he could call himself a real man!

Beijing was the first stop on Jordan's first ever Asian tour. He left for Hong Kong last Thursday night before going on to T aiwan and Tokyo.

Passage 2

Point of no return?

(赢得选举，但却拒绝出任总理，索尼亚真能让甘地家族再次崛起吗？)

SHE shocked the world by taking her Congress Party (国大党) to victory in India's general election on May 13. What came next was even more surprising. Last Tuesday Sonia Gandhi turned down both the chance to be the prime minister and take her famous family back to the top of India's political pile.

Her decision came as investors lost confidence in her economic policies, and Hindu nationalists attacked her over her Italian birth. Manmohan Singh, a

71-year-old economist, took the premiership instead.

(Sonia Gandhi.AFP)

"The post of prime minister has not been my

aim," she told newly elected members of Parliament

（议会）. "My responsibility（责任）is to provide India

with a government that is strong and stable (稳定)."

Sonia Gandhi, 57, will remain president of the

largest party in the coalition government (联合政府)

so still have an influence on policy. If she had

accepted the post, she would have been the fourth

member of the fabled(传奇式的) Nehru-Gandhi

dynasty to be prime minister.

Gandhi is the granddaughter-in-law of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who led the country for 17 years after it was given independence from Britain. She is also the daughter-in-law of another prime minister, Indira Gandhi. While her husband Rajiv Gandhi served from 1984 to 1988.

"She was pushed into this whole game - just like her husband," said Rajiv Desai, an advisor to the Gandhis. Neither Rajiv nor Sonia Gandhi had much interest in