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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。

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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.
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
"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？
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（ 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
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
.
politics. But he felt called by a family responsibility after his mother was murdered by her guards in 1984. In a similar way, his wife felt she had to rescue the struggling Congress Party 14 years later .
However , the success of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has come at a heavy price.
Seven years after the murder of his mother , Rajiv Gandhi was killed by Sri Lankan terrorists ( 恐怖分子) .
It has been said that Sonia Ghandi's children, Rahul and Priyanka, asked her not to take
the post because they feared losing their mother as well.
Despite her decision, the election saw the Gandhi dynasty brought back to life. Rahul won a seat in Parliament and Priyanka is set to follow him. It is on their shoulders that the future of Indian politics may rest.
Choose the best answer to the following:
1. Which of the following was not the reason why Sonia Gandhi turned down the chance to be prime
minister?
A.When she was president of the Congress Party, the stock market was not stable.
B.Because she was born in Italy.
C.Because her children feared their mother would be killed by terrorists.
D.Because the post of prime minister was not her aim.
2. How many of Sonia Ghandi's relatives have served as Prime Minister of India? A. 2. B.
3. C.
4. D. 5
Key: 1. A 2. B
Passage 3
Future of football is found in Africa
（2010 年世界杯花落南非。

非洲足球能否登临世界之巅？）
TWENTY years ago, Pele, perhaps the greatest footballer who has ever lived, said that an African country would win the World Cup by 2000.
Europe and South America's control over the game. This strength was shown on May 16 when South
Although this hasn't proved correct, there is little doubt that Africa will challenge
Africa won the right to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
(Former president Nelson Mandela gets his hands on the World Cup trophy.)
Africa first tasted football during colonial times
（殖民地时期） and, as recently as
1974, it was the big joke of the international game. Zaire
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（扎伊尔）, the African representative （代表） in that year's World Cup, was beaten 8-0 by Yugoslavia （南斯拉夫）. Some of the Zaire players also didn't seem to fully understand the rules.
Since then, Africa has worked hard to learn the game and some teams have started making waves on the international scene with some skilful, fast and powerful play. Cameroon （喀麦隆）, the African Lions, reached the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Cup in Italy and won gold at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
Like many African sides, Cameroon's style of play focuses mostly on speed and individual talents. The passing is short rather than long, and there is more dribbling （带球）. As the weather is usually hot, the game is also often played at a slower pace than it is in Europe.
However , teams still lack tactical （战术的） knowledge and experience, and this can cost them at the highest level of play.
There is also the problem of poor organization. At a recent African Nations Cup, the Nigerian （尼日利亚） side found themselves locked out of their hotel rooms because their bills had not been paid. Cameroon's players came home from the 1990 World Cup to discover that US$600,000 of their winnings had disappeared.
The wealth gap between Africa and Europe means that, for many years to come, the top African players will earn their living with European clubs.
Senegal （塞内加尔） famously beat France in the opening match of the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, and went on to the quarter-finals. But every Senegalese player was with a club in the French league.
Passage 4
Heart beats with happiness
《音乐之声》用歌声讲述荡漾在心底里最温暖的感动。

WHEN the film " The Sound of Music " （《音乐之声》） was shown in cinemas, it was described as the happiest sound in all the world.
"My heart wants to sing every song it hears. My heart wants to beat like the wings," sang the heroine Maria.
Do these lines make you want to sing along? People in Shanghai now have the chance.
（The ISS is as tall as a nine-story building and weighs
186,900 kilograms. It is about the size of two football fields
and flies about 400 kilometers above our heads at 28,970
kilometers minutes per hour . It goes around
— that ' s 16 times a day! ） Earth once every 90
The ISS is the biggest satellite because
The musical opened in the city on May 22. It will be performed for a month.
"The Sound of Music" is filled with laughter , tears and sweet romance. And of
course, it contains some of the most memorable music ever written.
It is the tale of a family living in Austria as the World War II draws close.
A free-spirited nun （ 修女 ） named Maria becomes the governess （ 家庭教师 ） of the von Trapp family. The family has seven children and a father , Captain von Trapp. He is a widowed naval （ 海军 ） officer who educates his children with military discipline.
After making a few mistakes and singing several songs, Maria wins her way into
the hearts of the children. She teaches them beautiful melodies （ 歌曲 ） and they form the "Von Trapp Family Singers". At the same time, she melts the captain's tough heart and falls in love with him.
( 入侵 In the end, Maria marries the captain and the family flees from the 的 ）
Nazi soldiers.
invading "The Sound of Music" opened in 1959 and went on second-longest running
Broadway musical up to that time. Six years later it was turned into an
Oscar-winning film.
to become
the "It is one of the most enduring, feel-good musicals ever made. 唱 ） songs are for the entire family," said Mike Szymanski, a music
critic in the US.
Sing-along (合 Passage 5
The ISS: a flying city in the sky
（国际空间站——一座漂浮在浩渺太空的人类新 "城市" ！）
If you watch the sky about an hour after the sun goes down, you may see some "moving
stars." But they're not really stars. They're satellites . And the biggest of all is the International Space Station （ISS, 国际空间站 ）.
From now until July is the best season to watch the ISS flying over the Earth. scientists want to live on it. They think that the best way to learn more about space is to live there.
And people can see it with just their
eyes.
When the space station is finished, it will be like a city in space. People will stay and study there with many of the things they have at home. Laboratories, living rooms and power stations （发电站） are being built. The ISS is the most ambitious
（雄
心勃勃的） and expensive space program ever . Billions of dollars are being spent on it every year .
Scientists hope that the ISS will be a stepping stone （跳板） for future space exploration （探索）.
"The ISS will help us better understand the human body, explore space and study the Earth. It can help us make life on Earth better ," said Kathryn Clark, an ISS scientist.
Sixteen countries are part of the program: the US, Russia, Canada, Japan, Brazil （巴西）and 11 European countries.
China is not an ISS country, but it has helped with some of the experiments. In 2003, China sent some rice up to the ISS to find out what space would do to it.
The ISS is not finished yet. More than 100 parts must still be put on. Scientists hope it will be finished by 2006.
After it's finished, more than 90 per cent of the world's population （人口） will be able to see the Space Station. So keep looking up, and maybe you'll see it get bigger .。