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1、大学六级-50 及答案解析(总分:667.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、BPart Writing(总题数:1,分数:106.00)1.挑战的意义 2.如何迎接挑战 3.我的看法(分数:106.00)_二、BPart Reading (总题数:1,分数:70.00)BSports and Education/BB Sports Are a Kind of Education/BFor many young people in my part of the world (suburban America), the first brush with organized athletics co
2、mes on a Saturday morning in early spring. The weather is getting warmer and the school years end is imminent, and moms, sensing the approach of summer vacation and too much free time, pile us into the backs of minivans and drive us to our towns local sports and recreation center. In my hometown, Eg
3、g Harbor Township, New Jersey, kids converge each year on the EHT Youth Organ Building, a cinderblock shack in the middle of a handful of baseball and football fields. There lines are waited in, forma filled out, birth certificates examined and photocopied, health insurance waivers furnished and sig
4、ned. At the end of the morning, kids are signed up for little-league baseball and an instant summer of activities has been created. Then its time to go to Burger King.For parents seeking productive ways to occupy their childrens time, summer sports leagues offer a convenient and time tested outlet f
5、or overabundant energy. In my case that meant baseball. Americas pastime: nine weeks of pitched fastballs and sore elbows, grounders up the, middle, digging it out to first base. shagging flies in the outfield and swatting mosquitoes in the infield. Then, after six innings, back to Burger King.A cou
6、ple of weeks after the signups at the cinderblock shack, we kids would be rounded up into teams and coached in the fundamentals of pitching, catching, hitting, and running bases. Wed be supplied with color-coded jerseys and mesh baseball caps, and then we would play a seasons worth of games against
7、one another. Playoffs would be held and champions crowned. At the end of the season an ail-star team of the leagues best players would be assembled to play against the best teams from neighboring towns.Back and forth across the country this system repeats itself from town to town and sport to sport
8、with little variation. Some leagues have storied pasts: baseballs Little League or footballs Pop Warner League. Some are newer. In cities it is often the Policemens Benevolent Association or the YMCA that assumes the sponsorship role. Always, though, there is the underlying idea that organized sport
9、 is a valuable and productive use of a young persons time. Sports, in short, are a kind of education, teaching important life .skills that cant be learned in school.Ideas about the educational value of sports vary widely. For some, sports foster the social development of young people, teaching kids
10、how to interact with their peers outside the classroom. Sports teach kids what it means to compotehow to cope with losing, how to respond gracefully to success. Sports are about teamwork, how to work together toward a common goal. Sometimes theyre about developing a sense of self-esteem. Sometimes t
11、heyre simply about finding a healthy way to tire hyperactive kids out so theyll sit still in class or get to bed at a reasonable hour. Some bolder advocates claim that their games build character.Given the prevailing educational undercurrent, its no surprise that many kids second brush with organize
12、d athletics takes place in a school. Junior highs and highs schools sponsor their own sports programs and field teams of football, basketball. soccer and tennis players. There the educational theme is given a more direct and tangible form as squads of student-athletes travel. around the state repres
13、enting their schools on the field, court or diamond. Yet here, strangely enough, is where a bit of the educational component begins to niter. High school teams are necessarily more selective than their youth league predecessors. Tryouts are held. and less promising players are cut. Coaches receive s
14、alaries, and there is an expectation that the teams they shape will win. In sum, there is a slight change in emphasis away from education and toward out right competition.B Competitive Sports Build Character/BEducation is an important theme in youth athletics in the US. Young kids, energetic, rambun
15、ctious, cooped up in class, yearn for the relative freedom of the football field, the basketball court, the baseball diamond. They long to kick and throw things and tackle each other, and the fields of organized play offer a place in which to act out these impulses, Kids are basically encouraged, af
16、ter all, to beat each other up on the football field. Yet for all the chaos, adult guidance and supervision are never far off, and time spent on the athletic fields is meant to be productive. Conscientious coaches seek to impart lessons in teamwork, self-sacrifice, competition, gracious winning and
17、losing. Teachers at least want their pupils worn out so theyll sit still in reading class.By the time children start competing for spots on junior high soccer teams or tennis squads, the kid gloves have come off to some extent. The athletic fields become less a place to learn about soft values like
18、teamwork than about hard self discipline and competition. Competitiveness, after all, is prized highly by Americans, perhaps more so than by other peoples. For a child, being cut from the hockey team or denied a spot on the swimming is a grave disappointment and perhaps an opportunity for emotional
19、or spiritual growth.High school basketball or football teams are places where the ethos of competition is given still stronger emphasis. Al though high school coaches still consider themselves educators, the sports they oversee are not simple extensions of the classroom. They are important social in
20、stitutions, for football games bring people together, in much of the US they are e vents where young people and their elders mingle and see how the community is evolving.For the best players, the progression from little league to junior high to high school leads to a scholarship at a big name colleg
21、e and maybe, one day, a shot at the pros. College athletes are ostensibly student-athletes an ideal that suggests a balance between the intellectual rigors of the university and. the physical rigors of the playing field. The reality is skewed, heavily in favor of athletics. One would be hard-pressed
22、 to show that major US college sports are about education. Coaches require far too much of players time to be truly concerned with anything other than performance in sport. Too of ten, the players they recruit seem to care little about school themselves.This was not always the case. UniversitiesPrin
23、ceton, Harvard, Rutgers, Yalewere the birthplaces of American football and baseball; educationthe formation of “character“was an important part of what those coaches and players thought they were achieving. In 1913, when football was almost outlawed in the US, the games most prominent figures travel
24、ed to Washington and argued successfully that football was an essential part of the campus experience and that the nation would be robbed of its boldest young men, its best potential leaders, if the game were banned.The idea that competitive sports build character, a Western tradition dating from an
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