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supreme
abuse
tolerate
seek
lame
compulsory
controversial
oppose
contradict
violate
adj.最高的
vt.滥用
vt.容忍
vt.寻找
adj.站不住脚的
adj.强制性的
adj.有争议的
vt.反对
vt.与其它事物相矛盾
vt.违反，违背
What do you know about
the Olympic Games?
Try this quiz and find
out who knows the most.
1. Where did the ancient Olympic Games
start?
Olympia
in Greece
Xu Haifeng for shooting
swifter
higher
stronger
8. What do the five rings on the Olympic
flag stand for?
the five continents
Europe
Asia
Africa
America
Oceania
Europe
Africa
Asia
America
Oceania
solidification
团结
equity
平等
open
坦城
friendship
友谊
The five rings stand for friendship of five
continents.
What champion athletes
can you name? What
were their achievements?
Do you think all the glory of
the athletes come from an
innocent way? What’s the
spirit of the Olympic Games?
He is a former
sprinter from
Canada, winning
two Olympic
bronze medals and
an Olympic gold,
but he was
disqualified for
doping.
Ben Johnson
Floyd Landis is an
American cyclist,
currently suspended
from competition,
who was stripped of
overall victory in the
2006 Tour de France
for a doping offense.
Floyd Landis
Lead in 2
Super Athletes
Ben Johnson
汉城奥运会以惊人
成绩打破男子百米
世界纪录并夺得金
牌
Florence Griffith
奥运短跑三项金牌得
主，同时也是100米
及200米短跑的世界
纪录保持人
Maurice Greene
第一位同时拥有50
米、60米和100米3
项世界记的男选手。
Marion Jones
2000年悉尼奥运会
女子100米、200米、
4x400米接力
冠军
Floyd Landis
2006年环法自行车
赛冠军, 第三位获
此殊荣的美国人
兴奋剂在英语中称
Dope,使用兴奋剂
既违反体育法规，
又有悖于基本的体
育道德,国际奥委
会对服用兴奋剂的
运动员给予禁赛和
没收奖牌的处分以
保证体育比赛的公
平公正。
objectives
To get the main idea of the text by
skimming
To get the specific information by
scanning
To learn to talk about athletes,
doping and gene-therapy with the
words and expressions:
Words:
track and field, supreme, tolerate, seek,
annual, lame, compulsory, oppose, dash,
marathon, contradict, violate
Expressions:
in vain
at random
at all costs
seek for
seek out
seek to do sth
be opposed to
for
general ideas
Part one.1-2
Part two.3-6
Part three.7
Part four. 8
Doping
Records have fallen
Olympic spirit
Gene-therapy
What is the general idea of the passage?
A.The athletes who took part in the first
Olympic Games are not as fast as athletes
today.
B. Doping is a huge problem in the sporting
world.
C. The present and future of the sporting
world is being seriously and negatively
affected by doping and gene-therapy.
D. Ben Johnson, Florence Griffith and Floyd
Landis have all shocked the world by their
speed.
for
specific information
Part Ⅱ (Para.3-6)
Doping are originally
developed to
help people with illness
1.________________
But in the wrong hands,
doping creates
supreme athletes
2._______________.
It also causes
serious health problems
3.__________________for
abuse them.
those who 4.______
use
result/effect
Doping affects both
athletics and
every sport
7. ___________.
The sports world
tolerate
doesn’t 5._______
doping as it is a form
cheating
of 6.____________
attitude
It’s not easy to catch using
illegal drugs because：
compulsory
8.It’s__________for
winners
to be tested.
New drugs
9.__________are
developed
all the time.
10.Drug tests are_________
one step behind
_________________
difficulty
Gene therapy
use
possible
attitude
trouble
possible
result
It is to _____________
build muscle and
increase
strength by
_______________
changing genes.
It would __________to
impossible find
oppose
Many
people
_________
contradict
out; It would _________the
further
research
into
it.
whole spirit of sport.
Athletes might be able to do
100 meters dash
the__________
in 8 seconds marathon in
____________;
less
than two hours
______________
1) As athletic performances have
continually improved, records have
risen.
2) Ben Johnson was still be the 100 metres
world record holder because he had
taken drugs in the 1988 Olympics.
3) Doping can help athletes enhance their
perfomance, however, the drugs also
cause serious health problems in later
life for those who abuse them.
4) Doping is only a problem in athletics.
5) The Olympic spirit of competition
emphasizes winning rather than taking
part.
Read and answer the questions.
1)Why would the athletes today have
broken records if they’d taken part in
the first Olympic Games?
2) What is doping and why is it illegal?
3) Why are drug tests at sporting events
often one step behind?
4) What would the effect of gene-therapy
be on sport?
1. Why would the athletes today
have broken records if they’d
taken part in the first Olympic
Games?
Because athletic performances
have continually improved.
2. What is doping and why is it
illegal?
Taking the drugs which are originally
developed to help people with
illnesses but can make athletes faster
and stronger in wrong hands is known
as “doping”.
3. Why are drug tests at sporting
events often on step behind?
It is only compulsory for winners to be
tested but other participants are only
tested at random. Besides, new drugs
are developed all the time and drug
tests for sporting event are often one
step behind
4. What would the effect of
gene-therapy be on sport?
Gene-therapy can build athletes’
muscle and increase strength by
changing their genes.
Choose the best answer
1. Why would the athletes today have
broken records if they’d taken part in
the first Olympic Games?
A. Athletes today take drugs.
B. Athletic performances have improved.
C. Ancient athletes performed too badly.
D. The standard has changed a lot.
2. What reasons are not given for
improved performance?
A. Better equipment
B. Better training and diet
C. Better cooperation.
D. Performance-improving drugs.
3. Which of the following statements is
true?
A. Taking drugs is called doping.
B. Doping exists only in athletics.
C. The only threat to the sports world is
doping.
D. Doping is actually a kind of cheating.
4. Why are drug tests at sporting events
often one step behind?
A.Because only winners are tested.
B. Because new drugs are developed all
the time.
C. Because drug-makers master the
advanced technique.
D. Because taking drugs goes before
drug tests.
True or False
1. Records have fallen recently because
athletes all take drugs.
F
2. Some athletes would have been the
world records holders if they didn’t
take drugs in the 1980s.
T
3. Gene-therapy can build athletes’
muscle and increase strength by
changing their genes.
T
4. The Olympic spirit is to win the gold
medals for one’s own country. F
Now 2 mins to test your spelling.
1. English-Chinese
track and field, supreme, annual, lame,
compulsory, marathon, tolerate
2. Chinese-English
滥用；寻找；徒然，白费力气；随意地；
反对；违背；无论如何
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have also __________
underlined the fact that
_________ and ___________
thorough
systematic medical
research on Bird Flu needs to lead to a
cure as soon as possible. Countries will
need to work together to do this as the
SARS epidemic
_______ proved how teamwork
among nations can save lives. With all
the international effort being made,
faith that there
we have to have _____
will be solutions in time to stop
____ a
in its tracks
Bird Flu epidemic ____________.
1. Retell the text in 10 sentences.
2. Do exercise 4 on P35.
3. Read the Grammar Summary on
page 101.