Gu Ailing claims World Cup win 滑雪少女谷愛凌驚艷自由式滑雪世界杯

吳安運(yùn)

在2019至2020賽季國際雪聯(lián)自由式滑雪世界杯加拿大卡爾加里站比賽中，中國選手谷愛凌繼U型場地奪冠后，再獲坡面障礙技巧冠軍，創(chuàng)造了國際雪聯(lián)世界杯歷史——在一站世界杯上獲得兩塊金牌。

難詞探意

1. podium /？謖p？藜？尬di？藜m/ n. 講臺

2. naturalization /？謣n？覸t？蘩？藜r？藜la？奘？謖ze？奘？蘩n/ n. 歸化

3. dominance /？謖d？鬑m？奘n？藜ns/ n. 優(yōu)勢;統(tǒng)治

China？蒺s 16？鄄year？鄄old double Youth Olympic Games champion Gu Ailing claimed her first halfpipe（U型池） World Cup win in Calgary， Canada. Gu scored 94.00 points on her third and final run to top the podium. Canada？蒺s Rachael Karker finished second at 89.20 points and Russia？蒺s Valeriya Demidova took bronze with 87.20 points.

This is Gu？蒺s second World Cup season. She won her first slopestyle（坡面障礙技巧） World Cup event in Seiser Alm， Italy， last year. The all？鄄rounder got better at each run on Friday evening and put down some tricks she has never landed successfully in the contest beforehand. “Moments like these make me feel the luckiest girl in the world. Coming in， I didn？蒺t have any expectations. I try not to take anything for granted. Honestly， I could not have expected two wins from these events，” Gu posted on her Instagram.

In June 2019， the teenage freeskier became China？蒺s first naturalized skiing athlete. At her most recent competition action at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games， she won the halfpipe gold as well as a slopestyle silver and a big air gold， making her the country？蒺s most promising freestyle skiing star.

Born to a Chinese mother and an American father in San Francisco， US， Gu， better known as Eileen in the States， completed a naturalization process last June to represent China in international competitions. Now she has her sights set on making her mother？蒺s home country proud at the 2022 Beijing Games.

A talented skier who has won many national junior titles in the US， Gu shot to prominence after winning two golds and a silver—in halfpipe， big air and slopestyle—at her debut Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne， Switzerland.

With Gu now on board in freeski， China？蒺s snow sports team， which also features world？鄄class aerial skiers and halfpipe snowboarders， is determined to challenge Western dominance on the snow in 2022.

1. How does Gu feel about the win？

A. It？蒺s out of question. B. It？蒺s unexpected.

C. It？蒺s beneficial. D. It？蒺s worrying.

2. What does the underlined word “prominence” in paragraph 5 mean？

A. Record.? B. Fame.? C. Surprise.? D. Preparation.

3. What can be inferred from the last paragraph？

A. Gu will be the next champion on the snow.

B. Western countries will focus on freeski than ever.

C. Western athletes do worse than Chinese athletes on the snow.

D. Gu will take part in the 2022 Beijing Games as a Chinese athlete.

Difficult sentence

Born to a Chinese mother and an American father in San Francisco， US， Gu， better known as Eileen in the States， completed a naturalization process last June to represent China in international competitions.

【翻譯】

【點(diǎn)石成金】本句是一個簡單句。born to...是過去分詞短語作狀語，主語是Gu，better known as...是過去分詞作后置定語。