Book Two Unit Two

I. Related Information Related Information 1. The Olympic Spirit (1) The Olympic motto is "Faster, Higher, Stronger." The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to participate. Taking drugs before the Games is considered cheating and against sportsmanship.

Related Information 1. The Olympic Spirit (2) The Olympic oath encourages athletes, coaches, and officials to observe the rules and to follow the spirit of sports- manship. Mutual understanding, friendship, unity and fair play. The Olympic Games help to promote a better and more peaceful world.

Related Information 1. The Olympic Spirit (3) The most important thing in the Games is not the triumph but the struggle; not to have conquered but to have fought well. By undergoing the stress and strain of tough competition, the athletes grow in strength, endurance and discipline. The most important thing is to participate. The athletes must learn to respect and to cooperate with people from many nations during the Games.

Related Information 2. Skiing Skiing, winter sport in which people move across snow-covered terrain with long, narrow, specially designed boards called skis attached to their feet. Although people have been skiing for about 5,000 years, the sport did not become a popular form of recreation until the 20th century. Millions of people worldwide enjoy skiing for its exhilaration, sense of freedom, physical challenges, and fitness benefits.

Related Information 3. Names and Logo of Sports (1)

Related Information 3. Names and Logo of Sports (2)

Related Information 3. Names and Logo of Sports (3)

II. Check Yourself Put the paragraphs below into English, using the given words and expressions. Check Yourself

Task 1 业余选手总是发现他们对体育的激情要比职业运 动员的激情重要得多。特别是你在注意到人们冷 漠地转过身去时，训练就没有那么开心了，疲劳 成了一个问题。更让人难过的是，专业运动员有 比较好的教练，而你，虽然同样的有前途，只能 够依靠自己。每年大约有超过半数的业余选手要 么退出，要么转型成为专业选手。另一小部分人 则会在无法预见自己的前途前仍然坚持着。

For your reference Check Yourself Words and Expressions to Be Used promising indifferent amateur shift amusing passion fatigue persist approximately count on in advance

Check Yourself Task 1 Amateurs always find their passion to sport more important than those professionals. Especially when you notice those indifferent shoulders, your training would become less amusing; and fatigue, a problem. What’s worse, those professionals have better coaches and you, although equally promising, will have only yourself to count on. Every year, approximately more than half of amateurs would have to either quit or shift to a professional career. Another minor half would persist until they fail to see their promising career in advance.

Task 2 Check Yourself 运动员参加比赛为了什么？争取荣誉？享受打败 对手的奇妙感觉？还是展现决心？一个国际运动 心理委员会的数据表明运动员的参与更多与他们 对个人刺激的反应有关。也就是说，当他们决定 参加比赛的时候，他们更多的是关注自己的内在 的感受，而不是外在的影响。

Check Yourself Words and Expressions to Be Used competition athlete glory determination pursue participation committee indicate opponent amazing set one’s mind on focus on For your reference

Check Yourself Task 2 What do athletes participate competition for? To pursue glory, to enjoy the amazing feeling of defeating their opponents or to demonstrate their determination? Statistics from an international sports psychology committee indicates that most sportsmen’s participation involves more about the athletes’ response to individual impulse. That is to say, when they set their mind on a competition, they focus more on their feeling inwards instead of the influence outside.

An Olympic Song — Forever Friend Fun Time

A Song for 2008 Olympic Games— Forever Friend Composer Giorgio Moroder composed the themes for the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games (Hand in Hand) and the 1990 World Cup. Fun Time "You'll find typical Chinese elements in this song …" — Kong Xiangdong ( 孔祥东 )

Fun Time You’ve tasted _____ defeat and the _____ success. You want it all and you settle for nothing less. You’ve tried ______ than the rest. You’ve become one of the _____. This is the time you’ll remember for All your life. bittersweet harder best Forever Friend

Forever friends In ________ As the whole world joins and sees Days of _____ and _____. Forever through the years We’ll hear the ______. Joy and laughter everywhere! We’re together here to share Forever friends Fun Time harmony unity peace cheers

You’ll meet all _____, see faces you’ve never seen. People from _____ of the world where you’ve never been. And you’ll feel it in your heart We spent too much time _____ This is the time when all dreams of man come _____. races parts apart alive Fun Time

No matter where we are or go No matter what we ____ for or know No matter how we word our ______ There is one ______ we share. hope prayer dream ___________________ Forever friends In ________! Forever Friends One dream we dream, One world we _____. One World One Dream harmony share

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