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2026学年第一学期位育中学期中考试试卷高三年级英语学科 GVC难点详解

发布时间：2026-11-09 20:57:23 最近访问：2026-11-09 20:57:24

Grammar

Yu Zidi Is Redefining Swimming Excellence

At 13, Yu Zidi is already pushing the boundaries of what seems possible in swimming. At the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games, she(21) ________(sweep) the 200m butterfly,200m individual medley,and 400m individual medley, setting two Games records and an Asian record.

At first glance, Yu’s rise seems to follow a familiar script of precocious(过早显露才华的) talent. She was spotted by a coach in a water park at 6, and became (22) ________ (young) medalist in World Aquatics Championships history only six years later. Yet talent alone does not explain her achievement;dedication matters just as much. To her, hardship is not a detour from progress but part of the journey.

That mindset is reinforced by an increasingly precise and individualized training program(23)________________she can maximize her potential. Motion trackers and sensors can expose subtle flaws in a swimmer’s movement that (24)________otherwise go unnoticed. Experts used videos and statistics to detect subtle changes in Paris Olympics breakout star Pan Zhanle’s body position in the water and worked with his coaches to correct them. In recent years, such minor adjustments (25)________(transform) the sport from an art guided largely byexperience and intuition into a discipline (26)________________even the smallest gains can be measured, diagnosed, and refined.

And the results speak for themselves. Yu was not alone in making her mark. Nineteen-year-old Zhang Zhanshuo emerged as one of the (27)________(define) figures of the Games, winning seven gold medals across four individual freestyle events and three relays.

For Yu, however, the horizon extends far (28)________the Games. Despite that Canadian star Summer McIntosh holding the world records in all three of her major events, Yu cares less about the gap between herself and the world’s best than about the gap between whoshe is today and who she can become.

That willingness to reflect and improve is notable at her age. Still a schoolgirl, she has already shown(29)________exceptional talent, commitment, and an ever more sophisticated training system can accomplish. Her three titles are not an endpoint, but a glimpseof the possibilities yet (30)________(come)—for Yu herself and perhaps for a new generation of Chinese swimmers.

Vocabulary

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.