2024年6月英语四级听力真题 卷二 文章2

Passage Two

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More and more people are taking up extreme sports, like snowboarding, skateboarding, mountain biking, and many more.

越来越多的人开始从事极限运动，比如滑雪板、滑板、山地自行车等等。

Why are these sports becoming so popular?

为什么这些运动变得如此受欢迎？

One thing that extreme sports do better than perhaps anything else is to help you stop being afraid.

极限运动比其他任何运动都更能帮助你停止恐惧。

It may sound strange to say that their main function is to reduce fear. But after a time, your fear response to other things in life will be dramatically reduced.

说它们的主要功能是减少恐惧，听起来可能有些奇怪。但一段时间后，你对生活中其他事情的恐惧反应就会大大降低。

After all, if you can jump out of a plane or off a bridge, then you can face anything else easily.

毕竟，如果你能从飞机上跳下来或从桥上跳下来，那么你就能轻松地面对其他任何事情。

When doing extreme sports, you have to become more focused. You'll be pushed to your limits, and if you aren't focused you'll make dangerous mistakes.

在做极限运动时，你必须变得更加专注。你会被推到极限，如果你不专注，你会犯危险的错误。

Learning to be this focused when enjoying extreme sports will help you to be focused at work, keeping you more productive and ultimately more successful.

在享受极限运动时学会集中注意力，将有助于你在工作中保持专注，让你的工作效率更高，最终更成功。

It’s great to stay fit and healthy, but standard exercise routines and sports only work the same muscles repeatedly.

保持身材和健康是件好事，但标准的锻炼和运动只会反复锻炼相同的肌肉。

With extreme sports, you'll be working entirely different muscles, and that means you get an all-over workout.

通过极限运动，你会锻炼完全不同的肌肉，这意味着你会得到全面的锻炼。

Extreme sports also burn a lot more calories than other sports.

极限运动也比其他运动消耗更多的卡路里。

Skateboarding, for example, can burn as many as 500 calories per hour. Basketball burns around 300 in the same time.

以滑板运动为例，每小时可燃烧多达500卡路里的热量。篮球在同一时间烧死大约300人。

When you find that you can overcome the physical or mental challenges involved in extreme sports, you'll feel superhuman and your self-confidence will be at an all-time high.

当你发现自己能够克服极限运动所带来的身心挑战时，你会觉得自己是超人，自信心也会达到空前高涨的程度。

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.

问题 19 至 21 基于你刚才听到的段落。

Question19.What may sound strange to say about extreme sports?

谈及极限运动，有什么听起来很奇怪的吗?

Question20. Why should one be highly focused when doing extreme sports?

为什么人们在进行极限运动时注意力要高度集中?

Question21. How can extreme sports benefit us more than standard exercise routines and sports?

相较于常规的锻炼方式和体育运动，极限运动如何能给我们带来更多好处?

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