Whenyouthinkaboutcompetitionsyouprobablythinkofsportssuchasbasketballandfootball.Notallcompetitionsaresportsthough.OneexampleistheRockPaperScissorsWorldChampionship.Rock-Pap

Question

When you t hink a bout competitions you probably think of sports such as basketball and football. Not all competitions are sports though. One example is the Rock Paper Scissors World Championship.

Rock-Paper-Scis sors i s a simple game that is played between two people. Each player counts to three and then “throws” one hand forward ( 向前 ) making one of three gestures ( 手势 ). Rock wins against Scissors Scissors win against Paper and Paper wins against Rock. Although the game is simple many players say that they have developed some skills for winning.

Some people m ight c onsider the Rock-Paper-Scissors competition to be strange. Around the world though people compete in many events that others think are crazy. In England an unusual competition is organized every year. Hundreds of people run down a hill and run after a huge wheel of cheese. (3) 最初，这个比赛是为住在当地村子里的人举办的。 But now people from all over the world come to attend it. In Finland many people compete in the Air Guitar World Championships. They play guitars that cannot be seen in front of other people.

(4)These co mpetit ions are just a few of the crazy games that people play. With some practice and training maybe you could be a winner in one of these competitions yourself!

根据材料内容完成下列任务。

任务一：判断下列句子正 (T) 误 (F) 。

(  ) 1. Pa ragrap h 2 mainly tells us the rules of Rock-Paper-Scissors. 

(  ) 2. Accor ding t o the passage some unusual competitions are thought to be crazy because they’re dangerous.

任务二：英汉互译 ( 将材料中划线句子翻译为英语或汉语 ) 。

3. ___________________________________________

4. ___________________________________________

任务三：简要回答下面的问题。

5. How many unusual competitions are introduced in the passage?

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Answer 1

1T  2F  

4. 这些比赛仅仅是人们参加的疯狂比赛中的几种。

5. Three.