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(1) A 9-year-old Central California boy braved strong currents and cold water to swim from San Francisco to Alcatraz Island and back. A Califomia television station in Fresno reported Thuesday that James Savage set a record as the youngest swimmer to make the journey to the former prison. The TV station reported that by completing the swim, the fourth-grade student from Los Banos broke a record previously held by a 10-year-old boy. James said that waves in the San Francisco Bay hitting him in the face 30 minutes into his swim made him want to give up. (2) His father said he had offered his son $100 as a reward; to encourage his struggling son, he doubled it to $200. James pushed forward, making it to Alcatraz Island and back in a little more than two hours. Alcatraz is over a mile from the mainland.
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预览两道题各选项,由选项中出现的 swimming和swam可以初步推测,新闻内容与游泳有关;再结 合 set a record、 reward、T以及反复出现的 island可以进一步推测,新闻内容可能涉及某人游到某个 岛上创造了新纪录、对此次事件的报道以及事后的奖励等。 。
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1. What did the boy from Central Califomia do according to the report?
(详解) A)。新闻开头提到,一位来自加利福尼亚中部的九岁男孩从旧金山游到了恶魔岛并返回, 创造了一项新的纪录。因此答案为A)。
2. What did the father do to encourage his son?
(详解) A)。新闻中提到,这位父亲说他给孩子100美元作为奖励,但为了鼓励儿子,他把奖金加倍 了。由此可知,父亲通过加倍奖励来鼓励儿子游泳,答案为A)。