38、 SYDNEY: As they sat sharing sweets beside a swimming pool in 1999 , Shane Gould and Jessicah Schipper were simply getting along well , chatting about sport , life and " anything else that came up . "

　　Yet in Sydney next month , they will meet again by the pool , and for a short time the friends will race against each other in the 50-meter butterfly(蝶泳)in the Australian championships at Homebush Bay .

　　Gould , now a 47-year-old mother of four , has announced she will be making a return to elite competition(賽事)to swim the one event , having set a qualifying(合格的)time of 30.32 seconds in winning gold at last year's United States Masters championships . Her comeback comes 32 years after she won three golds at the Munich Olympics .

　　Schipper , now a 17-year-old from Brisbane with a bright future of going to Athens for her first Olympics , yesterday recalled(回憶)her time with Gould five years ago .

　　" I was at a national youth camp on the Gold Coast and Shane had come along to talk to us and watch us train , " Schipper explained . " It seemed as if we had long been good friends . I don't know why . We just started talking and it went from there . "

　　" She had a lot to share with all of us at that camp . She told us stories about what it was like at big meets like the Olympics and what it's like to be on an Australian team . It was really interesting . "

　　Next time , things will be more serious . " I will still be swimming in the 50m butterfly at the nationals , so there is a chance that I could actually be competing against Shane Gould , " said Schipper , who burst onto the scene at last year's national championships with second places in the 100m and 200m butterfly .

　　1. What is the passage mainly about ?

　　2. Gould and Schipper are going to .

　　3. Gould won her three Olympic golds when she was .

　　4. The underlined word " it " in the fifth paragraph probably refers to .

　　5. What Schipper said showed that she .

　　第 1 空選項

　　A. Stories happening in swimming competitions .

　　B. Two women swimmers winning Olympic golds .

　　C. Lessons learned from international swimming championships .

　　D. Friendship and competition between two swimmers .

　　第 2 空選項

　　A. talk about sport and life

　　B. go back to elite competition

　　C. set a qualifying time and win gold

　　D. take part in the same sports event

　　第 3 空選項

　　A. 15

　　B. 17

　　C. 22

　　D. 30

　　第 4 空選項

　　A. the Olympics

　　B. the youth camp

　　C. the friendship

　　D. the Australian team

　　第 5 空選項

　　A. was no longer Gould's friend

　　B. had learned a lot from Gould

　　C. was not interested in Gould's stories

　　D. would not like to compete against Gould

　　第1空答案 D. Friendship and competition between two swimmers .

　　第2空答案 D. take part in the same sports event

　　第3空答案 A. 15

　　第4空答案 C. the friendship

　　第5空答案 B. had learned a lot from Gould

　　39、 It was not yet eleven o'clock when a boat crossed the river with a single passenger who had obtained his transportation at that unusual hour by promising an extra fare. While the youth stood on the landing-place searching in his pocket for money, the ferryman lifted a lantern, by the aid of which, together with the newly risen moon, he took a very accurate survey of the stranger's figure. He was a young man of barely eighteen years, evidently country bred, and now, as it seemed, on his first visit to town. He was wearing a tough gray coat, which was in good shape, but which had seen many winters before this. The garments under his coat were well constructed of leather, and fitted tightly to a pair of muscular legs; his stockings of blue yarn must have been the work of a mother or sister, and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the grayer head of the lad's father. In his left hand was a walking stick, and his equipment was completed by a leather bag not so abundantly stocked as to inconvenience the strong shoulders on which it hung. Brown, curly hair, well-shaped features, bright, cheerful eyes were nature's gifts, and worth all that art could have done for his adornment. The youth, whose name was Robin, paid the boatman, and then walked forward into the town with a light step, as if he had not already traveled more than thirty miles that day. As he walked, he surveyed his surroundings as eagerly as if he were entering London or Madrid, instead of the little metropolis of a New England colony.

　　1.The story took place in ____.

　　2. The boatman was willing to take Robin across the river because___.

　　3. The stockings that Robin wore were obviously _____.

　　4. From the way he looked, it was evident that Robin was ____.

　　5.How did Robin appear as he walked into the town?

　　第 1 空選項

　　A. spring B. summer

　　C. fall D. winter

　　第 2 空選項

　　A. he wanted to make extra money.

　　B. he saw that Robin was young and rich.

　　C. he was going to row across the river anyway.

　　D. he felt sorry for him because Robin looked poor.

　　第 3 空選項

　　A. worn-out B. very expensive

　　C. handmade D. much too big

　　第 4 空選項

　　A. a wealthy merchant's son

　　B. a country boy

　　C. a soldier

　　D. a foreigner

　　第 5 空選項

　　A. He was cheerful and excited.

　　B. He was tired.

　　C. He seemed very sad.

　　D. He seemed frightened by the strange surroundings.

　　第1空答案 D. winter

　　第2空答案 A. he wanted to make extra money.

　　第3空答案 C. handmade

　　第4空答案 B. a country boy

　　第5空答案 A. He was cheerful and excited.