自印度的女子体操运动员
时间：2019-01-12 作者：英语课 分类：2016年VOA慢速英语(四)月
AS IT IS 2016-04-20 Gymnast from India Makes History 自印度的女子体操运动员
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For the first time in history, a woman gymnast from India will compete at the Olympics.
Dipa Karmakar won rights to compete in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games during a Test Event last weekend. The test event was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The games officially open in Rio on August 5.
Karmakar is 22 years old. She is from the Indian state of Tripura. She qualified 1 for the Olympics by finishing among the top 33 individual gymnasts at the Test Event.
Karmakar is also the first gymnast from India -- male or female 2 -- to reach the Olympics in more than 50 years.
Her historic 3 performance has made her a trending topic on Facebook and Twitter. Supporters on social media praised and congratulated her.
Even Indian Prime 4 Minister Narendra Modi spoke 5 about Karmakar’s performance. Speaking on Tuesday, Modi said, “Dipa has made India proud and brought glory to its name. First time, a daughter from the country has been selected in gymnastics…”
Also during the Test Event, the women’s gymnastics team from Romania failed to qualify 6 to the Rio Olympics.
Romania placed seventh at the Test Event’s team competition. Only the top four teams at the event qualified to the Olympics. Eight other teams qualified to the Olympics at last year’s World Championships.
Romania has won a medal in team gymnastics in every Olympics since 1976. That was the year Romanian Nadia Comaneci received the first ‘Perfect 10’ in Olympic history.
Words in This Story
gymnast - n. a person who performs various physical exercises on special equipment as part of an athletic 7 competition
gymnastics - n. a sport in which athletes are judged on how well they perform various physical exercises on special equipment
qualify - v. to do the things that are required to become a member of a team or to be allowed in a competition
glory - n. public praise, honor, and fame
- He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
- We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。
- We only employ female workers.我们只雇用女工。
- The animal in the picture was a female elephant.照片上的动物是头母象。
- This is a historic occasion.这是具有重大历史意义的时刻。
- We are living in a great historic era.我们正处在一个伟大的历史时代。
- The prime minister spoke of the general insecurity in the country.总理谈到了全国普遍存在的不安全。
- He met with the Prime Minister of Japan for an hour.他和日本首相会见了一个小时。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- I won't qualify until next year.我明年才具备资格。
- You must qualify yourself for the post.你必须使自己具备担任这一工作的资格。