大学英语四级考试阅读Matching题练习.docVIP

大学英语四?级考试阅读?Match?ing题练?习1 Readi?ng Passa?ge 1 AUSTR?ALIAS SPORT?ING SUCCE?SS A They play hard, they play often?, and they play to win. Austr?alian? sport?s teams? win more than their? fair share? of title?s, demol?ishin?g rival?s with seemi?ng ease. How do they do it? A big part of the secre?t is an exten?sive and expen?sive netwo?rk of sport?ing acade?mies under?pinne?d by scien?ce and medic?ine. At the Austr?alian? Insti?tute of Sport? (AIS), hundr?eds of young?sters? and pros live and train? under? the eyes of coach?es. Anoth?er body, the Austr?alian? Sport?s Commi?ssion? (ASC), finan?ces progr?ammes? of excel?lence? in a total? of 96 sport?s for thous?ands of sport?smen and women?. Both provi?de inten?sive coach?ing, train?ing facil?ities? and nutri?tiona?l advic?e. B Insid?e the acade?mies, scien?ce takes? centr?e stage?. The AIS emplo?ys more than 100 sport?s scien?tists? and docto?rs, and colla?borat?es with score?s of other?s in unive?rsiti?es and resea?rch centr?es. AIS scien?tists? work acros?s a numbe?r of sport?s, apply?ing skill?s learn?ed in one - such as build?ing muscl?e stren?gth in golfe?rs - to other?s, such as swimm?ing and squas?h. They are backe?d up by techn?ician?s who desig?n instr?ument?s to colle?ct data from athle?tes. They all focus? on one aim: winni?ng. ‘We cant waste? our time looki?ng at ether?eal scien?tific? quest?ions that dont help the coach? work with an athle?te and impro?ve perfo?rmanc?e, says Peter? Frick?er, chief? of scien?ce at AIS. C A lot of their? work comes? down to measu?remen?t - every?thing? from the exact? angle? of a swimm?er’s dive to the secon?d-by-secon?d power? outpu?t of a cycli?st. This data is used to wring? impro?vemen?ts out of athle?tes. The focus? is on indiv?idual?s, tweak?ing perfo?rmanc?es to squee?ze an extra? hundr?edth of a secon?d here, an extra? milli?metre? there?. No gain is too sligh?t to bothe?r with. It’s the tiny, gradu?al impro?vemen?ts that add up to world?-beati?ng resul?ts. To d