中科大综合英语听力教程Unit 3.doc

Unit Three Sports and Life Attitude Part I Honesty and Excellence in Sports Task 3 Directions: Listen to the following passage about Michael Jordan. The passage will be read only once. After listening, choose the best answer from the four suggested choices marked A, B, C, and D to each of the questions you hear. ?Task 3 In a culture with a great passion to rank, to quantify, to compare and contrast everything, Michael Jordan became the universal measuring device for appraising greatness. Jordan so dominated the basketball world that, for the second half of a professional career that spanned 1984--1998, there was no debate about the games supreme player. Jordan stood alone, so far ahead of his peers . He was so far apart that he even broke a basic rule of literature. His Chicago Bulls won six of the eight championships from 1991--1998 against five different teams from the Western Conference. The Bulls misses were in 1994 and 1995 when Jordan missed most of two seasons while playing baseball. Even his Bulls teammates had a hard time keeping up. In spanning the decade of the 90s with championships, he had only a single teammate for the entire time -- Scottie Pippen. The Bulls name list was remade several times, but the Jordan-Pippen axis was invulnerable to any basketball force from outside or inside. Most remarkably, neither Jordan nor Pippen was the 7-foot monolith previously believed to be the essential requirement for sustained NBA success. Jordan was of mortal appearance, but not of mortal deed. Or as Larry Bird put it after he watched Jordan score 63 points in a playoff game against his Celtics in 1986, I think hes God disguised as Michael Jordan. His influence extended worldwide, often to countries where basketball had been only a minor diversion. Upon the Bulls arrival in Paris for the McDonalds Championship in October, 1997, the frontstory in the France-Soir national newspaper began: Michael Jordan is in Paris. Thats better than the Pope. Its God i