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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(顶级赛事)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(回忆)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 . 56. What is the passage mainly about ?
D. Friendship and competition between two swimmers . 57. Gould and Schipper are going to . D. take part in the same sports event
58. Gould won her three Olympic golds when she was . A. 15
59. The underlined word " it " in the fifth paragraph probably refers to . C. the friendship
60. What Schipper said showed that she . B. had learned a lot from Gould (二)
Giving Back Fair Way
The Westborough High School golf team had taken the official photos with the state prize. The other teams, disappointed, were on the bus heading home. And then Westborough instructor Greg Rota noticed something wrong with one of the score cards. A 9 had been recorded as a 7. They were not the state prize winner; Wobum High had won. "No one would have known," said Wobum's instruc?tor, Bob Doran. For Rota, it wasn't a difficult decision: "The prize wasn't ours to take." Coin Stars
"College students are lazy, but they also want to help," says University of Pennsylvania graduate Dana Hork. So she made it easy, placing cups in rooms where students could leave their spare coins, and handing out cups to first-year students to keep in their rooms. Her " Change for Change" effort has collected $40,000 for charities 慈善机构) , which were decided upon by students. Never Forgotten
A school in Massachusetts received a $ 9.5 million check from Jacques LeBermuth. But it took offi?cials several days of digging to discover his connection to the school. Records showed the LeBermuth came from Belgium and studied in the school in the 1920s. When his family fell on hard times, he was offered free room and board. LeBermuth became a trader, owned shares of AT&T and lived off the earnings until he died, at age 89. 61. What did Greg Rota probably do in the end? C. Returned the prize to the organizer
62. Greg Rota's decision shows that he was _______. A. honest
63. The underlined word "Change" in the second paragraph means _______. D. coins
64. What did the school officials do after receiving the check from Mr. LeBermuth? A. They tried to find out why he gave them the money.
65. Jacques LeBermuth gave the money to the school because _______. C. the school had helped him in the past
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Most great inventors in the capitalist society meet with much opposition to their inventions from the people who place their own interests before those of the people. Big monopolies try to buy inventions and turn them to their own profits. When they fail, they resort to other tricks. Inventors have to overcome thousands of difficulties put in their path before they can see their dreams