晨读英语美文60篇(含lrc字幕) X-Sports
2009-05-30来源:和谐英语
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[00:05.30]Rick Stevenson, 16 years old,
[00:07.17]spends every minute he can on the mountain.
[00:10.12]He and his friends go snow-boarding every weekend.
[00:13.96]“It’s incredible,” he says.
[00:15.70]“The winds are so strong, the boards go 50 miles an hour.”
[00:20.39]His friend Laura Fields agrees.
[00:23.15]“No one goes skiing anymore,”
[00:25.65]she says. “That’s for the old folks.”
[00:28.62]Rick and Laura are part of a new trend in sports.
[00:33.31]It has its own language,
[00:35.48]words such as “rage,” “juice,” and “energy.”
[00:38.67]It has its own clothing,
[00:40.95]such as skin-tight bicycle suits in rainbow colors
[00:44.58]or baggy tops and pants.
[00:46.75]And it’s not for the old or the easily frightened.
[00:50.35]Its philosophy is to get as close to the edge as possible.
[00:54.53]And more and more young athletes are taking part in these risky,
[00:59.01]daredevil activities called “extreme sports,” or “X-sports.”
[01:03.72]In the past, young athletes would play hockey or baseball.
[01:08.30]Today, they want risk and excitement—
[01:11.24]the closer to the edge the better.
[01:13.67]They snowboard over cliffs
[01:16.17]and mountain-bike down steep mountains.
[01:18.80]They wind-surf near hurricanes,
[01:21.41]go white-water rafting through rapids,
[01:23.84]and bungy-jump from towers.
[01:25.68]Extreme sports started as an alternative to more expensive sports.
[01:31.26]A city kid who didn’t have the money
[01:34.23]to buy expensive sports equipment
[01:36.18]could get a skateboard and have fun.
[01:39.04]But now it has become a whole new area of sports,
[01:43.30]with specialized equipment and high levels of skill.
[01:47.34]There’s even a special Olympics for extreme sports,
[01:51.05]called the Winter X-Games,
[01:53.47]which includes snow mountain biking and ice climbing.
[01:56.85]An Extreme Games competition is held each summer in Rhode Island.
[02:02.21]It features sports such as sky surfing,
[02:05.51]where people jump from airplanes with surfboards
[02:08.45]attached to their feet.
[02:10.32]What makes extreme sports so popular?
[02:13.48]“People love the thrill,” says Murray Nussbaum,
[02:17.52]who sells sports equipment.
[02:19.28]"City people want to be outdoors on the weekend
[02:22.67]and do something challenging.
[02:24.64]The new equipment is so much better
[02:27.06]that people can take more risks without getting hurt.”
[02:30.22]An athlete adds, “Sure there’s a risk,
[02:34.26]but that’s part of the appeal.
[02:36.14]Once you go mountain biking or snowboarding,
[02:38.86]it’s impossible to go back to bike riding or skiing.
[02:42.35]It’s just too boring.”
[02:44.22]Extreme sports are certainly not for everyone.
[02:48.15]Most people still prefer to play baseball
[02:51.00]or basketball or watch sports on TV.
[02:54.72]But extreme sports are definitely gaining in popularity.
[02:59.19]“These sports are fresh and exciting.
[03:01.72]It’s the wave of the future.
[03:03.68]The potential is huge,” says Nussbaum.
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