专题 10 荷兰“慢跑者乔”--2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (10) Dutch ‘Jogger Jo’ 荷兰“慢跑者乔” 主题语境：人与自我 主题语境内容：健康的生活方式、积极的生活态度 【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。） At an age when many of his contemporaries（同龄人） are winding down, Jo Schoonbroodt is somehow speeding up. On Sunday, Schoonbroodt, a 71-year-old from Maastricht, ran a marathon（马拉松） in a surprising 2hr 54 mins and 19 secs to become the fastest septuagenarian（七旬老人） in history.“I only started jogging at 36 because my doctor told me I had high cholesterol（胆固醇）,” he says. “But last year I ran 7,242 km [4,450 miles], which is more than double what I did in my car.” It also turns out that Schoonbroodt’s new 70+ world record, set at the Maas marathon of Visé in Belgium, was partly inspired by an unlikely source: the Belgian singer Eddy Wally . With a few miles remaining, he knew he was just ahead of the previous best, set by Gene Dykes in 2018, because a friend was following him on his bike and shouting out his lap（圈数） times. But his legs were starting to get h