2023届高考英语二轮复习外刊阅读训练：终于得到了金牌

23年高考英语外刊阅读理解训练——终于得到了金牌 ——改编自Jacobellis gold banishes 16 years of painful regret The Genting snow Park in the Winter Olympics witnessed the greatest redemption story in its history. Lindsey Jacobellis, known for falling on the penultimate jump during the Turin 2006 Olympics board cross final, finally won a gold medal in her fifth Olympics at the age of 36. Her gold in the snowboard cross was the United States' first of these Games. She admitted that without her mistake in 2006, she may not have won gold in Beijing. Her sense of competitiveness helped her banish 2006 from her mind. She became the oldest Olympic medallist in any snowboarding event. Charlotte Bankes, Britain's supposed banker for the Games, suffered a quarter-final exit in the snowboard cross. Bankes was the 2021 world crown winner but lost speed when she skidded wide on a turn. She was unable to recover and missed out on the semi-finals by 0.03 sec. Bankes maintained that she had no regrets after switching allegiances to Britain in 2018. Farrell Treacy, a speed skater, reached the final of the men's 1500m short-track but finished ninth in a race won by Hwang Dae-heon of South Korea. Treacy was late arriving at the Games after battling coronavirus, nudged through his quarter-final, and was advanced again after two of his rivals were penalised in their semifinal race. Britain still had no medals after five days of these Games, but the UK Sport chair, Katherine Grainger, said it was too early to panic. UK Sport had set a target of between three and seven medals at the Games. Grainger had hopes for the men's and women's curling teams and more on the snow. She revealed that at Pyeongchang, it was day seven before they saw a medal, so they were not panicking yet. 【重点词汇】 1. redemption [rɪ'dempʃn] n. 赎罪，救赎 2. penultimate [pɛnˈʌltəmət] adj. 倒数第二的 3. board cross [bɔ:d krɒs] n. 滑雪板越野赛 4. gold medal ['ɡəʊld ˈmɛd(ə)l] 金牌 5. Olympics [əˈlɪmpɪks] n. 奥运会 6. Lindsey Jacobellis ['lɪndzɪ dʒə'kɒbelɪs] 林赛·雅各贝利斯（美国运动员）