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, pare 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 game's 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 pr