영어1 동아 박용예 5과 빈칸 변형문제

Five sprinters were getting ready at the starting line of the men’s 100-meter ____ in 1896 when the first modern Olympic Games were held.

One sprinter in particular caught the spectators’ ____.

He was touching the ____ with his hips raised towards the sky, while the others were simply standing.

The spectators laughed at the position of his body, but it took only 11.8 seconds for ____ to witness him setting the first Olympic record.

This sprinter’s name was Thomas Burke, and his innovative technique called a crouch start ____ become the standard starting position since then.

Here are some key innovations introduced by great athletes who challenged themselves to find what worked ____.

They proved that there is ____ room for improvement.

Up until the 1936 Olympics, ____ used an open turn.

They touched the wall with one or two hands first, turned to the ____, and pushed off from the wall by bending their legs.

However, open turns had the critical disadvantage of disrupting the swimmers’ ____ and speed.

This problem was resolved by an ____ high school student named Al Vande Weghe.

While practicing the backstroke, he realized that his legs were too ____ for an open turn, which caused him to slow down.

To overcome this drawback, he devised a technique that is now known as a ____ turn.

He would make a forward roll ____ to change direction and then kick against the wall to speed ahead.

This technique allowed him to maintain as much of his speed and ____ as possible.

His willingness to take a risk and keep experimenting paid ____.

Using this technique, he won a ____ medal in the 1936 Olympics.

____ turns are now the standard in freestyle and backstroke races.

Ski jumping is one of the ____ spectacular winter Olympic events.

The skiers jump from the height of 90 meters, which is as high as a 30-story ____ building.

Most of the skiers are able to stay in the air for ____ five to seven seconds.

While they are in the air, they are influenced by “____,” an upward force produced by air on a fast-moving object.

When the force of lift is balanced with the ____ of gravity, the skiers can fly for long distances.

The key ____ for them to increase lift and jumping distance are increasing their speed, spreading out their bodies and skis, and adjusting their body angle.

As jumps are judged mostly on jumping distance as well as their style, skiers have tried ____ techniques to maximize their time in the air, aiming to achieve longer distances.

In the beginning, most skiers ____ stood upright throughout their jump.

Later, this upright style was replaced by the ____ style.

The skiers’ upper body was bent at the hips, with their arms extended in front of them and their ____ parallel to each other.

This technique doubled the average jumping ____.

____ changed in 1985, however, when Swedish jumper Jan Boklöv introduced the V style.

In this style, the skiers position their skis into a “V” shape with their heads placed ____ the skis.

This modification increases the surface area and creates more lift, leading to ____ greater jumping distances.

Wind tunnel ____ showed that the V style improves air lift by 28%, which means that skiers can stay in the air longer.

This style also enables skiers to land at a safer ____, reducing the risk of injury.

The V style was not immediately adopted by the ____ community.

In fact, it was ____ ridiculed and received fewer style points for breaking the standard of parallel skis.

However, the technique proved so successful that by ____ all Olympic medalists were using it.

____ Fosbury practiced the major high jump techniques, such as the scissors and the straddle, for the Olympics when he was in high school.

He soon realized, however, that these techniques were ____ for him because he didn’t have the strength or speed they require.

____ he found that when he went over the bar backward and landed headfirst, he could jump higher than anyone on his team.

As an ____ major, he later explained that arching the body backward keeps the jumper’s center of gravity low to the ground.

The lower the center of gravity, the less energy required to ____ jump over the bar.

Another advantage is that with this technique, there is less chance that the jumper’s arms or legs will hit the bar and ____ it down.

The result was a ____ success.

Fosbury won a gold medal in the high jump in the ____ Olympics.

But up to that point, every jumper in the event had only gone over the bar forward, not ____.

Local newspapers ____ his style, saying that he looked like “a fish flopping in a boat” and calling him “the world’s laziest high jumper.”

Eight years later, however, 90% of all high ____ were going over the bar backward just like Fosbury.

Today, every high jumper performs what is ____ as the “Fosbury Flop.”

Athletes often face challenges when they realize that ____ techniques aren’t working out for them.

They then make determined efforts to ____ these weaknesses.

Some of these athletes end up developing remarkable ____ techniques, which eventually become the new norm.

Innovation flourishes when individuals have a deep understanding of themselves and discover their own ____ strengths.