영어1 동아 박용예 5과 빈칸 변형문제

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

____ sprinter in particular caught the spectators’ attention.

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

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

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

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

They proved that there is always ____ for improvement.

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

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

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

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

While practicing the backstroke, he realized that his ____ were too heavy 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 first to ____ direction and then kick against the wall to speed ahead.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This technique ____ the average jumping distance.

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

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

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

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

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

The V style was not immediately adopted by the skiing ____

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

However, the technique proved so successful that by 1992 ____ Olympic medalists were using it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The ____ was a huge success.

Fosbury won ____ gold medal in the high jump in the 1968 Olympics.

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

Local newspapers criticized his style, saying that ____ 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 jumpers were going over the ____ backward just like Fosbury.

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

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

____ then make determined efforts to overcome these weaknesses.

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

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