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角顿市安康阳光实验学校课时跟踪检测(一)Introduction & Reading — Pre-reading 阅读理解ANot everyone can become a professional basketball or football player.Not everyone, especially youth living in the city, hasaccess to large green fields. But kids still want tocompete. So all over America, young people startedskateboarding and bicycling. This is where the Extreme Games, or XGames,started.The XGames are beautiful to watch. They simply defy gravity. Ridersfly down ramps on skateboards and do crazy tricks in the air. The XGameshave become so popular that BMX cycling is the newest sport in theOlympics. You will see competitors descend a 25foot (8 meters) ramp,the highest in the world, as they race through a wild obstacle course.But the XGames are more than sports. They have become a culture.Fans of the XGames have rejected the m ainstream. They wear certainclothes, listen to different music and live life to the fullest.It is not unusual to see young people riding a skateboard or showing off their cycling tricks in a park. Extreme sports arrived in China in the late 1990s. The Chinese Extreme Sports Association was established in 2004.Shanghai will hold the Asian XGames at the end of April. Check them out and maybe you'll find a new sport you love.语篇解读:本文主要介绍了极限运动的相关情况。