U13TheKalenjin!卡蘭津人！Takealookattherecordofinternationalrunningeventsinlastfifteenyears.比賽項(xiàng)目；重要事件Before1980,thewinnerofdistance

raceswereusuallyfromNorth

AmericaandEurope.

Thereweresomewinnersfromothercountries,butthereweren’tverymanyofthem.TherewerenoAfricannamesamongthewinnersthen,butthingsareverydifferentnow.Today,thestarsoftheracetrackaretheKalenjin.ThekalenjinareanAfricanpeoplefromthebordersofNorthWestKenyaandEthiopia.Africa-AfricanTheirhomelandishot,dryplateau,about2,500metresabovesealevel.Thesepeopleareusuallynaturalathletes.usually通常地Theyhavelong,thinlegs.Theirheartrateisunusuallyslow.Thereareonlythreemillionofthem.unusually不尋常地，特別地Twelveoftheworld’stoptwentymarathonrunnersarenowKalenjin.Everyyear,theywin40percentofthetop

honours

inallinternationaldistanceraces.Andit’snotjustthemen.Afewyearsago,thereweren’tanydistanceracesforwomen.Thesedays,therearelotsofthem.Kalenjinwomenwinalltheireventsaswell.TheyareAfrican.Theyhaveshortandthinlegs.Theirheartrateisunusuallyfast.Theyarenaturalathletes.HowmuchdoyouknowtheKalenjin?√√××Theirhomelandishotbutwet.Thereareonlysixmillionofthem.××n.記錄;紀(jì)錄;記載;唱片;'recordre再+cord心/心臟再放心上worldrecord世界紀(jì)錄re'cordv.記錄;錄制；記載holdtheworldrecordbreaktheworldrecordHeisrecordingsongsforchildren.winagamewinn.v.贏得;獲勝winamedalwinnern.獲勝者，贏家lose反v.輸?shù)?失去Theylostthegame.lost過(guò)去式

我丟了我的鑰匙。Ilostmykeys.loserWeeachhaveachoicetobeeitherawinneroraloser.n.賽跑;競(jìng)爭(zhēng);種族;人種racearacetrackdistanceimportantthedistancerace遠(yuǎn)處的;有距離的;遙遠(yuǎn)的跑道n.aracecardistantadj.standimportancedifferencedifferentalong-distancerelationshipamongbetweenThehouseisamongthetrees.IsitbetweenJoandNina.(twochildren)在…之間，三者及以上在…之間，兩者之間raten.比率；速度v.評(píng)估心率出生率利率heartratebirthrateinterestratenorthwest西北部northsouthwesteast(northwest)

西北(northeast)

東北(southwest)

西南(southeast)

東南border邊界;國(guó)界

crosstheborderTheborderisopen.direction

方向;方位

Eastorwest,

home

isbest.homeland+土地SevenContinentsintheworldAsiaEuropeAfricaNorthAmericaSouthAmericaOceaniaAntarcticaabove在…之上above在…之上，不接觸物體over在…之上，指正上方on在…之上，接觸物體Thereisabirdabovethehouse.Thereisabirdoverthehouse.Thereisabirdontheroof.我要去廁所。usualnaturen.大自然;天性;本性;本質(zhì)nationNaturecalls.變adv.usuallyunusual反變adv.unusually反nat

詞根,表”出生”之意I’mgoingtothetoilet/bathroom.Iwon’tbelong.愛(ài)使力的athlete300

3,0003,000,0003,000,000,000threehundredthreethousandthreemillionhundredsofthousandsofmillionsof數(shù)以百計(jì)數(shù)以千計(jì)數(shù)以百萬(wàn)計(jì)threebillionafew少數(shù)，幾個(gè)。表示肯定eg:

few很少，幾乎沒(méi)有。表示否定eg:（后接可數(shù)名詞）afewdays/years

Ihaveafewfriends.我有幾個(gè)朋友。Fewpeoplelikesnakes.Iknowfewofthem.a