2009年高考英语阅读理解和任务型阅读课堂综合练习十九一阅读理解阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。APowerful, blonde and over six feet tall, Maria Sharapova is the most brilliant tennis player who has ever stepped on tennis court. In the summer of 2004, seventeen-year-old Sharapova shocked the tennis world by defeating defending champion Serena Williams in the singles finals at Wimbledon, becoming the first Russian player to win the prestigious tennis event, and the third youngest winner in the history of the tournament.Born on April 19, 1987, in Nyagan, a town in western Siberia, Russia, Maria Sharapova was encouraged by her parents to try everything, from dancing and music to athletics. She discovered tennis after her fourth birthday. Her parents liked to play tennis, too, so they began teaching her how to hit the ball. She proved to be a quick learner, and when she was six years old they traveled to Moscow for a youth tennis clinic.Sharapova and her father moved from Russia to Florida when she was nine so that she could study at the tennis academy of Nick Bollettieri. She won her first junior championship title at the age of thirteen, and turned professional in 2001. Then Sharapova steadily worked her way up through the professional ranks, claiming her first WTA victory in Japan in 2003. Her crowning moment came the next year, when she won Winbledon, at a young age of 17, solidifying a consistent spot in the top five. She gained her second and third major titles by beating Justine Henin at the 2006 US Open and Ana Ivanovic at the 2008 Australian Open. Sharapova has earned a spot on Forbes magazines Celebrity 100list as the highest paid female athlete in the world.Sharapova hopes to win Wimbledon, the Australian, French, and US Opens in the same year. No other female player has done so since German champion Steffi Graf in 1988. Sharapova also looks forward to a career beyond tennis. She has done some modeling, is a devoted reader of fashion magazines, and has even helped design some of her court outfits with Nike. Fashion design might be a career option when she retires from tennis. Acting would be an-other choice. Nothing scares me, she said, because Im not worried about failure. You never know until you try. So if you dont try, youve failed. All I know is, Im starving to be the best.1. Which of the following is not TRUE?A. Sharapova became the champion of the Wimbledon tournament at the age of 17.B. The third Russian player in the history of Wimbledon to win the championC. Sharapova began to play tennis at the age of fourD. The Wimbledon Tournament is an important event2. Sharapova won her first junior championship title _. A. six B. four C. seventeen D. thirteen3. According to the story, the Forbes magazine _.A. is a youth tennis training center B. holds the Wimbledon tournamentC. ranks the famous people worldwide every yearD. introduces fashion4. What does the underlined word in the second paragraph mean? A. An office providing medical service B. Sports training center C. Stadium holding competitions D. A person offering medical service5. The best title of the story is _. A. An Outstanding Tennis Star B. History of The Wimbledon Tournament C. Success from Youth D. Championships Sharapova Has GotBEnergy-saving Finns invented the first ice skate more than 5,000 years ago, as a practical method of transport to make getting across frozen lakes less of a struggle. The earliest skates would have been blades made from bones and are one of the oldest means of transport ever discovered they may even have been essential survival tools. Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University have calculated that ice skates would have saved energy by 10 percent, and suggest that they were developed for practical use and were not used for recreation, as they are today. They think the most likely birthplace of skating is southern Finland, where there are many icy lakes. The scientists have put their theory to the test and made replica skates modeled after examples held at the British Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Volunteers on ice rinks in the Alps had their heart rates, oxygen intake and skating speeds measured while they skated with the replica skates. From this experiment, re-searchers were able to calculate energy consumption and the efficiency of their skating. They discovered that skating over the land in ancient Fin-land would have saved 10 percent of peoples energy. The result is based on the fact that Finland has the highest concentration6 of lakes in the world. The ancient Finnish people could benefit more than others from developing this tool for transport. In a time and environment in which the balance between energy taken from food and energy required to live was crucial; the least cost of energy might have helped humans survive in extreme conditions.6. The first ice skate invented by the Finns was