单选题 Passage One Sometimes a race is not enough. Sometimes a runner just wants to go further. That’s what happened to Dennis Martin and Brooke Curran. Martin, 68, a retired detective from New York City,took up running after his first wife died. Curran, 46, a philanthropist(慈善家）from Alexandria, started running to get out of the house and collect her thoughts. Both she and Martin got good at running but felt the desire to do more. “The more I trained,the better I got,” Curran said,” but I would cross the finish line with no sense of accomplishment.” Eventually , they worked up to running marathons(马拉松）（and longer races) in other countries, on other countries. Now both have achieved a notable -and increasingly less rate - milestone;running the 26.2-mile race on all seven continents. They are part of a phenomenon that has grown out of the running culture in the past two decades, at the intersection of athleticism and leisure: “runcations,” which combine distance running with travel to exotic places . There trips ,as expensive as they are physically challenging ,are a growing and competitive market in the travel industry. “In the beginning,running was enough ,”said Steen Albrechtsen, a press manager. “The classic marathon was the ultimate goal, then came the super marathons , like London and New York. But when 90,000 people a year can take that challenge, it is no longer exciting and adventurous . Hence, the search for new adventures began.” “No one could ever have imagined that running would become the lifestyle activity that it is today,” said Thom Gilligan, founder and president of Boston-based Marathon Tours and Travel. Gilligan, who has been in business since 1979, is partly responsible for the seven-continent phenomenon. It started with a casual talk to an interviewer about his company offering trips to every continent except Antarctica. And then in 1995,Marathon Tours hosted its first Antarctica Marathon on King George Island. Off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula: 160 runners got to the starting line of a dirt-and ice-trail route via a Russian icebreaker through the Drake Passage.

单选题 At the beginning, Martin took up running just to .

单选题 Martin and Curran are mentioned as good examples of .

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 第二段第三句“Both she and Martin got good at running but felt the desire to do more.”。推断题。题目问的是Martin和Curran是作为______例子举出来的。根据文章第二段，我们可以判断出他们俩由于种种原因不满足于跑步本身，想通过跑步来获得更多满足。B选项的意思是“他们都把跑步作为一种生活方式在享受”，与题意相符，故选B。

单选题 A new trend in the travel industry is the development of .

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 第四段最后一句“These trips, as expensive as they are physically challenging, are a growing and competitive market in the travel industry.”。细节题。题目问的是旅游业的新趋势是______。根据定位句我们可以得知，马拉松跑步已经变成了旅游业的新兴增长点，本题A选项的意思是“具有挑战力的跑步运动”，与文意相符，故选A。

单选题 The classic marathon no longer satisfies some people because .

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 第五段最后两句“But when 90,000 people a year can take that challenge, it is no longer exciting and adventurous. Hence, the search for new adventures began.”。推断题。题目问的是经典马拉松不再让人们满足的原因是______。根据第五段最后两句我们得知，当超过九万人可以参加这项运动以后，它就变得没什么挑战力了。A选项“它不再有挑战力”符合文意，故选A。

单选题 The first Antarctica Marathon on King George Island indicates that .

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 最后一段“It started with a casual talk to an interviewer about his company offering trips to every continent except Antarctica. And then in 1995, Marathon Tours hosted its first Antarctica Marathon on King George Island...”。推断题。题目问的是首届在乔治王岛上举行的南极洲马拉松意味着______。根据最后一段我们可以总结出马拉松比赛难度越来越大，越来越有挑战力，仍然吸引着人们参加。因此选项D“冒险式的跑步变得越来越受欢迎”符合题意，故选D。