【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 love the game like I did when I was 21. I still feel as fit. “Ev eryone knows I have looked after myself eatingwise, fitnesswise. So I’m not in bad shape and I’ll continue to work hard and hopefully I can be part of it.” Stuart Pearce, the manager of England under21, the feeder team for the England national football team, is going to take charge of the team, with The Football Association administering the team and set to provide all the players. The Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish associations won’t be part of the team because of fears it would affect their independence and voting rights within FIFA. Beckham was at the World Cup last year as a member of England coach Fabio Capello’s support staff ( 輔助人員 ) after being ruled out because of a serious injury. While Beckham made the last of his 115 appearances for England in October 2020, he is still playing for the Los Angeles Galaxy. But Beckham might not be with the Galaxy by the time the Olympics start in July 2020, with his fiveyear Major League Soccer contract ing to an end at the end of this year. 28. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 probably refers to ______. A. coaching staff at the World Cup B. England under 21 C. Britain’s Ol ympic football team D. the England national football team 29. Which of the following about Beckham and Fabio Capello is TRUE? A. Fabio Capello was once Beckham’s coach. B. Beckham was ruled out by Fabio Capello. C. Beckham was part of Capello’s su pport staff. D. Fabio Capello stopped playing because of Beckham. 30. We can learn from the text that _____. A. Beckham hasn’t played for England for 2 years B. Beckham will attend the 2020 London Games C. 37yearold Beckham looks as young as 21 D. Beckham plays football every day to keep fit 31. What would be the best title for the text? A. Beckham, a better player than coach B. Beckham, a shining star at London Games C. Beckham shows his unwillingness to be a coach D. Beckham wants to be player at London Games D AfricaTown is the place in Mobile, Alabama, along the Gulf Coast where the last cargo (一貨輪的 ) of African slaves landed in 1860. Their landing marked the last record of carrying Africans to the United States for the purpose of slavery. The history of AfricaTown, USA, began with Ghana, West Africa, near the present city of Tamale in 1859. The tribes (部落 ) of Africa were fighting against each other then. The Tarkbar tribe was defeated by the Dahomey tribe, and the survivors were taken to Whydah, and sold for $100 each. Then they were taken to the United States on board the schooner (縱帆船 ) named Clotilde, under the control of William Foster. He had been employed by Captain Timothy Meaher, who had built the schooner Clotilde in Mobile in 1856. In the 1850s there was much opposition to reopening the African slave trade, which had been outlawed since 1808. So Meaher and Foster secretly planned the journey of the Clotilde for the purpose of bringing an illegal cargo of slaves back to Mobile. But their plan was discovered. William Foster entered Mobile Harbor on the night of July 9, 1860. He transferred the slaves to a riverboat and hid them in the fields. He then burned the Clotilde and sank it. The African slaves were sent to those having an interest in the voyage, with 32 living in Meaher’s houses at Magazine Point, three miles north of Mobile. This formed the center of what came to be known, and still is known, as AfricaTown. AfricaTown is unique in that it represents (代表 ) a group of Africans who were forcefully removed from their homeland, sold into slavery, and then formed their own munity, all the while keeping a strong sense of African culture. This sense of culture and munity continues to be popular today, more than 150 years after the landing of the Clotilde in Mobile Bay. 32. The first people of AfricaTown came from _____. A. Mobile B. the Dahomey tribe C. Whydah D. the Tarkbar tribe 33. The schooner Clotilde was made in _____. A. 1808 B. 1856 C. 1859 D. 1860 34. The schooner Clotilde was burnt to _____. A. reduce the travel cost B. avoid being found C. show determination D. burn the slaves to death 35. According to the text, in AfricaTown ______. A. African culture is largely preserved B. people still