Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
It’s nature of athletic records that they are broken and their place is taken by others. Yet in many sports (61)________there is a mark which isn’t (62)________in itself, but which becomes as legend as athletes try to break it. The most famous of these is the attempt to run the mile in less than four minutes.
In 1945, the mile record was (63)_______to 4 minutes, 1.5 seconds. And there, for nine years, it stuck. Then, in 1954, a medical student (64)_______Roger Bannister decided to try and break the record. He had been (65)________for this day since running the mile in 4 minutes, 2 seconds the previous year.
Two other runners set the pace for him and (66)________250 yards to go he burst ahead for the finish. He wrote afterwards: “my body had exhausted all its energy, but it (67)________on running just the same….. Those (68)________few second seemed never-ending. I could see the line of the finishing tape…I jumped like a man making a desperate attempt to save him from danger…” Bannister’s time was 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. (69)________this record had been broken on many (70)________since, Bannister’s achievement will never be forgotten.
A.happenings
B.events
C.games
D.matches
It’s nature of athletic records that they are broken and their place is taken by others. Yet in many sports (61)________there is a mark which isn’t (62)________in itself, but which becomes as legend as athletes try to break it. The most famous of these is the attempt to run the mile in less than four minutes.
In 1945, the mile record was (63)_______to 4 minutes, 1.5 seconds. And there, for nine years, it stuck. Then, in 1954, a medical student (64)_______Roger Bannister decided to try and break the record. He had been (65)________for this day since running the mile in 4 minutes, 2 seconds the previous year.
Two other runners set the pace for him and (66)________250 yards to go he burst ahead for the finish. He wrote afterwards: “my body had exhausted all its energy, but it (67)________on running just the same….. Those (68)________few second seemed never-ending. I could see the line of the finishing tape…I jumped like a man making a desperate attempt to save him from danger…” Bannister’s time was 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. (69)________this record had been broken on many (70)________since, Bannister’s achievement will never be forgotten.
A.happenings
B.events
C.games
D.matches
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