题目

The first Antarctica Marathon on King George Island indicates that ______ .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 form 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. These 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.A、international cooperation is a must to such an event B、runcations are expensive and physically challengingC、Marathon Tours is a leader of the travel industryD、adventurous running has become increasingly popular

The first Antarctica Marathon on King George Island indicates that ______ .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 form 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. These 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.
  • A、international cooperation is a must to such an event
  • B、runcations are expensive and physically challenging
  • C、Marathon Tours is a leader of the travel industry
  • D、adventurous running has become increasingly popular

题目解答

答案

D

解析

考查要点：本题考查学生对文章主旨的把握能力，需要结合上下文推断南极洲马拉松事件所反映的社会现象。

解题核心思路：

  1. 明确题目要求：判断南极洲马拉松事件所体现的核心现象。
  2. 关注文章关键句：文中多次提到“runcations”（跑步+旅行的结合）的兴起，以及人们从传统马拉松向更冒险方向发展的趋势。
  3. 破题关键点：南极洲马拉松作为极限挑战的代表，直接对应“冒险性跑步越来越流行”的结论。

选项分析

A. 国际合作是此类活动的必要条件

  • 文章未提及南极洲马拉松的组织需要国际合作，仅提到通过俄罗斯破冰船运输，但这属于具体执行细节，非核心结论。

B. Runcations（跑步旅行）昂贵且具挑战性

  • 虽然文章提到“runcations”费用高且体力消耗大，但题目问的是南极洲马拉松“表明”什么，而非描述“runcations”的特点。

C. Marathon Tours是旅游行业的领导者

  • 文章仅提到该公司是南极洲马拉松的先驱，但未强调其行业地位，且与题目无关。

D. 冒险性跑步越来越流行

  • 关键句：文中指出传统马拉松参与者过多后，人们开始追求新冒险（如南极洲马拉松），且南极洲马拉松的举办吸引了160人参与，直接体现冒险跑步的流行趋势。