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Not everyone can become a professional basketball or football player. Not everyone, especially youth living in the city, has access to large green fields. But kids still want to compete. So all over America, young people started skateboarding and bicycling. This is where the Extreme Games, or XGames, started.
The XGames are beautiful to watch. They simply defy gravity. Riders fly down ramps on skateboards and do crazy tricks in the air. The XGames have become so popular that BMX cycling is the newest sport in the Olympics. You will see competitors descend a 25foot (8 meters) ramp, the highest in the world, as they race through a wild obstacle course.
But the XGames are more than sports. They have become a culture. Fans of the XGames have rejected the mainstream. They wear certain clothes, listen to different music and live life to the fullest.
It is not unusual to see young people riding a skateboard or showing off their cycling tricks in a park. Extreme sports arrived in China in the late 1990s. The Chinese Extreme Sports Association was established in 2004.
Shanghai will hold the Asian XGames at the end of April. Check them out and maybe you'll find a new sport you love.
1．According to the passage we know that ________.
A．all the young people can have access to large green fields
B．not all the young people like playing sports
C．only young people living in the countryside have access to large green fields
D．not all the people can become a professional basketball player
解析：选D 细节理解题。根据文章第一段“Not everyone can become a professional basketball or football player.”可知，并不是每个人都可以成为专业的篮球或足球选手。
2．The Extreme Games starts from ________.
A．people's working
B．the countryside life
C．people's different sports interest
D．large green fields
解析：选C 推理判断题。根据文章第一段最后三句可知，孩子们总是喜欢各式各样的比赛。在美国，年轻人开始玩滑板和自行车运动。于是就有了今天的极限运动。
3．The Extreme Games is popular with a lot of people because of the factors EXCEPT that ________.
A．it is a very exciting sport
B．it makes people more confident
C．it is quite wonderful
D．it is only sport for both city people and country people
解析：选D 细节理解题。根据文章第二段内容可知，极限运动赏心悦目、惊心动魄，这需要人们的极大自信和勇气，是一项非常刺激的运动，全民都可参与。故选D。
4．That we often see some young people wearing all kinds of clothes, listening to music and riding a skateboard or showing off their cycling tricks shows the Extreme Games________.
A．have come to China for a long time
B．have become a fashionable culture
C．have become new sports
D．have become the best way to keep fit
解析：选B 细节理解题。根据文章第三段“But the XGames are more than sports. They have become a culture”可知，极限运动并不局限于运动本身，它已经成为一种文化。
