GRE阅读练习：职业高尔夫水平发展迅速.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：职业高尔夫水平发展迅速 GRE阅读训练：GRE阅读练习：职业高尔夫水平发展迅速 GRE考试精品课程指导  Comparing modern golfers with champions of old is trickier than escaping from a pot bunker with a niblick.  拿现代高尔夫球手和多年前的冠军作比较，难度可比用9号杆捞出锅状沙坑里的球还大。  The winner of last years British Open golf tournament, which started on July 16th on the Old course at St Andrews, pocketed ￡1.15m ($1.79m) .  去年，赢得英国高尔夫公开赛(该赛事于7月16日在圣安德鲁斯老球场进行)的选手入账115万英镑(179万美元)的赛事奖金。  Golf was not always so lavishly rewarded.  高尔夫赛事的奖金并非一直如此丰厚。  The first time the Open was played at St Andrews, in 1873, the first prize was ￡11 (￡1,079 in todays money) .  1873年，在圣安德鲁斯老球场举办的首届高尔夫公开赛上，第 一名的奖金是11英镑(相当于现在的1079英镑)。  There was no sponsorship, no TV (for obvious reasons) and only a handful of spectators braving the blustery Scottish weather.  那个时候该项赛事既没有赞助也没有电视转播(这些都是明摆着的)，只有冒着苏格兰大风前来观赛的寥寥观众。  The prize money was a welcome windfall for the champion, a local caddy called Tom Kidd, but he still died poor 11 years later.  一名叫做汤姆-基德的当地球童最终摘得了桂冠，从而获得了赛事奖金，然而尽管得到了一笔令他欣喜的意外之财，他仍然在11年后死于贫穷。  He is thought to have sold his clubs and his champions medal to pay for booze.  人们认为他为了偿还酒钱，可能早已卖掉了自己的球杆和冠军奖牌。  It is not only the rewards that have improved.  如今，该赛事提升的不仅仅是奖金的数额。  Because the Open has been played at St Andrews—the home of golf—more often than anywhere else, it is possible to measure what has happened to scores over a century and a half.  由于公开赛一直在圣安德鲁斯镇进行——高尔夫的发源地——在此举办的比赛比其他任何地方都多，这就给比较过去一个半世纪以来各选手之间的成绩提供了可能。  They are vastly better today.  他们的成绩确实提高了不少。  Kidd took nearly 90 shots for each 18-hole round he played.  当年基德尝试了将近90杆才将每局的18洞打完。  Any competent modern amateur could do that.  这样的成绩当代任何一位业余球手都能做到。  Louis Oosthuizen, the Open champion in 2010, averaged 68 shots a round, even though the course is now 7,305 yards, up from 6,577 in Kidds day.  2010年高尔夫公开赛的冠军路易-乌修仁打完每局平均只要68杆，这还是在球场长度从基德