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广东省增城市2014高考英语阅读理解冲刺练习（4）含答案 【深圳市2014高考英语综合能力测试题（3）】 Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some have greatness come up to them. We can at least think of two youngsters who have achieved greatness. One is Sachin Tendulkar. He first competed for India in test cricket(板球对抗赛) when he was sixteen. He is hailed as the boy wonder of Mumbai. The other is Kutraleeswaran, the child genius from Chennai who created waves as a swimmer. He was born in the year 1981. Kutraleeswaran took to swimming when he was in Grade Two. He was drawn to Marina. He started practising in the sea. He used to swim for hours. The first event he participated in was known as the Rippon Meet. He won his first medal and moved to higher levels of competition. Soon he started participating invarious long-distance swimming competitions across the world. Kutraleeswaran swam across the English Channel. That was his first cross-country swimming. He swam across the Palk Strait at a very young age. He reached the top of his career when he swam six waterways in the same calendar year. That was how his name and picture got into The Guinness Book of World Records. He instantly became popular. He was invited by many countries. He visited England, Australia, Turkey and Italy. He owes his success to two things: practice and perseverance. Here is an interesting incident. When Kutraleeswaran went to Italy in 1994, the government officials were impressed by his performance. They offered Kutraleeswaran all training facilities and asked him to represent their country. He declined the offer politely because he was an Indian through and through. 36. The underlined word hailed in Paragraph I most probably means______. A. asked B. hired C. admired D. criticized 37. It was _______and practice that made Kutraleeswaran succeed. A. ability B. bravery C. luck D. perseverance 38. Why did Kutraleeswaran refuse the offer in Italy? A