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1、课外补充内容Tiger Woods Nike commercial: A new beginning or a new low?Some have called the new Tiger Woods Nike commercial the downright十足地;彻底地 weirdest event of the TV season: Embattled受围困 golf star Tiger Woods stands stock still一动不动, filmed in black and white, his doe eyes hinting at tears, as the voice
2、 of his late father, Earl Woods, intones吟咏: Did you learn anything?After the Tiger train wreck of the past four months when Tiger remained virtually silent before holding a no-questions-barred press conference Monday in advance of the Masters today the ad comes across as shocking yet serious, vaguel
3、y creepy yet seemingly genuine. To Tiger, his father was larger than life the retired Army lieutenant colonel陆军上校 who through patience, purpose, and sheer will shaped his son into perhaps the greatest golfer ever. Sometimes overbearing傲慢自大, but always preaching布道，说教 with love, Earl Woods introduced
4、Tiger to golf at age 2, and coached him during his first years as a prodigy神童. I used prisoner-of-war interrogation tactics, deprivation techniques on Tiger you name it, I used it, although I always gave him an out, the elder Woods told the Monitor in 2004. Woods recalled his mentoring of his son in
5、 the book, Training a Tiger: A Fathers Guide to Raising a Winner in Both Golf and Life. Against that sobering title, one question has loomed large through Tigers travails 痛苦during the past four months: After Earl Woods passed away in 2006, did Tiger lose an anchor that couldnt be replaced?A new Tige
6、r?Tiger mentioned his father several times during Mondays press conference, at one point saying that one particular piece of fatherly advice had animated his days in a rehabilitation clinic: He said that to help other people, you have to learn how to help yourself. I never understood that before. Co
7、ming after that press conference and a week leading up to the Masters that showed the usually recalcitrant顽固的 Woods opening up, smiling, and even saying that golf is fun again the ad seems part of an effort to extend Tigers personal rehabilitation to his brand, as well. For Nike, the global sports a
8、pparel firm that stuck by Tiger while others let their sponsorships lapse, rehabilitating the golfers image is critical to their golf brand, which was built almost entirely around Woods. We support Tiger and his family. As he returns to competitive golf, the new ad addresses his time away from the g
9、ame using the powerful words of his father, the company said in a statement.The same old Tiger?But it also opens him to the old criticism: that his contrition后悔 is less about genuine remorse悔恨 than massaging美化 his image. An unscientific People magazine poll had 32 percent saying its moving and 68 pe
10、rcent saying its manipulative.Writes one commenter on the F website: Using his dead father to help his personal comeback and sell Nike goods Tiger continues to reach new lows.Others disagreed.Now. Close your eyes. Remember back to your childhood to a time when you did something wrong. Do you recall
11、what hurt more than a spanking, it says. Having your parents say, Were not mad. Were disappointed. Is Tiger just a big kid looking for his dads approval? Only he knows that. But the unusual ad, it seems, is at least an honest acknowledgement, in front of the entire world, that he is still his father
12、s son.FIFA：The Federation internation de Football Association（国际足联）red card yellow card The goal is disallowed. foul hand ball header penalty kick fair charge close-marking defence deceptive movement to shootmishit offside to break through to set a walltime wasting tactics locker room nation team co
13、ach Dont hold up the game. match fixing offside first(second )half 上indicator, score board sliding tackle 铲球 kick off free kick 任意球 throw in 掷界外球 wall riot corner kick handclapyell hat-trick draw direct(indirect)kick eighth-finals semi-final quarterfinal first roundone-sided game round-robin doping
14、test draw/ sortition sportsmanship overhead kick match ban relegation ranking schedule heading half time kick-out place kick 定位球 The Snobby Morley CallaghanIt was at the book counter in the department store that John Harcourt, the student, caught a glimpse of his father. At first he could not be sur
15、e in the crowd that pushed along the aisle, but there was something about the colour of the back of the elderly mans neck, something about the faded felt hat, that he knew very well. Harcourt was standing with the girl he loved, buying a book for her. All afternoon he had been talking to her, eagerly, but with an anxious diffidence, as if there still remained in him an innocent wonder that she should be delighted to be with him. From underneath her wide-brimmed straw hat, her face, so fair and beautifully strong with its expression of cool independence, kept turning up to
