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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 this year BMX cycling is the newest sport in the Beijing 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.

　　【语篇解读】　本文主要介绍了极限运动的相关情况。

　　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

　　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