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Sometimes a race is not enough. Sometimes a runner just wants to go further. That’ s what happened to Dennis Martin and Brooke C

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问题     Sometimes a race is not enough. Sometimes a runner just wants to go further. That’ s what happened to Dennis Martin and Brooke Curran.
Martin, 68, a retired detective form New York City, took up running after his first wife died. Curran, 46, a philanthropist (慈善家) from Alexandria, started running to get out of the house and collect her thoughts. Both she and Martin got good at running but felt the desire to do more. "The more I trained, the better I got, " Curran said, "but I would cross the finish line with nosense of accomplishment. "
    Eventually, they worked up to running marathons (and longer races) in other countries, on other continents. Now both have achieved a notable—and increasingly less rare—milestone: running the 26. 2-mile race on all seven continents.
    They are part of a phenomenon that has grown out of the running culture in the past two decades, at the intersection of athleticism and leisure: "runcations, " which combine distance running with travel to exotic places. These trips, as expensive as they are physically challenging, are a growing and competitive market in the travel industry.
    "In the beginning, running was enough, " said Steen Albrechtsen, a press manager. "The classic marathon was the ultimate goal, then came the super marathons, like London and New York. But when 90,000 people a year can take that challenge, it is no longer exciting and adventurous.  Hence,  the search for new adventures began. "
    "No one could ever have imagined that running would become the lifestyle activity that it is today, " said Thorn Gilligan, founder and president of Boston-based Marathon Tours and Travel. Gilligan, who has been in business since 1979, is partly responsible for the seven-continent phenomenon.
    It started with a casual talk to an interviewer about his company offering trips to every continent except Antarctica. And then in 1995, Marathon Tours hosted its first Antarctica Marathon on King George Island, off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula: 160 runners got to the starting line of a dirt-and ice-trail route via a Russian icebreaker through the Drake Passage.
    Martin and Curran are mentioned as good examples of _______.
选项 A、winners in the 26. 2-mile race on all seven continents
B、people who enjoy long running as a lifestyle activity
C、running racers satisfied with their own performance
D、old people who live an active life after retirement
答案C
解析 例证题。根据文章第一段可知，Curran和Martin都变得擅长跑步了，但是他们感觉希望自己做得更多。再根据文章第三段可知：最终，他们逐步发展到在其他大陆上的其他国家跑马拉松比赛(和更长距离的比赛)。现在，他们两人都已经达到了引人注目的——并且越来越不那么罕见的阶段了——在所有七大洲跑26．2英里的比赛。据此可知，文中提及Martin和Curran的事例是因为他们很优秀，在跑步中取得了令人满意的成绩，故选C。
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