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(1) Where Latin American history is so much the story of disappointment—the burden of unfulfilled promise having weighed heavily
(1) Where Latin American history is so much the story of disappointment—the burden of unfulfilled promise having weighed heavily
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2021-02-21
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(1) Where Latin American history is so much the story of disappointment—the burden of unfulfilled promise having weighed heavily on the region—football in many ways remains her greatest achievement. When, in 2007, Brazil was named host nation for the 2014 Fifa World Cup, the country’s then president stated that "football is more than a sport for us, it’s a national passion".
(2) He was, however, mistaken. Football in Latin America is much more than a passion: it is the architect of national identity. Whereas Europe fashioned her identity early, it was not until the 20th century that Latin American republics were able to consolidate the myths that would shape nationhood. For many, this bordered on an obsession.
(3) As early as the 1910s, identity was being constructed by international football. When faced with a stained past and uncertain future, it was through the game that the continent defined itself in relation to the rest of the world. Latin Americans still see football as their birthright, even though it was born of the British sporting clubs that were established in the region in the 19th century. Football in Latin America is where sentimentality and violence jockey for position. In short, the continent’s soul is reflected in her football.
(4) In the early Thirties, the celebrated travel writer and adventurer, Rosita Forbes, spent a year in South America, where she encountered "half a dozen coups d’6tat, military and civilian". For South Americans, this was nothing new. These republics, for the most part proto-democratic, had spent much of the previous century fighting wars within their borders and without.
(5) Bolivia, for example, had been humiliated in the War of the Pacific, the peace settlement of which left her without access to the coast. Not only was she poor: she was landlocked. (This was something that football fans from neighbouring countries would not let her forget.)
(6)The onset of the 20th century was unlikely to eradicate the bloodletting that had become part of the psyche of so many of these nascent (新生的) republics. Argentina had been a prime offender. This was not lost on V. S. Naipaul, who noted, "the idea of blood and revolution, in unending sequence: just one more fresh start, the finding out and killing of just one more enemy".
(7)For Forbes these traits were manifest in football. "It has been suggested by cynics," she wrote, "that football is almost as great a danger to the peace of South America as the politics of soldiers, students and artisans. Both sports are flavoured with a fanaticism only equalled by the Inquisition. " Moreover, she noted that the diplomatic spat (争吵) between Argentina and Uruguay in 1932 could be " traced to the bitterness on one side and the impolitic rejoicing on the other which followed the defeat of the larger republic in the stadium of Montevideo".
(8)This bitterness had history. For a country that, in the mind of the Argentinian, was dismissed as a mere province, it was irritating that Uruguay had won gold in football at the 1924 Paris Olympics, a feat they repeated four years later in Amsterdam. Hosting and winning the inaugural World Cup in 1930 confirmed the country’s supremacy in the region. And yet triumph in Europe was not solely about the game: it had greater significance for the diminutive republic.
Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
选项
A、Football was originally born in Latin America.
B、Latin American republics constructed their national identities by football.
C、Latin American republics have suffered from years of war.
D、Bolivia lost part of its territory during the war.
答案
A
解析
推断题。第三段第三句提到足球诞生于19世纪的英国体育俱乐部,可知选项A错误,故为答案。根据第三段开头identity was being constructed by international football和“it was through the game that the continent defined itself...”可知,足球帮助拉美建立了国家身份,选项B符合文意,故排除;根据第四段最后一句中的had spent much of the previous century fighting wars within their borders and without可知,选项C“拉美各共和国多年来饱受战争之苦”符合文意,故排除;第五段中的“the peace settlement…left her without access to the coast”意指无法靠近海岸,即和平解决方案的内容包括割让靠海领土,可知选项D“玻利维亚在战争中失去了部分领土”符合文意,故排除。
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