雅思听力在考试中占据着重要的地位，时常用听力材料来磨耳朵可以不断巩固大脑的英语语言能力。以下是雅思听力材料，您可以结合MP3和下方的原文及翻译进行听力学习。

听力原文及翻译

A: Hi Thomas, how are you enjoying the course so far?

A：嗨，托马斯，到目前为止你觉得这门课怎么样？

B: Yeah, I think it's good.

B：我觉得很好。

A: Remind me, why did you decide to study sports science,didn't you want to be a professional athlete when you were at school?

A：这提醒我了，你为什么决定学习体育科学，上学的时候你不是想成为一名职业运动员吗？

B: Yeah, that was my goal, and all my classmates assumed I would achieve it. They thought I was brilliant.

B：是的，那是我的目标，我所有的同学都认为我会实现这个目标。他们都认为我很厉害。

A: That must have been a nice feeling.

A：那感觉一定很好。

B: Hmm...I thought I could win anything, there was no one who could run faster than me.

B：嗯……我以为我能赢得任何比赛，没有人能跑得比我快。

A: Exactly. So what happened, did your mom and dad want you to be more academic?

A：没错。那么发生了什么，你的父母希望你更努力学习吗？

B: Not at all. Perhaps they should have pushed me harder though.

B：那倒也没有。不过他们应该更努力地鞭策我才对。

A: What do you mean?

A：这话是什么意思？

B: I think I should have practiced more.

B：我想我应该多练习。

A: What makes you say that?

A：为什么这么说？

B: Well, I went out to Kenya for a couple of weeks to train.

B：嗯，我之前去肯尼亚训练了几个星期。

A: Really? I didn't know that!

A：真的吗？我都不知道！

B: I was chosen to go there out of loads of kids and run with some other top teenage athletes in the world. And I was so calm about it, I just kept thinking how fortunate I was, what a great chance this was, everyone back home was so proud of me. But once we started competing ,I very quickly realized I wasn't good enough.

B：我从众多孩子中被选中去那里，与世界上其他一些顶尖的青少年运动员一起比赛。我对此非常平静，我只是一直在想我是多么幸运，这是一个多么好的机会，家里的每个人都为我感到骄傲。但是一旦我们开始比赛，我很快就意识到自己不够好。

A: That must have been a huge shock.

A：那一定是一个很大的打击。

B: I thought this can't be happening, I was used to winning.

B：我觉得不应该这样的因为我已经习惯了获胜。

A: I'm sorry to hear that.

A：很抱歉听到这个消息。

B: It's okay, I'm over it now, and I think it's much better to do a university course. And this one has such a variety of sports related areas, it's going to be good.

B：没关系，我现在已经克服了，我认为上大学课程要好得多。而且这门课程有如此多种与体育相关的领域，会很好。

A: Oh I agree, I chose it because of that.

A：我同意，我就是因此才选择它的。

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