Football fiasco一败涂地的足球
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: i1 w, Z& m2 N- \* a( G/ }From The Economist print edition- ]! ~9 r8 J, O8 H6 L8 |& C
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SILVIO BERLUSCONI says it was a rigged[1] contest that his side won. Not Italy's election: its football championship. His team, AC Milan, finished second in both the past two seasons to Juventus. （1）But the Turin team is at the centre of a match-fixing scandal that may be the biggest even this country has seen. On May 16th, less than a month before the start of the soccer World Cup in Germany, Italy's top sporting body, the Olympic committee, put the national football federation under emergency rule. The federation's president had q_______① after claims that he ignored evidence of misconduct by officials, referees and players. The committee chose a 75-year-old former stockmarket regulator, Guido Rossi, in his place.
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; N0 y3 Y3 Z9 h) x西尔维奥•贝鲁斯科尼说，他那一方赢的是一场被操纵的比赛。他这说的不是意大利选举，而是足球赛。他的AC米兰队在过去两个赛季都排在尤文图斯之后居于次席。但是尤文图斯（注：尤文图斯俱乐部位于意大利西北部城市都灵）目前正陷入意大利有史以来最大的一件操纵比赛的丑闻漩涡之中。（译者按：“fix”在这里是“操控，操纵”的意思，“this country has seen”本义是“该国所见证的”，意译为“有史以来”。）5月16日，亦即距德国世界杯开幕不到一个月的时候，意大利最高体育组织——奥委会对国家足协实行了紧急管制。由于被指称对比赛官员、裁判以及球员的不轨表现坐视不理，足协主席已经离任，奥委会挑选了75岁的前股市调节员吉多•罗西接替他的位置。9 }4 n/ k9 @) T: ^6 m1 G+ f/ S
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尤文图斯总经理卢奇亚诺•莫吉也于5月14日辞职。根据窃听得到的一段电话交谈记录，莫吉经常为自己的球队安排合适的裁判人选，对于那些袒护球队的人给予奖赏，否则就加以惩罚。检察官的记录表明，他吹嘘自己曾将比赛官员关在更衣室里以示报复，还怂恿一名电视记者篡改一个慢动作回放镜头，以隐瞒一项有利于尤文图斯的错误决议。莫吉操纵比赛名闻遐迩，甚至连贝鲁斯科尼政府的内政部长也曾打电话给他，请他给他家乡一支乙级俱乐部提供帮助。（译者按：“local”除了有“地方的，本地的”的意思之外，还可指“家乡的，乡土的”；“side”常用于表示“比赛或竞争中的一方”；“a lower division”直译为“低一级的联赛”，即乙级联赛。）记录表明，几周之后，莫吉接到了该俱乐部主席打来的感谢电话。+ u- y; G: j+ K, x
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Football fans have long s________④ that Juventus, which for years was universally associated with the Fiat automotive group and a symbol of Italian industrial pride, gets unduly[6] favourable treatment. （4）But investigations in Naples and three other cities point to corrupt practices far beyond Turin. Several teams are involved. One of them is AC Milan.
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多年来，尤文图斯始终与菲亚特汽车集团保持着千丝万缕的联系，是意大利工业界引以为豪的代表。球迷们一直怀疑尤文图斯受到了不正当偏袒。不过，那不勒斯以及其它三个城市的调查人员指出，舞弊行为绝非只尤文图斯一家俱乐部才有，（译者按：“corrupt practice”是一名词短语，表示“舞弊，行贿”。）好几支球队都涉嫌舞弊，其中之一就是AC米兰。% }# F$ @3 @6 a* K
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2 Q9 W7 j( t( |& n[QUIZ]
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. E& d) i y. y8 t1. 根据首字母以及括号内的词性提示和英文释义填入单词（注意复数、时态形式变化等）：
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①q________（vi. to leave a job, school etc, especially without finishing it completely）
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' K0 L- @& ?1 M2 _, [& P) e②r________（vt. to guess a number or amount, without calculating it exactly）2 O/ H H( O4 {
③p________（vt. to make someone suffer because they have done something wrong）% D- w( ~/ a4 i. S8 ]
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④s________（vi. to think that something is probably true, especially something bad）. A# j. w3 B' F% g4 L
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2. 将划线部分英文翻译成中文：
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6 I0 ]) G: T" A+ ~8 B c9 ]1. rig vt. to dishonestly arrange the result of an election or competition before it happens [= fix]:操纵（竞选或比赛结果）+ P/ s" p2 G# }
0 ?% d6 ~. t& Y7 H' y2. intercept vt. to stop something or someone that is going from one place to another before they get there:中途阻止；截留 |
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