根据“On a strip of ice that is about 44.5 m long, two teams of four players slide(滑动)heavy stones on the ice towards a target. Brooms are used to sweep the ice and guide the stone.”可知,运动员需要将他们的冰壶导向一个目标,故选D。 (3)题详解: 细节理解题。根据“One of these ...
What sport is played on the ice with rocks and brooms? TO the casual observer -- which is just about everybody -- the sport of curling looks like a group of people hurling rocks on ice and then, using very unlikely pieces of sports equipment, brooms, furiously sweeping the ice in the ...
Brooms are used to sweep the ice and guide the stone. When the stone slides across the ice,it makes a rumbling sound. This is why curling is also called "the roaring game". Curling is a new sport in China. Although it looks simple at first,the sport depends greatly on teamwork, ...
As the stone slides across the sheet, its path can be influenced by two ‘sweepers’ who sweep the ice in front of it with curling brooms. This serves to reduce friction, allowing the curling stone to maintain its trajectory and travel significantly farther than it would otherwise. This uniqu...
Brooms may never be swung above waist height. Broomball games are controlled by two referees who are on the ice during the game and have the same powers to award goals, call penalties and fouls etc. In higher-level games, there are often other officials off the rink too, such as goal ...
The Beijing Olympics will be the first ever Winter Olympics to rely solely on fake snow. Will the athletes know the difference? By Kristen Hall-Geisler How Curling Works Curling seldom gets respect from the average Olympic watcher, what with its stones and brooms, and its leisurely pace. Yet...
The sport pits two teams against each other, as each tries to push a rock on ice, guided by brooms. There is absolutely no reason in hell that this should be entertaining, and honestly, it's another one of those sports that's secretly a chore, which is perhaps the true theme of the...
This reduces the amount of friction between the stone and ice. It also contributes to the curl of the stone when it’s thrown. The sweepers on a curling team have the task of sweeping the ice in front of the moving stone with brooms. This action melts the pebbled ...
The brooms are for sweeping and aren’t spears or golf clubs to be waved around. “I don’t want to see anyone get cracked upside the face,” he said. Article content He admonished them to not play catch with the stones — yes, a couple guys one time thought it would be fun to...
Mutational Witch’s Brooms are poorly described in angiosperms, although they are described from conifers [10], leading to few likely candidate genes in which mutations may drive the WB phenotype. Due to the large differences in phenotype between the two varieties, as well as none of the ...