听美文故事记6级单词09-08

8. Amstrong to Marry Rock Star---Crow

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is engaged to marry rock star Sheryl Crow, a spokesman for the cyclist has confirmed.

No details of the wedding were released, although the spokesman said a spring ceremony was likely.

The couple met at a charity event in October 2003 and began dating a short time later.

The testicular cancer survivor¹ has three children from his first marriage.

It will be the first marriage for Crow, 43, who has previously² been linked with rock star Eric Clapton and actor Owen Wilson.

Armstrong, 33, has been dogged by controversy³ recently when French newspaper L'Equipe said six of his urine samples collected on the 1999 Tour de France showed traces of the banned substance EPO.

There were no tests to detect EPO, a drug that increases the level of red blood cells and endurance, in 1999.

However, samples from the 1999 Tour de France were kept and have been recently retested by a lab based outside of Paris.

Armstrong has denied ever taking performance-enhancing drugs.

Crow, a former backing singer with Michael Jackson, has won nine Grammy Awards since breaking through in 1993.

The singer/songwriter, best known for such hits as "All I Wanna Do" and "If It Makes You Happy," will release her fifth studio album, "Wildflower," on September 13.

1 survivor   

n.生存者，残存者，幸存者

参考例句：

• The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
• There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。

2 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

3 controversy   

n.争论，辩论，争吵

参考例句：

• That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
• We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。