July28th,2003London—Ithasn'tbeenlikethissincethedeatho...

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  July 28th, 2003 London—It hasn't been like this since the death of Diana. Britain has been suffering from a national nervous breakdown ever since David Beckham, handsome idol of the Manchester United Soccer Team, announced that he was leaving to play for Real Madrid. The Sun set up a Beckham“grief（悲伤）help line”and had a lot of calls from his fans. One caller even said he was considering killing himself. A man who has“Beckham”tattooed on his arm said he wanted to cut it off. “I cried myself to sleep after hearing the terrible news，” said grandmother Mary Richards, aged 85. A London taxi­ driver asked, “Has the world gone mad? He's only a footballer！” But he was mistaken. A footballer is the least of what David Beckham is.

In the  period of soccer  that will come to be known as B．B.—Before Beckham —the sport was a team game. What mattered was the club, the team and the player in that order. Then in the mid­1990s, David Beckham—or“Becks” who  is known in that familiar shortened  form the British like to call their working class hero ­came along , and changed the face of soccer. It wasn't his right foot that changed the game, but his photogenic face. And the fact is that he used it to become one of the most recognizable and richest athletes in the world, receiving a salary of $8 million per year and earning at least $17 million more in advertisements. You can never imagine that his move from Manchester United to Real Madrid is $40 million.

Beckham interests not only those who have no interest in the club for which he plays, but those who have no interest in soccer. He is the most recognized sportsman in Asia and he's even managed to interest American-s. The 27-­year-­old，tongue­-tied,  surprisingly  shy working-­class boy from London's East End, has turned himself into a soccer virus, one that has made the whole world mad.

12. What does the underlined word“breakdown”most probably mean in the

text?

A． A feeling of being nervous.

B． A sudden feeling of weakening the mind.

C． A feeling of being regretful.

D． A sudden failure in operation.

13. According to the text, after hearing the news  that Beckham was leaving

to play for Real Madrid，________.

A． many people called Beckham

B． many people called the Sun

C． a man killed himself

D． a man cut off one of his arms

14. According to the author, Beckham________.

A． changed the size and shape of soccer

B． changed the rules of soccer

C． used his face to become famous

D． gets a salary of $ 65 million a year

15. We can infer from the text that________.

A． maybe East End used to be one poor area in London

B． the Sun is a telephone company in England

C． Beckham has got a certain kind of disease

D． Beckham's move to Real Madrid reminded people of the death of Diana

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