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.
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。
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.
①q________(vi. to leave a job, school etc, especially without finishing it completely)
②r________(vt. to guess a number or amount, without calculating it exactly)
③p________(vt. to make someone suffer because they have done something wrong)
④s________(vi. to think that something is probably true, especially something bad)
2. 将划线部分英文翻译成中文:
[NOTES](LONGMAN)
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)
2. 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
3. amenable adj.
1)willing to accept what someone says or does without arguing:听话的,顺从的(与to连用)
2)suitable for a particular type of treatment(与for/to连用)适合……的
4. reprisal n. something violent or harmful which you do to punish someone for something bad they have done to you [≈ revenge, retaliation]:报复,报仇(against)
do sth. in reprisal (for something)为了报复……而……
5. tamper with sth. to touch something or make changes to it without permission, especially in order to deliberately damage it 擅自接触某物或进行改动(尤指为了故意破坏);篡改
6. unduly adj. more than is normal or reasonable 不正常地,不合理地;过分地