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In ancient Creece, athletic festivals were very important and had strong religious associations. The olympian athletic festival,
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every four years in
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of Zeus, eventually lost its local character,became first a national event,and then, after the rules against foreign competitors had been given up,
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No one knows exactly how far
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the olympic Games go,but some official records
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from 776B. C.
After an
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history of almost 1,200 years, the Games were put an end
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in A.D. 394, the Christian era. It was over 1,500 years
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there was
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such international athletics gathering. The Greek institution was restored in 1896 and the first small meeting
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place in Athens. After the 1908 London olympics, success was re-established and nations sent their best rep-resentatives. In
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of peace, the Games have taken place
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since at four-yearly
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. In Munich in 1972,competitors from more than 120 countries were watched by
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crowds.
Nowadays,the Games are held in different countries
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turn. The host country
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vast facilities, including a sta- dium, swimming pools and living quarters, but
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countries pay their own athlefes expenses. Athletic contests are still the main feature but now many more sports are represented. The marathon races, started in 1896, are now a popular event.
The olympics start
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the arrival in the stadium of a torch,
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on Mount olympus by the sun's rays. It is carried by a
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of runners to the stadium.
1. A. held
B. met
C. happened
D. occurred
答案: A
指导：举行奥林匹克运动会，应用hold．
2. A. order
B. pursuit
C. honour
D. search
答案: C
指导：in honour of…“出于对某人或某物的敬意”；in pursuit of"追捕，追求”。in search of"寻找”。A不是固定搭配。
3. A. general
C. international
C. compounding
D. domestic
答案: B
指导：intermational国际的；general普遍的；compounding混合的；domestic国内的。前文有national，所以此处应填intermational，与之相对应。
4. A. forward B. late
C. early
D. back
答案: D
指导：指没有人知道奥运会能追溯到多久以前。soback(to)追溯。
5. A. keep
B. create
C. date
D. set
答案: C
指导：date from追溯至……，keep from避开，阻止，B和D都不能与from搭配。
6. A. unusual
B. uninterrupted
C. unpleasant
D. unexpected
答案: C
指导：uninterrupted未中断的，连续的；unusual非同寻常的；unpleasant不愉快的；unexpected出乎意料的。因为逗号后面的句子是“奥林匹克于394A、D.结束了”，所以前面的句意应是“奥林匹克在连续经历了1200年后”。
7. A. to
B. at
C. in
D. on
答案: A
指导：put an end to是固定知识，表示“使……结束”。
8. A. since
B. lest
C. until
D. before
答案: D
指导：这句话是说“过了1500多年才又举行了一次这样的运动会”。
9. A. rest
B. other
C. another
D. else
答案: C
指导：此句指又有了一次像以前那样的国家运动会。another＂又一个，再一个”，后接名词单数；other"其余的”，后接名词复数；rest作名词时，前面经常加上the，表示“剩余部分，其余，其余的人”。else"另外，其他”，与不定代词、疑问句、否定代词或副词连用。
10. A. located
B. filled C. took
D. opened
答案: C指导：take place指“发生”。
11. A. day
B. times
C. period
D. year
答案: B
指导：指“在和平时期”，而其他的词前面都需要加冠词。
12. A. ever
B. even
C. far
D. long
答案: A
指导：ever since从此以后；long since很久以前，先前。even，far均不能与since构成搭配。
13. A. interviews
B. interruptions
C. intervals
D. divisions
答案: C
指导：此处指每四年一次。at．．．intervals表示在一定的间隔时间内发生某事。t regular intervals每隔一定时间；at short intervals频频；interviews采访；interruptions打扰，终止；division分开，分隔。
14. A. great
B. huge
C. vast
D. magnificent
答案: B
指导：只有B在此处表示大的数量，而vast表示地域上的广阔。magnificent指物“富丽堂皇”，不但宏伟而且华丽。
15. A. in
B. by
C. for
D. at
答案: A
指导：inturn表示轮流。其余的选项都不能与turn构成正确搭配。
16. A. offersB. gives
C. awards
D. provides
答案: D
指导：provide提供；offer(主动)给予；give送给；award授予。
17. A. fighting B. comparing
C. competing D. composing
答案: C
指导：表示竞争的国家，而不是战斗的国家。fighting战斗的；comparing比较的；composmg组成的，构成的，都不符合题意。
18. A. at
B. with
C. on
D. from
答案: B
指导：startwith指“由……开始”。
19. A. lighted
B. lightened
C. lighting
D. lightning
答案: A
指导：火炬应是被点燃。light作动词表示“点燃”。
20. A. couple
B. sum
C. system
D. succession
答案: D
指导：D项中succession"连续”，a succession of一系列，一连串；A项中couple"一对，一双”，acouple of几个，一些；B项中sum"总数(和)”，多指钱数，金额，a sum of money一笔钱；C项中system"系统”，asystem of一套方法(方式)。
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Besides electricity,a lion fears water the most and a rain storm with thunder and lightening that brings both. For that reason I always have a written
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that frees me from
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when it's raining.
For two days it was raining without stopping. By the third
night, it wasn't raining at all. I gave the sign to the announcer, and began
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my music.
The animal went through their tricks, but they were far from being
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about the wetness.
And so we came to the head-in-mouth
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. When I pulled Leo's mouth open, raising his face and nose to the
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, I noticed that the muscles of his jaws were tense. Then, as I put my head in,a rain began pouring down. I felt Leo be- came
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all over.
My bead was in now, I counted to ten and then gave him the tap-on-jaw
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to let me go. But this time nothing happened.
I
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again on his jaw. Leo's
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was like a steel trap.
I heard gunfire men were trying to get Leo's
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. But already,with my face
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in the back of his mouth,I was finding it hard to breathe. I knew what had happened: with the
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beating on his face. Leo had
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me. I heard the gunfire again. ..
I awoke with an oxygen mask
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my face,and a doctor
was working over me. "You're lucky, "said the doctor, "as soon as you went faint,the lion
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you. For nearly three minutes you had no hearbeat!'
By then it had stopped raining. I called Leo back and
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his jaw. "Don't be a fool!"the doctor said, but I put my head in and counted to ten. Then I gave Leo the tap on the jaw and he obeyed immediately.
Yet, when I tried the trick again the next time, Leo
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. I believed he was unwilling to
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me a second time, I
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did the trick a gain.
1. A. suggestion
B. notice
C. agreement
D. decision
答案: C
指导：agreement书面协议；suggesuon为“建议”；notice为“布告，通知”；decision为“决定”。
2. A. performing
B trying
C. acting
D. training
答案: A
指导：狮子怕雨，故此下雨天可以不表演。
3. A. making
B. playing
C. enjoying
D. practicing
答案: B
指导：开始奏乐。
4. A. happy
B. sad
C. sorry
D. anxious
答案: A
指导：狮子也不喜欢潮湿。
5. A. joke
B. trick
C. play
D. attempt
答案: B
指导：到了表演把头放人狮子嘴里的时候。
6. A. sky
B. earth
C. cage
D. ceiling
答案: A
指导：把狮子的脸和鼻子向上掀起。
7. A. angry
B. excited
C. tense
D. frightened
答案: C
指导：因为下雨，狮子浑身肌肉紧张。
8. A. mark
B. sign
C. order
D. information
答案: B
指导：拍拍狮子的下巴，发出让我退出的信号。
9. A. hit
B. beat
C. pulled
D. tapped
答案: D
指导：又拍了拍。
10. A. nose
B. mouth
C. teeth
D. head
答案: B
指导：狮子的嘴就像钢铁铸就的牢笼。
11. A. silence
B. control
C. attention.
D. death
答案: C
指导：其它人想要分散狮子的注意力。
12. A. buried
B. hidded
C. put
D. sunk
答案: A
指导：我的脸在狮子的嘴里。bury为“埋起来”；hide为“藏起来”；sink为“沉没”。
13. A. stick
B. gun
C. rain
D. hand
答案: C
指导：雨下到它脸上。
14. A. forgotten
B. caught
C. bitten
D. killed
答案: A
指导：狮子忘了我的头在它嘴里。
15. A. in
B. above
C. below
D. over
答案: D指导：脸上戴着氧气罩。
16. A. kept
B. dropped
C. fell
D. bit
答案: B
指导：狮子放开了我。
17. A. opened
B. trapped
C. struck
D. examined
答案: A
指导：让狮子张开了嘴。
18. A. obeyed
B. refused
C. agreed
D. regretted
答案: B
指导：狮子不肯再让我把头放进去了。
19. A. hurt
B. kill
C. damage
D. fool
答案: A
指导：它怕再次伤到我。
20. A. ever
B. never
C. often
D. seldom
答案: B
指导：我再也没表演过这个节目。
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Trudy,an American girl, tried swimming across the English Channel. That was August 6,1962. Her father had
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her two things. One was not to pull her out of the water
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she asked. The other was to give her a red sports
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if she! made it.
In gay spirits Trudy
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out,swimming strongly. All the swimmers started at 7: 09 in the morning. Her father and the trainer were going along in a boat beside her.
At ten o'clock, rain began falling,
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, Trudy trod(踩)water while drinking and eating a chicken leg. Then she stare swimming
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. The wind was
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and the sea became rougher.
Late
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the wind became even worse. The trainer
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it was useless trying to finish. He called Trudy to
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"No human being could do it in this weather, "he said,"h's
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to go on."
However her father shouted, "Don't grab her. Let hex
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. 'At seven o'clock the tides(潮水) turned
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her. It was more difficult to move ahead. But Trudy still swam on. She
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victory was possible now, for the English coast was in
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