Reading Comprehension（阅读理解）
1.Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely there to buy a bookas a present. You may even have entered the shop just to be kept from a sudden shower of rain. You are carelessof your surroundings. The desire to pick up a book with an attractive dust-jacket （书的护封皮） is great, althoughyou might end up with a rather dull book. This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, themain attraction of a bookshop. You can wander round such places to your heart’s content. If it is a good shop, noassistant will come to you with the“necessary”greeting: “Can I help you, Sir?” You needn’t buy anything you don’twant. In a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing （浏览）. Then,and only then, are his services necessary. Of course, you may want to find out where a particular section is, butwhen he has led you there, the assistant goes away carefully and looks as if he is not interested in selling a singlebook. It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of thelatest best-selling novel. Apart from running up a huge account, you can waste a great deal of time wanderingfrom section to section.
(1)According to the passage, a good assistant in a bookshop should ________.
[答案]B. offer help only when people need it
(2)Which of the following statements is NOT true, according to the author?
[答案]B. You will always buy something in a bookshop.
(3)The assistant should remain “in the background”(Paragraph4) so as ________.
[答案]A. not to interfere with (妨碍) people reading books
(4)In the last paragraph, the author wants to show that ________.
[答案]A. it seems that people sometimes waste time and money in a bookshop
(5)According to the author, a bookshop is popular mainly because ________.
[答案]D. People might have opportunities to escape the realities of everyday life
2.How do you spend your spare time? There will be different answers to it. Most people in Poland（波兰） havetheir own ways of spending free time. Sometimes they just want to take a rest, but they try to do somethingmore pleasant most of the time. They have many different hobbies, which help them to get away from theireveryday problems and spend their free time happily. Many Polish people like traveling. They always look for newplaces that they have never been to and add new and exciting experiences to their journey. Some of them like toclimb mountains, others like to go to a sea or a lake to swim, because these can make them get exercise and aregood for their health. Many Polish people also like to do sports in their free time. They are usually crazy aboutfootball, and football is regarded as the Polish national sport. Many football fans may support a certain team, andthey buy many things that have any relation with the team. Watching sport and doing it both are good ways torelax. In addition, doctors say that doing sports is very good for health. Many people in town, especially youngmen, often go to the gym to attend the exercise classes to keep it. Besides these ways, Polish people have manyother ways to spend their fee time, And they really enjoy their free time.
(1)Which of the following sports is NOT mentioned in the passage?
[答案]D. Skating.
(2)Why do some Polish people like climbing mountains?
[答案]A. Because they can get exercise from it.
(3)What is the main idea of Paragraph3?
[答案]D. Football is many Polish people’s favorite sport.
(4)Polish people have many hobbies in order to ________.
[答案]A. relax themselves in their spare time
(5)What can we learn from the passage?
[答案]C. We can have many ways of spending our free time.
3.A car is made up of more than 30,000 parts（零部件） . Each part in a new car is as weak as a baby. So a new carrequires proper care and servicing（保养） . If you’ re unfamiliar with the parts, you have to read through theowner’ s instructions（说明书） carefully. First of all, the brakes（刹车） of your car are important for safetyreasons. Having them checked regularly can reduce the risks of accidents. Another important thing to consider isengine care. Always remember that the life and performance of your car engine（引擎） depend on the engineoil. Replace the engine oil（机油） when recommended. If you feel the engine is very hot especially duringsummer it is probably because the cooling system doesn’ t work well. You’ d better get the cooling systemserviced before the start of summer. In a word, timely and proper servicing is an important task for car owners.Good servicing can not only extend the life of your newborn baby, but also ensure your safety, and the safety ofthose who share the road with you.
(1)It is recommended to have the cooling system checked when ________.
[答案]A. summer is coming
(2)The last paragraph tells us that the purpose of carefully servicing a car is _______.
[答案]C. To extend its life and ensure safety
(3)To get familiar with the parts of a new car, the owner should ________.
[答案]D. read through the instructions carefully
(4)The brakes should be checked regularly ________.
[答案]A. to avoid accidents
(5)For a car engine to work long and well, the owner should ________.
[答案]C. replace the engine oil as recommended
4.Amy had three sons, Dave, Bill and Bob. Every year her sons sent her expensive gifts on her birthday. The eldestson Dave had a lot of money and he wanted his mother to have the most expensive gift, but he didn’t know whatto buy. So he put an ad “Wanted–the greatest gift for my mother” in the newspaper. About a week before hismother’s birthday, a man came to his office. He brought a big bird. “This bird can speak six languages and singeight songs,” the man said. “Really? I’d like to listen to it,” Dave said. The man made the bird talk in French andtell a joke in Japanese. Then the bird sang a beautiful song. Dave was very happy and paid eight thousand dollarsfor the bird. The next day Dave sent the bird to his mother with a birthday card. The day after his mother’ sbirthday he called his mother. “Well, Mother,” he asked, “what do you think of the bird?” “Oh, it’ s verydelicious, dear,” said his mother.
(1)________ was he eldest son.
[答案]A. Dave
(2)How many songs could the bird sing?
[答案]A. Eight.
(3)What did Dave put in the newspaper?
[答案]B. An ad.
(4)How did the mother deal with the bird?
[答案]A. She ate it.
(5)How much did the bird cost Dave?
[答案]D. $8000.
5.Asked to give a speech, most of us are shy and embarrassed. Yet, we can conquer the uneasiness. If a fewsimple rules are followed, anyone can speak well in public. First of all, the speech should be well prepared. In thisway, we are comfortable with what we are going to say and are able to build up our confidence. There are threethings that we should know when we are preparing our talk. The first one is to know what we are trying to doand what we want to tell our audience. The second thing is to know who our audience will be. If we are talking tochildren, then our talk should be simple; if we are speaking to older people, then our speech can be a little morecomplex（复杂） , and so on. The third thing we should know is the length of time we will be speaking for, andthen we should make sure that we stick to that time. It has been said that the main objective of any speech is tobring both an idea and an audience together. If we remember that, and speak clearly and honestly in a friendlyfashion, we should be able to speak in public without any real problems at all.
(1)According to the author, anyone can speak well in public if they ________.
[答案]D. follow some simple rules
(2)The author believes that by knowing our audience we are able to ________.
[答案]B. decide how to speak to them
(3)Which of the following rules should a successful public speech follow?
[答案]D. All of the above.
(4)If the audience is made up of adults, them the content and language of the speech may be ________.
[答案]C. more complex
(5)If we prepare well before speaking in public, we will ________.
[答案]B. be more confident
6.In one way, it may be thought that failure is a part of life. In another, failure may be viewed as a step towardsuccess. The “spider-story” is often told as an example of this. Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13thcentury, was hiding in a cave from the English. He watched a spider making a web. Bruce is said to have gainedconfidence from this sight and to have gone on to defeat the English. Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, too,made hundreds of models that failed before he found the right way to make one. So what? First, always thinkabout your failure. What caused it? Were the conditions right? Were you on top form yourself? What can youchange so that things will go right the next time? Second, is the goal you’re trying to reach the right one? Try todo some thinking about what your real goals may be. Think about this question:“If I do succeed in this, where willit get me?” This may help to prevent failure in the things you shouldn’t be doing anyway. The third thing to bearin mind about failure is that it’ s a part of life. Learn to “live with yourself” even though you may have failed.Remember, “You can’ t win them all.”
(1)This passage is mainly about ________.
[答案]B. the right attitude toward failure
(2)Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
[答案]A. Take failure for granted.
(3)Robert Bruce was mentioned in the passage to show that ________.
[答案]C. failure may be viewed as a step toward success
(4)Edison’s example shows us that ________.
[答案]D. failure is the mother of success
(5)It can be learned from the passage that ________.
[答案]C. we should learn lessons from our failure
Reading Comprehension（阅读理解）
1.Do you want to say what you think in a letter to the President of the United States? You’ll get a reply fromhim—written in ink, not typed—after only a few days. The President gets about 4000 letters every week. Heanswers everyone who writes to him on the special White House paper. But he doesn’t need a lot of time for it.In fact, he only gives 20 minutes a week to look at his personal correspondence. He has the most modernsecretary in the world to help him. It’s a computer, worth $800,000, which has its own room on the first floor ofthe White House. It has a bank of electronic pens which write as the President writes, in his favorite light blue ink.Each letter the President receives get a number, according to the type of answer it needs. The pens then writethe correct reply for it, according to the number. Each letter takes less than a second to write. A White Houseofficial said, “It’ s not important that the letters come from a computer. Each letter says what the Presidentwants to say.”
(1)The letters from the President ________.
[答案]C. are always written in ink
(2)The computer can be described as ________.
[答案]C. Expensive but efficient
(3)How long will it take you to receive a reply from the President?
[答案]A. Several days.
(4)It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
[答案]A. the President is convinced that the computer expresses his ideas in the letters
(5)It takes the computer ________ to write a letter.
[答案]C. less than a second
2.In adulthood, the things that bring great joy–birth, love, and marriage–also bring responsibility and the risk ofloss. Love may not last, loved ones die. For adults, happiness is complicated. My dictionary defines happy as“lucky”or “fortunate”. But I think a better definition of happiness is “the capability of enjoyment”. The more wecan enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It’ s easy to neglect the pleasure we get from loving and being loved,the company（伴随） of friends, the freedom to live where we please, even good health. I added up my littlemoments of pleasure yesterday. First, there was great bliss when I had the house to myself. I spent a wholemorning writing, which I love. When the kids came home, I enjoyed their noise after the quiet of the day. Younever know where happiness will appear next. When I asked friends what makes them happy, some mentionedseemingly tiny things. One of my friends loves the telephone. “Every time it rings, I know someone is thinkingabout me.” We all experience moment like these. But few of us regard them as happiness.
(1)The word”bliss”in Line1, Paragraph 3 means ________.
[答案]D. pleasure
(2)In adulthood, happiness ________.
[答案]D. is very complicated
(3)What is the best definition of happiness according the author?
[答案]A. Happiness is the ability to enjoy what we possess now.
(4)Which of the following statements about happiness in NOT true?
[答案]B. Few people find happiness in tiny things.
(5)The author felt very ________ to have the house to himself.
[答案]A. pleased
3.Many people believe that Americans love their cars almost more than anything else. It may be true. From thetime youngsters become fourteen years old, they are likely to dream of having their own cars. Many youngpeople work after school during their last year of high school in order to buy a car. Learning to drive andobtaining a driver’s license may be one of the most exciting things for a young person. People who almost nevergo to a doctor when they are sick usually take their cars to a mechanic at the first sign of a problem. Those whodo not like to work around the home on Saturdays may devote most of that day to washing and waxing“打蜡”their cars. For some families, it is not enough to have one car. They often have two (or even three) cars—one forwork and one for recreation ( 娱乐). Many men and women in the United States need to have a car. Many needa car to go to work. Housewives need a car to go shopping or to take the children to school or other activities. Inmost states, young people learn to drive in high school, where driver training is one of the most popular courses.At the end of the course, the student must take a driving test to obtain a license. For many, that piece of paper isan important symbol that they are now adults.
(1)According to the passage, where do some boys and girls learn to drive?
[答案]D. In high school.
(2)Why do housewives need cars?
[答案]D. To go shopping.
(3)When people find something is wrong with their cars, ________.
[答案]B. They usually take them to a mechanic
(4)Why do some young people work after school during their last year of high school?
[答案]B. In order to buy a car.
(5)What may be one of the most exciting things of a young person’s life?
[答案]C. Learning to drive and obtaining a driver’s license.
4.Many years ago there lived a very rich man who wanted to do something for the people of his town. But firsthe wanted to find out whether they deserved his help. In the center of the main road into the town he placed avery large stone. Then he hid behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow. “Who put thisstone in the center of the road?” said the old man, but he did not try to remove the stone. Instead, with somedifficulty he passed around the stone and continued on his way. Another man came along and did the same thing;then another came, and another. All of them complained about the stone in the center of the road but none ofthem tried to remove it. Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone and said:”The nightwill be very dark. Some people will come along and will fall over the stone.” The young man then began to movethe stone. He pushed and pulled with all his strength to remove it. Imagine his surprise when, at last, under thestone, he found a bag of money and a piece of paper with these words:” The money is for the first honest manwho removes this stone from the road.”
(1)What did the young man find under the stone?
[答案]B. Both A and B.
(2)Which of the following statements is true?
[答案]D. Most people did nothing but complain.
(3)What did the rich man want to find out?
[答案]B. If the people of his town were worthy of his help.
(4)Who found the stone first?
[答案]A. An old man with a cow.
(5)What did he put in the center of the road?
[答案]B. A very large stone.
5.All the housewives who went to the new supermarket had one great ambition: to be the lucky customer whodid not have to pay for her shopping. For this was what the notice inside the entrance promised. It said,“Remember, once a week, one of our customers gets free goods. This may be your lucky day!” For several weeksMrs. Blake hoped to be the lucky customer. Unlike many other customers, she never gave up hope. Thecupboards in her kitchen were full of things she did not need. She dreamed of the day, when the manager of thesupermarket would come and say to her, “Madam, this is your lucky day and everything in your basket is free.”One Friday morning, after she had finished her shopping and had taken all the things to her car, she found thatshe had forgotten to buy tea. She went to the supermarket, got the tea and went toward the supermarketcheckout counter. As she did so, she saw the manager of the supermarket approach her. “Madam,” he said,“Congratulations! You are our lucky customer and everything you have in your basket is free!”
(1)What did the supermarket promise its customers?
[答案]D. Free shopping for one customer once a week.
(2)Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
[答案]A. The free shopping notice was actually a trick.
(3)Why did Mrs. Blake go back to the supermarket after her shopping?
[答案]C. Because she wanted to buy one more thing.
(4)What was Mrs. Blake hoping?
[答案]C. To be the lucky customer.
(5)Which of the following would be Mrs. Blake’s feeling at the end?
[答案]B. Disappointed.
6.Being a salesman, the most important thing is to understand people. You’ve got to know what they’re thinking.If you can figure that out, you can get them to do a lot. They come in with an idea about what they want. You getthem talking about themselves, about what they like. If it’s a man, you talk about football, or something like that.If it’s a woman, you ask her about fashions. That way they get comfortable with you. You ask them a lot ofquestions and get them saying yes. Then they just get into the habit of saying yes. In the end, you can put theminto anything you want, if you’re really good. For example, if they need a little car for the city; you send themhome a truck. Of course, I wouldn’t really do that. It wouldn’t be right. You’ve got to sell on this job, but you alsohave to be fair. It’ s not fair to take advantage of people too much. There are some people in this business who’d do anything. But I don’ t believe in that.
(1)Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
[答案]B. Some business people would do anything to sell.
(2)According to the passage, you can make a woman feel comfortable by ________.
[答案]C. talking about fashions
(3)According to the last paragraph, the author believes that ________.
[答案]B. it is unfair to take too much advantage of people
(4)To be a good salesman, the most important thing is to ________.
[答案]B. understand what people are thinking
(5)One way to make people get into the habit of saying yes is to________.
[答案]D. get them to say yes to a lot of your questions
Reading Comprehension（阅读理解）
1.Teaching is one of the most rewarding（值得做的） jobs. It is also one of the most stressful. If you want to be ateacher, you should have passion（激情） for young people. If you are thinking about going into teaching for anyother reason rather than this, you need to find another job. Teaching is difficult. Students can be difficult. Parentscan be difficult. If you do not have passion for the young people that you teach, you will burn out quickly. Passionis what keeps an excellent teacher going. When students have trouble understanding what is taught, it is whatdrives him to spend long hours trying to think out how to help them. If you do not have enough passion for yourstudents, you might last a year or two but not long. Passion is a must-have quality（品质） for every good teacher.Teaching can be rewarding, but you shouldn’t expect that reward to come easily. Teachers who search out betterand new methods are the ones who will make it. A good teacher needs to be able to work with everyone. Allteachers face stress. It is important to be able to deal with everything that is thrown at you when you walkthrough your classroom doors. There are so many chances for stress within a classroom that an excellent teacherhas to be able to bring it in control. If you cannot manage stress quite well, then teaching may not be the rightjob for you.
(1)The key words for the passage are ________.
[答案]B. passion and stress
(2)Most stress is thrown at the teacher ________.
[答案]A. in the classroom
(3)According to the passage, if you want to be a teacher, ________.
[答案]D. passion is the most important
(4)A successful teacher is someone who ________.
[答案]C. searches out better and new methods
(5)An excellent teacher knows ________.
[答案]C. how to manage everything that happens in his work
2.XIAMEN ( Xinhua) – The Chinese mainland Red Cross organization handed over a suspect in a financial crime toits counterpart in Taiwan here last Thursday. The repatriated man, Cai Zhiwei, a 27-year-old Taiwan bank clerk,fled to Hong Kong on 30 April, this year with part of the 31,44 million Taiwan yuan ($1.12 million) he had stolenfrom customer accounts at the bank where he worked. Cai entered Shenzhen on 1 May, carrying a total of$685,000, including HK $1 million ($135,135) in cash, and the rest in traveler’ s checks.He was held forquestioning when he cashed the travelers’ checks at the Bank of China Shenzhen Branch on 5 May. The funds hedeposited in a local bank were also frozen.The Taiwan Red Cross expressed thanks for the co-operation ofits mainland counterpart and hoped that such co-operation would continue.The two sides worked out arepatriation agreement in September 1990 and since then have completed a total of 14 repatriations of illegalimmigrants and suspected criminals.
(1)Which of the following statements is true about Cai Zhiwei?
[答案]C. He may be involved in a financial crime.
(2)The suspect was caught _____.
[答案]D. on 5 May
(3)The suspect was handed over to _____.
[答案]B. Taiwan
(4)This passage is mostly taken form _____.
[答案]B. a newspaper
(5)Which of the following words can be used to replace the word “deposited” in the sentence “ The funds hedeposited in a local bank were also frozen” ?
[答案]B. placed
3.In Canada， most people can speak English or French. These are the two official languages. But many people canspeak other languages, too. The native people of Canada have about 52 languages. There are about 680,000native Canadians. Many people move to Canada from other countries. One in six people in Canada don’t speakEnglish or French at home. There are almost 100 different mother tongues in Canada and Chinese is one of them.Many Chinese people live in Canada, and they can speak Chinese very well. In parts of Toronto and Vancouver,many Chinese stores have signs in Chinese.（15.00
(1)The native people of Canada speak_____.
[答案]A. Chinese
(2)In Canada, you can see_____.
[答案]C. only French or English people
(3)______is the language of the government and schools.
[答案]D. Official language
(4)In schools in Canada, the children speak_____.
[答案]B. English or French
(5)In Canada’s big cities you can see many signs in _____.
[答案]D. Chinese writing.
4.Most people now keep animals as pets. Numerous people have cats and dogs in their houses. Other people likefish, caged birds and even snakes, monkeys or lions. Millions of dollars and much time are spent every year onpet food, equipment, training and medical treatment. Of course, there are some people who do not look aftertheir pets properly or are even cruel to them. For this reason a royal society was created in 1824 in Britain toprevent cruel treatment of animals. In contrast to the love of pets is the fact that blood sports still exist in mostcountries. People go hunting foxes, elephants, and other animals, or go fishing, not because they need the meatto eat, but just for pleasure. In some countries, blood sports like bull fighting and cock fighting are common andhunting rare animals for money has brought about an even more serious problem in the protection of theecosystem（生态系统） . It is strange that people love certain animals, but enjoy killing others, in cruel ways, too.
(1)What does the passage mainly imply?
[答案]B. Animals should be well treated and protected.
(2)A royal society was set up in Britain to ________.
[答案]A. stop cruel treatment of animals
(3)Which of the following seems to affect the earth’s ecosystem most seriously?
[答案]B. Illegal killing of rare animals.
(4)What do you think is he author’s attitude toward blood sports?
[答案]C. He thinks they are very cruel.
(5)Which of the following is NOT a blood sports?
[答案]A. Horse racing.
5.Jack, a banker, is from New York. He is vey rich. Every night, he likes to go to a bar for a drink before goinghome. There is a clock shop, a grocery store and a pet shop near the bar. The owners know Jack. One night, whenJack is going home, he is suddenly shot in the belly. It happens in front of the pet shop. The owner of the grocerystore calls an ambulance. At the same time, the pet shop and the clock shop are still open. Detective Dino asksthe owners of the three shops to tell their stories. Your task: One of the three owners is telling a lie. He/She wasthe shooter. Try to find out him/her. Mrs. Smith, the pet shop’s owner: I’m 65 years old. I don’t hear very well.But I saw Jack fall down in front of my shop. I was walking my dog. I didn’t see the shooter. Alex, the grocerystore’s owner: I saw the shooter. He came up from behind Jack and shot him. So I called 911. Then an ambulancecame right away. Frank, the clock shop’s owner: I was repairing an old clock. I heard a shot. Then I ran out of myshop and saw Jack. He was lying on the ground.
(1)Where does Jack like to go before going home ?
[答案]B. a bar
(2)How many shops are near the bar?
[答案]C. three
(3)According to Paragraph3, what does a detective probably do?
[答案]A. he discovers who did something wrong.
(4)What was Mrs. Smith doing when the shooting accident happened?
[答案]A. She was walking her dog.
(5)Who was the shooter?
[答案]D. The grocery store’s owner.
6.Chongqing, China’ s newest municipality, with a population of 30 million, has welcomed its first test-tube baby;three more are expected to be born this year.The boy, weighing three kilograms, was born on 9 April, 1997at the Chongqing Maternity Hospital. The mother had been unable to conceive because of blocked fallopiantubes.The hospital pioneered the research of assisted reproductive technology in southwest China bylaunching a study in 1994. The hospital has used the technology on 67 women, 27 percent of whom becamepregnant. The hospital said three more test-tube babies, including a set of triplets, will be born this year.Chongqing is the seventh Chinese city to report the birth of test-tube babies, following Beijing, Shanghai,Hangzhou, Shenyang, Haikou and other cities. More than 250 test-tube babies have been born in these citiessince the first in Beijing in 1998.
(1)Which of the following cities has not reported the birth of test-tube babies?
[答案]C. Suzhou
(2)The first test-tube baby in Chongqing _____.
[答案]D. was a boy
(3)Which of the following statements is NOT true about Chongqing?
[答案]B. It is the fifth Chinese city to report the birth of test-tube babies.
(4)Among the 67 women, on whom the assisted reproductive technology has been used, about _____ becamepregnant.
[答案]B. 18
(5)There are supposed to be altogether _____ test-tube babies born in Chongqing this year.
[答案]C. 4
Multiple Choices（多项选择， 根据短文选出正确的选项）
1.Different countries and different people have different manners. We must find out their customs so that theywill not think us ill-mannered. Here are examples of the things that a person with good education does or doesnot do. If you visit a Chinese family, you should knock at the door first. When the door opens, you will not movebefore the host says” Come in, please.” After you come into the room, you would not sit down until the host asksyou to take a seat. When a cup of tea is put on a table before you or sent to your hand, you will say “thank you”and receive it with two hands, not one hand or they will think you are ill mannered. Before entering a house inJapan, it is a good manner to take off your shoes. In European countries, even though shoes sometimes becomevery dirty, this is not done. In a Malay house, a guest never finishes the food on the table. He leaves a little toshow that he has had enough. In England, a guest always finishes the drink or the food to show he has enjoyed it.This will make the host the host, and especially the hostess, happy. Which statements are true according to thepassage?
[答案]A. In china, when the host opens the door, you shouldn’t go in before he says, “Come in, please.”B. In a Malay house, a guest leaves a little food to show that he/she can’t eat anymore.
Multiple Choices（多项选择， 根据短文选出正确的选项）
1.Michael Schumacher was born in Hurth-Hermuhlheim, Germany, on 3 January 1969. When he was only fouryears old, he was given a toy kart and later a lawnmower engine was fitted to it. Schumacher’s parents thoughthe was not safe driving his kart on the pavements around their home so they arranged for him to use the localkart track. At the age of 15, he won his first major championship-the German Junior Karting Championship.When he was nineteen, he turned to racing cars and immediately began winning. At the age of 22, he took partin his first Grand Prix, driving a Jordan, but shortly after that he joined the Benetton team.
[答案]A. At the age of 22, he won his first Grand Prix.C. Michael’s parents arranged for him to drive his kart round the local kart track.
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1.The ancient Olympic Games were part of a religious festival in honour of the Greek god Zeus, the father of allGreek gods and goddesses. The festival and games were held in olympia, a religious sanctuary. The athletes cameto Olympia from all parts of the Greek world, from as far as Spain in the west and Turkey in the east. The ancientOlympic Games began in the year 776 BC when Koroibos, a cook from the city of Elis, won a 200-metre-long race.They took place for a period of 617 years until the last games were held in AD 393. In the ancient games, athletesreceived prizes worth large amounts of money. In fact the word “athlete” is an ancient Greek word, meaning”one who competes for a prize”. Although women did not compete in the games, there was a separate festivalheld at the same time in honour of Hera, wife of Zeus. At this festival unmarried girls competed in foot races. Themarathon was not an event of the ancient Olympic Games. The marathon is a modern event that was firstintroduced in the Olympic Games in 1896. It was named after a village called Marathon where the Persians weredefeated by a small Greek army. The news of the victory was brought to Athens by soldier, who ran the 26 milesfrom the village of Marathon to the capital. 26 miles was therefore adopted as the distance of the modernmarathon race. The Olympic flag was introduced in 1908 and carries the symbol of five linked rings.Whichrepresent the five continents – Africa, America, Asia, Australasia and Europe. The Olympic flame was first carriedin the 1932 0lympic Games in Los Angeles. There was no torch relay in the ancient Olympic Games. The firsttorch relay in the modern Olympic Games was staged in Berlin in 1936.
[答案]C. They did not allow women to compete in the ancient Olympic Games.E. They first used the Olympic flag in 1908.
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