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【题目】People enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy, happy and to live longer. Many people like to watch others play games. They buy tickets or sit in front of TV sets. Often they get very excited when “their player or team” wins.

People play different games in winter and summer. Swimming is fun in warm weather, but skating is good in winter.

Some sports are so interesting that most people like them. Football, for example (例如), is played around the world. Swimming is very popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. How fun it is to jump into a pool or a lake! And for people in cold countries, like Norway or Canada, they like to skate or ski.

Some sports go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing（拳击）, for example, has a long history. But basketball and volleyball are very new. And new sports or games come into the world almost all the time.

根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

【1】Why do people like sports?

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【2】What’s the meaning of “their player or team” in the first passage?

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【3】Which sport is very popular in the countries near the sea?

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【4】In what kind of country people like to ski?

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【5】What sports have a long history?

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Answer 1

【答案】

【1】Because sports help to keep people healthy, happy and to live longer.

【2】That means the player or team they like.

【3】Swimming.

【4】The cold countries, like Norway or Canada.

【5】Running, jumping and Chinese boxing.

【解析】本文介绍了人们喜欢运动的原因，人们在不同季节喜欢不同的运动，有些运动有很多年的历史。

【1】根据People enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy, happy and to live longer. 可知人们喜欢运动，是因为运动能帮助人们保持健康，高兴和长寿，故为Because sports help to keep people healthy, happy and to live longer.

【2】根据Many people like to watch others play games. They buy tickets or sit in front of TV sets. Often they get very excited when “their player or team” wins. 可知此处指的他们喜欢那个球队或那个球员，故为That means the player or team they like.

【3】根据Swimming is very popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers.可知在靠海的国家里游泳是非常受欢迎的运动，故为Swimming.

【4】根据And for people in cold countries, like Norway or Canada, they like to skate or ski.

可知在像挪威或加拿大这些寒冷的国家，人们喜欢滑冰或滑雪，故为The cold countries, like Norway or Canada.

【5】根据Some sports go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing（拳击）, for example, has a long history.可知跑步，跳和中国拳击有悠久的历史，故为Running, jumping and Chinese boxing.