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阅读短文,根据短文内容,从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。

The 1960 Winter Olympic Games were held in Squaw Valley , USA. How this happened is a story that will be told for years.

1_____. That day Alexander Cushing saw an article in the San Francisco Daily saying that Reno, NV, and Anchorage, AK, had applied to hold the 1960 Winter Olympics. The idea of holding such a great event in Squaw Valley sounded funny at first. 2______. He and Curly Grieves, the sports editor for the San Francisco Examiner, soon planned that Squaw Valley also applied for the Games.

Cushing met the IOC (International Olympic Committee) with the help of famous people, including Pulitzer Prize winner, George Weller, and French war hero Joe Marillac.3_____, so that the members would treat him seriously.

On a cold spring day in 1955, in Paris, France, Alexander Cushing watched as the IOC chose Squaw Valley to host the VIII Olympic Winter Games. 4____, and with only a fifty-room hotel, could have held such a great event.

A. Cushing even built a model of Squaw Valley

B. But Cushing didn’t give it up

C. Today people still wonder how a town with no ski hill

D. It all began on December 26th, 1954

E. Winter Olympic Games was held in Squaw Valley

       1 D     2 B         3 A         4 C        

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