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【题目】阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(一个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

The International Olympic Committee took the extraordinary step Tuesday of 1 (postpone) the 2020 Tokyo Games, which 2(schedule) to start on July 24, because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Just how extraordinary was the step? This marks only the 3(four) time since the first modern Olympics in 1896 that the Games have been affected 4outside forces. The other three occasions were cancellations during the first and second World Wars. So this is the first time the Olympics have been postponed, rather than5(cancel).

“The Tokyo Olympics will still be held,” Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters in Tokyo after a call with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach on 6matter.

The IOC later said in a 7(state) that the Games will be “rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not 8(late) than 2021!”

This time around, it’s a pandemic(疫情), not a war, 9 is changing the Olympics schedule. The IOC said that “The leaders agreed that the Olympic Games in Tokyo could stand as a beacon of hope to the world during these times and that the Olympic flame could become the light at the end of the tunnel in which the world finds 10(it) at present.”

【答案】

1postponing

2were scheduled

3fourth

4by

5canceled/cancelled

6the

7statement

8later

9that

10itself

【解析】

本文是说明文。 讲述国际奥委会星期二因为冠状病毒爆发推迟了2020年东京奥运会。这是第一次奥运会推迟,而不是取消。

1

考查动名词。句意:因为新冠病毒爆发,国际奥委会(International Olympic Committee)周二采取了非同寻常的举措,推迟了原定于724日举行的2020年东京奥运会。分析句子可知,of是介词,故其后应用动名词结构作宾语。故填postponing

2

考查被动语态。句意:因为新冠病毒爆发,国际奥委会(International Olympic Committee)周二采取了非同寻常的举措,推迟了原定于724日举行的2020年东京奥运会。分析句子可知,此处是一个定语从句,which指代的是前文的the 2020 Tokyo Games在从句中作主语,且schedule与主语之间是被动关系,故应用被动语态。分析文章可知,此处讲述的是过去发生的事情,故应用一般过去时的被动语态,故填were scheduled

3

考查序数词。句意:这是自1896年首届现代奥运会以来,奥运会第四次受到外部势力的影响。分析句子可知,此处指的是“第四次”,故应用序数词。故填fourth

4

考查介词。句意:这是自1896年第一届现代奥运会以来,奥运会第四次受到外部力量的影响。be affected by为固定搭配,意为“受……影响”。故填by

5

考查过去分词。句意:因此,这是奥运会第一次被推迟而不是被取消。分析句子可知,这是rather than 连接的两个平行结构,表示的是“这是奥运会第一次被推迟而不是被取消”,表被动,故应用过去分词形式。故填canceled/cancelled

6

考查冠词。句意:日本首相安倍晋三(Shinzo Abe)在与国际奥委会主席巴赫(Thomas Bach)就此事进行电话会谈后告诉记者:“东京奥运会仍将举行”。分析句子可知,此处是特指上文奥运会被推迟一事。故填the

7

考查名词。句意:国际奥委会随后在一份声明中表示,奥运会将“重新安排到2020年以后,但不迟于2021!”。不定冠词修饰单数名词,故填statement

8

考查形容词比较级。句意:国际奥委会随后在一份声明中表示,奥运会将“重新安排到2020年以后,但不迟于2021!”。由than可推断,用比较级,故填later

9

考查强调句。句意:这一次,是一场疫情,而不是一场战争,改变了奥运会的日程安排。a pandemic(疫情), not a war, is changing the Olympics schedule是完整的句子,故此句考查强调句型,其构成形式是:it is/was +被强调成分+that+其他成分。故填that

10

考查反身代词。句意:国际奥委会表示,“各国领导人一致认为,在这些时期,东京奥运会可以成为世界的希望灯塔,奥运圣火可以成为目前世界发现自己的隧道尽头的一盏明灯”。分析句子可知,此处的itself指的是the world,表示“世界发现自己”。故应用反身代词。故填itself

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