People need to relax and enjoy themse1ves．One way they can have a good time is to watch a baseball game or another sports event．Even thousands of years ago，groups of people gathered（聚集） to watch skilled athletes（运动员）．

　　Over 2000 years ago in Greece，certain days in the year were festival days．These were holidays when people stopped work and enjoyed themselves．They liked to watch athletes take part in races and other games of skill．

　　The most important festival was held every four years at the town of Olympia．It was held in honor of the Greek god Zeus（Zus）．For five days，athletes from all parts of the Greek world took part in the Olympic Games．At the Olympic Games，people could watch them box，run，jump and so on．There was a relay race between two teams of men in which a lighted torch（火矩）was passed from runner to runner．The Olympic Games were thought to be so important that cities which were at war with one another had to stop fighting．People were allowed to travel to the games safely．Thousands of people came to Olympia from cities in Greece and from her colonies（殖民地）in Africa，Asia and Italy．They met as friends to cheer their favorite athletes and to enjoy themselves．

1.What happened in Greece over 2000 years ago？

　　A．People stopped work and enjoyed themselves．

　　B．The cities there were often against one another．

　　C．People watched baseball games．

　　D．People didn’t go to any games at all．

2.What were those countries in Africa？

　　A．Friends．     B．Enemies．

　　C．Colonies．    D．Other cities．

3.What did people do at the games？

　　A．They fought．                 B．They just talked to friends．

　　C．They cheered for good athletes．  D．They tried to find friends．

4.The best title for the story is“_____”．

　　A．Greece at War            B．Together for the Games

C．Stop Fighting             D．Sport

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You Did More Than Carry My Books

    Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed the boy ahead of him had dropped all of the books he was carrying, along with a baseball bat and several other things. Mark   21   down and helped the boy pick up these articles.   22  they were going the same way, he helped to carry some of them for him. As they walked Mark   23  the boy's name was Bill, that he  24  computer games, baseball and history, that he was having a lot of   25   with his other subjects and that he had just broken  26  with his girlfriend.

    They arrived at Bill's home first and Mark was   27  in for a Coke-Cola and to watch some television. The afternoon passed   28  with a few laughs and some shared small talk, and then Mark went home. They  29  to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice, and then both ended up from the same high school. Just three weeks before  30  , Bill asked Mark if they  31  talk.

　　Bill  32   him of the day years ago when they had first met. "Do you  33  wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day?" asked Bill. "You see, I  34   out my locker(柜) because I didn't want to leave a mess（脏乱）  35  anyone else. I had planned to run away and I was going home to  36  my things. But after we spent some time together  37   and laughing, I realized that  38   I had done that, I would have  39  a new friend and missed all the fun we would have together. So you see, Mark, when you picked up my books that day, you did a lot more. You   40   my life." 

1.A．fell               B．sat              C．lay          D．knelt

2.A．Although           B．Since            C．After        D．Until

3.A．discovered         B．realized         C．said         D．decided

4.A．played             B．loved            C．tried        D．made

5.A．questions          B．ideas            C．trouble      D．doubt

6.A．up                 B．out              C．off          D．away

7.A．put                B．helped           C．invited      D．pushed

8.A．peacefully         B．willingly        C．freely       D．pleasantly

9.A．continued          B．agreed           C．forced       D．offered

10.A．graduation        B．movement         C．separation   D．vacation

11.A．would             B．should           C．could        D．must

12.A．demanded          B．reminded         C．removed      D．asked

13.A．ever              B．usually          C．even         D．never

14.A．checked           B．took             C．cleaned      D．put

15.A．over              B．into             C．with         D．for

16.A．find              B．pick             C．pack         D．hold

17.A．talking           B．playing          C．reading      D．watching

18.A．before            B．if               C．while        D．as

19.A．forgotten         B．passed           C．left         D．lost

20.A．helped            B．recovered        C．improved     D．changed

The Man of Many Secrets — Harry Houdini — was one of the greatest American entertainers in the theater this century. He was a man famous for his escapes — from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great Houdini and his “magic” tricks.

　　Of course, his secret was not magic, or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted.

　　Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in club in New York. They called themselves the Houdini Brothers. When Harry married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. But for a long time they were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape, in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape from the prison, and he invited the local newspapermen to watch.

　　It was the publicity(宣传) that came from this that started Harry Houdini’s success. Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape ankle chins. But his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck — and a small skeleton key, which is a key that fits many locks, pass quickly from her mouth to his.

　　Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local prison of every town he visited. In the afternoon, the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result? World-wild fame, and a name remembered today.

According to the passage, Houdini’s success in prison escapes depends on _______.

　　A. his special tricks and supernatural power　 B. his unusual ability and a skeleton key

　　C. his magic tricks and supernatural powers     D. his wisdom and magic tricks

In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word “this” refers to _______.

　　A. his first prison escape        B. the year 1898

　　C. the publicity               D. Harry Houdini’s success

It can be inferred from the passage that Houdini became famous _______.

　　A. in 1894                   B. before he married

　　C. at the age of 17             D. when he was about 24

Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

　　A. A Skeleton Key             B. A Man of Many Secrets

　　C. World-wild Fame            D. Great Escape