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摘要：8．From the passage it can be learnt that the closing ceremony is probably . A．a sad occasion because all the exciting competitions are over B．a happy occasion because the athletes can make new friends C．a sad and a happy occasion at the same time D．neither sad nor happy because it will happen again in four years’time C A higher reading rate, with no loss of comprehension, will help you in other subjects as well as in English, and the general principles apply to any language. Naturally, you will not read every book at the same speed. You would expect to read a newspaper, for example, much more rapidly than a physics or economics textbook – but you can raise your average reading speed over the whole range of materials you wish to cover so that the percentage gained will be the same whatever kind of reading you are concerned with. The reading passages which follow are all of an average level of difficulty for your stage of instruction. They are all about five hundred words long. They are about topics of general interest which do not require a great deal of specialized knowledge. Thus they fall between the kind of reading you might find in your textbooks and the much less demanding kind you will find in a newspaper or light novel. If you read this kind of English, with understanding at four hundred words per minute, you might skim through a newspaper at perhaps 650 – 700 , while with a difficult textbook you might drop to two hundred or two hundred and fifty. Perhaps you would like to know what reading speeds are common among native English-speaking university students and how those speeds can be improved. Tests in Minnesota, U.S.A, for example, have shown that students without special training can read English of average difficulty, for example, Tolstoy’s War and Peace in translation, at speeds of between 240 and 250 words per minute with about seventy percent comprehension. Students in Minnesota claim that after twelve half – hour lessons, once a week, the reading speed can be increased, with no loss of comprehension, to around five hundred words per minute.

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Two weeks after the opening ceremony, the Games are over. The last of the three hundred gold medals has been awarded and the flags of the winners have been raised for the last time.

The final event is the closing ceremony. It is a sad occasion because the extreme excitement is over, and it will not happen again for four years. Those who have made friends will have to say goodbye, perhaps for ever. It is also a happy occasion because the competition is over and the athletes can really show their friendship for one another.

The closing ceremony is rather like the opening. But now the Olympic flame goes out and the Olympic flag, with its five rings, is lowered. The person who closes the Games calls upon the youth of the world to meet again in four years’ time. The scoreboard lights up with the name of the city for the next Games and the band starts to play. The celebration starts.

All the athletes try to be at the closing ceremony. They have forgotten all their fears and worries. It does not matter whether they have done well or not. All the teams walk round the stadium together. Everybody in the Village clears up and gets ready to leave. Everyone is hunting for local products. People. Exchange track suits, hats, running vests and so on. There is a last chance to take photographs and get addresses of new friends. Then each team starts its journey home.

1．At the closing ceremony, it is found that .

A．all are called on to meet again in four years’ time

B．no music is needed

C．the name of the city for the next Games is shown

D．the Olympic flame is taken out of the stadium

2．What can we infer about the athletes from the passage?

A．All of them are not present at the closing ceremony.

B．They are only competitors rather than friends.

C．They can never help worrying about losing the games.

D．They exchange clothes for fun.

3．The underlined phrase “clears up” in the last paragraph means _ .

A．packs up B．goes away

C．makes clear D．does the cleaning

4．From the passage it can be learnt that the closing ceremony is probably .

A．a sad occasion because all the exciting competitions are over

B．a happy occasion because the athletes can make new friends

C．a sad and a happy occasion at the same time

D．neither sad nor happy because it will happen again in four years’ time

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