题目内容
Italy competed ________ France ________ the gold medal.
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All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer.
51 They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when their player or team wins.
52 Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China, Egypt or Italy! 53 Think how many lovers to skate or ski in winter in Japan, Norway or Canada.
Some sports or game go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. 54 Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.
People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends. 55 One learns to fight(奋斗) hard and fight fair(公平的), to win without pride and to lose with grace. (胜不骄败不馁)
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A.And think of people in cold countries. |
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B.Sports help to train a person’s character(性格). |
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C.Not a few people participate in different sports competitions themselves. |
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D.Many people like to watch others play games. |
E. People aren’t inventing new sports or games.
F. Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere take part in them.
G. People are inventing(发明) new sports or games all the time.
51 ______ 52 ______ 53 ______ 54______ 55______
Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. He was the oldest of five children in his family. His father was a wool weaver. He helped his father with the weaving, but he always wanted to sail the seas.
He didn’t get to school very much, but he learned to read and write Spanish during his travels. He also taught himself Latin because all the geography books were written in Latin. Some people thought he was trying to prove the world was round, but this is not true. He wanted to find a short way to get to the Indies by ship.
He was a Christian and wanted to tell the story of Christ to the people he would find in the far-away lands. He also wanted wealth for himself and for Spain, and he wanted to be famous. He tried for eight years to get King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to supply him with ships and money.
They left Spain on August 3, 1492 and sailed toward the west. After many days, the sailors had covered a long distance on the sea and were ready to turn around for home when they saw land, an island Columbus named San Salvador. He thought he had found the Indies and called the people he saw there “Indians”. When they got to Cuba, he thought he was in Japan. The world was a lot larger than he thought.
On Christmas Eve, the Santa Maria was wrecked near Haiti. Columbus built a fort(城堡) and left 40 men to hunt for gold. Then he returned to Spain on the Nina. The people of Spain welcomed him as a hero. He made three more voyages across the ocean. His 13-year-old son, Ferdinand, went with him on the fourth voyage.
Columbus did not become rich as he had hoped. At the end of his life he only had a pension the king and the queen had given him because he was the first to reach the New World. He spent the last few months of his life in bed because of the pain of arthritis(关节炎). Columbus not only discovered a New World, but he led the way for other explorers.
1.Columbus taught himself Latin because _______.
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A. he wanted to prove the earth was round. |
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B.he wanted to find a short way to the Indies by sea. |
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C.he found Latin was very useful at that time. |
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D.he wanted to travel around the world. |
2.How was Columbus able to make his voyage to the west?
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A.He was supported by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. |
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B.He worked hard for eight for to save enough money for his voyage. |
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C.The king and the queen helped him with money and ships. |
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D.Many people supported him with money and food for his voyage. |
3.Why did Columbus call the local people in Salvador “Indians”?
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A.Because he thought he had arrived in Japan. |
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B.Because he thought he looked like in the Indies. |
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C.Because he thought it was a wealthy place. |
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D.Because he thought he had arrived in the Indies. |
4.From the fifth paragraph we can infer that “Santa Maria” and “Nina” must be the names of_________.
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A.trains |
B.ships |
C.cities |
D.women |
5.From the text we know that ________.
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A.Columbus lived a difficult life in his later life. |
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B.Columbus was considered as a hero all his life. |
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C.Columbus didn’t get the wealth as he had hoped for. |
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D.Columbus was the first person to travel round the world. |