摘要: once every four years 四年一次 every other year 一年隔一年

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Baron Pierre de Coubertin was a Frenchman. At his time sports were not taught in French schools. De Coubertin believed that sports should go hand in hand with studies. He had an idea. His idea was to begin the Olympics all over again.

    Sports teachers of other countries liked De Coubertin ideas. So in 1896, the modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece. Since then the Olympics have been held once every four years, except three times, when there were wars.

    The modern Olympic games have many foot races and field sports programs. The longest race in the games is called marathon.

    Before the start of the Olympic Games, runners carry lighted torch(火炬) through many nations towards the stadium where the games will be held. These sportsmen are from different countries. Yet they work together to carry the Olympic torch. It is passed from runner to runner,  When the last runner enters the stadium, he or she places the torch in a special basin filled with oil. It catches fire. It is then, only then, that the Olympic Games can begin.

    The Olympic flame burns throughout the games. It is the flame of peace.

1.Before 1896 French schools didn't teach ______.  

A. match                      B. history             C. sports                                  D. physics

2.Baron Pierre de Coubertin ________.

A. was the first man to start the Olympics                       

B. helped start the modern Olympics

C. believed that sports were less important than studies  

D. failed to began the modern Olympics

3.According to this passage, the third modern Olympics should have been held________.

A. 1914           B. 1904              C. 1896                           D. 1908

4.Marathon in the passage is________.

A. a foot race             B. a jumping contest    C. a field sport                  D. a boxing match

5.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. The Olympics do not begin until the basin of oil catches the fire.                                       

B. The torch is carried from runner to runner through many countries.

C. Runners who carry the torch can be men or women.                      

D. After the start of the Olympics, the Olympic flame is put out.

 

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      Once every four years,men from all over Greece came to join in a great athletic festival in Elis,in western Greece. This was called the Olympic Games because the place was called Olympia. We don't know when men first began ce]ebrating the Olympic Games, but they had certainly already done it in the time of' Homer,by 776 BC. The games were so regular(有规律的) that people used them to date by. They would say,"I was born in the second year of the twenty-fourth Olympiad ( starting from776 BC). "
     When it was time for the games, the rulers (统治者) of Elis sent the massage all over Greece. They declared a truce(宣布休战) throughout the Greek world for a month. No matter whom they had a war with,they had to stop the war and let their players go through their city state safely to get to the Olympic Games. Each city state paid for a few players from their city to travel to Elis. But the player had to promise that they had already practiced for at least ten months.
1. The underlined word "athletic" is related to         .
A. music    
B. time      
C. places    
D. sports
2. Elis is in the        of' Greece.
A. east      
B. south      
C. west      
D. north
3. The twenty-fourth Olympics must be held in           .
A. 680 BC          
B. 684 BC
C. 688 BC            
D. 692 BC
4. How long should the truce last because of the Olympic Games?
A. A day.    
B. A week.    
C. A month.  
D. A year.
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    The Winter Olympics is also called the White Olympics. At this time, many colorful stamps are published
to mark the great Games. The first stamps making the opening game out on January 25,1932 in the United
State for the 3rd White Olympics, from then on, publishing stamps during the White Olympics became a
rule.
     During the 4th Winter Olympic Games a group of stamps were published in Germany in Novermber 1936.
The five rings of Olympics were drawn on the front of the sportswear. It was the first that the rings appeared
on the stamps of the White Olympics.
     In the 1950's the stamps of these kind became more colorful.When the White Olympics came, the host
countries (东道国) as well as the Non-host countries published stamps to mark those Games. China also
published four stamps in February 1980, when the Chinese sportsmen began to take part in the White
Olympics.
     Japan is the only Asian country that has ever held the White Olympics. Altogether 14,500 million stamps
were sold to raise money for this sports meeting. Different kinds of sports were drawn on these small
stamps. People can enjoy the wonderful movements of some sportsmen.
(     )1. The White Olympics and the Winter Olympics are different games.
(     )2. The world made it a rule to publish stamps to mark the great world Games after the year 1936.
(     )3. The Winter Olympics is held once every four years.
(     )4. All the countries can publish stamps to mark the White Olympic Games.
(     )5. We know that many Asian countries have held the White Olympics.
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In the world , football is the most popular sport. This is because many countries have wonderful teams for the World Cup. The World Cup is held every four years.

To remember 2002 FIFA World Cup, children from different countries and more than 60 children from Japanese schools came together and drew a big picture called “Dream World Cups ”for a few days in Japan .The children drew animals, flowers and people playing soccer under a blue bright sky. They wished each football team good luck by drawing the flags of all the countries that would take part in the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The picture was put up in a park near a playground in Yokohama .Some football teams would have games there.

Are you a football fan?The World Cup makes more and more people interested in football Teenagers like playing and watching football .Many of them love some football stars so much that they get the pictures of their favourite players on the walls of their rooms. That is the way to show their love for the World Cup as children in Japan.

1.If a country wants to take part in the World Cup ,she must have______

A.many football fans  

B.a very good team  

C.many football player 

D.a big playground

2.The next World Cup will be held in_______.

A.2006

B.2007

C.2005

D.2004

3.From the passage ,in the picture children drew many things except_________.

A.people playing football  

B.pictures of some football stars  

C.a sunny sky

D.flowers

4.In “Dream World Cup”, the children drew the flags of some countries______.

A.to show their love for their owe country

B.to tell the people their stories

C.to show their good wishes for the football teams

D.to show their new ideas about football

5.Many teenagers own the pictures of some football stars because______.

A.they are interested in football

B.they are football fans

C.they think their favourite players are great

D.all of A, B and C

 

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Once upon a time, there was a rich man. Each morning, the rich man found a poor man 76  (sit) on a bench in the park. The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich man lived. One day, the rich man  77 (get)out of his car and said to the poor man, “Excuse me. I want  78  (know) why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning.” “Sir ,” said the poor man, “I am a failure. I 79  (have) no money, no family and no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I will sleep in that hotel.” The rich man said, “Tonight your dream    80  (come) true. I’ll pay for the best room in that hotel for you a whole month.”  
A few days later, the rich man went into the poor man’s room to ask him how he 81 (feel) in it. To his surprise, he found that the man 82  (move) out of the hotel back to his bench. When the rich man asked why, he said, “You see, while I  83 (sleep)on my bench, I dream I am there in the big hotel. It’s a wonderful dream. But while I 84 (be) there, I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream , and I 85  (can not)get any sleep at all.”  
   
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