2004．Athens．2008．Beijing．Which one is coming next? Five hopeful cities are waiting to find out where the 2012 Olympics will be held．

    Hosting is no easy work but it's a good chance for a country to attract tourists and make friends with people from all over tile world．

    Two years ago，cities which were interested in hosting tile Games enrolled(登記) their names．Later they handed in their reports to the International Olympic Committee．Nine cities hoped that they would have the honor．On May18，2004，after the careful checking of each report，the IOC chose five cities；Paris，London，Moscow, Madrid(馬德里) and New York City to be the possible cities to hold tile 2012 Olympic Games．

    Since February．the IOC has visited these five cities，Moscow being the last，to hear each city’s report as to how they will host the Games．

Want to know the result? Some people guess that Paris will be the winner．London and New York could only show plans for gyms to be built for the Games．but Paris showed off their well-run gym that was built for the 1998 Soccer World Cup．One problem with Paris is that they ran against Beijing for the 2008 Game．The IOC members thought that French people were too proud

But don’t rush to give an answer．Wait until July 6．On that day in Singapore the IOC will tell the world which city is going to be the next Olympic host．Before that．nobody can be sure!

1．This passage mainly talks about              ．

  A．how to host the Olympic Games

  B．five cities that could host the 2012 Olympic Games

  C．the benefits(好處)of hosting the Olympic Games

  D．when to announce the winner of the 2012 Olympic Games

2．Many cities want to host the Olympic Games mainly because          ．

  A．it can invite more tourists                  B．it’s not easy to get the chance

  C．Olympic Games are exciting          D．it makes people run faster

3．The underlined word“honor”probably means“         ”．

  A．pride           B．pain       C．fortune         D．1uck

4．Which of the following statements is NOT true?

  A．Before July 6 nobody knows for sure which city will host the next Olympics

  B．London has already built enough gyms for the 2012 Olympics．

  C．Each city has to give a report to the IOC first if they want to host the Olympics

  D．The IOC will visit those cities before they make the final decision．

5．The writer seems          about Paris hosting the 2012 Olympics．

    A．fairly sure        B．excited           C．worried    D．unsure

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                                                        The Changing Olympic Games
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winners got silver medals instead of gold ones. Sounds strange, doesn't it? People thought silver was better than
gold. Also, no women ran in the first Olympics, and only 14 countries took part. China was not one of them.
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again. His idea for the modern Olympics came from the Greek Games thousands of years ago. He hoped they
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uniforms people wear today. In fact, players weren't even picked by their countries back then. They traveled to
the Games by themselves and had to use their own money to take part.
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are no longer played, like tug-of-war (拔河). It would be hard to see all the events at this year's Games. There
will be over 300!
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into the sea and left them to swim back to land. Sometimes rough water made the race dangerous. The first
person ever to win that race was Hungarian Alfred Hajos. He seemed happy just to finish."I just wanted to live.
That's more important than winning," he said. When people or teams won events in 1896, they didn't get the
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[     ]
A、gold medals and olive wreaths
B、silver and gold medals
C、olive wreaths and flowers
D、silver medals and olive wreaths
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A、may people thought they were good ideas
B、they became popular in 1896
C、he hoped they would help to bring world peace
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A、Running
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The Olympic Games have changed a lot since they were first held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. At that time, winners got silver medals instead of gold ones. Sounds strange, doesn’t it? People thought silver was better than gold．No women competed in the first Olympics, and only 14 countries took part.

   In the early years of the Olympics, there weren’t many sports. In the first Greek Games, event usually took place in the Panathenaic Stadium（雅典體育場），and you can still see it today. Players did not wear their countries’ clothes in 1896.They traveled to Athens by themselves and had to use their own money to take part.

New sports have been put into the Olympics over time, like badminton and table tennis, Some older games are no longer played, like tug-of-war（拔河）.

   Swimming was different in 1896. There was a 1200-metre race in the sea．A boat took swimmers out into the sea and they had to swim back to land．The first person to win that race was Alfred Hajos. He seemed happy just to finish. “I just wanted to live. That’s more important than winning,” he said．

1．In the first Olympics, winners were given____.

A．gold medals   B．silver and gold medals   C．much money  D．silver medals

2．In the early years of the Olympics__

A．there weren’t many sports 

B．players wore the sports clothes that people wear today 

C．people from about 200 countries took part

D．events usually took place in modern Olympics.

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B．he seemed happy just because he finished it

C．he was happy because he gave up at last

D．he seemed happy because he still lived

5．Swimming took place in the ____ in 1896.

A．river           B．lake          C．swimming pool        D．sea

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A．Yes, she did．                                B．No, she wasn't．

C．No, she didn't．                              D．I don' t know．

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A．LiuChangchun．                                        B．ZhuangYong．

C．LiuXiang．                                     D．XuHaifeng．

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