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