单选题
About 50 years ago the idea of disabled people doing sports
was never heard of. But when the annual games for the disabled were started at
Stroke Mandeville, England in 1948 by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, the situation began
to change. Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who had been driven to England in 1939 from Nazi
Germany, had been asked by the British government to set up an injuries centre
at Stroke Mandeville Hospital near London. His ideas about treating injuries
included sports for the disabled. In the first games just two
teams of injured soldiers took part. The next year, 1949, five teams took part.
From those beginnings things developed fast. Teams now come from abroad to
Stroke Mandeville every year. In 1960 the first Olympics for the Disabled were
held in Rome. Now, every four years the Olympic Games for the Disabled are held,
if possible, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games, although they are
organized separately. In other years Games for the Disabled are still held at
Stroke Mandeville. In the 1984 wheelchair Olympic Games, 1,604 wheelchair
{{U}}athletes{{/U}} from about 40 countries took part. Unfortunately, they were held
at Stroke Mandeville and not in Los Angeles, along with the other
Olympics. The Games have been a great success in promoting
international friendship and understanding, and in proving that being disabled
does not mean you can't enjoy sports. One small source of disappointment for
those who organize and take part in the games, however, has been the unwilling-
ness of the International Olympic Committee to include the disabled events at
the Olympic Games for the able bodies. Perhaps a few more years are still needed
to convince those fortunate enough not to be disabled that their disabled fellow
athletes should not be excluded.
单选题
The first games for the disabled were held ______ after Sir Ludwing
Guttmann arrived in England.
A.50 years
B.21 years
C.9 years
D.4 years
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 这道题的答案在第一段的第二、三句话。考生不要被文中多个年代所迷惑，只要直接在第二段找到第一次残疾人运动会的年代与Sir Ludwig Guttmann到英国的年代就可以了。
单选题
Besides Stroke Mandeville, surely the games for the disabled were once
held in
A.New York.
B.London.
C.Rome.
D.Los Angeles.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 这道题的答案在第二段的第五句话“In 1960 the first Olympics for the Disabled were held in Rome.”很明显是选C。
单选题
In paragraph 2, the underlined word "athletes" means
A.people who support the games.
B.people who watch the games.
C.people who organize the games.
D.people who compete in the games.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 这道题中，即便考生不知道“athlete”一词是指“运动员”，也可以从上下文中推断出来。根据本词所在句子中的“from about 40 countries took part”及常识可知，参加运动会竞赛的人应为运动员。
单选题
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A.Sir Ludwig Guttmann is an early organizer of the games for the
disabled.