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单选题In ancient Greece athletic festivals were very important and had strong religious associations. The Olympian athletic festival held every four years in honor of Zeus, king of the Olympian Gods, eventually lost its local character, became first a national event and then, after the rules against foreign competitors had been abolished, international. No one knows exactly how far back the Olympic Games go, but some official records date from 776 B. C. The games took place in August on the plain by Mount Olympus. Many thousands of spectators gathered from all parts of Greece, but no married woman was admitted even as a spectator. Slaves, women and dishonored persons were not allowed to complete. The exact sequence of events uncertain, but events included boy's gymnastics, boxing, wrestling, horse racing and field events, though there were fewer sports involved than in the modem Olympic Games. On the last day of the Games, all the winners were honored by having a ring of holy olive leaves placed on their heads. So great was the honor that the winner of the foot race gave his name to the year of his victory. Although Olympic winners received no prize money, they were, in fact, richly rewarded by their state authorities. How their results compared with modern standards, we unfortunately have no means of telling. After an uninterrupted history of almost I 200 years, the Games were suspended by the Romans in 394, A.D. They continued for such a long time because people believed in the philosophy behind the Olympics: the idea that a healthy body produced a healthy mind, and that the spirit of competition in sports and games was preferable to the competition that caused wars. It was over 1 500 years before another such international athletic gathering took place in Athens in 1896. Nowadays, the Games are held in different countries in turn. The host country provides vast facilities, including a stadium, swimming pools and living accommodation, but competing countries pay their own athletes' expenses. The Olympics start with the arrival in the stadium of a torch, lighted on Mount Olympus by the sun's rays. It is carried by a succession of runners to the stadium. The torch symbolized the continuation of the ancient Greek athletic ideals, and it, burns throughout the Games until the closing ceremony. The well-known Olympic flag, however, is a modem conception: the five interlocking rings symbolize the uniting of all five continents participating in the Games.

单选题The word "untenable" ( Line 3) in the last paragraph of the passage most probably means __________.

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单选题Who was Susan Sliwak?

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单选题There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A，B. C and D. You should decide on the best choice. Passage One Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage. Talk to any parent of a student who took an adventurous gap year(a year between school and university when some students earn money，travel，etc. )and a misty look will come into their eyes. There are some disasters and even the most motivated，organised gap student does require family back-up，financial，emotional and physical. The parental mistiness is not just about the brilliant experience that has matured their offspring；it is vicarious living. We all wish pre-university gap years had been the fashion in our day. We can see how much tougher our kids become：how much more prepared to benefit from university or to decide positively that they are going to do something other than a degree. Gap years are fashionable，as is reflected in the huge growth in the number of charities and private companies offering them. Pictures of Prince William toiling in Chile have helped，but the trend has been gathering steam for a decade. The range of gap packages starts with backpacking，and includes working with charities, building hospitals and schools and, very commonly, working as a language assistant，teaching English. With this trend，however，comes a danger. Once parents feel that a well-structured year is essential to their would-be undergraduate's progress to a better university，a good degree，an impressive CV and well-paid employment, as the gap companies'blurbs(产品推介)suggest it might be，then parents will start organizing—and paying for the gaps. Where there are disasters, according to Richard Oliver, director of the gap companies'umbrella organization，the Year Out Group，it is usually because of poor planning. That can be the fault of the company or of the student，he says，but the best insurance is thoughtful preparation. “When people get it wrong，it is usually medical or，especially among girls, it is that they have not been away from home before or because expectation does not match reality. ” The point of a gap year is that it should be the time when the school leaver gets to do the thing that he or she fancies. The 18-year-old，who was dispatched by his parents at two weeks'notice to Canada to learn to be a snowboarding instructor at a cost of 5800, probably came back with little more than a hangover. The 18-year-old on the same package who worked for his fare and spent the rest of his year instructing in resorts from New Zealand to Switzerland，and came back to apply for university，is the positive counterbalance.

单选题All the pork is stored in a refrigerated ______ and selling is available at any time.

单选题Looking in from abroad, much of the world has historically been baffled by America's gun laws. In no other country can a mentally unstable person access a Glock pistol as easily as suspected Arizona shooter Jared Loughner did. And in no other country is the number of people who own guns as high as in the United States, where there are 90 guns for every 100 people. The Second Amendment that guarantees the right to bear arms is part of America's founding fabric. So is senseless violence brought about by guns also American? That was the question posed at today's White House press briefing by Russian journalist Andrei Sitov, the Washington Bureau Chief for Moscow-based Itar-Tass. Predictably, the query irked (惹恼) many in the room, including White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. "I think there's agreement on all sides of the political spectrum that violence is never, ever acceptable," Gibbs said from the podium. What happened in Tucson "was not in keeping with the important bedrock (基础的) values on which this country was founded," he said. Several other reporters scoffed (嘲笑) at the suggestion as well. But much more scoffing over the last week came from overseas, where foreign news agencies reacted to the Tucson tragedy with an element of saying "we could have predicted this". "The Tucson shooting, in which Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head, is another tragic commentary on the poisonous political climate that has developed in the United States, allied to the country's pervasive (普遍存在的) gun culture," read an editorial published in New Zealand. In the Sydney Morning Herald, journalist Rod Tiffen stated what seems like an obvious point missed over the past Week: "There is a strong correlation between the number of guns in a society and deaths resulting from them." Ed Pilkington, a writer for the U.K.'s Guardian asked it more simply, "What is it with guns and America? Why does the most advanced democracy, which prides itself on being a bastion of reason and civilization in a brutal and ugly world, put up with this carnage in its own back yard?" Which raises the question, is Sitov right? Is occasional violent tragedy an unpleasant byproduct (副产品) of a free society? I walked out of the briefing room with Sitov, who appeared to realize the impact that his question had on the roomful of Americans. "It's an obvious question and nobody asks that question," he told me through his thick Russian accent. "This is a cost that your country pays for freedom./

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单选题Habits acquired in youth—notably smoking and drinking—may increase the risk of diseases in a person"s later life.

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