The 31st Summer Olympics will be held in Brazil in 2016. Before this global sporting event, we started thinking about sports that didn’t exist any more and sports that were maybe a little strange. Read the following ones that have ever been included in the past Olympic Games.
Live Pigeon Shooting (1900)
This bloody event was only held once, at the 1900 Paris Games. Nearly 300 birds were killed during the competition, leaving a crime scene of feathers and blood. This is the only event in Olympic history that involved killing live animals.
Kabaddi (1936)
This sport is popular in South Asia. The object is for one member of a team to enter the other side’s half of the field, and score points. The attacker then returns to his half of the field.
12 Hour Bicycle Race (1896)
Seven riders got on their bikes at 5 a.m. and rode until 5 p.m. Four riders dropped out before noon, but the winner, Adolf Schmal of Austria, managed about 180 miles. Only Schmal and one other finished.
Tug of War (1900—1920)
This may seem like a basic PE class sport more than an Olympic event, but Tug of War was actually one of the first sports played at the Olympic games in 500 BC.
There are two teams of eight; the winning team must pull the other team six feet forward.
Swimming Obstacle Race (1900)
The athletes had to climb over a pole (杆子) and a row of boats, and then swim under another row of boats. All of this was done in the Seine River, so they also had to fight against the water. This event was only ever held in 1900, in Paris.What do you probably think of these events?
| A．Strange. | B．Fantastic. |
| C．Modern. | D．Interesting. |
Which sport looks like a common activity more than an Olympic event?
| A．Swimming Obstacle Race. | B．12 Hour Bicycle Race. |
| C．Live Pigeon Shooting. | D．Tug of War. |
How many athletes finished the event 12 Hour Bicycle Race?
| A．One. | B．Two. |
| C．Four. | D．Seven. |
What does “drop out” mean in English according to the passage?
| A．Give up. | B．Run out. |
| C．Fall off. | D．Break down. |
What can we learn from the passage?
| A．Athletes took part in all of the events in teams. |
| B．Tug of War was held in the Olympics only once. |
| C．Some of the events may be in the 31st Summer Olympics. |
| D．These events are not as popular as they used to be. |
Mr Black liked hunting. When he had time, he went out hunting with his friends. One summer he said to himself, “I have never been to the mountains. This time I’ll go there to hunt tigers. That must be interesting.” So when his holidays came, Mr Black went to the station, bought a ticket and was on the train to the mountains.
He got off at a small station and walked for a few kilometres. Then he saw a farmer at the foot of a mountain. “Good morning,” Mr Black said to him. “Are there any tigers here?” “Well,” answered the farmer slowly. “There was one last year, but when it heard someone was coming to hunt tigers, it moved to another place, I think.”Mr Black wanted to hunt tigers in __________.
A. the park B. the mountains C. a zooMr Black went there __________.
A. by car B. by bus C. by trainMr Black arrived there __________.
A. in the afternoon
B. in the evening
C. in the morningMr Black met with __________ on his way.
A. a farmer B. a wolf C. a friendWe can infer (推断) from the story that ___________.
A. Mr Black would get a lot of tigers
B. the farmer liked Mr Black very much
C. the farmer didn’t want Mr Black to hunt tigers
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If you work as a driver in the restaurant, you may ______.
A. never pay for meals
B. pay a little for meals
C. work in the afternoonIf you buy the house, you ______.
A. may pay more than ￥150, 000 for it
B. must have breakfast in the kitchen
C. may live on the south side of the cityAny customer with a Tianjin Daily of June 1, 2010 will get a small present from ______.
A. every supermarket
B. Yingbin Supermarket
C. Tianjin DailyWhen will the concert be?
A. July1, 2005
B. June 8, 2005
C. July 3, 2005If two adults and two students want to go to the concert, the tickets will cost RMB______.
A. 440 yuan B. 270 yuan C. 370 yuan
Dinner customs (习惯) are different around the world. If you are a guest in Ghana( 加纳), this information will help you a lot.
In Ghana, dinner is usually from four in the afternoon to six in the evening. But there are no strict rules (规则) about time. Whenever a guest arrives, a family offers food. When you go to a home, the person who receives guests takes you to the living room first. At this time everyone welcomes you. Then you go to the dinning room. There you wash your hands in a bowl of water. All the food is on the table.
In Ghana you usually eat with your fingers. You eat from the same dish as everyone else .But you eat from one side of the dish only. It is not polite to get food from the other side of the dish. After dinner, you wash your hands again in a bowl of water.
Most meals in Ghana have a dish called fufu. People in Ghana make fufu from the powder(粉末) of some plants. Sometimes they cut the fufu with a saw(锯子) because it is very hard. You must chew(咀嚼) fufu well, or you may get sick. You eat fufu with the fingers of your right hand only.From the passage we know that in Ghana ______________.
A. the rules for dinner time are not strict
B. dinner is always at six in the evening
C. a family offers food only at four in the afternoonIf you are a dinner guest in Ghana, the host (主人) always takes you to __.
A. the dining room first
B. the living room first
C. the garden firstPeople in Ghana usually eat ________.
A. with their spoons
B. from the other side of the dish
C. with their fingersIn fact, most meals in Ghana _______.
A. are not very hard
B. have fufu in them
C. are too hard to eatWhen you eat fufu, you’d better _________.
A. cut it with a saw
B. chew it well
C. Both A and B
In his lowest days when few people bought his records, Taiwan singer Steve Chou lived alone in Canada and did little. One day, he passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him. “My heart tells me that music is the thing I truly want to do, not for fame（名誉）or money,” Chou said. That’s how we luckily have such a music genius（天才）, who has since then composed（作曲）lots of hits for the pop music charts (排行榜).
“Sometimes we need to get close to nature to look deeply into our souls and see what we really want to follow,” he said.
Recently he has made public his latest work Lovers Genesis. In this album（集）he explores human relationships in the Internet age. “Technology itself is a good thing, but it depends on how you’re going to use it,” is Chou’s advice to teenagers.
Chou often gets his music ideas from trips. He has traveled to many places around the world and believes that learning a country’s language is the fastest way of experiencing the culture behind it.
Chou has worked hard on learning English to push forward his music career(事业). He has flown to the UK to attend months-long English training schools three times. There he lives with local families and practices daily conversations.
“So I could easily read the English instructions on recording machines and communicate with the local music producers,” said Chou, “The music reviews of the US or British singers that I appreciate（感激） could help me learn and grow with them.”
Which of the following about Steve Chou is the correct order?
①. He made public his work Lovers Genesis.
②. He passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him.
③. He composed lots of hits for the pop music charts.
④. Few people bought his records.
| A．①②③④ | B．④②③① |
| C．①③②④ | D．④①③② |
Why has Chou flown to the UK to learn English?
| A．Because he wants to live in the UK. |
| B．Because his record company asks him to. |
| C．Because he wants to sell his album in the UK. |
| D．Because he thinks it will be helpful for his music career. |
Steve Chou may agree with the following except that __________.
| A．taking trips gives him some ideas of music |
| B．what we really want to follow is the most important |
| C．music is a thing that can bring him fame and money |
| D．in International age, technology itself is not a bad thing |
What is Steve Chou like according to the passage?
| A．Kind and helpful. |
| B．Proud and confident. |
| C．Active and hard-working. |
| D．Calm and disappointed. |
Space rubbish is also thought to be a great danger to spacemen. It’s reported that there were 9,000 man-made things flying in space. About 30% of these are satellites, 10% are spaceships, and the rest are space rubbish. An explosion(爆炸)in space in 1999 made a cloud of 300,000 fragments, each at least 4mm in size. A small piece of these even knocked a spaceship window and caused some damage（损坏）.
Scientists are watching and reporting any possible danger all the time. They are working to deal with space rubbish. Although space is really dangerous, it interests many people on the earth. In the near future, it may become possible for people to spend a few days in a space hotel. We may even choose to leave the earth and live in space in a few years. So we should do something to help improve the space environment.
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。Of all the man-made things in space, about ________of these are space rubbish.
| A．10% | B．60% |
| C．100% | D．30% |
The underlined word “fragments” means “______”.
| A．碎片 | B．泡沫 |
| C．烟雾 | D．飞碟 |
The passage talks about _________ kinds of danger in space.
| A．two | B．three |
| C．four | D．five |
Which of the following is TRUE?
| A．Scientists have found out ways to solve any problem in space. |
| B．Every one of us can have a travel to space in ten years. |
| C．The harm of the radiation may be found in the spacemen’s children. |
| D．Space is really dangerous, so it doesn’t interest anyone on the earth. |
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