On April 21,the Olympic flame(火焰)was lit at the Temple of Hera in southern Greece.This (95) (意味着)the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in August is coming close.
The flame was first lit at the 1928 games in Amsterdam.So far,about 90 years has passed and the flame has traveled around the world,reaching Mount Everest and even outer
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The Olympic flame stands (97) the positive ideas that man has always connected with fire.It is also a (98) /bridʒ/between the ancicnt and modem Olympic Cames.
It is a tradition to pass the flame around (99) the start of the Olympic Games.This is called the torch relay.For the Rio Olympics,there will be about 12,000 torchbearers (火炬手)during the relay.The special thing is,for the first time in (100) /'histri/,a Syrian refugee(叙利亚难民)was among the torchbearers who passed the torch in Greece.It wanted to show a message:sports can (101) the world better.There are also some Chinese faces that you may know,for example,Chinese (102) (男演员)Yang Yang who just finished passing the flame in Creece.