Unit 2 Section Ⅰ Warming Up & Reading Ⅰ.阅读理解 A People need to relax and enjoy themselves. One way they can have a good time is to watch a baseball game or another sports event. Even thousands of years ago, groups of people gathered to watch skilled athletes. Over 2,000 years ago in Greece, certain days in the year were festival days. These were holidays when people stopped work and enjoyed themselves. They liked to watch athletes take part in races and other games of skill. The most important festival was held every four years at the town of Olympia. It was held in honour of the Greek god Zeus. For five days, athletes from all parts of the Greek world took part in the Olympic Games. At the Olympic Games, people could watch them box, run, jump and so on. There was a relay race between two teams of men in which a lighted torch (火炬) was passed from runner to runner. The Olympic Games were thought to be so important that cities which were at war with one another had to stop fighting. People were allowed to travel to the games freely. Thousands of people came to Olympia from cities in Greece and from its colonies (殖民地) in Africa, Asia and Italy. They met as friends to cheer their favourite athletes and to enjoy themselves. 【语篇解读】 本文是一篇记叙文，主要介绍了2 000多年前在古希腊的奥林匹亚镇每四年举行一次为纪念希腊主神的奥运会的相关知识。 1．What happened in Greece over 2,000 years ago? A．People stopped work and enjoyed themselves. B．The cities there were often against one another. C．People watched baseball games. D．People didn't go to any games at all. 解析：选B 细节理解题。由文章最后一段中的“The Olympic Games were thought to be so important that cities which were at war with one another had to stop fighting.”可知，2 000多年前，希腊的这些城市互相交战，故B项正确。 2．What did people do at the games? A．They fought. B．They just talked to friends. C．They cheered for good athletes. D．They tried to find friends. 解析：选C 细节理解题。由文章最后一段最后一句“They met as friends to cheer their favourite athletes and to enjoy themselves.”可知C项正确。 3．Greek cities then were fighting so they . A．were weak B．were strong C．couldn't go to other cities freely D．could see each other 解析：选C 推理判断题。由文章最后一段的“People were allowed to travel to the games freely.”可知，人们在运动会期间被允许自由活动。由此可推知，人们在交战的城市之间是不能自由走动的，故C项正确。 4．The best title for the story is “ ”． A．Greece at War B．Together for the Games C．Stop Fighting D．Sport 解析：选B 标题归纳题。通读全文可知，文章讲述不同城市的人们因为比赛而走到一起，成为朋友，为运动员喝彩，故B项正确。 B I love to read before I go to sleep. It usually makes me feel calm. But a big part of this depends on what I read. I love to read Oor Wullie and The Broons. Very often I'm smiling before I go to sleep. I decide to write about this in a blog because I find that so many of us go to sleep with stress. Before we go to sleep, we may run over ... ...
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