Question

【題目】The Winter Olympics has been hosted on three continents by eleven different countries. The Games have been held in the United States four times in France three times; and in Austria, Canada, Japan, Italy, Norway, and Switzerland twice. Also, the Games have been held in Germany, Yugoslavia and Russia once. The IOC has selected Pyeongchang, South Korea, to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and Beijing, China, to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. No city in the southern hemisphere(半球) has hosted or even been an applicant to host the Winter Olympics; the major challenge preventing one hosting the games is the dependence on winter weather, and the traditional February timing of the games falls in the middle of the southern hemisphere summer.

Twelve countries — Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland,Sweden, Switzerland and the United States — have sent athletes to every Winter Olympic Games. Six of those — Austria, Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the United States — have earned medals at every Winter Olympic Games, and only one — the United States — has earned gold at each Games. Norway leads in terms of number of gold medals and overall number of medals. Germany and Japan have been banned at times from competing in the Games.

The Winter Games have had only one team boycott when Taiwan decided not to participate in the 1980 Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid. Prior to the Games the IOC agreed to allow China to compete in the Olympics for the first time since 1952. Taiwan returned to Olympic competition at the 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo(徽章) as Chinese Taipei. The agreement remains in place to this day.

【1】Why hasn’t the Winter Olympics ever been hosted in the southern hemisphere?

A. Because they didn’t make an application.

B. Because they aren’t ready to host it

C. Because of the winter weather in hemisphere.

D. Because of the weather and the timing of the games.

【2】 Which of the following is Not true about America’s taking part in The Winter Olympics?

A. America has taken part in every Winter Olympics.

B. America comes first in terms of number of gold medals.

C. America has earned gold at each Games.

D. America has earned medals at every Winter Olympic Games.

【3】 What does the underlined word ＂boycott＂ in the last paragraph mean?

A. participate B. resist

C. admit D. permit

【4】Which of the following is the passage’s writing style?

A. An official report. B. An announcement.

C. An introduction. D. An advertisement.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】C

【3】B

【4】A

【解析】

【文章大意】 本文主要介紹了冬奧會的主辦城市及臺灣，中國參加奧運會的一些情況。

【1】D 考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)文章第一段的最后可以判斷出冬奧會沒有在南半球的城市舉辦是因為天氣和傳統(tǒng)比賽時間的限制。故選D。

【2】B 考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段內(nèi)容可以判斷出A、C、D三項正確；由Norway leads in terms of number of gold medals可知B項錯誤，故選B。

【3】B 考查詞義猜測。A. participate參加；B. resist抵制；C. admit 承認，準許進入；D. permit允許。根據(jù)畫線部分后面的時間狀語從句when Taiwan decided not to participate in the 1980 Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid可以判斷出臺灣拒絕參加即抵制了1980年的冬季奧運會，故選B。

【4】C 考查推理判斷。通讀全文可以知道本文主要對冬奧會的一些情況作了介紹，故選D。