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Why are the Olympic Games so important? To answer these questions we need to go back in history to find the meaning of the Olymp
Why are the Olympic Games so important? To answer these questions we need to go back in history to find the meaning of the Olymp
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Why are the Olympic Games so important? To answer these questions we need to go back in history to find the meaning of the Olympic Games.
In ancient Greece, sports and competition were very important. The Greeks believed that physical exercise and mental training were connected to each other.
【C1】______
Religion encouraged this kind of education, and great athletic and musical contests were held in holy places, under the protection of the gods, and in front of thousands of spectators from all over Greece.
The contests were called Games, and the most famous were held at the Sanctuary of Olympia in southwestern Greece. The Olympian or Olympic Games started in 776 B. C. , and were held every four years in honor of Zeus, the king of the mythical Greek gods. They were at their peak in the 5th and 4th centuries B. C., but they were suppressed in 394 A. D. by the Roman emperor Theodosius I.
【C2】______
The competitions were open only to honorable Greek men, and lasted five days. On the first day of the Games the athletes and the judges swore that they would compete and judge honestly. On the second, third, and fourth day the different contests were held. The main event at Olympia was the stadion or single-course race, and the winner of that race gave his name to the Olympiad. On the fifth day, at the conclusion of the Games, the victors were awarded a crown of wild olive leaves.
【C3】______
The victors were linked to the immortals, celebrated by poets and sculptors, and they often lived for the rest of their lives at public expense. A strong bond joined every athlete with his gods, to whom he believed he owed his success.
The Olympics was suspended for nearly 1,500 years. Its revival owed a debt of gratitude to a French sportsman and educator, Baron Pierre de Coubertin. He was fascinated with the idea of the ancient Olympic Games, and was convinced that physical exercise and competition build moral values. Inspired by the discoveries at Olympia, he proposed the modern Olympics for the first time in 1892.
【C4】______
In the first Olympics, 311 athletes from 13 countries competed in a stadium with room for 50,000 spectators. It ushered in a new era of Olympic Games, although Greek and American college athletes dominated the events, performances were mediocre and athletes benefited from the poor athletic organization.
Since then, with the exception of the two World War periods, the Olympics have been held every four years in one of the world’s major cities.
【C5】______
[A]Before the Games, special messengers would set off in every direction to announce the beginning of a sacred truce. All disputes and warfare among the city-states were then suspended. The sacred truce was to protect Games-goers from assault and lasted three months.
[B]The Greek word for education meant the development of the entire human being and could not be divided into physical and mental education, because the mind cannot exist without the body, and the body has no meaning without the mind. Their rule of thumb was, "Educate children with gymnastics and music. "
[C]This was the greatest honor for the contestant and also for his family and his city. It was an honor that could never be outranked either by money or official position.
[D]After two years of tireless efforts he gathered enough public support to organize the International Athletic Congress of 1894 in Paris. The Congress appointed the International Olympic Committee(IOC), and approved an Olympics to be held in Athens, in April of 1896.
[E]The site of the games is chosen, usually six years in advance, by the IOC. The games last two weeks and include many more contests than the original Games did. Athletes of all nations are eligible to participate. A record 10, 500 athletes from a record 197 countries are expected to participate in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
[F]The history of the Olympic Games is long and consistent. Every four years, people from all around the world gather to compete in sports, in an environment of peace and mutual understanding. They did it for almost twelve hundred years in ancient times and again for the last hundred years in modern times. Therefore, the Olympics is the longest lasting social activity that exists.
[G]History has testified to the fact that Coubertin’s idea of revival of the Olympic Games was momentous. It was not a passing fancy, was rather the logical culmination of a great movement
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C
解析
上段提到颁奖典礼是在比赛的第5天举行。此项紧接上文,橄榄叶花冠代表无上的荣耀,是金钱和爵位换不来的。
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考研英语一
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