首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
自考
In ancient Greece, athletic festivals were very important and had strong religious associations. The Olympian athletic festival
In ancient Greece, athletic festivals were very important and had strong religious associations. The Olympian athletic festival
admin
2022-08-19
27
问题
In ancient Greece, athletic festivals were very important and had strong religious associations. The Olympian athletic festival held every four years in honor of Zeus, King of the Olympian Gods, eventually lost its local character, and became first a national event and then, after the rules against foreign competitors had been abolished, international. No one knows exactly how far back the Olympic Games go, but some official records date from 776 B.C.
The games took place in August on the plain by Mount Olympus. Many thousands of spectators gathered from all parts of Greece, but no married woman was admitted even as a spectator. Slaves, women and dishonored persons were not allowed to compete. The exact sequence of events is uncertain, but events included boy ’s gymnastics, boxing, wrestling, horse racing and field events, though there were fewer sports involved than in the modern Olympic Games.
On the last day of the Games, all the winners were honored by having a ring of holy olive leaves placed on their heads. So great was the honor that the winner of the foot race gave his name to the year of his victory. Although Olympic winners received no prize money, they were, in fact, richly rewarded by their state authorities. How their results compared with modern standards, we unfortunately have no means of telling.
After an uninterrupted history of almost 1, 200 years, the Games were suspended by the Romans in 394 A.D. They continued for such a long time because people believed in the philosophy behind the Olympics; the idea that a healthy body produced a healthy mind, and that the spirit of competition in sports and games was preferable to the competition that caused wars. It was over 1, 500 years before another such international athletic gathering took place in Athens in 1896.
Nowadays, the Games are held in different countries in turn. The host country provides vast facilities, including a stadium, swimming pools and living accommodation, but competing countries pay their own athletes’ expenses.
The Olympics start with the arrival in the stadium of a torch, lighted on Mount Olympus by the sun’s rays. It is carried by a succession of runners to the stadium. The torch symbolized the continuation of the ancient Greek athletic ideas, and it burns throughout the Games until the closing ceremony. The well-known Olympic flag, however, is a modern conception: the five interlocking rings symbolize the uniting of all five continents participating in the Games.
In the early days of ancient Olympic Games, ________.
选项
A、only male Greek athletes were allowed to participate in the Games
B、all Greeks, irrespective of sex, religion or social status, were allowed to take part in
C、all Greeks, with the exception of women, were allowed to compete in Games
D、all male Greeks were qualified to compete in the Games
答案
A
解析
细节理解题。第二段第三句讲了奴隶、妇女和声誉不好的人不允许参加竞赛,因此A项为最佳答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Kurx777K
本试题收录于:
英语阅读(一)题库文史类分类
0
英语阅读(一)
文史类
相关试题推荐
Englishisnowtheinternationallanguageforairlinepilots,scientists,medicalexperts,businessmenandmanyothers.Conseque
TheAmericanisquitereadytoadmitcertainweaknesses,suchas’Tneverwasgoodatmathematics,""I’marottentennisplayer,"
ashamedofanotheralloverwhatstealloselivinghowafterasifevenaliveagainst
(63)Thefortunatepeopleintheworld,theonlyreallyfortunatepeopleintheworld,inmymind,arethosewhoseworkisalsot
meaningfulmeaninglessconsistentpublishtruthfulappreciateembarrassfigurativesymbolically
FollowingfootballheroO.J.Simpson’sarrestinJune,1994,forthemurderofhisex-wifeandoneofherfriends,Newsweekand
FollowingfootballheroO.J.Simpson’sarrestinJune,1994,forthemurderofhisex-wifeandoneofherfriends,Newsweekand
semantictransfer
Whichofthefollowingwordsdoesnotbelongtojargon?()
Ofthethreecornerstonesofthepostwareconomicboom,______wasnotrelatedtotheupsurgeinbirths.()
随机试题
真核生物成熟的mRNA5ˊ-端具有
人类建过程是从
廷行事
人文社会经济资料的搜集主要包括()。
常温时,等体积等物质的量浓度的下列物质的溶液中,水的电离度由大到小顺序排列的是()。①Na2CO3②NaHSO4③CH3COOH④NaHCO3
构建学习型组织的内容包括()。
针对精神疾病和心理异常的早期发现和早期治疗,防止病情的发展和恶化,这是心理卫生工作()水平的任务。
“三个代表”重要思想这一科学理论在建设中国特色社会主义的思想路线、发展道路、发展阶段和发展战略、根本任务、发展动力、依靠力量、国际战略、领导力量和根本目的等重大问题上取得了丰硕成果,用一系列紧密联系、相互贯通的新思想、新观点、新论断,创造性地回答了(
【2015年第44题】研究人员将角膜感觉神经断裂的兔子分为两组:实验组和对照组。他们给实验组兔子注射一种从土壤霉菌中提取的化合物。3周后检查发现,实验组兔子的角膜感觉神经已经复合;而对照组兔子未注射这种化合物,其角膜感觉神经都没有复合。研究人员由此得出结论
已知两个线性方程组同解,求m,n,t.
最新回复
(
0
)