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In ancient Greece athletic festivals were very important and had strong religious association. The Olympian athletic festival he
In ancient Greece athletic festivals were very important and had strong religious association. The Olympian athletic festival he
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In ancient Greece athletic festivals were very important and had strong religious association. The Olympian athletic festival held every four years in honor of Zeus, king of the Olympian Gods, eventually lost its local character, 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 dated 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 modem 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 was compared with modem 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 1886.
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 ideals, and it bums throughout the Games until the closing ceremony. The well-known Olympic flag, however, is a modem conception: the five interlocking rings symbolize the uniting of all five continents participating in the Games.
In ancient Greece, the Olympic Games ______.
选项
A、were in the nature of a national event with a strong religious color
B、had roles which put foreign participants in a disadvantageous position
C、were merely national athletic festivals
D、were primarily national events with few foreign participants
答案
A
解析
文章第一段开始谈到了奥运会的简单历史:“在古希腊,体育盛会十分重要,并与宗教联系密切。奥林匹克体育盛会是为纪念奥林匹亚神王Zeus,每四年举办一次。最后失去地方特点而首先成为全国运动会,在废除了敌视外国运动员的规定后成了国际运动会。”这表明奥运会原为古希腊带有强烈宗教色彩的国内运动会。因此选A。
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