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  3. According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles, a son of Zeus. Yet the first Olympic Games for which

According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles, a son of Zeus. Yet the first Olympic Games for which

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问题     According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded
by Heracles, a son of Zeus. Yet the first Olympic Games for which
we still have written records was held in 776 BC. At this Olympic
Games, a naked runner, Coroebus—a cooker from Elis, won the sole【M1】______
event at the Olympics, the stade—a run of approximate 192 meters.【M2】______
This made Coroebus the very first Olympic champion in history. The
ancient Olympic Games grew and continued to be played every four
years for nearly 1200 years. In 393 BC, the Roman emperor abolished
the Games because their pagan influences. Approximately 1500 years【M3】______
later, a young Frenchman named Pierre de Coubertin began their revival.
Coubertin’s attempt to get France interested in sports was met with【M4】______
enthusiasm at first. Still, Coubertin persisted. In 1890, he organized
and found a sports organization, Union des Societes Francaises de【M5】______
Sports Athl6tiques(USFSA). Two years later, Coubertin first pitched
his idea to revive the Olympic Games. At a meeting of the Union des
Sports Athl6tiques in Paris in November 25, 1892, Coubertin made【M6】______
a speech and eloquently spoken of the revival of the Olympic Games.【M7】______
This time, he aroused up interest. The delegates at the conference【M8】______
voted unanimously for the Olympic Games and also decided to have
Coubertin constructed an international committee to organize the【M9】______
Games. This committee became the International Olympic Committee
and Demetrious Vikelas in Greece was selected to be their first【M10】______
president Athens was chosen for the revival of the Olympic Games
and the planning was begun.
【M1】
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答案cooker→cook
解析 词汇错误，易混词误用。cooker指“厨具”，而cook指“厨师”，两词极易混淆。此处指人，应为cook。
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