2. 自考
  3. 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

admin2022-08-19  62
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.
Why cannot modern athletes’ results be compared with those of ancient ones?
选项 A、Because the Greeks had no means of recording the results.
B、Because they are much better.
C、Because details such as the time were not recorded in the past.
D、Because they are much worse.
答案C
解析 推理判断题。第三段第四句讲到古希腊奥运会运动员的成绩和现代运动员的成绩相比较怎么样时，作者谈到“We unfortunately have no means of telling”，所以B和D错误。根据文章我们不知是希腊人没有办法记录这些成绩。还是我们无法得到这些记录，因此A项过于绝对，故A错误。运用排除法。故选C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.kaotiyun.com/show/durx777K
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
随机试题
最新回复(0)