[单项选择]The world's greatest sporting event, the Olympic Games, upholds the amateur idea that ______ matters is not winning but participating.


A. it
B. anything
C. everything
D. what

[单项选择]The world's greatest sporting event, the Olympic Games, upholds the amateur idea that ______ matters is not winning but participating.


A. it
B. anything
C. everything
D. what

[单项选择]The International Olympic Committee rejects the accusations that Beijing's budget-cutting move might ______ its preparation for the games.
A. degrade
B. deliberate
C. deploy
D. defend

[单项选择]In which year were the Olympic Games discontinued


A. AD776.
B. AD393.
C. AD1896.
D. AD793.

[单项选择]There is always excitement at the Olympic Games when an athlete breaks a previous record of performance.
A. beats
B. matches
C. maintains
D. announces

[单项选择]According to the passage, the first Olympic games were held______.

[单项选择]According to the author, recent Olympic Games have ______.


A. created goodwill between the nations
B. bred only false national pride
C. barely showed any international friendship
D. led to more and more misunderstanding and hatred

[单项选择]Beethoven established himself as the greatest composer ______.


A. with his powerful middle-period works
B. when his first three piano concertos were finished
C. around 1802
D. around 1795

[单项选择]Whichever way you look at （）, joining the Olympic Games can be an outstanding achievement for anyone.
A. that
B. it
C. one
D. this

[单项选择]Most people believe that the greatest countries are those that ______.


A. built the highest pillars
B. were beaten in battle by the greatest number of other countries
C. were ruled by the greatest number of conquerors
D. won over the greatest number of other countries as conquerors

[单项选择]When did the greatest numbers of immigrants reach the United States of America


A. From 1840 to 1880.
B. From 1880 to 1914.
C. From 1818 to 1914.
D. From 1820 to 1890.

[单项选择]The pioneers' greatest asset was not their material wealth but their ______.
A. fortitude
B. simplicity
C. companions
D. possessions

[单项选择]xdenotes the greatest integer less than or equal to x. Isx=1
(1)x＞1
(2)x＜2
A. 条件(1)充分，但条件(2)不充分．
B. 条件(2)充分，但条件(1)不充分．
C. 条件(1)和(2)单独都不充分，但条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来充分．
D. 条件(1)充分，条件(2)也充分．
E. (E) 条件(1)和条件(2)单独都不充分，条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来也不充分．

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Passage Two
George Bernard Shaw, the greatest British dramatist (居作家) of the first half of the 20th century, was born in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a man who drank too much and could not support his family properly. His mother was a disappointed, unhappy woman who found more pleasure in studying music than in her children. Bernard and his two sisters received little love and attention from their parents when they were young.
Shaw was a good, bright, curious student in his school years. At fifteen, he went to work in an office. After five years, he decided that he wanted to be a writer, so he left Ireland then and went to London, where he began to write seriously.
On September 2, 1882, Shaw’s ideas on socialism suddenly took shape (成形) when he attended the lecture by an American economist Henry George. The lecture led him to recognize that economics must be at the centre of socialist thought. He studied Karl Marx’s Das Kapital and at
A. before he got married
B. after he won the Nobel Prize for literature
C. just before he came to China
D. after he wrote many plays