B The ‘Olympics’ brought together men from war-torn tribes and states in Greece and its colonies. A sacred truce was declared to allow men to travel to the games in safety. Women could not take part and were forbidden, on pain of death, even to attend the Games.
• Question:
• How many cities were competing in 1993 for the right to hold the 2000 Games? (SAQ)
• EG：AB重现
• Sea fishing grew rapidly in the decades after the Second World War. Mechanisation increased the fishermen’s catch in traditional grounds and then carried them to distant waters for more.
• Question:
• Paper is less threatening to our environment when we throw it away because it is ________. (fill in the blanks)
一、查找பைடு நூலகம்节
• 步骤1: • 预测答案的可能性
• WINTER SPORTS（雅思考试全真模拟题）
CThe ancient Olympics were abolished by the Roman Emperor Theodosius in 393 AD, after Greece had lost its independence. But the idea never died and the Frenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin, an educator and scholar, founded the modern Olympics,his aim was to bring together, once every four years, athletes from all countries on the friendly fields of amateur sport. No account was to be taken of national rivalries, nor politics, race, religion, wealth or social status.
雅思阅读定位法
王莹
（快速阅读）查找细节 掌握主旨（语言技能）
快速阅读
（精读）单词
语法 （语言知识）
• EG:AA重现
• At precisely 4:20 am on Friday the 24th of September 1993, it was announced that Sydney had beaten five other competing cities around the world, and Australians everywhere , not only Sydney-siders, were justifiably proud of the result. But, if Sydney had lost the bid, would the taxpayers of NSW and of Australia have approved of government’s spending millions of dollars in a failed and costly exercise?
D The first modern Games were held in Athens in 1896, and four years later, in Paris, women began to take part. Although the winter Olympics did not begin until 1924, figure skating was part of the 1908 London summer Olympics; both skating and ice hockey were included in the Antwerp Games in 1920. But generally winter sports were felt to be too specialized. Only cold weather countries had much experience of activities such as skiing-a means of transport overland across ice and snow during long winters.
• Ice,danger and exhilaration
A The 17th Winter Games, held in Norway in 1994, are part of an Olympic tradition which goes back almost 3,000 years. For more than Games were held, every four years, on hallowed ground near Mount Olympus, where the Greek gods were said to live.
• Question:
• Technological developments contributed to the higher fish catches after the Second World War. (true/ false/ not given)
• EG：关系重现
• Paper is also biodegradable, so it does not pose as much threat to the environment when it is discarded.