[00:04.10]Lesson 37 1 Dialogue
[00:10.34]A: Do you often have sports at school?
[00:14.11]Of course.I love sports.
[00:17.76]Which do you prefer,horse riding or shooting?
[00:22.31]Shooting.Do you like shooting?
[00:25.97]I prefer horse riding to shooting.
[00:29.83]What about wrestling and sailing?
[00:33.67]Both of them are exciting.
[00:37.43]I like watching them.Are you good at sailing?
[00:41.90]Yes.In fact,I'm on our city t eam.
[00:46.45]Great.Would you please let me know when you hvae a race? Sure.
[00:52.40]Lesson 38 Reading
[01:02.75]Read the passage and answer the question
[01:07.42]"When and where were the first Olympic Games in modern times?"
[01:13.98]THE OLYMPIC GAMES
[01:17.64]Every fore years athletes from all over the world take part in the Olympic Games.
[01:24.72]Both the Summer and Winter Olympics are held every four years.
[01:30.96]The Winter Olympics are usually held two years before the Summer Olympics.
[01:37.20] The old Olympic Games from which the modern games came
[01:42.79]began around the year 776 BC in Greece.
[01:49.32]Many of the sports were the same as they are now.
[01:53.97]Some of the games in which the young men competed were:
[01:59.64]running,jumping and wretling.
[02:03.69]Women were not allowed to take part in the games.
[02:08.37] After about the year 393 AD the Olympic Games stopped.
[02:15.63]For centuries there were no Olympic Games.
[02:19.78]But they were not forgotten.
[02:22.94] The first Olympic Games in modern times happened in 1896.
[02:29.32]They were held in Greece--the country in which the games were born.
[02:34.96]In the 1896 games there were 311 competitors from just 13 countries.
[02:43.32]After that more and more countries joined in the games.
[02:48.46]In 1992 over 8,000 competitors from more than 150 countries
[02:56.12]went to Barcelona for the 25th Summer Olympics!
[03:01.68]There are over 250 different sports in the games.
[03:07.12]Sailing,horse-riding and shooing are some of the more unusual sports.
[03:13.65] They Olympic motto is "Swifter,Higher,Stronger."
[03:18.71]It means that every athlete should try to run faster,jump higher,and throw further.
[03:25.98]They do their best to win medals.
[03:29.74]In the 1984 Olympic Games,Carl Lewis won four gold medals--
[03:36.82]in the 100 metres,200 metres long jump and 4*100-metre relay.
[03:45.57]In Barcelona the Chinese team got 16 gold medals,
[03:51.44]of which 12 were won by women.
[03:55.42] One of the great competitions is not for a medal.
[04:00.27]It is the competitions between countries to hold the Olympics.
[04:05.60]To hold the Olympic Games is a rich prize for a country |