2019年12月英语四级考试阅读习题及答案解析(5).pdfVIP

2019 年 12 月英语四级考试阅读习题及答案解析 (5) iv style=height ：40px; width ：100%; border ：1px dashed #99CCFF; margin ：10px auto; Passage 5 The first modern Olympic Games was held in Athens( 雅 典)in 1896 and only twelve nations participated. Besides the host nation man participants were tourists who __1__ to be in Greece at the time. Though the whole affair was __2__ and the standard was not high, the old principle of amateur sport was kept up. Since then the games had been held every four years except during the __3__ of the two World War. This was __4__ a departure from the old Olympic spirit when wars had to stop and make way for the games. The games have grown enormously in scale and __5__ performances have now reached unprecedented heights. Unfortunately the same cannot be said about their __6__ standard. Instead of Olympia, the modern games are now held in different cities all over the world. Inevitably politics and commercialism get involvedas countries vie each other for( 为 而互相竞争 ) the __7__ to hold the games because of the political prestige and commercial profit to be __8__ out of them. In the 11 th games held in Berlin in 1936, Hitler who had newly come to __9__ in Germany tried to use the occasion for his Nazi propaganda. For the first time the Olympic flame was brought all the way from Olympia to the games site in relays, a marathon journey now often taking months to __10__. A) honour B) accomplish C) had D) moral E) arrive F) occured G) end H) power I) happened J) definitely K) Physical L) informal M) interruption N) especially O) irregular 参考答案及解析： 1. 选 I) 。空格中要填词为 who引导的定语从句中的谓语动词，可 知此处应填动词的过去式。可选项有 had, occurred 和 happened, 首先 空格所在的 who 引导的定语从句修饰的是 tourists “游客”， happened to be in Greece “碰巧在希腊”是符合这样的语境的，而 had to “不