1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Good afternoon, students and teachers. As a member of the International Olympic Committee, I am     1    (delight) to have been invited to your school to talk to you about the history and     2    (significant) of the Olympic Games. I’ll share some     3    (interest) facts and stories with you, and then we’ll have time for questions?

Do you know when the ancient Olympic Games began? It was in the year 776 BC. They     4    (hold) at Olympia in Greece every four years, for almost 12     5    (century), until AD 394.

Some of the sports from the ancient Olympics are still seen today, such as the long jump, wresting and running. At the ancient Olympics by tradition the athletes were all men and they had to compete     6    (wear) no clothes. Single women were allowed to take part in their own competition, at a separate festival in honour of Hera, the wife of the Greek god Zeus. Today, both male and female athletes from around the world can take part, no matter what nation they come     7    .

The contemporary Olympics were first held in 1896, in Athens. It was a Frenchman, Pierre de coubortin,    8     brought the Olympics back to life. He dreamed that the Olympics would make     9     possible for people of all countries to live side by side in peace. Now people all over the world are helping to realize this dream. Among them are many well-known athletes.

Did you know that perhaps the most famous boxer of all time first came to public attention during the 1960 Rome Olympics? He won the gold medal for the USA, under his birth name Cassius Clay. Afterwards, this young man went on to win the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in 1964 and later changed his name to     10     one we all know, Muhammad Ali. He returned to the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 to light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony.

2 . In Europe many people died during the Second World War. As a result, at the end of the war there were many orphans (孤儿) there. A man called Hermann Gmeiner wanted to help these children. His idea was simple. He wanted orphans to have a home, and he wanted them to have the care and kindness of parents. Gmeiner asked people to give him some money. With this money he built the first SOS Children's Village at Imst, in Austria. It opened in1949. This is how the SOS stand for “Save Our Souls.” This means, “Please help us!” An SOS Children’ village gives help to orphans. Hermann Gmeiner’s idea for helping orphans soon spread all over the world. By 1983 there were 170 SOS Children's Villages in the world. People in many countries give money to help the villages.

Today the children from the first village have grown up. Now some of them work in other SOS Children’s Villages. In SOS Villages orphans live in family groups. There are several houses in each village. The biggest village has 40 or 50 houses! Between seven and ten children live in a house. A woman lives with each group of children and looks after them. She gives the children a lot of love and kindness. She cooks meals for them and makes comfortable, happy home for them.

Of course, the children don’t spend all their time in the village. They go to school; they go out with their friends. But the village gives them a home—sometimes for the first time in their lives.

1. The SOS Children’s Villages are built for________ first.

A．the children who are poor	B．the orphans in Europe
C．the kind women	D．people who died in the war.

2. We can conclude from the article that the money for helping the SOS Villages mainly comes from ________ .

A．governments	B．special organization
C．people in different countries	D．the orphans themselves

3. Which of the following is NOT the work a woman in an SOS Village does for each group of children?

A．She lives with the children and looks after them.

B．She gives the children a lot of love and kindness.

C．She cooks meals for children.

D．She teaches the children how to use the computer.

3 . The first drawings on walls appeared in caves thousands of years ago. Modern graffiti（涂鸦）seems to have appeared in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, and by the late sixties it had reached New York. The new art form really took off in the 1970s, when people began writing their names, or “tags（标签）”, on building all over the city.

In the early days, the “taggers” were young street men who were trying to mark their space. They worked in groups and called what they did “writing” ---- the word “graffiti” was first used by The New York Times and the author Norman Mailer Art galleries in New York began buying graffiti in the early seventies. But at the same time is began to be considered as an art form. John Lindsay, the mayor of New York, announced the first war on graffiti. By the 1980s it became much harder to write on subway trains without being caught and instead many of the graffiti artists began using roofs of buildings.

The argument over whether graffiti is art is still going on. Peter Vallone, a New York City Councilor thinks that graffiti done with permission（许可）can be art, but if it is on someone else’s buildings it become a crime （犯罪）. On the other hand, Felix, a member of the Berlin-based group Reclaim Your City, says that graffiti shows freedom and makes cities livelier.

Graffiti is now sometimes big business. The Frenchman Blek le Rat and the British artist Banksy have become internationally famous by producing works which often make humorous points. Works by Banksy have been sold for over $100,000.

1. When did graffiti really take off?

A．In the 1960s.	B．By the late sixties.
C．In the 1970s	D．By the late seventies.

2. Who created the word “graffiti”?

A．Some street artists.	B．Art galleries in New York.
C．A newspaper and a writer.	D．The mayor of New York.

3. How did things change after the first war on graffiti?

A．New York looked a lot cleaner.

B．People gave up doing graffiti.

C．It became safe to take subway trains.

D．Many graffiti artists began using roofs of buildings.

4. What does New York City councilor Peter Vallone say about graffiti?

A．It can be beautiful when it’s done by a skilled artist.

B．It is a crime if the artist doesn’t have permission.

C．It gives people the freedom of expression.

D．It is far from being considered art.

4 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

People today take lots of photos. Some photographs are really memorable. They either capture important events, such as birthday parties or weddings,    1     show beautiful places. Years later, people may look at these special photos to remember     2     past.

However, how did people record important moments without cameras long ago? Some people told     3     (story) about old times, and others wrote down     4     they remembered. There were also a lot of people     5     (make) special drawings to help them recall important moments. Among those people were Native Americans of the Lakota tribe.

Every year, Lakota leaders decided which event was most important. A Lakota     6     (art) was then asked to draw a special picture of that event. Because each year’s picture was decided on during the winter, the drawings became     7     (know) as winter counts.

For a long time, winter counts were drawn on animal skins. Later, the drawings     8     (do) on paper. The pictures told the history of the tribe. Each year, the newest winter count was added     9     the Lakota collection of pictures from     10     (early) times. That helped people keep track of the years. Today, winter counts are important records of the Lakota’s past.