1986-2009 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题答案 13
[A] Helicopters have only been worked on by man since 1940.
[B] Chinese children were the first to achieve flight in helicopters.
[C] Helicopters were considered more dangerous than the early airplanes.
[D] Some people thought they would become widely used by average individuals.
14. How has the use of helicopters developed?
[A] They have been widely used for various purposes.
[B] They are taking the place of high-flying jets.
[C] They are used for rescue work.
[D] They are now used exclusively for commercial projects.
15. Under what conditions are helicopters found to be absolutely essential?
[A] For overseas passenger transportation.
[B] For extremely high altitude flights.
[C] For high-speed transportation.
[D] For urgent mission to places inaccessible to other kinds of craft.
Text 2
In ancient Greece athletic festivals were very important and had strong religious associations. The
Olympian athletic festival held every four years in honor of Zeus, king of the Olympian Gods,
eventually lost its local character, became first a national event and then, after the rules against
fore ign c ompet itor s had been a boli shed, inter nati o nal. No on e kno w s ex actly how f ar b a ck t he
Olympic Games go, but some official records date from 776 B.C. The games took place in August
on the plain by Mount Olympus. Many thousands of spectators gathered from all parts of Greece,
but no married woman was admitted even as a spectator. Slaves, women and dishonored persons
were not allowed to compete. The exact sequence of events uncertain, but events included boy’s
g y m n a s t i c s , b o x i n g , w r e s t l i n g , h o r s e r a c i n g a n d f i e l d e v e n t s , t h o u g h t h e r e w e r e f e w e r s p o r t s
involved than in the modern Olympic Games.
On the last day of the Games, all the winners were honored by having a ring of holy olive leaves
placed on their heads. So great was the honor that the winner of the foot race gave his name to the
year of his victory. Although Olympic winners received no prize money, they were, in fact, richly
r e w a r d e d b y t h e i r s t a t e a u t h o r i t i e s . H o w t h e i r r e s u l t s c o m p a r e d w i t h m o d e r n s t a n d a r d s , w e
unfortunately have no means of telling.
After an uninterrupted history of almost 1,200 years, the Games were suspended by the Romans in
394 A.D. They continued for such a long time because people believed in the philosophy behind
t h e O l y m p i c s : t h e i d e a t h a t a h e a l t h y b o d y p r o d u c e d a h e a l t h y m i n d , a n d t h a t t h e s p i r i t o f
competition in sports and games was preferable to the competition that caused wars. It was over
1,500 years before another such international athletic gathering took place in Athens in 1896.
N o w a d a y s , t h e G a m e s a r e h e l d i n d i f f e r e n t c o u n t r i e s i n t u r n . T h e h o s t c o u n t r y p r o v i d e s v a s t
f a c i l i t i e s , i n c l u d i n g a s t a d i u m , s w i m m i n g p o o l s a n d l i v i n g a c c o m m o d a t i o n , b u t c o m p e t i n g
courtiers pay their own athletes’ expenses.
The Olympics start with the arrival in the stadium of a torch, lighted on Mount Olympus by the
s u n ’ s r a y s . I t i s c a r r i e d b y a s u c c e s s i o n o f r u n n e r s t o t h e s t a d i u m . T h e t o r c h s y m b o l i z e d t h e
c o n t i n u a t i o n o f t h e a n c i e n t G r e e k a t h l e t i c i d e a l s , a n d i t b u r n s t h r o u g h o u t t h e G a m e s u n t i l t h e
c l o s i n g c e r e m o n y . T h e w e l l - k n o w n O l y m p i c f l a g , h o w e v e r , i s a m o d e r n c o n c e p t i o n : t h e f i v e
interlocking rings symbolize the uniting of all five continents participating in the Games.
16. In ancient Greece, the Olympic Games ________.