高中英语人教版高一上01

[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 1?

[00:22.31]Shooting.Do you like shooting?

[00:25.97]I prefer horse riding to shooting.

[00:29.83]What about wrestling 2 and sailing 3?

[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 4 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 5 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 6 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 7.

[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