About 50 years ago the idea of disabled people doing sports was never heard of. But when the annual games for the disabled were started at Stroke Mandeville, England in 1948 by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, the situation began to change. Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who had been driven to England in 1939 from Nazi Germany, had been asked by the British government to set up an injuries centre at Stroke Mandeville Hospital near London. His ideas about treating injuries included sports for the disabled.
In the first games just two teams of injured soldiers took part. The next year, 1949, five teams took part. From those beginnings things developed fast. Teams now come from abroad to Stroke Mandeville every year. In 1960 the first Olympics for the Disabled were held in Rome. Now, every four years the Olympic Games for the Disabled are held, if possible, in the same place as die normal Olympic Games, although they are organized separately. In other years Games for the Disabled are still held at Stroke Mandeville. In the 1984 wheelchair Olympic Games, 1, 604 wheelchair athletes from about 40 countries took part. Unfortunately, they were held at Stroke Mandeville and not in Los Angeles, along with the other Olympics.
The Games have been a great success in promoting international friendship and understanding, and in proving that being disabled does not mean you can't enjoy sports. One small source of disappointment for those who organize and take part in the games, however, has been the unwillingness of the International Olympic Committee to include the disabled events at the Olympic Games for the able bodies. Perhaps a few more years are still needed to convince those fortunate enough not to be disabled that their disabled fellow athletes should not be excluded.
The first games for the disabled were held________after Sir Ludwing Guttmann arrived in England.
A.50 years
B.21 years
C.9 years
D.4 years
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The American love of sports (11) to a pitch never before known. (12) the middle of the century we were practically without sports and even until some fifteen years ago there (13) very little enthusiasm aroused by sports (14) the fever that has within the past decade and a half swept over the country.
(15) the passionate fervor has been increasing,and the coming season promises to be the most enthusiastic of all.
(16) England the Romans brought their sports;then the Saxons and the Normans added others,and there were football matches and archery games.
In 1618 King James I issued a book of sports stating what sports were (17) after church service on Sundays;but intense anger was (18) among those who strictly observed the principles of the Bible,and in 1644 the Long Parliament ordered the book (19) by the public executioner,and all sports forbidden or strongly (20) .
A. have raised
B. has raised
C. have risen
D. has risen
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A. curious
B. funny
C. hard
D. worried
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New York
London
Rome
Los Angeles
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Sir Ludwig Guttmann is an early organizer of the games for the disabled.
Sir Ludwig Guttmann is an injured soldier.
Sir Ludwig Guttmann is from Germany.
Sir Ludwig Guttmann is welcomed by the British government.
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one of the organizers of the game for the disabled
a disabled person who once took part in the games
against holding the games for the disabled
in favor of holding the games for the disabled
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A、which
B、when
C、whom
D、who
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Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. There are about 10 percent disabled persons in the UK.
B. The whole society should pay attention to the barriers faced by the disabled people.
C. Even the able-bodied may lose some of their body functions when they get older.
D. There still exists prejudice against the disabled which results mainly from ignorance.
44.答案为D。用排除法,选项D与第四段第四句prejudice can be even harder to break down and ignorance inevitably represents by far the greatest barrier of all不符。选项A在第二段第一句提到;选项B在最后一段最后一句提到;选项C在第三段第三句提到。
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用英文向乘客询问目的地应该说()
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40 years
21 years
10 years
9 years
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