时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语四级听力练习集锦


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[00:00.00]UNIT15


[00:13.45]The Ancient Olympics


[00:15.97]With great anticipation,China 


[00:19.90]is busily preparing for 


[00:21.87]the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. 


[00:25.82]Beijing will be added 


[00:28.00]to a long list of 


[00:29.42]the great cities that 


[00:30.85]have invited the world to 


[00:32.38]honour the world’s greatest athletes 


[00:34.79]in the modern era 


[00:36.43]of the Olympic Games. 


[00:37.96]China will also become 


[00:40.59]part of an important, 


[00:42.33]rich heritage, that goes 


[00:44.19]back more than 2000 years.


[00:46.82]The origins of the ancient 


[00:50.76]Olympic Games tend to be 


[00:52.83]submerged in a sea of Greek myths. 


[00:55.13]One popular myth suggests that 


[00:59.18]Pelops, a prince from Lydia, 


[01:02.13]in Asia Minor 1 (nowadays Turkey), 


[01:04.76]won the hand of a princess 


[01:06.95]by unfairly defeating a competing 


[01:09.80]suitor in a chariot race. 


[01:12.09]The loser was to 


[01:14.39]be condemned 2 to beheading. 


[01:16.69]The prince rigged his opponent’s 


[01:19.75]chariot to crash during the race. 


[01:22.49]Later, the chariot did crash, 


[01:25.11]killing the driver. The princess 


[01:28.28]became Pelop’s bride, and 


[01:31.79]he instituted the Olympic Games 


[01:34.30]to celebrate his victory. 


[01:36.16]However, others claimed that 


[01:39.00]the first Olympic event 


[01:40.76]was a funeral festival to 


[01:42.29]honour his dead competitor.


[01:44.81]Another myth involved Hercules, 


[01:48.96]the mythical 3 strong man.


[01:51.26]Hercules was the son of Zeus, 


[01:54.32]the Greek god, and one 


[01:56.73]of the god’s mistresses. 


[01:58.15]Hera, Zeus’ wife, and also


[02:02.64] his sister, was very upset. 


[02:05.70]She attempted in many ways, 


[02:08.44]to kill Hercules as a baby. 


[02:11.83]Hercules survived. Later, after 


[02:15.55]he had married, Hera successfully 


[02:18.61]put a spell on him, demanding 


[02:20.58]that he kill his wife. 


[02:22.66]Because he was the son 


[02:25.17]of the god, Zeus, Hercules 


[02:27.47]was destined 4 to become 


[02:28.79]a god himself. In order 


[02:31.08]to accomplish this, Hercules 


[02:34.37]had to be cleansed 


[02:35.57]of his wife’s murder. 


[02:37.21]To do this, he was 


[02:39.51]directed to perform 


[02:40.82]twelve difficult labours. If he 


[02:43.12]successfully completed these, 


[02:45.41]he would become an immortal 


[02:47.16]god,like his father.


[02:48.80]One of the majestic 5 labours, 


[02:53.62]was to clean the stables 


[02:55.48]of the King of Elis, 


[02:58.87]in the impossibly brief period 


[03:01.61]of one day. The king 


[03:04.34]had huge stables with 


[03:06.53]very large herds 6 of cattle.


[03:09.15]Her cules asked the king 


[03:11.45]to give him one tenth 


[03:12.98]of his cattle, if he 


[03:14.84]completed the task in 


[03:16.15]one day. The king, 


[03:18.46]perhaps humouring Hercules, 


[03:20.42]or perhaps believing that 


[03:22.51]this task couldn’t possibly 


[03:24.15]be done in one day, agreed. 


[03:26.99]In one day, Hercules diverted 


[03:29.84]two rivers through the barns, 


[03:32.45]cleaning them, but he did 


[03:33.99]not receive the cattle 


[03:35.30]that were promised in the deal. 


[03:37.38]Hercules waged a successful war 


[03:39.79]on the King, sacking Elis. 


[03:42.19]He introduced the Olympic games 


[03:45.59]to celebrate this victory 


[03:47.12]and to honour his father, 


[03:48.87]Zeus, who lived on 


[03:51.06]nearby Mount Olympus. 


[03:53.03]The myth also suggests that 


[03:55.33]Hercules measured out the stade, 


[03:57.95]a footrace event of about 


[04:01.01]200 meters (or the 


[04:02.98]length of the stadium).


[04:04.51]As today, athletes in 


[04:08.34]the ancient world were popular 


[04:10.31]and had tremendous impact on 


[04:11.85]the society of their day. 


[04:14.58]The goal of the well disciplined, 


[04:17.42]physically trim athletes 


[04:19.29]was to be the best. 


[04:21.91]The champion athlete assumed 


[04:24.21]a position of honour and 


[04:26.07]privilege in Greek society. 


[04:28.80]The status of a triumphant 7 athlete 


[04:31.75]also enhanced the reputation 


[04:33.61]of his home city state. 


[04:36.90]Every young Greek boy 


[04:39.52]who pursued the dream of 


[04:41.39]being an Olympic champion 


[04:42.92]some day, envied the athletes. 


[04:45.43]An important part of 


[04:47.95]a Greek school boy’s 


[04:49.59]curriculum was vigorous physical 


[04:51.56]training in gymnasium.



adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修
  • The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
  • I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
adj.神话的;虚构的;想像的
  • Undeniably,he is a man of mythical status.不可否认,他是一个神话般的人物。
  • Their wealth is merely mythical.他们的财富完全是虚构的。
adj.命中注定的;(for)以…为目的地的
  • It was destined that they would marry.他们结婚是缘分。
  • The shipment is destined for America.这批货物将运往美国。
adj.雄伟的,壮丽的,庄严的,威严的,崇高的
  • In the distance rose the majestic Alps.远处耸立着雄伟的阿尔卑斯山。
  • He looks majestic in uniform.他穿上军装显得很威风。
兽群( herd的名词复数 ); 牧群; 人群; 群众
  • Regularly at daybreak they drive their herds to the pasture. 每天天一亮他们就把牲畜赶到草场上去。
  • There we saw herds of cows grazing on the pasture. 我们在那里看到一群群的牛在草地上吃草。
adj.胜利的,成功的;狂欢的,喜悦的
  • The army made a triumphant entry into the enemy's capital.部队胜利地进入了敌方首都。
  • There was a positively triumphant note in her voice.她的声音里带有一种极为得意的语气。
学英语单词
2-methylcortisol
aceraius grandis
Aconitum refracticarpum
allantois chorioidea
aquachloral
arsecheek
avant-gardists
back-channeled
be better of
bean tree
Biankouma
body-thrusts
buarques
bwe
C-Prolog
cable distribution point
Chattertonian
claisen para-rearrangement
coati-mundi
colour screw
Crookes' lens
cumulative error
cylinder cover bolt
date of clearance
dibutyryl
Diphyllobothrium erinacei
diplosomites
dome cap
drip gasoline
drywell ambient temperature
error locating
Euro share market
exhibition space
famale worker
fineberg
flunk
foam in hibitors
foreign exchange option
furnace transformer
gross out
half-bottles
heavy lorry
heterodyne repeater
household word
immanacled
income tax authority
intermodal freight terminal
johann maier ecks
josher
khanaqin
Kundsen-langmuir equation
Kutta-Joukowski airfoil
line broadening
linearly equivalence
lorente
lump salt
mating plug
melomelus
Middeldorpf's triangle
near-optimality
neurogenin
non-parametric cointegration
non-provisional
normal atmosphere
nucleus of the solitary tract
nurserygirl
Odawara
orbitosphenoids
Oto-Manguean
owner-like
phase contour
pig pile
plocamium telfairiae
Plutonian
positive vector
pressure-feed oiling
pullulatings
rabbet line
residual noise
reverse intergenerational influence
rodder
sael
sales record
sayan
scrambly
Silicon Wadi
single-action pressing
spongy brake pedal
structural basis
submolecule
sunk-in
Talodex
test harnesses
thunder thighs
torcious
transition state,transition complex
trimmed in bunker
unaccused
unbenzoled petrol
white mahogany
whitenest
zoocoenology