Question

【題目】People enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy, happy and to live longer. Many people like to watch others play games. They buy tickets or sit in front of TV sets. Often they get very excited when “their player or team” wins.

People play different games in winter and summer. Swimming is fun in warm weather, but skating is good in winter.

Some sports are so interesting that most people like them. Football, for example (例如), is played around the world. Swimming is very popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. How fun it is to jump into a pool or a lake! And for people in cold countries, like Norway or Canada, they like to skate or ski.

Some sports go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing（拳擊）, for example, has a long history. But basketball and volleyball are very new. And new sports or games come into the world almost all the time.

根據短文內容，回答下列問題。

【1】Why do people like sports?

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【2】What’s the meaning of “their player or team” in the first passage?

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【3】Which sport is very popular in the countries near the sea?

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【4】In what kind of country people like to ski?

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【5】What sports have a long history?

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Answer 1

【答案】

【1】Because sports help to keep people healthy, happy and to live longer.

【2】That means the player or team they like.

【3】Swimming.

【4】The cold countries, like Norway or Canada.

【5】Running, jumping and Chinese boxing.

【解析】本文介紹了人們喜歡運動的原因，人們在不同季節喜歡不同的運動，有些運動有很多年的歷史。

【1】根據People enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy, happy and to live longer. 可知人們喜歡運動，是因為運動能幫助人們保持健康，高興和長壽，故為Because sports help to keep people healthy, happy and to live longer.

【2】根據Many people like to watch others play games. They buy tickets or sit in front of TV sets. Often they get very excited when “their player or team” wins. 可知此處指的他們喜歡那個球隊或那個球員，故為That means the player or team they like.

【3】根據Swimming is very popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers.可知在靠海的國家里游泳是非常受歡迎的運動，故為Swimming.

【4】根據And for people in cold countries, like Norway or Canada, they like to skate or ski.

可知在像挪威或加拿大這些寒冷的國家，人們喜歡滑冰或滑雪，故為The cold countries, like Norway or Canada.

【5】根據Some sports go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing（拳擊）, for example, has a long history.可知跑步，跳和中國拳擊有悠久的歷史，故為Running, jumping and Chinese boxing.