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朗阁海外考试研究中心 Research Academy for Foreign Language Examinations 雅思考试阅读考题回顾 朗阁海外考试研究中心 王婧 考试日期 2015 年4 月25 日 Reading Passage 1 Title Making of Olympic Torch 奥运火炬 Sentence Completion 3 题 Question types: Matching 6 题 Label 5 题 Making of Olympic Torch A Every two years, people around the world wait in anticipation as a torch-bearing runner enters the Olympic arena and lights the cauldron. The symbolic lighting of the Olympic flame marks the beginning of another historic Olympic Games. The opening ceremony is the end of a long journey for the Olympic torch. The ancient Greeks revered the power of fire. In Greek mythology, the god Prometheus stole fire from Zeus and gave it to humans. The Greeks held their first Olympic Games in 776 B. C. The Games, held every four years at Olympia, honored Zeus and other Greek gods. A constantly burning flame was a regular fixture throughout Greece. At the start of the Olympic Games, the Greeks would ignite a cauldron of flame upon the altar dedicated to Hera, goddess of birth and marriage. 文章内容回顾 B The flame was reintroduced to the Olympics at the 1928Amsterdam Games. A cauldron was lit, but there was no