Today some people call Amsterdam the “City of Bicycles” because it is a city which is flat and convenient (方便的) for bicycles.
In the 1960s, a group of cycling fans      an idea. They believed that it would be better for everybody if the city only allows (允许) bicycles to go in the streets in the city centre. They were    that this would help to save energy, reduce pollution and provide free public transport. The group painted hundreds of bicycles       and placed them in public places around Amsterdam for people to use.      could take them and use them for short journeys, whether he was a local or a foreigner. Whenever someone finished a journey, they would    the bike there for someone else to use. The problem was that it didn't work because     took all the bicycles within weeks!
    more than thirty years later, the “white bike” is back in town---this time with a computer chip (芯片) to  its      very move! To take a bicycle, you have to put a special card inside. The new “white bike” is not white any more but is an unusual       with bright colors. The bikes are parked at special parking places and people who want to use them have to take them to another place that has enough room.
There is already less traffic in central Amsterdam, because both locals and tourists are      the white bikes every day. Thanks to the good ideas of lots of people, like the cycling fans in the 1960s, many people around the world have been enjoying city centre streets without cars for many years.

The Olympic Games have changed a lot since they were first held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. At that time, winners got silver medals instead of gold ones. Sounds strange, doesn’t it? People thought silver was better than gold．No women competed in the first Olympics, and only 14 countries took part.

   In the early years of the Olympics, there weren’t many sports. In the first Greek Games, event usually took place in the Panathenaic Stadium（雅典体育场），and you can still see it today. Players did not wear their countries’ clothes in 1896.They traveled to Athens by themselves and had to use their own money to take part.

New sports have been put into the Olympics over time, like badminton and table tennis, Some older games are no longer played, like tug-of-war（拔河）.

   Swimming was different in 1896. There was a 1200-metre race in the sea．A boat took swimmers out into the sea and they had to swim back to land．The first person to win that race was Alfred Hajos. He seemed happy just to finish. “I just wanted to live. That’s more important than winning,” he said．

1．In the first Olympics, winners were given____.

A．gold medals   B．silver and gold medals   C．much money  D．silver medals

2．In the early years of the Olympics__

A．there weren’t many sports 

B．players wore the sports clothes that people wear today 

C．people from about 200 countries took part

D．events usually took place in modern Olympics.

3．_____is no longer played in the modern Olympics.

A．Running       B．Tug-of-war       C．Table tennis        D．Swimming

4．The underlined sentence in the text really means______

A．he was happy because he would finish it

B．he seemed happy just because he finished it

C．he was happy because he gave up at last

D．he seemed happy because he still lived

5．Swimming took place in the ____ in 1896.

A．river           B．lake          C．swimming pool        D．sea

Rewrite the following sentences as required. (根据所给要求，改写下列句子，每空格限填一词)
【小题1】Lily had a good time during her stay in Beijing. (改为否定句)
Lily ________ ________a good time during her stay in Beijing.
【小题2】We have a class meeting once a week. (对划线部分提问)
_________ _________ do you have a class meeting?
【小题3】Many countries make laws to stop smoking in public. (改为被动语态)
Laws _________  _________ by many countries to stop smoking in public.
【小题4】The river pollution is serious in our country today. (改为感叹句)
_________ _________ the river pollution is in our country today!
【小题5】Robert is so short that he can’t yet reach the pears on the table. (改为简单句)
Robert isn’t _________ _________ to reach the pears on the table.
【小题6】I can’t give you better advice than that. (保持原句意思)
I can _________ give you _________ advice.
【小题7】Bill didn’t go to bed until he finished writing the letter at 11:45 last night. (保持原句意思)
Bill _________ _________until he finished writing the letter at 11:45 last night.