Beijing's hotel industry is gearing up（快速发展）to serve the 2008 Olympic Games. Seven five-star hotels signed an Olympic Lodging（住宿）Agreement with Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games（BOCOG）.

The seven hotels include Beijing Hotel, China World Hotel, Grand Hotel Beijing, Hong Kong Macao Center Swiss Hotel, Beijing International Hotel, Kunlun Hotel and Crowne Plaza View Wuzhou Beijing.

　　According to the Olympic Lodging Agreement, the seven hotels will provide（提供）accommodation to accredited（官方派出的）people from the Olympic Family, the sponsors（赞助商）and the media（媒体）. At the time of the 2008 Games, the seven hotels are to keep a total of over 3,500 rooms available to BOCOG.

　　In line with the Olympic Charter and the Host City Contract, BOCOG will have to provide 22,000 suitable hotel rooms for accredited people during the Games period, BOCOG is expected to sign the same agreement with some 70 more star hotels this year to ensure（确保）that a total of 23,000 hotel rooms will be made available during the Games.

(1) BOCOG is trying to find ________ for the Olympic Games.

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(2) The seven hotels have ________ 3,500 available rooms in all.

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(3) At least ________ more rooms are being looked for by BOCOG.

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(4) From the text we know that BOCOG ________ for the 2008 Games.

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(5) The prepared rooms are not for ________.

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　　Olympia, a beautiful small town in the south of Greece, is well-known all over the world for its first holding Olympic Games in 776 BC.

　　At first, the Games were said to be national, and then it became international. Those except women who took part in the first Olympic Games held the games once every four years. This custom（习俗）lasted for about 1170 years, but stopped with the rules of. Rome in 394 AD.

　　In order to renew the spirit and thoughts shown in the ancient Greek Olympic Games, a Frenchman Gowbertin managed（设法）to start the games again. So the modern Olympic Games were held in 1896 to promote（促进）the international understanding through players. Nine nations took part in the Games. But this time they were held not in Olympia, but in Athens, Greece.

　　Since then the Olympia, have grown steadily（稳定地）with more and more nations and sportsmen and sportswomen taking part in the Games. Nowadays, the Games are held in different countries in turn. But because of the world wars the Games were not held in 1916, nor in the year 1940. They had been regularly（规则地）held ever since then.

(1) ________ can take part in the first Olympic Games.

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(2) How many years did the old Olympic Games last?

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(3) Where and when did the first modern Olympic Games take place?

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(4) How many Olympic Games have been held since 1896?

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　　Every summer many people, girls and women as well as boys and men try to swim from England to France or from France to England. The distance at the nearest point is only about 20 miles but because of the strong tides（海浪）the distance that must be swum is usually more than twice as far.

　　The first man who succeeded in swimming the English Channel（英吉利海峡）was Captain Web, an Englishman. This was in August 1875. He landed in France 21 hours later after he jumped into the water at Dover. Since then there have been many successful swimmers and time has been shortened. In 1960 a Canadian crossed in 10 hours and 23 minutes.

　　Because the sea is usually cold, swimmers cover their bodies with grease（油脂）.This helps them to keep out the cold. They can also eat something, because some men go with them in small boats.

(1) People have to swim ________ to cross the English Channel.

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(2) Dover may be a name of ________.

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(3) From the passage we know ________ can swim the Channel successfully.

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(4) From the passage we know the most successful swimmer was ________.

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(5) No man could swim from England to France or from France to England until ________.

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