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Unit 2 The Olympic Games

Bids for Summer Olympics竞选夏季奥运会

Paris, Hamburg, Budapest(布达佩斯), Rome, and Los Angeles

主题语境

人与社会

were the five candidate cities. The process was slowed by withdrawals,

课标话题

political uncertainty and large costs. Hamburg withdrew its bid on 29

运动文化

November 2015 after holding a public voting, followed by Rome and

Budapest.

思维品质

Following these withdrawals, the IOC Executive Board met in

通过了解产生

Lausanne(洛桑), Switzerland to discuss the 2024 and 2028 bid processes on 2024年与2028年

9 June 2017. The IOC set up a process where the LA and Paris bid

夏季奥运会举办

committees met with the IOC to discuss who would host the Games in 2024

and 2028, and whether it was possible to select the host cities for both at the

same time.

城市的过程, 让

学生更多了解奥

At last, Paris was elected as the preferred host for 2024 and Los Angles

运会的相关话题,

for 2028. Both decisions were approved at the 131st IOC Session on 13

September 2017.

【外刊概要】 本篇文章介绍了巴黎、汉堡、布达佩斯、洛杉矶以及罗

马五个城市竞选夏季奥运会举办权, 在汉堡、罗马和布达佩斯相继因经济

问题或政治问题退出后, 经奥委会决定, 巴黎获得2024年奥运会举办权,

洛杉矶成为了2028年的举办城市。

一词多义(withdraw)

1. Tom was forced to withdraw from the competition. (使)退出

2. Government troops were forced to withdraw. (使)撤回, 撤离

3. I’d like to withdraw ￡250 please. 提, 取(银行账户中的存款)

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增加奥运选举城

市的相关知识。

对接教材

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Unit 2 The

Olympic Games

1. compete vi. 比赛; 竞争

【教材重温】Our Greek cities used to compete against each other just for the honour of winning.

(P10)

我们希腊城过去互相竞赛只为胜利的荣誉。

【语境速测】 单句语法填空

①Although Charles Darwin thought that trees are competing for survival of the fittest, Simard

shows just how wrong he was.

②Life is like a long race where we often compete with/against others to go beyond ourselves.

③We are in competition (compete) with four other companies for the contract.

完成句子

④We can compete with students from other schools in the World Adolescent Robotics

Competition.

我们可以和来自其他学校的学生在世界青少年机器人技能竞赛中竞争。

【词块必记】

(1)compete in. . . 参加……比赛; 在……方面竞争

compete for. . . 为……而竞争

compete with/against. . . for. . . 为争取……而与……对抗/竞争

(2)competition n. 比赛; 竞争

in competition with. . . 与……进行竞争

(3)competitor n. 竞争者; 对手

competitive adj. 有竞争力的

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