Part IV Short Answer Questions (15 minutes)

Directions: In this part there is a short passage with 8 questions or incomplete statements. R the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in fewest possible words. Your answer may be a word, a phrase, or a short sentence. Fewest possible words. Your answer may be a word, a phrase, or a short sentence. Write your answers in the spaces provided on the right of the page.

Sport is one of the world’s largest industries, and most athletes are professionals who are paid for their efforts. Because an athlete succeeds by achievement only—not by economic ground or family connections—sports can be a fast route to wealth, and many athletes play only for money than for love.

This has not always been true. In the ancient Olympics the winner got only a wreath of olive leaves (橄欖葉花環(huán)). Even though the winners became national heroes, the games remained amateur for centuries. Athletes won fame, but no money. As time passed, however, the contests became increasingly less amateur and cities began to hire athletes to represent them. By the fourth century A.D., the Olympics were ruined, and they were soon ended.

In 1896, the Olympic games were revived (使再度興起) with the same goal of pure amateur competition. The rules bar athletes who have ever received a $50 prize or an athletic scholars or who have spent four weeks in a training camp. At least one competitor in the 1896 games met these qualifications. He was Spiridon Loues, a water carrier who won the marathon race, after race, a rich Athenian offered him anything he wanted. A true amateur, Loues accepted only a cart and a horse. Then he gave up running forever. But Loues was an exception and now, as the Chairman of the German Olympic Committee said, “Nobody pays any attention to these rules.” Many countries pay their athletes to train year-round, and Olympic athletes are eager to sell their names to companies that make everything from ski equipment to fast food.

Even the games themselves have become a huge business. Countries fight to hold the Olympics not only for honor, but for money. The 1972 games in Munich cost the Germans 545 million dollars, but by selling medal symbols, TV rights, food, drink, hotel rooms, and souvenirs (紀念品), they managed to make a profit. Appropriately, the symbol of victory in the Olympic games is no longer a simple olive wreath—it is a gold medal.

S1. To many people, sports today is nothing but S1.
S2. What do most athletes of today go after? S2.
S3. What reward could an ancient Greek athlete expect? S3.
S4. By the fourth century A.D., Olympic contests became increasingly more S4 thus ruining the Olympics.
S5. When the Olympic games were revived in 1896, athletes who had received special training in camps would be S5.
S6. What did Spiridon Loues do after he accepted the Athenian’s gift? S6.
S7. According to the author, some athletes are even willing to advertise for businesses which sell things like S7.
S8. The 1972 Munich games managed to make a big profit mainly by S8(1) services and selling S8(2).

Part V Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic The Day My Classmate Fell Ill (or Got Injured). You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below in Chinese:

1. 簡單敘述一下這位同學生病(或受傷)的情況
2. 同學、老師和我是如何幫助他/她的
3. 人與人之間的這種相互關愛給我的感受是…
The Day My Classmate Fell Ill (or Got Injured)