Question

The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the 20th World Cup, which is expected to take place between June 12 and July 13,2014 in Brazil. It will be the second time for the country to host the competition, the first being the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Brazil will become the fifth country to have hosted the Fifa World Cup twice, after Mexico, Italy, France and Germany.

Brazil is the greatest football nation in the world. There are 100 million Brazilians. How many of them are football fans? 100 million! All of them think that they know all about football. This makes life very difficult for the Brazilian team manager. When things go badly for the Brazilian team, the newspaper would demand (要求)that the team manager should leave his job. “If we win, they put me in heaven(天堂),”as a manager once said, “If we lose, they put me in hell(地獄).”

You can’t escape football in Brazil. There are football matches on every street and beach. On television, the results of the football matches come before the main news programs. There are six television Channels in Rio de Janeiro(里約日內(nèi)盧). On Sundays each channel shows a different football match.

Brazil is not the richest country in the world,but the government spends much money on football. It cost more than one billion pounds to prepare for the 1950 World Cup. That’s 10 pounds for every Brazilian. And many Brazilians don’t earn as much as 10 pounds a week. Is it worth it?

“Brazil must have a great football team.” says one reporter. “If it costs one billion pounds, that’s all right. If the government doesn’t give a good football team, then it will become unpopular. Football is more than a game in Brazil.”

1.Which of the following countries hasn’t hosted the FIFA World Cup twice yet so far?

A. MexicoB. Italy

C. FranceD. Brazil

2.It is the that come before the main news programs on television.

A. football matches

B. results of football matches

C. football matches on the streets

D. football matches on the beaches

3.The underlined sentence means “In Brazil .”

A. people like football very much,

B. there is something else in football.

C. People like competition.

D. football has influences on the politics(政治)and economy(經(jīng)濟(jì))of the nation.

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.B

3.D

【解析】

試題分析：第二十屆足球世界杯，將于6月12日和7月13日在巴西舉行。這將是巴西在墨西哥、意大利、法國和德國四個(gè)國家之后，第二次舉辦該項(xiàng)比賽的國家。足球?qū)τ诎臀饕呀?jīng)超越了比賽，它對本國的經(jīng)濟(jì)和政治都有影響。

1.舉辦了兩次世界杯的國家，在墨西哥、意大利、法國和德國四個(gè)國家之后。對比選項(xiàng)是巴西，因此，它將要成為舉辦兩屆足球世界杯的國家。故選D

2.

3.Football is more than a game in Brazil句意：在巴西，足球已經(jīng)超過了游戲。通過對全文的理解，足球已經(jīng)影響到了巴西的政治和經(jīng)濟(jì)。故選D

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