雅思阅读模拟题：The College

　　Read the passage below about a college in the city of Bath, written in 1985, and answer the questions that follow.

　　The college has the advantage of location in one of the most attractive cities in the country. Within the city of Bath it occupies modem buildings in a landscaped garden on Sion Hill, Lansdown and an adjacent Georgian Crescent, Somerset Crescent, which includes teaching and residential accommodation for post-graduate studies. It also occupies three houses in Sydney Place, which are used for studio and workshop accommodation for part-time courses in the Visual Arts and for the Foundation Course in Art and Design.

　　The Newton Park site is situated four miles west of Bath between the villages of Newton St Loe and Corston. Within the grounds are a Georgian mansion, where the colleges central administration is located, an Elizabethan dairy, stables and the tower of a medieval manor house: all these older buildings have been adapted to present-day use. A new purpose-built Home Economics block was opened in January 1985. During 1986 a new Sports hall will be completed and new residential blocks are under construction to be completed ready for the start of the academic year in September 1986; a new Music block will be completed in 1987.

　　The Art and Design degree courses which are currently accommodated at Corsham, about nine miles east of Bath, will be moved to the Sion Hill site in Bath by September 1986 thus reinforcing Faculty and Course links.

　　The college courses are designed to take advantage of the special opportunities and circumstances provided by its environment. Students have available such resources as the Costume and fashion Research Centre, the Royal Photographic Centre and the Museum of American Domestic Lift at Claverton. Concerts and recitals, including some given by staff and students, take place throughout the year in the Assembly Rooms.

　　The college uses buildings in five different place. Where are the following thins located?

　　In boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet write

　　NP if something is located in Newton Park

　　C if something is located in Crescent

　　SH if something is located in Sion Hill

　　SC if something is located in Somerset Crescent

　　SP if something is located in Sydney Place

　　Example Answer

　　A landscaped garden SH

　　1. Central Administration

　　2. Home Economics Block

　　3. Art and Design Foundation Course

　　4. Art and Design Degree Course after 1986

　　5. Post-graduate Residences

　　6. Sports Hall

　　7. Music Block .

　　SECTION 3 Questions 8-18

　　Read the passage below and answer questions 8-18.

　　The 17th Winter Games, held in Norway in 1994, are part of an Olympic tradition which goes back almost 3,000 years. For more than 1,000 years the ancient Games were held, every four years, on hallowed ground near Mount Olympus, where the Greek gods were said to live.

　　The Olympics brought together men from war-torn tribes and states in Greece and its colonies, A sacred truce was declared to allow men to travel to the games in safety. Women could not take part and were forbidden, on pain of death, even to attend the Games.

　　The ancient Olympics were abolished by the Roman Emperor Theodosius in 393 AD, after Greece had lost its independence. But the idea never died and the Frenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin, and educator and scholar, founded the modern Olympics. His aim was to bring together, once every four years, athletes from all countries on the friendly fields of amateur sport. No account was to be taken of national rivalries, nor politics, race, religion, wealth or social status. The first modern Games were held in Athens in 1896, and four years later, in Paris, women began to take part. Although the winter Olympics did not begin until 1924, figure skating was part of the 1908 London summer Olympics, both skating and ice hockey were included in the Antwerp Games in 1920. But generally winter sports were felt to be too specialized. Only cold-weather countries had much experience of activities such as skiing-a means of transport overland across ice and snow during long winters .The Scandinavians, for whom skiing is a part of everyday life, had objected to a winter games. They feared it would threaten their own Nordic games, which had been held every four years since 1901. But the International Olympic Committee agreed to stage an International Sports Week in Chamonix, France ,in 1924. It was a success and the Scandinavians won 28 of the 43 medals, including nine golds. They dropped their objections and the event was retrospectively named the First Olympic Winter Games.

　　Apart from the Second World War period the Winter Olympics were held every four years, a few months before the summer Olympics. But in 1986 the IOC changed the schedule so that the summer and winter games would be held in different years. Thus, for the only time in history, the Lillehammer Games took place just two years after the previous Winter Olympics which were held in Albertville, France.

　　Since the Winter Games began, 55 out of 56 gold medals in the mens nordic skiing events have been won by competitors from Scandinavia or the former Soviet Union. For teams from warm weather countries, cross-country skiing can pose problems, At the Calgary Games in 1988, one competitor in the 50-kilometre even was so slow that race officials feared he was lost and sent out a search party. Roberto Alvarez of Mexico had never skied more than 20 kilometres before and finished 61st and last 52 minutes behind the 60th place.

　　Questions 8-11

　　Complete the table below. Write a date for each answer.

　　Write your answers in boxes 8-11 on your answer sheet,

　　DATE EVENT

　　...... Ancient Olympics came to an end

　　...... First womens events

　　Example ...1901... First Nordic Games

　　...... First winter team game included in Olympics

　　...... First Winter Olympic Games

　　Questions 12-18

　　Look at the following statement. In boxes 12-18 on your answer sheet write

　　TRUE if the statement is true

　　FALSE if the statement is false

　　NOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage

　　12. The spectators, as well as the participants , of the ancient Olympics were all male.

　　13. Only amateur athletes are allowed to compete in the modern Olympics.

　　14. The modern Olympics have always demonstrated the political neutrality intended by their founder

　　15. The Antwerp Games proved that winter sports were too specialized.

　　16. Cross-country skiing events are a specialty of cold-weather countries.

　　17. Only Scandinavians have won gold medals in mens winter Olympics nordic skiing events.

　　18. One Winter Olympics has succeeded another every four years since 1924 with a break only for the Second World War.