专题 24 阅读理解之七选五-2024年新高考英语一轮复习练小题刷大题提能力

专题 24 七选五 刷大题、提能力 1.（2023年福建省三所重点名校校协作高三联考） The days when art was an Olympic sport Did you know that creating works of art used to be an Olympic competition? 1 In the first year, Walter Winans became the first and the only Olympian to win medals for both art and sports. Despite this seemingly optimistic start, the idea of the arts being included in the Olympic Games soon met with disinterest, finally resulting in the removal of the art competition from the Olympic Games. 2 The idea to include art in the Olympics came from Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who was the founder of the International Olympic Committee, which created the modern Olympics. Coubertin believed that the arts and sports were linked and was impressed by anyone who had a firm command of both a sport and an artistic discipline(项目). Why aren’t the arts included in the Olympics today? For starters, only amateurs were allowed to compete in the arts part of the Olympics. 3 Having artists of average quality competing while only the most competent athletes were allowed to compete created a dramatic divide and gave the impression that the arts were not as important as sports. Secondly, works of art created had to have sports as the subject matter. 4 Limiting the subjects also contributed to making the arts part of the Olympic Games boring to the general public. Finally, one of the biggest reasons was that the arts are subjective. Sports can be judged by time and distance, making it easy to determine who is the winner. 5 This difficulty in judging a definite winner resulted in the arts part becoming a non-competitive exhibition that ran for the duration of the Olympic Games. A．Why was art made an Olympic discipline? B．What is a discipline in the Olympic Games? C．This rule made the objects produced seem really boring. D．The arts, on the other hand, are not quite so easy to judge E．However, the arts part of the Olympics Games was soon abandoned F．This means that many famous ar