The summer Olympics and the winter Olympics are popular all over the world. __21__, there’s still a very __22__Deaflympics, in which matches don’t __23___shooting and arrow(射箭).

In the years before 1924, international sports offered __24__ chances for young Deaf people. __25__, there were very few national organizations to __26__ sporting competitions for the Deaf. Mr. Eugéne Rubens ― Alcais, a Deaf Frenchman, worked very hard to __27__ six official national organizations to accept the __28__ and to take part in the International __29___ Games, a Deaf one of the Olympics Games.

Deaf sporting leaders __30__ together at the Café de la Porte Doree, 275 Avenue Daumesnil, near the Bois de Vincennes in Paris on the 16th August,1924. This meeting agreed to __31___ an organization called the “International Committee of Silent Sports”(CISS) to __32__ a union between all Deaf sporting federations and to produce some __33__ for this organization to institute and control the every―four―year Games. This historic meeting __34__ so much to the Deaflympic Games moment that the first Games was held in Paris in 1924, making it the oldest __35__ the disabled sports organizations. It also __36___ official recognition and help from the International Olympic Committee.

The first Winter Deaflympic Games (formerly named International Winter Silent Games and Winter World Deaf Games) were __37__  in Seefeld, Austria in 1949. Thirty―three __38___ from five nations __39__. And today, more and more deaf people are __40__ to take part in this Game.
 

 Little _______ that the basketball he once played could be sold for 150,000 yuan at auction.

A. Yao Ming expected                                       B. Yao Ming had expected

C. did Yao Ming expect                                     D. had Yao Ming expected

A good ad often uses words _______ people attach positive meanings.
A. in which                  B. to which                  C. which                     D. that

― It’s difficult to find anyone who ________ take the job.

― Be patient. After all it’s a tough and poorly-paid task. 

A. can                          B. should                      C. will                          D. must

Doctor, it seems that I ________ my breath. It has been like that for weeks.

A. always catch                                            B. have always caught

C. will always catch                                      D. am always catching

What an unforgettable experience! I’ll write it down _______ it is still fresh in my memory.

A. since                        B. while                      C. after                        D. until

 ― Catherine looks sad. Did you tell her about the accident?

― Yes, but I ________ her just before her final exams. 

       A. shouldn’t tell                                               B. mustn’t have told     

C. needn’t tell                                                  D. shouldn’t have told

Is it the years _______ you worked in Africa as a doctor _______ have a great effect on your literary works?

A. that; where           B. that; that              C. when; where          D. when; that

― How much salt did you put in the soup? 

― I’m sorry to say, _______. I forgot. 

A. no                    B. no one                C. none                   D. nothing

― _______ busy schoolwork, the children also have to take arts, music and sports classes in their free time.

  ― I wonder what they will become.

A. Rather than               B. Apart from               C. Except for                D. Owing to