Вероятно, самая большая честь, которой может добиться спортсмен, это выиграть золото на Олимпийских играх. Но знаете ли вы, что самой идее о проведении Олимпийских игр, более 2500 лет? Греческая легенда гласит, что Геракл, сын Зевса, был первым, кто основал Олимпийские игры. Первые Олимпийские записи, о которых нам известно, датируются 776 годом до нашей эры. Греки проводили игры один раз в четыре года на протяжении более 1000 лет, пока римляне не прекратили их в 394 году нашей эры. Древние греки считали Игры настолько важными, что они измеряли ими время. Они называли четыре года "олимпиада". Игры были греческим примером того, что люди должны развивать своё тело так же, как и мозги. Ничто не считалось достаточно серьезным, чтобы стоять на пути игр. Если в стране шла война, прекращали войну, а не игры. В Древних Олимпийских играх было только одно спортивное соревнование - бег на дистанцию около 183 метров (длина стадиона). Только мужчины имели право принять участие в Играх. Могущественные Спартанцы изменили программуи включили больше спортивных состязаний. Победители Игр становились героями в своей стране.
Questions:
1) How old is the idea of having Olympic Games?
More than 2, 500 years old.
2) Where were the first Olympic Games held?
In Ancient Greece.
3) How often did the Greeks hold the Games?
Every four years.
4) Who stopped the Games in 394 AD?
The Romans did.
5) What was the Greeks' idea of having the Games?
To develop their bodies
6) What was the only athletic competition in the Ancient Olympics?
It was a running race.
7) Did women take part in the Games?
No, they didn't.
8) Who became heroes in the country?
The winners did.
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1 What makes the tectonic plates of the Earth's crust move?
Scientists believe that one of the primary forces behind plate movement is thermal convection. Thermal convection is when heat from the core of the Earth is transferred to the surface of the Earth by the mantle. The mantle is the thick, mostly solid layer of the Earth between the crust and the core. Thermal convection works a lot like a pot of boiling water. Liquid rock near the mantle is heated and rises toward the crust. The rock near the surface is cooler and sinks back down toward the core. This forms the same type of convection current that causes the plates to move.
2. Is the Earth solid or liquid?
The Earth has both solid and liquid components, but it is mostly solid. The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid — not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun.
3. How hot is the center of the Earth?
Scientists have determined the temperature near the Earth's centre to be 6000 degrees Celsius.
4. What kind of earthquakes do you know?
There are two main types of earthquakes: natural and man-made. Naturally occurring earthquakes occur along tectonic plate lines while man-made earthquakes are always related to explosions detonated by man.
Sometimes people distinguish four different types of earthquakes: tectonic, volcanic, collapse and explosion.
A tectonic earthquake occurs when the earth's crust breaks due to geological forces on rocks and adjoining plates that cause physical and chemical changes.
A volcanic earthquake is any earthquake that results from tectonic forces which occur in conjunction with volcanic activity.
Collapse earthquakes are small earthquakes in underground caverns and mines that are caused by seismic waves produced from the explosion of rock on the surface.
An explosion earthquake is an earthquake that is the result of the detonation of a nuclear and/or chemical device.