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Unit4 How do you go to school?☆重点归纳☆话题&Transportation& 交通工具功能项目&Talk about how to get to places. 谈论如何到达一个地方词汇&1.Numbers数字(twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty , seventy, ninety, hundred )& 2.kilometer/km公里3.mile英里& 4.shower淋浴& 5.minute分钟& 6.bus stop/station汽车站& 7.city/district/town市/区/城镇 8.North America 北美洲& 9.North China华北 10.other things其他事情 11.river江、河短语&1.take the subway/ the train/ the bus/ a taxi搭乘…& 2.by boat/subway/train/bicycle/ car/taxi乘坐… 3.ride a bike骑自行车& 4.get to/ leave for到达& 5.depend on取决于& 6.around/all over the world全世界& 7.be different from有别于& 8.a small number of一些& 9.more/less than多于/不足于句型&1. ―How do you get to school?&&& ―I ride my bike.& (I get to school by bike.)2. ―How long does it take?&&&&&& ―It takes about forty minutes.3. ―How far is it from your home to the school?&&& ―It’s ten miles.4. It takes him twenty minutes to walk to school.语法要点&1、表示乘坐各种交通工具的短语用法。如ride a bike，by bike等。2、以how, how long, how far引导的特殊疑问句及回答方式。 ☆典型☆例1 The winner of the men’s competition was a ________ man from Shandong.A. forty years&&&&& B. twenty-yearC. thirty-year-old&& D. forty-years- old【解题思路】选C。thirty-year-old是一个由“数词+单数名词+形容词”构成的合成形容词，用来作定语。又如：a two- month holiday（一个两个月长的假期），the boy’s 400-metre race（男子四百米赛跑）。例2 ―How far is it from your home to the school?―It is about______.A. 10 minutes walk&&& B. 10 minute’s walk&&&& C. 10 minute walk&&&&& D. 10 minutes’ walk 【解题思路】选D。本题考查距离的表达方法。表示时间、距离的名词所有格可以加’s表示，其中以-s结尾的复数名词所有格可以直接加’构成。例3 The city of Beijing will hold the _____ Olympic Games in 2008.A. twenty-nine&&&&& B. twentieth-nineC. twentieth- ninth&& D. twenty-ninth【解题思路】选D。表示两位数以上的序数词，通常在个位上作变化，十位数 还是用基数词。例4 ―How ___is the Children’s Hospital from here?―It is about three miles.A. many&& B. long&& C. much&&&& D. far【解题思路】选D。本题是考查表示距离的问句。How many复数名词询问数目；How long询问时间的长度；How much+询问不可数名词的量；How far询问距离，意思是“多远”。例5 Jeff goes to work _____ and his wife goes to work _______.A. by car, on her bike&& B. by a car, on her bikeC. by cars, by bikes&&& D. by his car, by bike【解题思路】选A 。“by+交通工具”短语表示交通方式时，交通工具必须用单数形式，且前面不能用任何限定词，如by car/bus/bike等。但如果用介词in/on，则要求名词前必须用一个限定词，如on my bike, in a boat等。☆单元评价☆●基础巩固 一、用所给词的适当形式填空。(10分)1. He has two ____________(box) of old books under his bed.2. Can you come with___________(we) after school?3. The __________(eight) story is very interesting.4. This kind of medicine is ______________(cheap) than that one.5. These skirts are ______(she). Yours are over there.6. If it_______________ (rain), I will take a taxi.7. ______________(read and write) more is good for your English. 8. The most popular way of______________(get) to school is walking.9. Hainan is a good place _________ (go) sightseeing.10. Hurry! The train ______________& (leave) in five minutes.二、单项选择& 选出能填入各句中相应空白处的最佳答案。&&& ( 20分)11. ―How does he go to Hong Kong?& ―________.A. Take the plane&& B. Take planeC. By the plane&&&&&& D. By the air12. ―_____ do you live from school?&& ―8 miles.A. How long&&&&&&&& B. How farC. How much&&&&&&& D. Where13. I usually go to school ________.A. ride the bike &&&&& B. on bike C. on the bike&&&&&& D. by my bike14. CHow do you usually go to school?-- _____my mother’s car.A. By&&& B. With&&&&& C. In&&&&& D. For15. If they live in Chongqing, they can go to Wuhan _____ easily. A.&on foot&&&& B. by the taxi C. by boat&&&&& D. by sea16. He gets up early and ________ breakfast.A. have a quick&&&& B. has quick a C. has a quick&&&&& D. have quick17. The last train is left, so you _______ stay here until tomorrow.&& A. must&&& B. have to& C. needn’t&& D. can not18. Please _________ who broke the window.&& A. find&& B. look for&C. look at&D. find out 19. Listen, a small number of students ______& in the classroom.A. talk&& B. talks& C. is talking& D. are talking20. _______ she is ill, _______ she goes to school.A. A& /&&&&& B. A butC. B although&&&&& D. B /21.The No. 6 Middle School is not far ___ his home.&& A. to&&&& B. from&&& C. with&&&&& D. at 22. It’s time for supper now. Let’s&&&&&&& it.A. stop having&&&&&& B. stop to haveC. to stop to have&&& D. stopping to have23. ―How long does it take?&& --It takes ______. A. half an hour&&&&&& B. a hourC. two hour&&&&&&&& D. half a hour24. Yesterday we went to a lonely village. It&&&& us about two hours to get there.& A. spent&&& B. took&& C. cost&&& D. made25. --&&&&&&&&&&&& ?& --It is wonderful.A. What do you like the bookB. How do you think of the bookC. What do you think of the bookD. What is the book like26. Whether we can go for a spring outing&&&&& the weather.A. depend on&&&&& B. depends onC. depend&&&&&&& D. depends27.&&&&&& does it take you to finish&&&& the book?A. H to read&B. H to readC. H reading&D. H reading28. --_&&&&& will Mr. Smith&&&&& Shanghai?--In a week. He will have a meeting in Shanghai.A. H leave& B. H leave forC. H leave&& D. H leave for29.--How&&&&&&&&& do you clean your classroom?&&&&&&& --Once a week.&&& A. long&&&& B. often&C. much&&& D. soon30. I don’t think there is&&&&&&&& .A. something serious&&& B. nothing seriousC. anything serious&&&&& D. serious anything 三、根据汉语意思完成英语句子。(20分)31. My home is ____________(近的). I ________________(步行)to school.32. Li Lei ___________ (乘地铁) to school every day.33. His father often goes to Shanghai __________ _________(坐飞机).34. If you don't want to be late, you'd better _________ a ____________(打的).35. _________ _________ ________ (骑自行车) to work is good for our health, I think.36.从学校到汽车站不是很远。It isn't ______& _______ the school to the bus stop.37.坐火车去北京需用多长时间？How long _______ it ________ by train to Beijing?38.你每天怎样去学校？& _________ ________ you get to school every day?39.萨姆什么时候离开家去上学？When _______ Sam _________ home for school?40.多喝水，这对你健康有好处Drink more water. It is&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& your health .四、句型转换& 根据要求完成下列句子。& (10分)41. Mr. Smith often flies to Tokyo for the meeting.&& (同义句转换)Mr. Smith often& _________ a _________to Tokyo for the meeting.42. His factory is 10 miles from his home.&&& (对划线部分提问)________& _______ is his factory from his home?43. My mother usually takes the bus to work.& (变否定句)My mother _________ _________& ________the bus to work.44. I usually spend 3 hours doing my homework.(同义句转换)It usually _______ me 3 hours ______ _______& my homework.45.He goes to school by No.103 Bus. (同义句转换)& ______& ______ the No.103 Bus to school.
●综合提高& 五、根据短文内容及首字母提示, 完成下面短文，每空一词。（5分）Jim was a country boy. He was on his （46）w________ to New York to see his grandma. As his parents were very （47）b________, he had to go there by himself. This was his first trip by plane. He found （48）e________ new and interesting. Soon it was the middle of the night. But Jim couldn’t （49）s________. He wanted a drink very much. He saw some people went to the back of the （50）p________ and got drinks from a girl there. But he didn’t have much （51）m________ with him. He tried to sleep, but he just couldn’t. At last he went to the girl with a （52）d________ in his hand. “Miss,” he said,” Could I have a drink?” “Sure,” said the girl with a （53）s________. She gave him a drink, but she didn’t take his money.” You have paid for the （54）t________. It means you have paid for the（55） f________ and drinks on the plane.”六、完形填空&& 从 A、B、C、D中选出能填入短文中相应空白处的最佳答案。（10分）Lucy lives in the Zhongshan Road. She__ 56_ in the No.6 Middle School. Every day she gets up early and goes to school early. Her home is a little far___57 her school. So she usually ___58___ a bus. ___59& the bus stop there is a fruit shop. It sells different___60__. Lucy often buys___61___in it and she is good at___62___fruit. From the bus stop she walks along the Nanjing Road. Then she takes the third turning___63___the right. Her school is___64 _ 50 metres. ___65___it there is a park.56. A. studies&& B. leaves&&& C. likes&&& D. lives57. A. to&&&&&& B. at&&&&&& C. from&&&& D. away58. A. has&&&& B. takes&&& C. goes&&&&& D. by59. A. At&&&& B. Near to&& C. Next to&&& D. Next60. A. kinds of fruits&&&&&&& B. kinds of fruit& C. fruit&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& D. fruits61. A. them&&& B. any&&&&& C. some&&&& D. it62. A. selling&& B .buying&& C. sells&&&&& D. buys63. A. along&& B. at&&&&&&& C. to&&&&&&& D. on64. A. about&&& B. at&&&&&& C. away&&&&& D. on65. A. At the front of&&&&&& B. In front of&& C. In the front of&&&&&& D. At front of 七、阅读理解& （15分）AWhen you come to Auckland as a foreigner，you’ll easily find a traditional pub（酒吧）either in small towns or in big cities. In these pubs many different kinds of drinks such as wine, beer, coke, coffee, and juice are served. You can find out the local culture. However, if you don′ t know the pub culture, you may feel embarrassed or even get into trouble.Most pubs in Auckland have no waiters, so you have to go to the bar to get your own drinks. Those who don’t know this may wait a very long time before they realize they would have to fetch their own drinks. While you are standing in front of the bar waiting for service, you are able to chat with others who are also waiting for service. The bar counter(柜台)is possibly the only place you can find in Auckland to talk friendly with strangers. But while you are chatting with others or talking about what you want to order, you mustn’t block all the entrance to the bar.Remember, you’ll never go into the pubs unless you are over 18.从 A、B、C、D中选出最佳答案。66. A traditional pub in Auckland is very ______.A. friendly&&&&& B. embarrassed& C. relaxing&&&&& D. Both A and B67. When you are in pub,__________&& A. you will have a better service with a lot of waiters around&& B. you will have to order and fetch your own drinks all by yourself && C. it is easy for you to make friends with others by chatting or talking&& D. You’ll have to take time to wait for your drink68.Which sentence is true?&& A. It is very hard for you to find a traditional pub to relax yourself in Auckland&& B. You aren’t allowed to get into the pubs until you are over18&& C .You are able to order any of the drinks or foods in the pubs&& D. You can chat or talk with friends in any places in the pub 69.Which topic is the best for this passage?A.&Service in Auckland’s Pubs.B. Pub Culture in Auckland&& C. Making Friends in Pubs.&& D. How to Order Drinks in Pubs.70.Most pubs in Auckland have_________&& A. many waiters&&&&&&& B. a waiter&& C. no more than 10waiters&& D .no waitersB&&& Dick was a twenty-year-old man. His father was a teacher and taught chemistry in a middle school and his mother worked in a shop. They lived a happy life until his parents died one night when there was an earthquake(地震). Luckily his sister had taken him to see their aunt in the city and they were not at home. Everything was destroyed in the earthquake and the two children got into trouble. Thanks to their aunt, who was not rich, they grew up but they lived a hard life. Dick’s sister was so sad that she became a nun(修女). After Dick finished middle school, he found a job in a hotel and began to work there.&& One day the young man fell to the ground while he was cleaning a window on the second floor. He was sent to the hospital and the doctor looked him over. One of his legs was broken and he had to stay in hospital. He said to the nurse, “ I’m a poor man, madam. Arrange a third-class ward for me, please.”&& “Can’t any body help you?” she asked.&& “No, madam,” answered Dick. “I have only a sister. She’s a nun and she’s poor, too.”&& “I don’t think so,” the nurse said angrily. “Nuns usually marry God. And God is the richest person in the world, you know!”“ Well, then,” Dick said with a smile, “Please arrange a first-class ward for me and send the bill to my brother-in-law（姐夫）.”根据短文内容补全下列句子。&& (10分)71. Dick and his sister lived a happy life until___________________________________72. Their aunt was not rich, so they grew up but_____________________________________73.After Dick finished middle school, ________________________________________74. Dick asked the nurse to arrange a third-class ward for him because___________________________75. “Ward” means _____________ in Chinese.
八、书面表达。&&& （10分） 上周星期天一整天，你与老师、同学一道，为保护环境开展了一系列活动。请根据提示写一篇80词左右的，要求内容完整，语言规范。 提示：1、出发时间、地点、目的地、交通工具自定；2、活动内容：上午：贴海报（poster ）宣讲环保知识（environmental protection）；下午：捡垃圾、塑料袋，打扫街道等。Sunday, March15,2007&&&&&&&&&&&& FineToday I am very excited because I did a lot of interesting things with my classmates and teachers to protect our environment.
The keys to Unit4一、1.boxes&& 2.us&&& 3.eighth&&&& 4.cheaper5.hers&& 6.rains&&& 7.eating&&& 8.getting 9.to go&&&&& 10.is leaving（will leave）二、11--15 ABCBC&&&&&&& 16--20 CBDDA21--25 BBABC&&&&&&& 26--30 BDBBC 三、31.near, walk&& 22. takes the subway33.by air/by plane&& 34.take,taxi 35.Riding a bike&&& 36. far from37.does,take&&&&&& 38.How do39.does,leave&&&&& 40.good for四、41.takes,plane&&&&&&&& 42.How far43.doesn’t usually take& 44.takes, to do45.He takes五、46.way&&& 47. busy&&& 48. everything49. sleep&& 50.plane&&& 51. money52. dollar&& 53. smile&& 54. tour/ticket55. food六、60―64 ACBCB&&&&& 65―69& CBDAB 七、66-70 ACBBD 71. his parents died one night when there was an earthquake72. they lived a hard life73. he found a job in a hotel 74. he didn’t have enough money to pay the bill75. 病房八、Sunday, March15,2007&&&&&&&&&&&& FineToday I am very excited because I did a lot of interesting things with my classmates and teachers to protect our environment. We met at the school gate at eight o’clock in the morning. We went to a small town near Dongying City in our school bus. We took the posters about environmental protection with us. In the morning we put up posters on the wall. We talked about the environmental protection to the people. In the afternoon we collected litter and picked up plastic bags. We cleaned the dirty streets. At six in the evening we came back home. I felt a little tired but very happy
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AMERICAN TARGET SHOOTER Josh Lakatos faced a conundrum. Halfway through the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, he and his rifle-toting teammates were finished with their events, and the U.S. Olympic Committee and team officials had ordered them to turn in the keys to their three-story house and head back to the States. But Lakatos didn't want to leave. He knew from his experience four years earlier in Atlanta, where he'd won silver, that the Olympic Village was just about to erupt into a raucous party, and there was no way he was going to miss it. So he asked the maid at the emptied-out dwelling if she'd kindly look the other way as he jimmied the lock. "I don't care what you do," she replied.
Within hours, word of the nearly vacant property had spread. Popping up once every two years, the Olympic Village is a boisterous city within a city: chock-full of condos, midrises and houses as well as cafés, barbershops, arcades, discos and TV lounges. The only thing missing is privacy -- nearly everyone is stuck with a roommate. So while Lakatos claimed a first-floor suite for himself, the remaining rooms were there for the taking. The first to claim space that night were some Team USA track and field fellas."The next morning," Lakatos says, "swear to God, the entire women's 4x100 relay team of some Scandinavian-looking country walks out of the house, followed by boys from our side. And I'm just going, 'Holy crap, we'd watched these girls run the night before.'"And on it went for eight days as scores of Olympians, male and female, trickled into the shooter's house -- and that's what everyone called it, Shooters' House -- at all hours, stopping by an Oakley duffel bag overflowing with condoms procured from the village's helpful medical clinic. After a while, it dawned on Lakatos: "I'm running a friggin' brothel in the Olympic Village! I've never witnessed so much debauchery in my entire life."TAKE YOUR MARK
Home to more than 10,000 athletes at the Summer Games and 2,700 at the Winter, the Olympic Village is one of the world's most exclusive clubs. To join, prospective members need only have spectacular talent and -- we long assumed -- a chaste devotion to the most intense competition of their lives. But the image of a celibate Games began to flicker in '92 when it was reported that the Games' organizers had ordered in prophylactics like pizza. Then, at the 2000 Sydney Games, 70,000 condoms wasn't enough, prompting a second order of 20,000 and a new standing order of 100,000 condoms per Olympics.Many Olympians, past and present, abide by what Summer Sanders, a swimmer who won two gold medals, a silver and a bronze in Barcelona, calls the second Olympic motto: "What happens in the village stays in the village." Yet if you ask enough active and retired athletes often enough to spill their secrets, the village gates will fly open. It quickly becomes clear that, summer or winter, the games go on long after the medal ceremony. "There's a lot of sex going on," says women's soccer goalkeeper Hope Solo, a gold medalist in 2008. How much sex? "I'd say it's 70 percent to 75 percent of Olympians," offers world-record-holding swimmer Ryan Lochte, who will be in London for his third Games. "Hey, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do."GET SET ...
The games begin as soon as teams move in a week or so before opening ceremonies. "It's like the first day of college," says water polo captain Tony Azevedo, a veteran of Beijing, Athens and Sydney who is returning to London. "You're nervous, super excited. Everyone's meeting people and trying to hook up with someone."Which is perfectly understandable, if not to be expected. Olympians are young, supremely healthy people who've been training with the intensity of combat troops for years. Suddenly they're released into a cocoon where prying reporters and overprotective parents aren't allowed. Pre-competition testosterone is running high. Many Olympians are in tapering mode, full of excess energy because they're maintaining a training diet of up to 9,000 calories per day while not actually training as hard. The village becomes "a pretty wild scene, the biggest melting pot you've been in," says Eric Shanteau, an American who swam in Beijing and will be heading to London.The dining hall is among everyone's first village stops. "When I walked in for the first time in Atlanta," says women's soccer player Brandi Chastain, "there were loud cheers. So we look over and see two French handballers dressed only in socks, shoes, jockstraps, neckties and hats on top of a dining table, feeding one another lunch. We're like, 'Holy cow, what is this place?'" Many liken it to a high school cafeteria, "except everyone's beautiful," says Julie Foudy, who has two golds and one silver from playing soccer in three Olympics and is now an analyst for ESPN. "We'd graze over our food for hours watching all the eye candy, wondering why I got married."From one end of the village to the other, flags hang from windows and music blares from balconies. "Unlike at a bar, it's not awkward to strike up a conversation because you have something in common," Solo says. "It starts with, 'What sport do you play?' All of a sudden, you're fist-bumping." BMXer Jill Kintner, who won bronze in Beijing, says the Italians are particularly inviting: "They leave their doors open, so you look in and see dudes in thongs running circles around each other."On the way to practice fields, "the girls are in skimpy panties and bras, the dudes in underwear, so you see what everybody is working with from the jump," says Breaux Greer, an American javelin thrower. "Even if their face is a 7, their body is a 20." In Beijing, even the adolescent female gymnasts got sassy with the water polo and judo boys who shared their training room. "That's where most of my socialization took place -- in a tub, up to my chest in ice water," says silver medalist Alicia Sacramone, then 20, who served as den mother to her teammates. "The younger girls would try to flirt with stuff like, 'Look at that butt on him!' I'm like, 'Excuse me, did that just come out of your mouth? Don't pay attention to his butt!'"Quickly the reality sinks in that the village is "just a magical, fairy-tale place, like Alice in Wonderland, where everything is possible," says Carrie Sheinberg, an alpine skier at the '94 Winter Games and a reporter for subsequent Olympics. "You could win a gold medal and you can sleep with a really hot guy."And no matter your taste, the village has got you covered. The soccer girls? "All hot, and they dress like rock stars," one male swimmer says. Male gymnasts? "They are like lovable little Ewoks," Kintner says. Sacramone has a few favorites of her own: "As far as best bodies, it's swimmers and water polo players, because that's an insane workout. And the track guys, they're sneaky-cute. Very serious, but when they lighten up, you're like, 'Oh, you're kind of adorable.'"The challenge athletes face is what to do with their urges and when. "If you don't have discipline, the village can be a huge distraction," Solo admits. Some swear off sex until t others make it part of their pre-event routine. American shot-putter and silver and bronze medalist John Godina thought he'd seen it all in Atlanta: late-night hookups, friends disappearing for days at a time. But he hadn't seen anything like the dorm room in Sydney he shared with a javelin thrower, which had instantly become a revolving door of women without backstories. "It's like Vegas," Godina explains. "You learn not to ask a lot of questions."That randy roommate of Godina's, Greer, picks up the story: Each day, the shaggy blond was visited by three women, sometimes just hours apart -- an accomplished pole vaul a mighty hurdler who "tried to dominate me," G and a "very talented" vacationer from Scandinavia. Greer says his Olympian partners were, like him, looking to "complete the Olympics training puzzle." When his event did come around, Greer nailed Athens' longest toss in prelims before a knee injury sidelined him. "I was a happy man going into competition," he says. "If you find somebody you like and who likes you, your world's complete for a second, and you compete well."Still, some coaches try to limit late-night activities by enforcing 11 p.m. noise curfews, banning alcohol consumption or, in the case of USA Swimming, forbidding cross-gender visitation in bedrooms. Amanda Beard, with two golds, four silvers and one bronze medal to her name, was in a relationship with another swimmer during the 2000 Games but says, "People would walk around for miles to try to sneak somewhere."Many on-the-prowl athletes maintain that they're driven by a simple human need: intimacy, if only for a moment or three. For most Olympians, the ramp-up to the Games is lonely. Not unlike movie stars on a far-flung movie shoot, the Olympics present the perfect opportunity to find a partner who understands where they're coming from. "Think about how hard it is to meet someone," Azevedo says. "Now take an Olympian who trains from 6 a.m. until 5 p.m. every day. When the hell are you supposed to meet someone? Now the pressure is done, you're meeting like-minded people ... and boom."GO!
Typically, the swimmers are some of the lucky ones who wrap up early. For Lochte, that typically means "hitting a local pub and drinking with the soccer hooligans," he says. But a teammate in Athens had a better idea: sex on his village balcony. "Another team saw it, which led to a big argument because they accused me. I said, 'No, I'm innocent,'" Lochte says, laughing. "I'm always innocent." After his team finished its events in Beijing, "our coach sat us down and gave us what I can only describe as the birds-and-the-bees talk," says gold medalist Cullen Jones. "We're like, 'Okay, this is extremely awkward.'"Just outside the village are sponsors parties. But what most Olympians want, in the end, is to bring the party back to the village.The athlete compound soon becomes the site of an uneasy dance between jocks on a post-competition bender and those who have yet to compete. Says Swiss swimmer Dominik Meichtry: "I'd get home from the clubs at 6 or 7 a.m., and I'd feel bad for the track and field guys. They're getting on a bus and we're intoxicated, wearing fedoras, looking like crap." As the curtain falls on more events, the action accelerates. Displaced roommates become commonplace, with the standard sock-on-doorknob serving as the signal for "please go away." Before long, Foudy says, "it turns into a frat party with a very nice gene pool." And heaps of stamina. "Athletes are extremists," Solo says. "When they're training, it's laser focus. When they go out for a drink, it's 20 drinks. With a once-in-a-lifetime experience, you want to build memories, whether it's sexual, partying or on the field. I've seen people having sex right out in the open. On the grass, between buildings, people are getting down and dirty."Those who desire a little privacy can borrow a hotel room from their agents or visiting friends. "You can get pretty much whatever you want if you flash your medal," says one American female. "That usually does the trick." Not quite everything. At the Lillehammer Games in 1994, two German bobsledders tried using their medals as currency. "They made it clear that they'd trade me their gold for all kinds of other favors," Sheinberg says. "I said jokingly, 'Thanks, but Tommy Moe has a medal. I'll play with his.'" The Germans were hoping for some group fun, which is not uncommon in the village. One skier tells a story from the Vancouver Games in 2010, when six athletes -- "some Germans, Canadians and Austrians" -- got together at a home outside the Whistler village. "It was a late-night whirlpool party. It turned into a whirlpool orgy."
"This is a diplomatic relations trip," says Godina, "maybe because they feel they never have to see each other again." Adds Sheinberg: "It's also about finding something new. Olympians are adventurers. They look for a challenge, like having sex with someone who doesn't speak their language."The sense of discovery can be powerful. At the 1976 Montreal Games, three-time Olympic diver and four-time gold medalist Greg Louganis, appearing in his first Olympics at age 16, developed a kinship with the boys on the Soviet Union diving team and soon found himself partying in their rooms. "Once events were over, our entire diet was caviar, vodka and Russian champagne. It was crazy," Louganis says. He was particularly struck by the Russians' sense of sexual liberation. "Culturally, they're more openly affectionate toward each other, which I just drank up, since I was still discovering who I was. But I had my eyes on one Soviet. I' we'd hug and cuddle. I felt so protected." It didn't progress beyond that, Louganis says. "He was hooking up with one of the other male divers on the team" -- not to mention married.AND KEEP GOING ...
By the eve of the closing ceremonies, all of the events have wrapped, all bets are off and the home team often hosts one hell of a party. That was certainly the case in Sydney, where Australia's baseball and women's soccer teams threw a joint bash complete with a massive bonfire. "Who knew the village furniture could burn so well," kids Alicia Ferguson, an Aussie footballer. "We did involve the fire wardens, who were very accommodating, and then we started hooking up around our very own Olympic Village bonfire."And after the men's hockey gold medal game in Vancouver, which Canada won, a dry lounge in the village exploded into a full-blown rager. "If you were walking by, you would've thought it was a high school party," says NHLer Bobby Ryan of the silver-winning American squad. "I'm talking booze, people randomly making out, everybody else cheering them on. And that was the PG stuff. Then everything went inside."And then there's the one party that can't be missed: the closing ceremony. Says Ferguson: "They basically throw us all in a stadium and say, 'Just go for it, party hard, get drunk and do some groping.' Which we did, with some Canadians." Here's what you don't see on TV: all of the athletes who arrive inebriated and, throughout the ceremony, sneak back and forth between the infield and the stadium with drinks. Somewhere in the middle of this party, typically, is America's women's soccer team, whose tournament runs the duration of the Games. "This is our chance to let loose," Chastain says. "Our hair is on fire, we're leaving the next morning, and we're going to enjoy our last 24 hours." After the Beijing Games, the women went, well, Hollywood. Solo recounts the story: "I probably shouldn't tell you this, but we met a bunch of celebrities. Vince Vaughn partied with us. Steve Byrne, the comedian. And at some point we decided to take the party back to the village, so we started talking to the security guards, showed off our gold medals, got their attention and snuck our group through without credentials -- which is absolutely unheard of." And, she adds, "I may have snuck a celebrity back to my room without anybody knowing, and snuck him back out. But that's my Olympic secret." The best part, according to Solo? "When we were done partying, we got out of our nice dresses, got back into our stadium coats and, at 7 a.m. with no sleep, went on the Today show drunk. Needless to say, we looked like hell."And then it's over -- for most Olympians, anyway. For a few and the most committed, the games continue -- all the way home. On a United Airlines flight from Sydney to Los Angeles in 2000, nearly 100 Olympians were among the passengers, causing the flight attendants to begin the flight with a warning: "Ladies and gentlemen, anybody who wishes to sleep, trade seats with someone in the front of the plane. Everybody else to the back with the Olympians." After that, the story gets fuzzy."Everybody partnered up fairly rapidly, and when they'd bring a drink cart through, we'd send it back dry," says Lakatos, who met a girl and "comfortably occupied row 50-something for roughly half an hour." Greer ended up in the bathroom with a famous Olympian he will not name. "We're going at it, and then -- boing. I accidentally turn on the assistance light." Happily for them, once Greer assured the flight attendant of their Olympic credentials, they were able to return to their business. "And we stayed in there a long time."It's tales like these -- of connections made and just as easily ditched -- that have London-bound Olympians dreaming of the possibilities. "My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend -- big mistake," Lochte says. "Now I'm single, so London should be really good. I'm excited." So is American runner LaShawn Merritt, the reigning Olympic gold medalist in the 400 meters. "An Olympics to remember has to have those stories," Merritt says. "But I was too locked in in Beijing. This time, when I'm done leaving my legacy on the track," he says, laughing, "I'll make sure London remembers me."Taylor Phinney too is looking forward to a do-over in London for two reasons. In Beijing, he was an 18-year-old wunderkind American cyclist who night after night sat on his balcony, one floor below the gymnastics team terrace, and tossed Shawn Johnson prohibited Snickers bars. "She was a superstar," Phinney says of the then-16-year-old, "and I was a lowly cyclist with a massive crush." After Johnson won gold and moved to a hotel with her parents, Phinney moved his courtship to the lobby, where they closed some blinds and had a "kissing session." But Phinney's long trip to first base may have also derailed his medaling hopes. "This is going to sound stupid, but I almost forgot I had to race."
After a Skype relationship forced by their globe-trotting careers, they are now on hiatus. But Phinney can't wait for London, where Johnson, who retired in June, will be on hand to fulfill her sponsorship obligations. "I'll try to hang out with her as much as I can," he says before he doubles back, still clearly flummoxed. "And I'm going to try very hard to stay away from females." In that case, he might want to stay away from the Olympic Village altogether. Follow The Mag on Twitter (@ESPNmag) and like us on Facebook.}