They emphasize the participants' athletic achievements 27 their physical disability.
答案：(B) instead of
【句型】instead of 字詞搭配「而不是」，表示「強調參賽者的運動成就，而不是他們的身體障礙」；in terms of（就……而言）、at the risk of（冒著……的風險）、at the cost of（以……為代價）都不合。
instead of 你最熟的畫面是「代替」（I'll go instead of you. 我代替你去），所以看到它夾在兩個名詞片語中間，一時會轉不過來。其實「代替」和「而不是」是同一個概念的兩面：選了 A，就等於沒選 B。劍橋詞典把 instead of 解釋成 in place of（取代某人或某物的位置），本句就是「要看的是運動成就，而不是身體障礙」。
先看空格前後的詞性：前面是 the participants' athletic achievements（名詞片語），後面是 their physical disability（名詞片語），空格要填的是能把兩個名詞片語接起來、又能表達「要 A 不要 B」的成分。再看語意方向：整段一直在說帕運看的是運動員的成就，不是他們的障礙，所以是取捨關係。順帶記清楚：instead 是副詞，單獨使用時放句首或句尾；instead of 是整組當一個介系詞用，後面一定要接名詞或動名詞。
in terms of（就……而言）會變成「從身體障礙的角度來看他們的運動成就」，與帕運的宗旨相反。at the risk of（冒著……的風險）後面要接不好的後果，而「強調成就」不會冒任何風險。at the cost of（以……為代價）會讀成「以他們的身體障礙為代價換來成就」，語意荒謬。三個誘答選項都是「of ＋ 名詞」的形狀，形狀對、語意全錯，這正是這一格要考的。
instead of ＋ 名詞或動名詞（而不是……）、rather than（而不是）、in terms of（就……而言）、at the risk of（冒著……的風險）、at the cost of（以……為代價）、emphasize the importance of（強調……的重要性）
The Paralympics are Olympic-style games for athletes with a disability. They were organized for the first time in Rome in 1960. In Toronto in 1976, the idea of putting together different disability groups 26 sports competitions was born. Today, the Paralympics are sports events for athletes from six different disability groups. They emphasize the participants' athletic achievements 27 their physical disability.
The games have grown in size gradually. The number of athletes 28 in the Summer Paralympic Games has increased from 400 athletes from 23 countries in 1960 to 3,806 athletes from 136 countries in 2004.
The Paralympic Games have always been held in the same year as the Olympic Games. Since the Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games and the Albertville 1992 Winter Paralympic Games, they have also 29 in the same city as the Olympics. On June 19, 2001, an agreement was signed between the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympics Committee to keep this 30 in the future. From the 2012 bid onwards, the city chosen to host the Olympic Games will also host the Paralympics.