Basketball is a sport enjoyed by millions of people in at least 100 countries. It’s one of the   1   sports in the world. It began in 1891.

Dr. James A. Naismith, the   2  of basketball, was a teacher of a YMCA training   3   . It trained the people to work in YMCAs. Officials at the school were    4  about the low attendance during the   5  months. They  6    that people didn’t attend then  7 the school did not have a good sports __8___ in winter. So they asked Dr. Naismith for   9   . He came up with a new indoor game.

Naismith studied games being played at that  10  . He found that al the most  ___11____games used a ball. So a ball would be part of his new game, he decided. But __12____ the ball or hitting it would be too rough for  13  . So he put two  14  up on the poles. The players had to try to   15  a ball into them. Naismith then made thirteen  16   for the game. Twelve of them are still in  _17____today. Just seven  18 after the game began professional basketball teams were  19  . And that’s how basketball was   20  .

1. A. most beautiful B. most useful  C. most necessary  D. best known

2. A. friend    B. official     C. father      D. discoverer

3. A. school    B. game      C. team      D. club

4. A. interested  B. worried     C. eager       D. dangerous

5. A. summer   B. spring      C. autumn     D. winter

6. A. expected  B. hoped      C. talked      D. felt

7. A. that    B. because     C. so        D. though

8. A. suit     B. team      C. progress     D. program

9. A. a sport    B. help      C. money     D. students

10. A. game    B. school     C. time      D. place

11. A. popular   B. practical    C. excellent    D. skilled

12. A. throwing   B. casting     C. kicking     D. catching

13. A. students   B. young people  C. sports     D. indoors

14. A. bags    B. baskets     C. flags       D. sings

15. A. push     B. throw     C. send      D. kick

16. A. persons    B. poles      C. rules      D. balls

17. A. use     B. value      C. fact       D. virtue

18. A. minutes   B. hours      C. days      D. years

19. A. formed    B. called     C. dismissed     D. stationed

20. A. come into being B. discovered  C. take place    D. born

 

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