Question

 Basketball is a sport enjoyed by millions of people in at least 100 countries. It’s one of the  26  sports in the world. It began in 1891.

Dr. James A. Naismith, the father of basketball, was a teacher of YMCA training school. It trained the people to work in YMCAs. Officials at the school were   27  about the low attendance during the   28  months. They   29  that people didn’t attend then   30  the school did not have a good sports program in winter. So they asked Dr. Naismith for   31 . He came up with a new indoor game.

Naismith studied games being played at that time. He found that all the most   32  games used a ball. So a ball would be part of his new game, he decided. But   33  the ball or hitting it would be too   34 for indoors. So he put two   35  up on the poles. The players had to try to   36  a ball into them. Naismith then made thirteen   37  for the game. Twelve of them are still in   38  today. Just seven   39  after the game began professional basketball teams were   40 . And that’s how basketball was born.

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

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

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

4.	A．expected B．hoped C．talked D．felt

5.	A．that B．because C．so D．though

6.	A．a sport B．help C．money D．student

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

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

9.	A．rude B．easy C．simple D．rough

10.	A．bags B．baskets C．flags D．signs

11.	A．push B．throw C．send D．kick

12.	A．persons B．poles C．rules D．balls

13.	A．use B．value C．fact D．virtue

14.	A．minutes B．hours C．days D．years

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

Answer

1.D

2.B

3.D

4.D

5.B

6.B

7.A

8.C

9.D

10.B

11.B

12.C

13.A

14.D

15.A

【解析】略