Question

Football is, I believe, the most popular game in England: one has only to go to one of the important matches to see this. Rich and poor, young and old, one can see them all there, shouting for their teams. One of the most surprising things about football in England is the great knowledge of the game which even the smallest boy seems to have. He can tell you the names of the players in most of the important teams. He has pictures of them and knows the results of large numbers of matches. He will tell you who he thinks will win such a match, and his opinion is usually as good as that of men three or four times of his age.

Most schools in England take football seriously（认真地）— much more seriously than nearly all European schools, where lessons are all very important and games are left for the children themselves. In England it is believed that education is not only a matter of filling a boy’s mind with facts in the classroom; education also means the training of character by means of games, especially team games, where the boy or girl has to learn to work with others for his or her team instead of working for himself or herself alone. Therefore the school plans games and matches for its students. Football is a good team game. It is good both for the body and the mind. That is why it is every school’s game in England.

1.Football games are very popular in England among _____________ .

A. all the people  B. grown-ups

C. boys only       D. boys and girls

2.In England, a boy’s opinion of a match is often______________.

A. three or four times better than that of a man

B. worse than that of a man

C. as good as that of a man

D. worth thinking three or four times

3.In England, education means   _________________ .

A. filling a boy’s mind with stories

B. more than the teaching of knowledge

C. the teaching of knowledge only

D. training character by means of football games

4.We can use_______   instead of the underlined word “therefore”

A. however    B. as a  result

C. why       D. at that place

5.From the passage, we learn that ________________  .

A. schools in England make use of football games for the training of character

B. England is better than all the European countries

C. football is more important than lessons

D. only some schools in England have football game

Answer

1.A

2.C

3.B

4.B

5.A

【解析】

试题分析：足球是英国最受欢迎的运动。在英国每个学校里都有足球运动，它有利于学生的身心健康。

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4.】词义猜测题。 Therefore the school plans games and matches for its students.因此学校为它的学生设计了游戏和比赛。as a result 结果，所以此项最合适。

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