Вопрос № 222963 - Английский язык

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The forerunner of modern lawn tennis was introduced into England from France in the 15th century and a “tennis court”, built by Henry VIII, is still in use at Hampton Court. The modern game, first played in England in 1873, quickly became very popular; in 1877 the words “lawn tennis” were added to the title of the All England Croquet Club at Wimbledon, near London, and in the same year the first championships were played. The Lawn Tennis Association, the controlling body of the game in Britain, was founded in 1888. The governing body of the game in the world (the International Lawn Tennis Federation, with headquarters in London and Paris) was founded in 1913.
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The Lawn Tennis Association, the controlling body of the game in Britain, was founded ____________________.

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There was a time when many people in Europe had never even heard of tea. This anecdote is about an old woman and her son, who lived before tea-drinking became popular in England.
He was a sea captain, and every time he returned from a far-away country, he brought his mother a gift. Once the young man came back from India with a box of tea for his mother. She didn’t know, anything about tea, but she was proud of her son, and she invited all her friends to come and try the tea. When her son came into the room, he saw cakes and fruit and jam on the table, and a big plate full of brown tea-leaves. His mother and her friends were sitting round the table, eating the leaves with butter and salt. Though they all smiled, it was clear that they didn’t enjoy eating the leaves.
“Where is the tea, Mother?” the captain asked. “Where is the water?”
“The water!” his mother said. “I threw the water away, of course!”
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The old woman was proud of her son when he came back from a far-away country _____.

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Sports in America take a variety of forms: organized competitive struggles; athletic games, played for recreation anywhere; and hunting and fishing. Most sports are seasonal. Some sports are called spectator sports, as the number of spectators greatly exceeds the number playing in the game. Other sports are called participant sports, drawing a crowd of onlookers only on special occasions, such as tournaments. Some sports are commercial and professional, with players who are paid for their participation and with audiences who pay for the tickets to watch.
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Some sports are called spectator sports, as the number of spectators greatly exceeds the number playing _________________.

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Baseball is the most popular sport in America. It is played throughout the spring and summer and professional baseball teams play well into the autumn. Not only boys, high school and college teams play baseball in the spring, but it is played by grown men as amateurs and by professionals organized into major and minor leagues. Every autumn there is the World Series, a play-off for the professional championship between the two top-ranking teams of the nation, one the winner of the National league competition and the other of the American league. Heroes in baseball are talked about and remembered as perhaps in no other sport.
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Baseball is the most popular sport __________________.

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Football is the most popular American sport in the autumn. The game agitated as a college sport. It is still played by almost every college and university in the country, and the football stadiums of some of the largest universities seat as many as 80 thousand people. The student spectators are led in cheering for their teams by trained, uniformed student cheerleaders, many of whom are pretty girls.
There are professional football teams in all main cities of the country. Their players are almost always former college football players. While college football games are usually played on Saturday afternoons, professional, football games are customarily played on Sunday afternoons or evenings.
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Their players are almost always ______________________.

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Basketball is the winter sport in American schools and colleges. Many Americans prefer it to football because it is played indoors throughout the winter and because it is a faster game. It is very popular with high schools, state-wide high school tournaments are held yearly. Professional basketball teams exist, but they do not attract many fans.
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Many Americans prefer it to football because it is played indoors throughout the winter and because it is _________________.