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Sports in Great Britain

It is interesting how many of today’s sports games originated in Britain – football, rugby, tennis, boxing, rowing and horse racing among them. Of course, horse racing was popular with the Greeks and Arabs long before the British began to put them into practice; and people had been playing football in one form or another for thousands of years all over the world. But it was the British who created special rules for these sports and sports games.

Football is a good example. In the Middle Ages people in Europe, Japan and Asia all played some forms of the game. A sort of football was also very popular in England, especially as a contest between villages. But at that time there were very few rules. When the students of English schools started to play football, rules then became necessary. They were changed several times and by the middle of the 19th century football had become very much the game that we know and like today. By the way, the first serious football rules were written at Cambridge University.

A similar story can be told about some other sports. Why did this happen in Britain before other countries? There are some possible explanations: after the Norman invasion of 1066, Britain was quite a peaceful country. As a result people had time to develop sports. Later, after Britain’s industrial revolution, English factories were based on highly organized work and strict time keeping. The same discipline was applied to sport. So uniforms, referees and punishments were introduced to football and other games. British authorities thought that team games were good training for future military and industrial careers.

Every country has its own list of favourite sports. What is the British list? There are lots of games apart from football. Schoolgirls, for example, play a game which seems a lot like basketball. It is called netball. Netball is different from basketball in many details: for example, the ball is lighter, the court is bigger and netball has seven players in each team (not five). There is something very strange about netball – it is never played by boys. There is no biological reason for this, it is simply a tradition. It is popular throughout the English-speaking world, and the Australians and New Zealanders usually win the competitions.

But the most famous and popular British sport is cricket. Cricket is an important part of English summer life. You can watch it all day on TV or even listen to it on the radio. News programmes keep you up-to-date with the score. Men, when they meet, always exchange a few words about the state of the game.

One of cricket’s distinguishing features is that the games are very long. In an ordinary game at a boys’ school it takes up to a whole afternoon. But the big international games are up to five days long.

Football was the most popular game in the Ancient World.

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True

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False

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Not stated

The rules for modern football were created in Great Britan.

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True

2)

False

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Not stated

All the students had to play football and other team games at British schools.

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True

2)

False

3)

Not stated

Basketball and netball are the same game under different names.

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True

2)

False

3)

Not stated

Netball was invented in a British boarding school for girls.

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True

2)

False

3)

Not stated

Teams from Great Britain always win the international netball competitions.

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True

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False

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Not stated

The British mass media pay lots of attention to cricket.

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True

2)

False

3)

Not stated

According to the rules, a game of cricket lasts no longer than an hour and a half.

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True

2)

False

3)

Not stated

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задан 5 месяцев назад

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Football was not the most popular game in the Ancient World, so the statement is false. The rules for modern football were indeed created in Great Britain, so the statement is true. Not all students had to play football and other team games at British schools, so the statement is false. Basketball and netball are not the same game under different names, so the statement is false. Netball was not invented in a British boarding school for girls, so the statement is false. Teams from Great Britain do not always win the international netball competitions, so the statement is false. The British mass media do pay lots of attention to cricket, so the statement is true. According to the rules, a game of cricket can last up to five days, so the statement is false.

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ответил 5 месяцев назад
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1) False - The text mentions that football was played by the Greeks and Arabs and had been played in various forms around the world for thousands of years, not specifically stating it was the most popular in the Ancient World.

2) True - The text states that the British created special rules for these sports and sports games, including football, and the first serious football rules were written at Cambridge University.

3) False - There is no information in the text indicating that all students had to play football and other team games at British schools.

4) False - The text clearly distinguishes between basketball and netball by describing differences in the ball, court size, number of players, and noting that netball is never played by boys.

5) Not stated - The origin of netball is not discussed in the text, so it is not stated whether it was invented in a British boarding school for girls.

6) False - The text mentions that it is usually Australians and New Zealanders who win the competitions, not teams from Great Britain.

7) True - The text says that cricket is an important part of English summer life and is extensively covered on TV, radio, and in news programmes, indicating significant media attention.

8) False - The text notes that ordinary school games of cricket can take up an entire afternoon and big international games can last up to five days, clearly exceeding an hour and a half duration.

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ответил 5 месяцев назад
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Football was not the most popular game in the Ancient World, so the statement is False. The rules for modern football were indeed created in Great Britain, so the statement is True. Not all students had to play football and other team games at British schools, so the statement is False. Basketball and netball are different games with distinct rules, so the statement is False. Netball was not invented in a British boarding school for girls, so the statement is False. Teams from Great Britain do not always win international netball competitions, so the statement is False. The British mass media do pay lots of attention to cricket, so the statement is True. According to the rules, a game of cricket can last up to five days, so the statement is False.

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ответил 5 месяцев назад

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