閱讀理解。
All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy, happy and help them to live
longer.
Sports change with the season. People play different games in winter and summer. Games and sports
often grow out of people's work and everyday activities. The Arabs use horses or camels in much of their
everyday life; they use them in their sports, too.
Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them. Football, for example, has spread
around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers.
Some sports or games go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing, for example,
has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet.
People are inventing new sports or games all the time.
People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game they often
become good friends. Sports help to train a person's character (性格). One learns to fight hard but fight fair,
to win without pride and to lose with grace (文雅).
1. According to this passage we know that ________.
A. people began to play about one hundred years ago
B. about 100 years ago people ran or jumped when they played
C. basketball has a longer history than volleyball
D. not all the games have long history
2. According to this passage, which of the following isn't true?
A. Sports help to train a person's character.
B. People swim only because there are a lot of rivers in their country.
C. People from different countries may not be able to understand each other before a game.
D. Sports and games can develop the friendship between peoples all over the world.
3. The writer didn't tell us in this passage that ________.
A. basketball was invented in America
B. sports change with the seasons
C. games and sports often grow out of people's work and everyday activities
D. football is played all over the world
4. From this passage we can see that _______.
A. sports and games are unimportant things that people do
B. sports and games should be treated (對待) only as amusement (娛樂活動)
C. sports and games are only useful to the old
D. none of the above is true
