1. Read the text about sports and answer the questions below.

YOU HAVE TO SUPPORT

EACH FALSE ANSWER.

Games with Bats & Balls: Cricket, Baseball, and Softball

Cricket: The game of cricket originated in south-east England sometime in the late 16th century. By the
18th century, it had become the national sport, making inroads globally in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The prototype for the modern cricket bat featuring a willow blade and a cane handle layered with strips of
rubber, and then tied with twine and covered with another layer of rubber to form a grip was invented
around 1853. (The longest recorded game of cricket took place in 1939 and spanned a period of nine
days.)

Baseball: Alexander Cartwright (1820-1892) of New York invented the baseball field as we know it in
1845. Cartwright and the members of his New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club devised the first rules
and regulations that became the accepted standard for the modern game of baseball.

Softball: In 1887, George Hancock, a reporter for the

Chicago Board of Trade, invented softball as a form of
indoor baseball that was first played on a cold winter day
inside the warm Farragut Boat Club.

Basketball
The first formal rules for basketball were devised in 1892.
Initially, players dribbled a soccer ball up and down a court
of unspecified dimensions. Points were earned by landing
the ball in a peach basket. Iron hoops and a hammock-style
basket were introduced in 1893. Another decade passed, however, before the innovation of open-ended
nets put an end to the practice of manually retrieving the ball from the basket each time a goal was
scored. The first shoes specifically designed for the game, Converse All Stars, were introduced in 1917
and were soon made famous by legendary player Chuck Taylor who became an early brand
ambassador in the 1920s. 

Football: American football is a descendant of rugby and soccer. While Rutgers and Princeton played
what was then billed as the first college football game on November 6, 1869, the game did not come into
its own until 1879 with rules instituted by Walter Camp, a player/coach at Yale University. On November
12, 1892, in a game that pitted the Allegheny Athletic Association football team against the Pittsburgh
Athletic Club, AAA player William (Pudge) Heffelfinger was paid $500 to participate—marking him as the
first-ever professional football player.

Tennis: While there’s evidence to suggest that ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians played some
version of a game that resembled tennis, court tennis as we know it is descended from a game enjoyed
by 11th-century French monks called paume (meaning "palm"). Paume was played on a court and the
ball was struck with the hand (hence the name). Paume evolved into jeu de paume ("game of the palm")
in which racquets were used. By 1500, racquets constructed of wooden frames and gut strings were in
play, as were balls made of cork and leather. When popular game spread to England, it was played
exclusively indoors, but rather than volley the ball back and forth, players attempted to hit a ball into a
netted opening in the roof of the court. In 1873, Englishman Major Walter Wingfield invented a game
called Sphairistikè (Greek for "playing ball") from which modern outdoor tennis evolved.

Taken and adapted from https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-sports-1992447

1. How many sports the text present?

2. The first formal rules for basketball were devised in 1892.

TRUE FALSE
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3. American football is a descendant of

a) Tennis and baseball

b) Rugby and Soccer

c) Soccer and American Soccer

4. Paume was the first version of tennis.

TRUE FALSE
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5. Who did invent a game called Sphairistikè?

a) Walter Wingfield

b) Walter Window

c) Walter Risk

6. What rather sport the image in the text represents?

a) Baseball

b) Rugby

c) Basketball

7. The game of cricket originated in England

TRUE FALSE
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8. The longest recorded game of cricket spanned a period of:

a) Nine years

b) Nine days

c) Nine minutes

9. Alexander Cartering invented the baseball in 1846.

TRUE FALSE
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10. Softball was invented in 1987.

TRUE FALSE
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3. f o o t ball 7. yo ga 11. ho c ke y 15. skiing 19. c ar rac ing
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3. Write how did you meet your favourite sport?

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