Sports play an important role in British life. The most popular sport is football. Cricket is also popular in England, but is less important in the other home nations. Rugby union and rugby league are the other major team sports. Tennis is the most important sport for the two weeks of the Wimbledon Championships(溫布爾登網(wǎng)球錦標(biāo)賽)
Football
The modern global game of football developed from traditional British football games in the 19th century. Club football is organized separately in each of the home nations. English football has a league system which combines thousands of clubs. Scotland has a similar but smaller club football structure. The top level league in Wales is the league of Wales. In Northern Ireland the main league is the Irish Football League.
Each season the most successful clubs from each of the home nations qualify for(使…具有…的資格) the two Europe wide club competitions organized by UEFA(歐足聯(lián)), the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup.
Cricket
Cricket was invented in England. It is regarded as England’s national summer game and it is probably the second most widely covered sport.
There are eighteen professional country clubs, seventeen of them in England and one in Wales. Each summer the country clubs compete in the first class Country Championship, which consist of two leagues of nine teams and in which matches are played over four days.
Rugby
Like football, rugby union and rugby league both developed from traditional British football games in the 19th century. For much of the 20th century there was great antagonism between rugby leagues, which was a mainly working class game based in the industrial areas of northern England, and rugby union, which is a mainly middle class game in England, and is also popular in the other home nations.
Tennis
Tennis is yet another sport which originated in the United Kingdom and the governing body of the sport is the LTA(草地網(wǎng)球協(xié)會(huì)). However, no British man has won Wimbledon since 1936 and no British woman since 1977. The only British players of either sex to reach the world top 50 in recent years are Greg Rusedski, who learnt his tennis in Canada, and Tim Henman and Andrew Murray ,who did not pass through the LTA system either.
小題1:What do we know about football?
A．The top clubs represent the UK in the two Europe competitions.
B．Football is a newly-invented game in England
C．The top level league in England is the Irish Football League
D．Club football is an organized union in the UK.
小題2:From the passage we can learn      .
A．There exist all professional county clubs in England.
B．Rugby leagues was enjoyed by middle class
C．Tennis is in the charge of LTA
D．Greg Rusedski did not pass through the LTA system.
小題3:The underlined “antagonisim” in the sixth paragraph probably means     .
A．preferenceB．friendlinessC．similarityD．opposition
小題4:From what can we read the passage?
A．tour guidebookB．book review
C．news reportD．news magzine

小題1:A
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:D

試題分析：這篇文章是關(guān)于英國人的一些受歡迎的運(yùn)動(dòng)的信息，象足球，橄欖球，網(wǎng)球，和板球等。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第三段的句子：Each season the most successful clubs from each of the home nations qualify for(使…具有…的資格) the two Europe wide club competitions organized by UEFA(歐足聯(lián)), the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup.
可知A正確
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：從最后一段的句子：Tennis is yet another sport which originated in the United Kingdom and the governing body of the sport is the LTA(草地網(wǎng)球協(xié)會(huì)). 可知網(wǎng)球是由LTA負(fù)責(zé)，選C
小題3:猜詞題：從后面的句子：which was a mainly working class game based in the industrial areas of northern England,可知和足球是相反的。選D
小題4:考查文章出處，這篇文章是關(guān)于英國人的一些受歡迎的運(yùn)動(dòng)的信息，應(yīng)該是出現(xiàn)在新聞雜志上。選D
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The sky is as blue as my grandfather’s eyes. Above me，big white clouds race across the sky like pieces of cotton blowing in the wind. School starts in another week，and time seems to have slowed down.
“Sophie！” calls my grandfather. “Is that you？”I stand up，take his hand，and tell him all about my day as we walk through the orchard. We talk about apples，and bees，and Grandma. He tells me that he misses her too.
He puts his rough，brown farmer’s hand around my shoulder and pulls me close. “You know，Sophie，”he says，“I spent the morning in the attic(閣樓)，and you’ll never guess what I found. It’s the recipe (烹飪法) for Grandma’s apple pie. I used to help her make it sometimes. I can’t do it all alone，but you used to help her too. Maybe between the two of us，we can work it out. Want to try？”
“But it won’t be the same without Grandma，” I tell him.
“That’s true，”he says，“but nothing is the same without Grandma. Still，I don’t think that she would want us never to have another apple pie. What do you say？” I nod yes，and we walk towards home...towards an afternoon in the farmhouse kitchen，making Grandma’s famous apple pie.
小題1:We learn from the passage that Sophie          .
A．likes to watch clouds in the attic
B．comes to the orchard after school
C．enjoys Grandma’s apple pie very much
D．picks many apples in the orchard
小題2:Sophie’s grandfather spent the morning in the attic        .
A．looking for Grandma’s recipe for apple pie
B．helping Sophie’s grandmother make apple pie
C．trying to make apple pie all alone for Sophie
D．talking about apples，and bees，and Grandma with Sophie
小題3:The underlined  part in the last paragraph shows          .
A．how much Sophie’s grandmother loved Sophie
B．how much Sophie’s grandfather likes apple pies
C．how much Sophie loves her grandfather’s orchard
D．how much Sophie’s grandfather misses Grandma
小題4:Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?
A．My grandfather’s orchardB．My grandmother’s apple pie
C．A morning in the atticD．The last days of summer

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