Question

　　Basketball is still a young game. It is in the winter of 1891, a certain college（学院）was having trouble with its boy students, the weather was so bad that the students had to stay indoors（在室内）. Since they could not enjoy their sports outside as usual, they were unhappy, and some of them even got into fights（打架）from time to time.

　　Finally, one of the teachers at the college, J. E. Nesmith, was asked to invent a new game for the students, it was not an easy job because such a game had to be played indoors, and the court（场地）was not very large.

　　Nesmith thought for a few days and invented a kind of the ball. It was played between two teams. To make a score, the ball had to be thrown into a basket ten feet high above the floor on the wall. At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first, Nesmith had planned to have the ball thrown into a box. As he could not find boxes of the fight size, he had to use fruit basket instead. This is how the game got its name.

(1) Basketball is ________ some of the other ball games.

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A．as old as

B．not as old as

C．older than

(2) In fact, it has just a history of a little ________.

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A．less than one hundred years

B．more than a hundred years

C．less than a century

(3) ________ today, basketball was invented as an indoor game at first.

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A．Though it's often played outside

B．Because it's often played outside

C．Although it's never played inside

(4) Nesmith could not find boxes of the right size and then he fixed ________ on the wall.

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A．the wall

B．a kind of ball game

C．a fruit basket

(5) The boys got into fights ________.

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A．because they had no games to play

B．when they played basketball

C．because they were playing

Answer 1

答案：B;B;A;C;A