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Basketball
Today, Americans watch more basketball (0) _________ television than any
other sport. But it is popular in (1) __________ countries too. People often
(2) __________ it ‘the international game’ because it is played in almost
(3) __________ country of the world. But basketball is not an old sport like football,
which people have played for centuries. People have only played basketball
(4) ________ 1891.
The idea for basketball came from James Naismith, a Canadian teacher, who
wanted his students to learn (5) __________ new kind of sport. Instead
(6) ___________ the players kicking the ball (7) __________ they do in soccer, in
Naismith’s new game, players threw or bounced the ball. Then, they had to get
(8) __________ into a big bag or ‘basket’. The name that Naismith chose for this new
sport was ‘basketball’.
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