1 . If you’re a fan of football, you might have wondered how it began. I went to Atherstone, a town in the heart of England, to see the _______ of the game. It takes place _______ on Shrove Tuesday, and if you had lived there eight hundred years ago, you would have _______ exactly the same game being played.
_______ the game, all the shopkeepers in the town’s main street, Long Street, _______ their shops to make way for the event. At half past two, sweets and coins were thrown out of the windows of Barclays Bank to local _______ waiting below. Like every year, they were given the day off school _______. After children moved back from the centre of the street, men and boys _______ instead. The crowd began a countdown. At three o'clock, a ball too heavy to kick very far was _______ from Barclays Bank too. For the next two hours, the ________ would be a moving mass of bodies, all fighting to ________ the ball.
The men who ________ are usually from Atherstone, or from nearby. Players often work ________, in family groups or pub connections, but there aren’t any official ________. The game itself has only two ________: play is limited to Long Street and participants are not allowed to ________ anyone. To begin with, the players were a little ________, but as the time progressed, things got serious. When the final whistle sounded at 5:00 pm, the winner, who had ________ to hold the ball until the end, was found from the bottom of a pile of men. After the fierce contest, his T-shirt had been completely ________. One player suffered a head injury and others had black eyes and slight injuries. ________, everyone was happy.
1. A.outcome | B.beauty | C.influence | D.ancestor |
2. A.annually | B.weekly | C.monthly | D.quarterly |
3. A.won | B.seen | C.held | D.developed |
4. A.Apart from | B.Next to | C.Instead of | D.Ahead of |
5. A.decorated | B.shared | C.closed | D.left |
6. A.reporters | B.teachers | C.shopkeepers | D.children |
7. A.immediately | B.specially | C.hardly | D.equally |
8. A.gathered | B.danced | C.drank | D.shouted |
9. A.borrowed | B.stolen | C.thrown | D.bought |
10. A.street | B.center | C.park | D.town |
11. 12. A.watch | B.play | C.wait | D.disappear |
13. A.together | B.alone | C.silently | D.patiently |
14. A.powers | B.records | C.policies | D.teams |
15. A.aims | B.stages | C.rules | D.functions |
16. A.hurt | B.kill | C.meet | D.bother |
17. A.tired | B.upset | C.cautious | D.curious |
18. A.managed | B.agreed | C.expected | D.refused |
19. A.covered | B.made | C.washed | D.destroyed |
20. A.Therefore | B.However | C.At first | D.After all |