《2025年绿色通道45分钟课时作业与单元测评高中英语必修第二册人教版》

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(2024·吉林省实验中学高一上期中)During his life, Dr James Naismith worked 1. ____ a doctor, taught PE and wrote several books. Although he never thought it very important, Dr Naismith is today best known for one thing—he was one of the 2. ____ (master) of basketball.
Born in Canada in 1861, he first 3. ____ (work) at a special sports school in the USA. One day the school principal told James he was having a problem with the students. Because of heavy snow, the students could not go outside. He told James that they needed a sport 4. ____ the boys could play indoors and gave him two weeks 5. ____ (think) of something.
It was on the very last day that James came up with his idea. The “birth of basketball” is said to be on 21 December 1891, when two teams from the school played the sweaty game. It was quite 6. ____ (difference) from the basketball games of today. It had nine players on each team, and footballs 7. ____ (design) for students instead of basketballs. Soon after, the game changed to five players on each side, 8. ____ (challenge) each other on the court.
To our 9. ____ (sad), Dr Naismith did not live to see basketball become the worldwide game as it is today. However, in 1936, just three years before his death, basketball became 10. ____ Olympic sport at the games in Berlin.

答案： 1.as 2.masters 3.worked 4.that/which 5.to think 6.different 7.were designed 8.challenging 9.sadness 10.an