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五、词语运用
请阅读下面短文，根据语篇内容，用方框中所给词的正确形式填空，使短文通顺、连贯。方框中有两个词为多余项。
人与社会——体育活动
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Do you know James Naismith? He was a ____ doctor and sports fan, and he invented the game of basketball in 1891 because of a request for ____ an interesting form of indoor activity. Naismith and his ____ thought of 13 rules of the basketball game. It was first played with nine players per team and with peach ____ as hoops(篮圈). The ball itself was a soccer ball, not a basketball.
Basketball has become a game that is now played by people of all ages. The ____ of the game reached new heights in the late 1970s, largely because of Larry Bird vs Magic Johnson in the 1979 NCAA finals. Bird’s Indiana State team ____ lost to Johnson’s Michigan State team, but then the two men ____ to play for Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers respectively(分别地). And they met several times during the 1980s ____ for the NBA crown.
Michael Jordan and his Chicago Bulls team won six NBA championships throughout the 1990s, bringing the popularity of basketball to even ____ heights and giving Jordan one of the most recognizable(容易认出的) faces anywhere.
The rules of basketball and the game itself have been improved. Now, five players per team ____ on the court, and the peach baskets have turned into iron rims(铁圈).
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答案： 1. Canadian 2. developing 3. helpers 4. baskets 5. popularity 6. finally 7. continued 8. to compete 9. greater 10. are allowed