[单项选择]Passage ThreeWhen are professional basketball games in the US played indoors
A. During the summer months.
B. During the spring months.
C. During the winter months.
D. During the autumn months.

[单项选择]Passage ThreeWhen are professional basketball games in the US played indoors
A. During the summer months.
B. During the spring months.
C. During the winter months.
D. During the autumn months.

[单项选择]Michael, an American professional basketball player, is considered by many to be the greatest player in basketball history. The 6 feet 6 inches shooting guard first became known as an (61) individual scorer, but as he matured as a player he (62) a more team-oriented approach to the game. Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to six National Basketball Association (NBA) championships. His widespread (63) fans helped make basketball one of the world’s most popular (64) sports.
Michael Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York, the fourth of five children born to the family. Long before his basketball (65) emerged, young Michael liked to play baseball with his father. As a teenager, Jordan became (66) in North Carolina for his baseball skills, and he was named most (67) player after his team won the state championship.
When Jordan joined the NBA in 1984, basketball’s popularity was already (68) . But observers believe tha
A. excessive
B. expensive
C. explosive
D. explicit

[填空题]Invented in America, basketball is an indoor game which could be played in the evening and during the winter.

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Basketball is still a young game. In the winter of 1891, a certain college was having trouble with its boy students. The weather was so terrible that the students had to stay indoors. Since they could not enjoy their sports outside as usual, they were unhappy, and some of them often got into fights from time to time.
Finally, one of the teachers at the college, J. E. Naismith, 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 was not very large.
Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast, exciting game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was played between two teams. To make 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, Naismith had planned to have the ball thrown into a box. As he could not find boxes of right size, he had to use fruit

[单项选择]Basketball is still a young game. in the winter or 1891, a certain college was having trouble with its boy students. The weather was so terrible that the students had to stay indoors. Since they could not enjoy their sports outside as usual, they were unhappy, and some of them often got into fights from time to time.
Finally, one of the teachers at the college, J. E. Naismith, 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 was not very large.
Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast. exciting game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was played between two teams. To make score, the ball had to be thrown into a basket ten feet high above the floor on the wail. At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first, Naismith had planned to have the ball thrown into a box. As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit basket
A. Though it’s often played outside
B. Because it’s often played outside
C. since it’s always played outside
D. Although it’s never played inside