During his life Dr James Naismith worked as a doc-tor, taught P.E. and wrote several books. While he never thought it very important, Dr Naismith is today best known for one thing. He was the inventor of basketball.
Dr James Naismith was born in Canada in 1861 and his first job was 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 the boys could play indoors and gave the teacher two weeks to 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 Decem- ber 21,1891,when two teams from the school played the first game. It was quite different from the basketball games of today. It had 9 players on each team and foot- balls were used instead of basketballs. Soon after, the game changed t0 5 players on each side, using special " basketballs" through nets.
Although Dr Naismith did not live to see basketball become the worldwide game it is today, in 1936,just three years before his death, basketball became an Olym- pic sport. at the games in Berlin.
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| Though Anjan Bhattachary was deaf (聋的 ) , eared a good name in cricket (板球). He was born on October 15, 1951, in West Bengal. When he did not speak or respond to sound, his family members were very sad. Anjan was strong and very active. He started playing cricket at an early age. The fact that Anjan was neither able to talk nor hear did not affect (影响) his performance. Very soon he was chosen in the state learn of schoolchildren. He showed excellent performance in the matches one after another. At the early age 13,he was chosen in the school team of the East Zone. At the age of fifteen,Anjan was chosen in the national (国家的) team of schoolboys. In 1966,he played two test matches with the school team of London.In 1969 he went to Lucknow to take part in the Sir Frank Warrel Cricket Tournament. The 18-year-old boy had much success in this match. Anjan was so popular that not only his teammates and club members,but even the members of the opposite team admired (钦佩) him. | |||
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| 1. When was Anjan born? ______________________________ 2. What"s the matter with Anjan when he was born? ______________________________ 3. Was Anjan an active boy? ______________________________ 4. How old was Anjan when he joined in the national team of schoolboys? 5. Why did even Anjan"s opposite team admire him? | |||
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| Edison worked as a telegraph operator (电报员)when he was young. He worked at night; during the day he read books and made experiments. He was very tired. Sometimes he slept at night,and,so the other operators got angry. When they sent a message,Edison did not answer. He was asleep. They soon found a way to keep him awake. They told him to telegraph the letter A every hour,and in order to do this,he had to stay awake. Edison did not like this at all; he was still tired. So he invented a new machine which sent the letter A every hour. It never,never failed. Machines are not like people who forget. So the other operators received the letter every hour. They could not believe that Edison was such a wonderful man. One night they went quietly to his room and looked in. He was sleeping deeply,and his new machine was sending the letter A ! Edison continued his experiments in New York,but he had not got much money. He invented another machine.This one printed the messages which the telegraph received. There was by chance a rich man there who was studying the electric telegraph. As soon as he saw me new machine he bought it for about 8,000 dollars. With this money Edison was able to get some other scientists to help him. He invented a lot of different things. One of these was a talking-machine. We call it a record player. Our modern record-player is better than the old one,of course; but Edison"s machine was the first of its kind in the world. | |||
| 1.When did Edison work as a telegraph operator? | |||
| A. When he was young. B. In the morning. C. During the day. D. On weekends. | |||
| 2. How did Edison manage to type the letter? A every hour? | |||
| A. He typed the letter himself. B. Another operator helped him. C. A scientist telegraphed the letter for him. D. He invented a machine which helped him. | |||
| 3. How did Edison get 8,000 dollars? | |||
| A. He worked very hard day and night. B. He read books and made experiments. C. He sold his new machine to a rich man. D. He made several machines for his boss. | |||
| 4. What happened first iri the story? | |||
| A. Edison invented an instrument to telegraph the letter A. B. Edison sometimes fell asleep when he was on duty. C. Some scientists were asked to help Edison. D. Other operators went to Edison"s room. |