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首先,请阅读下面体育活动的简介: Golf Scotland is traditionally regarded as the home of golf. There are over 400 gol...
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首先,请阅读下面体育活动的简介:
Golf
Scotland is traditionally regarded as the home of golf. There are over 400 golf courses in Scotland alone. The most important golf club in Scotland is in the seaside town of St.Andrews,near Dundee.
B.Horse racing
Horse racing, the sport of Kings, is a very popular sport with meetings being held every day throughout the year. The Derby orginated here, as did the Grand National which is the hardest horse race in the world.
C.Table Tennis (ping pong)
Table tennis was invented in England in 1880. It began with Cambridge University students using cigar boxes and champagne corks. Although the game originated in England, British players didn’t have much luck in international championships.
D.Badminton
Badminton takes its name from the Duke of Beaufort’s country home, Badminton House, where the sport was first played in the 19th century.
E. University Boat Race
In the 19th century, students at Oxford and Cambridge were huge fans of rowing. In 1829, the two school agreed to hold a race against each other for the first time on the Thames River. The Oxford won and a tradition was born
F. Fishing
Fishing is one of the most popular sports in the UK,with an estimated 3.3 million people taking part in the sport on a regular basis. Fishermen can be seen sitting beside rivers and lakes waitting for the unlucky fish to get caught.
阅读下面任务的简介,并为他们选择合适的体育活动
1.Bill is a university students in Oxford University, who enjoys boat race. Having lived beside a river for more than ten years,Bill has developed great skills in rowing boat. Therefore, he would like to become a member of a boat-racing team in the city.
2.David retired last year from his company. He would like to find proper means to kill his time.However,as an old man, he would like some quiet sports so that won’t get too tired.
3.Mr. White , a successful businessman, admires the sports star Deng Yaping from China who can play table tennis very well. However, he has no time to learn to play table tennis, so he would like to choose a traditional sport of Scotland in his spare time to relax.
4.Tommy is a five-year-old boy whose parents have a high expectation on him. They want him to be one of the best table tennis players in the world and win honor for his motherland where the game was born.
5.Young Brown grew up on a farm where he learned to ride horses when he was still young. He used to watch Derby every year. But recently he has become very interested in playing badminton with his family and friends after a stressful work.
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