I. Read and circle the best answer for each numbered blank below.
The early day of football
Football became the game we know today during the reign of Queen Victoria in the
nineteenth century. So many different (1) ………........... of the game were being played in Britain at
that time, that in the 1863 the Football Association was formed in (2) ……………. to draw up and
agree the (3) …………….. of game.
Throughout the country new football (4) ………. were built and the development of the
railways (5) …………… that football teams and their (6) …………. could travel to the matches in
1888. The Football League was set up with twelve (7) …………..., and football became a national
sport, preferred (8) ………… rugby by many people as the more popular game of the (9) ………….
Sometimes people play the game in just a field. In one town, Burnley, in the north of England,
the field had a river (10) ……………. along the side of it in which players (11) …………. baths after
matches. People stood on banks made from earth and it was not (12) ………….. the early 1900s that
(13) …………. stands were built. The players would not have had two wooden (14) …………… for
the goals with tapes across the top (15) ………….. of a cross bar, and nets were not invented until
1891.
1. A. methods B. conditions C. forms D. ways
2. A. order B. way C. which D. aim
3. A. techniques B. laws C. rules D. lines
4. A. grounds B. places C. lands D. courses
5. A. helped B. intended C. said D. meant
6. A. organizers B. fans C. partners D. helpers
7. A. groups B. clubs C. teams D. people
8. A. for B. to C. with D. over
9. A. two B. both C. other D. one
10. A. lying B. moving C. running D. causing
11. A. got B. took C. ran D. picked
12. A. when B. after C. before D. until
13. A. accurate B. right C. proper D. correct
14. A. pins B. nails C. points D. posts
15. A. instead B. behalf C. place D. point
