Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank:
If you can roll a ball, you can play bowls. Everyone can play: young and old, men and women, the fit and the not so fit. It is the one outdoor game that (1)________ is a sport for all. What other sport can grandparents play on (2)_________ terms with their grandchildren? What other game is so simple that you could take up today and be (3)________ in the national championships tomorrow?
Simple? Perhaps that’s not the (4)________ word. There are bowls players in their thousands who will tell you that, although bowls is a game that anyone can (5)_______ in five minutes, it takes a lifetime to master it. They are the people who have developed a passionate interest in the game. (6)_________ , for outsiders, bowls is another world, and a strange and puzzling one. They see a bowls game in action and wonder what is going on.
What the players are trying to do is easy to explain. Their (7)__________ is to roll
their bowls, called woods, as near as possible to the little white ball, called the jack. If one of your bowls finishes nearer to the jack than your (8)_________ , you score one
point and he or she scores nothing. If you have the two nearest, you score two, and
(9 )___________ . The skill involved in rolling a bowl that weighs around 2 kilos across
about 40 metres so that it stops only a very short distance from the target is just as
(10)_________ as the skills required in other sports.
1. A. exactly B. really C. precisely D. accurately
2. A. alike B. equal C. parallel D. matching
3. A. competing B. entering C. getting D. going
4. A. right B. suitable C. genuine D.just
5. A. catch on B.see through C. find out D. pick up
6. A. Besides B. Unlike C. However D. Although
7. A. point B. attempt C. scheme D. aim
8. A. competitor’s B. opponent’s C. contestant’s D. opposer’s
9. A. further B. so on C. moreover D. as follows
10. A. respectable B. impressive C. appreciative D. favourable
