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All over the world people enjoys sports. Sports help to keep people healthy, happy and help them to live longer.

Sports change with the season. People play different games in winter and summer.

Games and sports often grow out of people's work and everyday activities. The Arabs use horses or camels in much of their everyday life; they use them in their sports, too.

Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them. Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers.

Some sports or games go back to thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing, for example, has a very history. But basketball and volleyball are quite new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. People are inventing new sports or games all the time.

People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game they often become good friends. Sports help to train a person' s character(性格). One leans to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace(体面).

1. The writer didn't tell us in the passage that________.

A. Basketball was invented in America

B. Sports change with the season

C. Games and sports often grow out of people's work and everyday activities

D. Football is played all over the world

2. People all over the world enjoy sports because________.

A. sports are interesting

B. sports help to keep people healthy, happy and help them to live longer

C. Sports help to train a person' s character

D. All of the above

3. From this passage we can see that_________.

A. sports and games are unimportant things that people do

B. sports and games should be treated only as amusement(娱乐)

C. sports and games are useful to the old

D. none of the above is true

4. Sports and games can help people from different countries___________.

A. to be enemies B. to understand each other better

C. to be partners D. to dislike each other