Sports. Test

Listen to the audio and choose TRUE or FALSE.

1. Those people who practise parkour deal with building walls and fences.       [true, false]

2. This kind of sport can be dangerous.       [true, false]

3. The most dangerous thing in parkour is body control.       [true, false]

4. It is impossible to be harmed while practising parkour.       [true, false]

5. According to the author, parkour can teach how to cope with difficulties.       [true, false]

WIMBLEDON

Wimbledon is the most important          [musical, artistic, dramatic, sporting] event of the British summer. Since the first             [performance, contest, maneuver, tournament] was played in 1877 in front of a few hundred            [spectators, audience, listeners, views], the competition has become a global sporting event attended by over half a million people, and watched on television by millions.

The world’s top tennis players agree that playing at Wimbledon is an experience        [likely, like, unlike, liking]no other. John McEnroe, a three-time Wimbledon winner, describes Wimbledon as «the hallowed ground of the sport».

Although the Wimbledon tennis championship has been in existence for more than a century, the sport of tennis has a much longer history. Most experts agree that the modern game has its             [originals, originates, origins, originative] in a courtyard ball game played by French monks in the 11th century. For this reason many of the words used in tennis are of         [British, English, French, Dutch] origin.

Much has changed since the first Wimbledon Tournament in 1877 — the first champion, Spencer Gore,           [contested, won, failed, succeed] prize of £12; this year the prize money is £630,000. Indeed, success in tennis championships is a very lucrative business. 2004 Wimbledon           [supporter, champion, referee, judge] Roger Federer, has won nearly $17,000,000 in prize money since turning pro in 1998.

             [Although, Thus, However, Nevertheless] Wimbledon has traditionally been dominated by Americans and Europeans, other countries are beginning to produce world-class players. Li Ting and Sun Tian Tian, who won gold         [medals, gifts, honours, grants] at the Athens Olympics, both play at Wimbledon this year. All Chinese competitors will be         [over, without, under, behind] pressure to do well; their coach, Jiang Hongwei, has gone on record as saying, «My first target is to lift my players into the top 30. Olympic gold is not              [lacking, insufficient, plentiful, enough]

I think the weather ... rainy tomorrow.

Tomorrow form 5pm till 7 pm I ... to Riga.

I ... to Kongo next Monday. 

I ... my things.