Тематична контрольна робота для студентів І курсу за темою "Do You Like Sports?""

Task 1. Read the text. Mark the following statements true (T) or false (F)

The world of sports is full of courageous stories. This article will bring to you a sportsman who has the courage to excel and beat against all odds to achieve the unthinkable. In a field where physical strength is the most important factor, this athlete demonstrated that human will is a more significant thing.

A potato farmer, Cliff Young took part in a Sydney-to-Melbourne ultra-marathon race in 1983. Coached by his mother who was 81 at the time, Cliff Young started the marathon with work boots and galoshes overalls.

Competing against world-class marathon runners who were backed up by big sports companies and had hundreds of hours preparing for the race, Cliff Young’s informal training regime consisted in running for his sheep. He told the organizers that if he could run after his sheep foe a few days, he could surely compete with other runners.

The ultra-marathon normally took 5 days to complete and this potato farmer’s decision seemed suicidal. In fact, some tried to stop him from running the super-difficult race because they thought Cliff Young could die due to the heat and fatigue. After all, he was 61 years old!

To cut the story short, Cliff Young managed to finish the race. While the young racers slept, he continued the race throughout the night. The young athletes left him far behind until the very last night where he eventually lead the marathon.

Not only Cliff Young, a 61-year-old potato farmer, survived the race; he even managed to win the marathon and actually broke the race record by 9 hours! He even gave his prize money to the rest of the runners after him.

After the win, he continued to run in many ultra-marathon races and has even set standards in the world of endurance racing. His running style – dubbed “The Cliff Shuffle” is a famous running technique adopted by many runners in the world today.

Cliff Young showed that being old is not a barrier. And being a champion doesn’t mean you need have super-human strength, just super-human will.

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This article shows that physical strength is the most important factor in sports.

Cliff Young is a potato farmer.

Cliff Young was 61 when he took part in an ultra-marathon race in 1983.

Cliff Young’s competitors were world-class marathon runners.

Cliff Young’s informal training regime consists in running for his sheep.

Cliff Young’s decision to participate in the marathon seemed suicidal as the race lasted for two weeks.

Cliff Young didn’t manage to win the race.

Cliff Young showed that being old is not a barrier.

Task 2. Match the words with their definitions.

Task 3. Match the words with their definitions

Task 4. Complete the text with the words from the list.

My elder brother loves               [skiing, leader, the Olympics, team games, keep in shape, sports]. When he was in high school he used to play a lot of                   [skiing, leader, the Olympic games, team games, keep in shape, sports]. He was always the team                   [skiing, leader, the Olympic games, team games, keep in shape, sports]. He still plays soccer sometimes on the weekend, and in winter he goes                   [skiing, leader, the Olympic games, team games, keep in shape, sports] or snowboarding. Recently he’s started going to the gym three times a week in order to               [skiing, leader, the Olympics, team games, keep in shape, sports]. He also likes watching sports. If there’s any sport on the television – the World Series,               [skiing, leader, the Olympics, team games, keep in shape, sports], or even Golf Championships – he’ll watch it.

Task 5. Complete the text with the words from the list.

One of the famous sports is soccer. Soccer is a game played by two              [game, bat, ball, fencing, score, net, football, Calisthenics, fit, teams, players, swords] of eleven              [game, bat, ball, fencing, score, net, football, Calisthenics, fit, teams, players, swords] using a round              [game, bat, ball, fencing, score, net, football, Calisthenics, fit, teams, players, swords].

Players kick the ball to each other and try to              [game, bat, ball, fencing, score, net, football, Calisthenics, fit, teams, players, swords] goals by kicking the ball into a large              [game, bat, ball, fencing, score, net, football, Calisthenics, fit, teams, players, swords] . In Europe and South America, this game is also referred to as              [game, bat, ball, fencing, score, net, football, Calisthenics, fit, teams, players, swords] .

             [game, bat, ball, fencing, score, net, football, Calisthenics, fit, teams, players, swords] is a sport in which two competitors fight each other using very thin swords. The ends of the              [game, bat, ball, fencing, score, net, football, Calisthenics, fit, teams, players, swords] are covered and the competitors wear protective clothes, so that they do not hurt each other. Cricket is an outdoor              [game, bat, ball, fencing, score, net, football, Calisthenics, fit, teams, players, swords] played between two teams. Players try to score points, called runs, by hitting a ball with a wooden              [game, bat, ball, fencing, score, net, football, Calisthenics, fit, teams, players, swords].

             [game, bat, ball, fencing, score, net, football, Calisthenics, fit, teams, players, swords] are simple exercises that you can do to keep              [game, bat, ball, fencing, score, net, football, Calisthenics, fit, teams, players, swords] and healthy.