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Soccer
English
soccer is more exciting than any of the top American team sports. This is
according to the research of a team of American scientists. They analyzed the
results of over 300,000 games of soccer, baseball, hockey, basketball and
American football played since 1888. They decided that the likelihood of an
“upset” in a game was a good measure of its competitiveness and excitement. An
upset is a game in which the underdog, or weaker team, beats the stronger team.
Scientists found English soccer matches produced more upsets.
The survey
is not all bad news for enthusiasts of American sports. It seems that soccer
has become less exciting and more predictable over the past fifty years. This
suggests that strong teams are becoming stronger and the chance of an upset is
reducing. On average, the underdog wins 45 percent of the time in soccer, but
this figure is sliding. In contrast, the frequency of upsets in baseball is
increasing. Baseball has overtaken soccer in the past ten years to become the
more exciting sport. However, the survey did not analyze the worldwide fever
produced by soccer’s World Cup Finals.
1. True/false: Look at the article’s
headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F):
a.
American scientists say English soccer is more exciting than US sport.
T / F
b.
The scientists looked at over 300,000 games across five sports.
T / F
c.
Scientists decided excitement is based on the chances of upsets.
T / F
d.
English soccer matches produced far fewer upsets than other sports.
T / F
e.
The survey is bad news for enthusiasts of American sports.
T / F
f.
On average, the underdog wins 45 percent of the time in soccer.
T / F
g.
Basketball has overtaken soccer in being the most exciting sport.
T / F
h.
The survey analyzed the fever that comes from soccer’s World Cups.
T / F
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a.Did the headline make you want
to read the article?
b.Do you like soccer?
c.Where is the world’s best
soccer league?
d.Do you prefer the word
“soccer” or “football”?
e.Why do you think American
football is called “football” when it’s largely played with the hands?
f.What do you think is the most
exciting sport in the world?
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The National Gallery
The National Gallery in London houses the national collection of Western European painting, comprising more than 2000 pictures dating from late 13thto the early 20thcentury. The pictures belong to the public and access to them is free, as it has been since the Gallery was founded in 1824. All European art schools are represented in the Gallery. All great artists are represented by masterpieces and the collection shows the international nature of European painting at all period since the Renaissance. The collection is housed in the building designed by William Wilkins in 1838.
The Gallery is situated in the centre of London, in the famous Trafalgar Square. The collection includes canvases by Italian, Spanish, French and English painters. Pictures of Hogarth, Turner, Constable, Gainsborough and Reynolds are exhibited there. Thousands of tourists and Londoners visit the National Gallery and enjoy the beauty of it collection.
Questions:
1. When was the National Gallery founded? 2. Where is it situated? 3. The Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting, doesn’t it? 4. Whom do the pictures in the Gallery belong to? 5. Does the collection show the international nature of European painting or not? 6. What canvases does the collection include? 7. Picture of what English painters are exhibited there? 8. Who visits the National Gallery in London?