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Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each space. SPECTATOR SPORTS A surprising number of popular spectator sports, for example football or baseball, (14)___ in Europe or the USA in the nineteenth century. This did not happen (15)___. It was the result of changes in the (16)___ people lived in those places at that time. Until then more people lived in the country than in towns. They worked in small groups and had no (17)___ time off. All these changed with the growth of factories and industry in the nineteenth century, first in Europe and (18)___ in the USA. For the first time most people began to live in towns, and they (19)___ themselves with regular free time. They had more leisure time than (20)___ before. This resulted (21)___ the need for organized entertainment. Suitable games developed or were invented, typically team games, in which the crowd could (22)___ sides and become involved. This gave people some of the entertainment they needed in their free time. The (23)___ explosion in TV, with the introduction of satellite and cable channels, has caused an increase in demand for sports as entertainment. Trả lời câu hỏi dưới đây:

Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each space.
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Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each space.

SPECTATOR SPORTS

A surprising number of popular spectator sports, for example football or baseball, (14)___ in Europe or the USA in the nineteenth century. This did not happen (15)___. It was the result of changes in the (16)___ people lived in those places at that time. Until then more people lived in the country than in towns. They worked in small groups and had no (17)___ time off. All these changed with the growth of factories and industry in the nineteenth century, first in Europe and (18)___ in the USA. For the first time most people began to live in towns, and they (19)___ themselves with regular free time. They had more leisure time than (20)___ before. This resulted (21)___ the need for organized entertainment. Suitable games developed or were invented, typically team games, in which the crowd could (22)___ sides and become involved. This gave people some of the entertainment they needed in their free time. The (23)___ explosion in TV, with the introduction of satellite and cable channels, has caused an increase in demand for sports as entertainment.

Trả lời câu hỏi dưới đây:


A.
started
B.
 stemmed
C.
 came
D.
appeared
Đáp án đúng: A

Lời giải của Luyện Tập 365

Đáp án A: start = begin to exist; “stem” as an intransitive verb requires to be followed by “from”; “come” doesn’t make sense in this sentence; “appear” = begin to exist for the first time while it is a common knowledge that football or baseball appeared much earlier than the 19th century.

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