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:
Đáp án A: Only can “find” and “present” go with “themselves” to make sense. “Find oneself” means to discover oneself doing sth when this is unexpected. “Present oneself” means to describe oneself in a particular way or to officially appear somewhere. (They found themselves with regular free time: Bất chợt họ nhận thấy bản thân họ thường xuyên có thời gian rảnh rỗi)