(A)
Rugby looks like a mixture of soccer and American football. In Rugby, players carry the ball, kick the ball and tackle (拦截抢球) one another. Men, women and children play it in more than 120 countries.
Legend says rugby was invented in 1823 at a school in the town of Rugby, England. One of the school’s students, a young man named William Webb Ellis, was playing in a soccer match. But he got bored with just kicking the ball, so he picked it up and ran with it. Before long, this new way of playing soccer became popular at the school. When the school’s students finished their studies, they moved to other parts of Britain, taking the new game, which they called rugby, with them. Before long, they and others established rugby clubs throughout Britain and in British colonies around the world.
By the 1870s, there were many rugby clubs in Britain and elsewhere, but they weren’t all playing rugby the same way. To solve this problem, representatives from twenty-two teams met and agreed on official rugby regulations. They also founded an association of rugby teams, called the Rugby Football Union (RFU).
Today,Rugby Union World Cup tournaments are held every four years. The first one occurred in 1987 with Australia and New Zealand hosting. The next World Cup will happen in 2015 and will be hosted by England. Thousands of fans will travel to attend the matches and cheer on their favorite teams. Believe it or not, not one team who’s won the Rugby World Cup has managed to win the next World Cup! But players and fans don’t mind. They just enjoy the game.
【上海市宝山区2015届高三上学期期末质量监测英语试卷(文档版,含答案)】相关文章:
★ 浙江省舟山中学2014-2015学年高一上学期期中考试英语试卷
★ 福建省莆田八中2015届高三上学期第二次月考英语试卷 Word版含答案
★ 河北省保定市高阳中学2015届高三上学期第十一次周练英语试卷
★ 福建省莆田八中2015届高三上学期第三次月考英语试卷 Word版含答案
★ 黑龙江省哈尔滨市第六中学2015届高三12月月考英语试卷
★ 浙江省乐清市第二中学2015届高三上学期10月月考英语试卷
★ 重庆复旦中学2014-2015学年高一上学期期中考试试卷 英语 Word版含答案
★ 浙江省温州市第六十一中学2015届高三上学期期中考试英语试卷
★ 云南省师范大学附属中学2015届高三高考适应性月考卷(三)英语试卷(扫描版)
★ 浙江省湖州市2016-2017学年高一上学期期中考试英语试卷
最新
2019-11-15
2019-11-15
2019-11-14
2019-11-14
2019-11-11
2019-11-11