Fill in the blanks with the words: sport, game, event, contest, match, and competition.

1. The Olympic____________, an international festival of____________ ,are held at a four-year interval.

2. The ceremonies of the ancient Olympic____________ included in oratory, poetry, music and art, wrestling, long jumping, running, discus and javelin throwing.

3. Football __________ attract numerous spectators all over the world. Track and field are popular among college students, although basketball __________attract more competitors.

4. ____________ may be of individual, team or individual-team kind.

12. Fill in the blanks with the words: championship, champion, competitor, contestant, final, round, tournament.

1. ___________ is a series of games or contests that make up a single unit of a competition.

2. ___________is the winner of the first place or first prize in competition by defeating the other __________ in his division in a contest or _____________.

3. The greatest_____ in sports are called The Olympic games.

4. The most common ____ is the single elimination____________ in which ________are paired off for individual ________, with winners advancing to the next _________. Losers are eliminated until there is a single________.

5. European Cup consists of a qualifying ______ in three groups followed by a semifinal ______ and a six-nation _____. Each nation enters one ________ per event.

13.Fill in the blanks using the words from a).

a) The waist, padded gloves, ringing, fighters, the bell, a roped-off platform, the referee, the opponent, rounds, punching

Boxing

Boxing is a sport in which two men wearing (1)________ fight by (2)_______ each other. They may hit each other above (3)_______only. The fight usually has 10 to 15 timed (4)_______ or periods. Each round begins and ends by the (5)______of the bell. (6)____________ start in their corner of (7)_________ and come out to fight at the sound of (8)________. If a fighter falls to the ground from a punch and does not get up before (9)_____counts to 10 then (10)________wins by a knockout.

full range of food	innings	burgers	specialities	pizza
stands	choices	catch	refueling	soothing
queues	rituals	announcer	gangways	closed-circuit
contract	fans	baseball	vendors

A Baseball Game

Every aspect of a professional (1)____________game is enormous fun.

For example, the (2) _____________— they just love eating. After two or three (3)____________(each side plays nine) the (4)____________begin to empty. This is in spite of the fact that throughout the game (5)___________walk around calling "Get your hot dogs, they're red-hot!", or "Never fear, I got ice-cold beer!"

These limited (6)____________ are not enough. To get the (7)____________, you have to go behind the seats to a vast covered market of fast food.

There are hot dogs and (8)___________, and sandwiches and (9)__________and chilli, and candy and popcorn, and every kind of soda. There are also regional (10)____________.

By the fourth or fifth innings, halfway through the game, the (11)_________ at the stands snake round the stadium's (12)____________. At most places you need to stand in a separate line for each different item, so you could spend the best part of the game merely (13)____________yourself and your party. Luckily each concession has its own (14)______ TV, so you don't actually miss the game. Indeed you have all the comforts of home without ever leaving the stadium. When a spectator makes a good (15)____________, the public (16)____________will almost say, "Give that fan a (17)____________!" These ________must have a (19)_________ small (18) effect. Certainly a baseball crowd seems cheerful, even when the home team has lost. May be they are full of too much food to care

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