Study the articles for five minutes and find the answers to the following questions.,

1. Which team has won the football match?

2. What spoiled the impression of the game?

3. How many races has Holly Bull won with Smith?

4. How long did the game last?

5. How many times has Steffi Graf been a Wimbledon champion?

6. How many athletes will take part in the coming Olympics?

7. In how many sports will they compete?

8. What cities are the basketball teams from?

9. How many times have the Utah Jazz beaten the Spurs this season?

1. In a FIFA-sanctioned match marked by 31 fouls, the Texas men's soccer team was defeated 7-0 by Naberezhnye Chelny Kamaz, a Russian Premiere division team, Saturday at House Park Stadium.

Using a short, controlled passing attack, Kamaz dictated the tempo throughout the game. Kamaz outshot the Longhorns 26-4 and outnumbered Texas on corner kicks, 12-3. The game also featured 20 fouls by Kamaz and 11 by Texas, including two Kamaz yellow cards and one Texas yellow card.

2. With Smith, Holly Bull has six wins in seven races, including victories in the Blue Grass, Florida Derby and the Futurity. He's the 8-5 favorite in a Derby field of 15. Overall, Holly Bull is 7-for-8, his first coming with Louis Rivera aboard. Just a year ago, Smith was aboard another Derby favorite — Prairie Bayou, who ran a game second after going six wide

3. Wimbledon, England. - Lori McNeil punched shots with unrelenting precision at Steffi Grafs backhand, attacking her single flaw, breaking her down methodically, and dethroning a reigning Wimbledon women's champion in the opening round for the first time in history. When McNeil slapped a forehand volley into an open court to end the match 7-5, 7-6 Tuesday evening, she put a memorable touch on one of the greatest upsets ever in tennis and closed out a riveting five-hour drama.

"It doesn't hurt to lose my crown - it hurts to lose," said Graf, who lost three straight Wimbledon titles.

4. So much of these Olympics will seem so familiar. The faces. The accent. The time slot. So much will be different. More women competing, Former Soviet athletes dispersed to new teams. Beach volleyball. No boycotting nations.

Not one nation extended an invitation by the IOC turned it down. That means a record 197 nations will be on hand, competing in 271 events in 26 sports.

To represent the new teams and old ones, there will be 10,800 athletes, about 3,800 of whom are women - a 40 percent increase over the number competing four years ago.

5. SALT LAKE CITY. - Karl Malone scored 34 points, including a 20-footer with 42 seconds to play, and the Utah Jazz held off a late San Antonio rally to win 95-90 Thursday night, eliminating the Spurs from the NBA playoffs.

The Spurs trailed 91-84 before Wale Ellis scored and missed a free throw that Dennis Rodman tipped in, making the score 91-88. Malone then hit a jumper to rebuild the Jazz lead back to five. In their 3-1 series win, Utah beat the Spurs for the seventh time in eight games this season.

1. Study the article very quickly and answer the following questions.

Hank Aaron, long retired but not forgotten even by kids who never saw him play, ranks right behind Michael Jordan as the most esteemed athlete among American adolescents. Kids 12 to 17 show genuine respect for past stars and utter indifference for some of today's most hyped athletes, according to ratings from a national study released by the Sports Marketing Group of Dallas.

O.J. Simpson also made the list, based equally on popularity and perceptions of character, and was tied for No. 5 among all Americans 12 and over in the study, conducted last year.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mary Lou Retton, Julius Erving, Willie Mys, Scott Hamilton, Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and Dorothy Hamill all made the adolescents' top 20 list. Only five athletes on the list are still competing: Jordan, Scottie Pip-pen, Joe Montana, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Kristi Yamaguchi, who skipped the last Olympics but is preparing to come back. The rest retired recently after distinguished careers: Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, George Foreman, Nolan Ryan and Evander Holyfield. These athletes are some of the true models for America's young people, the ones kids look up to as much for their accomplishments as for a belief in their integrity. Though Aaron retired as baseball's home run king in 1976, and Ruth died in 1948, their deeds live on, nurtured by admiring tales from parents and grandparents. And what of young stars like Shaquille O'Neal, Andre Agassi, Barry Bonds and Deion Sanders? They didn't even come close. "Popularity and respect take years to develop," Sports Marketing Group chairman Nye Lavalle said. "There's really no such thing as an overnight success in America. It takes a long time to build your reputation and your status." Among boys, some athletes, who died before the boys were born, had three to five times higher ratings than current players. "I'm not sure if that's because the legends of these athletes were passed down so strongly by the kids' parents, or because the kids just haven't developed that kind of respect yet for the athletes of their own generation," Lavalle said.

Based on a study of 1,479 Americans age 12 and over conducted last yеаг, the ratings weighed perceptions of four positive traits - sportsmanship, intelligence, trustworthiness and three negative traits — greediness, ^cockiness and arrogance — among 809 athletes and sports celebrities. Lavalle used a formula to produce a rating system that could be as high as 100 if an athlete were popular with all respondents and perceived by everyone as having all the positive traits and none of the negative ones.

Conversely, an athlete could have a rating below zero if he or she were "immensely unpopular and viewed as possessing more negative traits than positive ones. Jordan, with a rating of 53, clearly was regarded with higher esteem among the adolescents than all other athletes. Aaron had a rating of 49 Abdul-Jabbar 48. In contrast, Charles Barkley had a rating of only 25, Agassi 23, O'Neal 22, Sanders 21, Bonds 14 and Bobby Bonilla 9.

The top 20 list confirmed the immense popularity of basketball among adolescents, with NBA stars accounting for six of the top eight spots. Five baseball players made the list. Among other things, the study showed that when it comes to sports, race is not an issue with kids. Six of the top seven, and 11 of the top 20, are black. The link among all the admired and respected athletes is that their careers were long and successful and their characters stood the test of time. Many of them are quiet and are thought to possess humility and a certain grace.

"These are people who are not perceived as having huge egos," Lavalle said. "They have a lot of positives going for them and not many negatives. People like them and admire them. In general, these athletes were pretty nice, decent people off the field, besides being great in their sports. "Kids 12 to 17 are more impressionable, without a doubt, than adults because some of the kids don't have the skills to decipher fact from fiction yet. But they see through a lot of hype and make pretty good judgments about people." The top 20 among adolescents varied from the top 20 most esteemed athletes among all Americans age 12 and up, which showed even more regard for retired athletes.

Hamill and Peggy Fleming led that list, followed by Aaron, Retton, Simpson, Mays, Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Bird, Yogi Berra, Chris Evert and Jesse Owens. "Those are people who most folks would want as their next-door neighbors," Lavalle said. "For the most part these people are either legendary in their status, or they are perceived as having excellent characters in comparison to other athletes. The traits Americans admire most in athletes totally debunk the Madison Avenue myth. It's not the handsome, hot star with the good-looking body that people admire most. They're looking for honesty and trustworthiness in athletes, a sense that they're genuinely good people." Very few athletes are "megastars" with national appeal for advertisers, Lavalle said. "Where the athletes have the most popularity and the most influence is in their own communities," he said. "While Troy Aikman has a rating of only 14 among kids across the U.S., in Dallas and in the surrounding area in Texas he might be four or five times that. It's the same thing for Warren Moon in Houston or Frank Thomas in Chicago. Each community has its own heroes."

The top 20 list for the general population was dominated by athletes who performed either in New York or the Olympics. "The New York media influence, and the exposure of the Olympics, give them a national boost," Lavalle said. "When athletes are in New York or in the Olympics, people all over the country learn more about them".

1. Who ranked as most popular athlete among American adolescents?

2.How many current athletes are there on the list?

3.What positive traits of the popular athletes do the children most admire?

4.How many adolescents took part in the study?

5.What sports did the most popular athletes do?

6.Do you know what sports the athletes mentioned in the article did? Think and fill in the chart below.

Athlete	Sport
1. Babe Ruth	baseball
2. Michael Jordan
3. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
4. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
5. Kristi Yamaguchi
6. Scott Hamilton
7. Joe Montana
8. Shaquille O'Neal
9. Andre Agassi
10. O.J. Simpson

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