Inventions in sport
I. Frisbee
Frisbee was created/invented (1) by students at the Yale University in the United States in1947. The first games were played with disks made from metal/metallic (2) tins used to bake cakes. They were provided/maintained (3) by a local baker named Joseph Frisbie, who had a draft/contract (4) to provide caring/catering (5) service to the university camp/campus (6).
In 1948, a company called/named (7) Wham-o was achieved/approached (8) by a young American officer with a proposal to produce a same/similar (9) disc, but this time made of light plastic/plaster (10). Finally, after hearing about the origins/originality (11) of the game, the manufacturers decided/intended (12) to call their product Frisbee.
II. Basketball
T
he
origins
of this sport lies in the American student’s dislike/unlike
(1) of
rugby. The name of this
peculiar/particular (2)
student was James A. Naismith. After graduating/finishing
(3)
from college he went on to become a
physical
education
instructor/tutor (4)
at a YMCA training school. He wanted to able to offer his class
consisting/including
(5)
eighteen male students some kind of physical activity/action
(6) which
was not as violent as rugby.
In 1891 he asked the janitor to fix a couple/pair (7) of boxes to the balcony in the gym. The janitor happened to have no own/proper (8) boxes so he brought some fruit baskets/buckets (9) instead. The game, thus originating, quickly took off and spread to France, Canada and Australia. In 1904, it was induced/introduced (10) in the Olympics.
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Named after their creators
Boots cloth footwear hat instrument jacket pen raincoat revolver tuba
I. In 1938, a Hungarian Lazlo Biro made the first ball-point (1) ___. In 1944, the American Army bought 30, 000 of biros so that soldiers could write with them in the rain.
II. A cardigan is a knitted (2) ___ opening down the front named after Earl of Cardigan, a British officer.
III. A colt is a (3) ___ invented by an American gun maker States Samuel Colt (1814-1862).
IV. Mackintosh (mac) was originally used to denote rubberized waterproof (4) ___ invented by a Scottish chemist Charles Mackintosh or a (5) ___ made of it. Now both Mackintosh and Mac are rather obsolete and can be found only in literature.
V. A saxophone is a wind musical (6) ___ invented by Adolph Sax in 1840. A sousaphone is a large brass (7) named after Phillip Sousa, American band master and composer.
VI. A stetson is a wide brimmed (8) ___ popular in the western American States. It was designed by an American hat maker John Stetson (1830-1903).
VII. Wellingtons (wellies) originally were (9) ___ extending to the top of the knee in front and cut low in the back. It was popularized by Duke of Wellington. Nowadays Wellingtons, or wellies any waterproof (10) ___.
JOKES
At local coffee bar, a young woman is expounding her ideas to her friends. “The man I marry must be a shining light among the company. He must be musical. Tell jokes. Sing. And stay at home”. An old granny overheard and spoke up, “Honey, if that’s all you want, get a TV”.
If you really look like your passport photograph, the chances are you are not well enough to travel.
Television is the device which has changed a generation of children from an irresistible force into immovable objects.
– I play the piano by ear.
– What a coincidence. I listen the same way.
– Good morning, I am the piano tuner.
– But I did not send for you.
– No, but the neighbours did.
– Will the band play requests?
– Certainly.
– Then ask them to play chess.
Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of piano forte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled. (G.B. Shaw)
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