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教你正确用（三十） 　　Sports and Sportsmanship―体育和体育道德 　　 　　Recently I received a few letters from our readers asking about sports in America. Well, today let’s talk about some of the popular sports played here. Closely related to playing sports is “sportsmanship”. So, we’ll also touch on how sports should be played. Of course, what I’m telling you are the kinds of sports that I think interesting. There are many types of sports people play in the different parts of the world, and here I’m only going to mention a few that I think I know how to play. 　　 　　Tennis 　　Tennis, I guess, is one of the most popular and most played sports in America. Tennis is almost as important as ping-pong in China. Many rules are similar between the two games. Indeed, ping-pong is also called “table-tennis.” Unlike ping-pong with a scoring of 21points per game, a tennis match is usually won by two wins out of three sets with six games per set. There are only four points in a tennis game, which are scored as: Love, 15, 30, 40, and game. Like ping-pong, when two players have the same score, we say: “15 all, or 30 all,” instead of “15 each” ― a funny usage, isn’t it? Some readers may ask “how about 40 all?” Well, in tennis, there’s no “40 all.” When both players reach 40, they deuce1 and win the game by two points. Tennis can be played by two players or by four players at the same time; the former is called “singles” and the latter “doubles”; note their plural forms, since each game is played by more than one person. 　　 　　Golf 　　Golf is getting more and more popular here. It is everybody’s game―men and women, young and old. Sometimes we see good golf players who look a bit out of shape, more often than not, with a chubby belly2. Usually a golf course has 18 holes. Each hole has a pre-set number of strokes within which a golfer should get the ball in the hole. This pre-set number is called “par.” Golf courses generally have holes from par 3 and par 5, and the total par for an 18-hole course is