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首字母填空专练八 1 During his life Dr James Naismith worked as a doctor, 1t P.E and wrote several books. While he never thought it very important, Dr Naismith is today best 2k for one thing. He was the inventor of basketball. Dr James Naismith was born in Canada in 1861 and his first job was at a 3s sports school in the USA. One day the school principal told James he was having a problem with the students. Because of 4h snow, the students could not go outside. He told James that they needed a sport the boys could play indoors and gave the teacher two weeks to think of something. It was on the very last day that James came up with his idea. The “birth of basketball” is said to be on 5D 21, 1891, when two teams from the school played the first game. It was quite different from the basketball games of today. It had 9 players on each team and footballs were used instead of basketballs. 6S after, the game changed to 5 players on each side, using special “basketballs” through nets. Although Dr Naismith did not live to see basketball become the worldwide game it is today, in 1936, just three years before his death, basketball became an 7O sport at the games in Berlin. 2 We have always been interested in the moon. 2000 years ago people 1a knew it moved around the earth and where it would be in the sky at different times of the year. At that time, everything about the moon was 2l by watching it carefully in the sky. When scientists could use 3t to study the moon more closely, their ideas began to change. They could see the moon was made of rocks. Most 4s thought moon rocks would be different from those on Earth. This was because they believed the moon had once been a planet that had been caught in the earth’s gravity (引力) millions of years earlier. In 1969 moon rocks were finally brought to the earth and studied. Much to their surprise, scientists found that, except for water, the moon and the earth were 5m of the same thi