阅读理解。
Basketball is still a young sport. It's about 100 years old. In the year of 1891, a certain college
was having some trouble with its boy students. The weather was very cold. They had to stay indoors.
Because they could not have their usual sports, they were unhappy, and some of them even got into
fights from time to time.
At last, some of the teachers at the college asked Dr. Naismith to invent a sport so that the
students might have something to play with. It was not easy to invent such a sport because it had to
be played indoors.
At first, Dr. Naismith planned to throw the ball into a box. But he couldn't find boxes of the right
size, he had to use fruit basket instead. That is how the sport got its name-basketball.
1. The short passage tells us ______.
A. what a basketball was
B. what a basketball looks like
C. how the basketball sport was invented
D. why people like the basketball sport
2. Basketball is ______.
A. an old sport of hundreds of years
B. already over a hundred years old
C. less than a hundred years old
D. a sport of few years
3. The underlined word "indoors" means "______".
A. in the door
B. in many doors
C. in every house
D. inside the room
4. Basketball was invented ______.
A. in the winter of 1891
B. in the summer of 1891
C. in the fall of 1891
D. in the spring of 1891
5. The sport got its name from ______.
A. the ball itself
B. the basket itself
C. the ball and the basket
D. Dr. Naismith
