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1. Deck tennis appeared...	a. tennis and quoits.
2. Deck tennis is now established as...	b. a much smaller area than Lawn tennis.
3. Ring tennis is a combination of...	c. in the 1920s.
4. Ring tennis can be played in...	d. a land game known as Ring tennis or Beach tennis.
5. Lawn tennis is a game played...	e. in Australia and court tennis in America are played in an indoor court.
6. A winner is a player who seeks to collect more points...	f. with long-handled, oval- headed rackets.
7. Real tennis in Britain as royal tennis...	g. by maneuvering a cloth-covered rubber ball

BASE JUMPING

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One of the most extreme of all extreme sports is base jumping, the sport of jumping off tall buildings, towers, mountain cliffs and bridges with the help of a parachute.

In fact, BASE is an acronym that stands for the four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: B stands for Building, A stands for Antenna (an uninhabited tower), S stands for Span (a bridge, arch or dome), E stands for Earth (a cliff or other natural formation).

Founded in 1980, BASE jumping grew out of skydiving. Actually, most people who try BASE jumping have already learned to skydive. But BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving, that’s why it is banned in many countries. Legal jumps now happen on specific days and from approved structures.

In the United States, for example, you can only do BASE jumping once a year, on “Bridge Day” which takes place on the third Saturday in October at the New River George Bridge in West Virginia. The event attracts about 450 BASE jumpers and hundreds of spectators.

BASE jumping is extremely dangerous, but of course that’s why BASE jumpers love it. Like over extreme sports, it is the risk of disaster that makes BASE jumping so exciting. As one BASE jumper said, “There aren’t many injuries in BASE jumping; you either live or you die.”

Notes:

· Antenna – (зд) необитаемая башня

· Span – пролетное строение

· acronym – акроним (выражение или слово, образованное от начальных букв словосочетания или предложения)

According to the passage, base jumping originated in …

a) 1450

b) 1980

c) 1990

In many countries base jumping is …

a) permitted.

b) extremely popular.

c) forbidden.