1. Listen to the text «Baseball» and choose the best variants to complete the
sentences.
1) In baseball players must … .
a) hit a ball with a bat
b) catch a ball
c) catch another player
d) hit another player with a bat
2) … there were professional teams in other cities.
a) Within ten years
b) Within a few years
c) Within one year
d) Within twenty years
3) Each year since then the National League winner and … have been playing
in
the World Series.
a) the British League winner
b) the Australian League winner
c) the American League winner
d) the Canadian League winner
2. Listen to the story and mark the sentences «True» (T) or «False» (F).
1) Baseball is America’s worst sport.
2) There are two teams in this game.
3) The players run around four bases.
4) The team wins that finishes with more runs.
5) Everybody believes that baseball originated in Great Britain.
6) The first professional team was organized in the USA.
3. Complete the sentences with the words from the box.
World two businessmen baseball
1) The early teams were not professional.
2) The event was called the Series.
3) teams from New York played a game following Cartwright’s rules.
4) saw that they could make money with professional baseball teams.

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