In 1873, Londoner Major Walter Wingfield invented a game called he calledSphairistikè(Greek for "playing ball"). Played on an hourglass-shaped court, Wingfield's game created a sensation in Europe, the United States, and even China, and is the source from which tennis as we know it today...
aTennis, developed in Britain in the nineteenth century from royal tennis, is a game known since medieval time. There is considerable dispute as to who invented the modern game. The present world governing body for tennis is the International Tennis Federation (ITF) founded in 1921 as the Inte...
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(5)全文主要讲了乒乓球的由来,根据第一段中“but perhaps you don't know who invented it”(但是你可能不知道这是谁发明的它),所以答案是“The history of Table Tennis”。故答案为:(1)invented;(2)The Americans weren't interested in it;(3)It soon became popular all over the world;(4)但是并...
The first video game was a digital version of checkers. (Image credit: Christopher Strachey) The next big step (that I know about) toward such games is now called Tennis for Two— though it didn't have a name when it was created. William Higinbotham, Robert V. Dvorak and David Potter...
The winning country was Hungary where today the game is played almost as much as in Chin a.()64. The passage mainly tells us about A. the invention and the development of table tennis B. the man who invented table tennis C. why table tennis is popular in England D. who gave the ...
A couple of months ago there was some dispute about who invented the two hand backhand jump shot, some claim it was Michael Chang, but the general consensus is that it wasMarcelo Rios, in the 90's, who created the innovative shot that is widely used in tennis today, by both male and...
Our house is in the middle of Gulangyu. Behind our house there is a big old tree. My grandfather tells me that the tree is very,very old. There are many birds in the tree. We call it a “bird tree”. Our house is near the sea. The sea is big and blue. There are a lot of...
三、任务型阅读You may play table tennis but perhaps you don't know who invented it. The story is that it started when two students at University of Cambridge began knocking a cork(软木塞) to each other across a table, using old boxes.In about the year of 1900, an American businessman...