Yao Ming was born in China in 1980. In his last season with the Shanghai Sharks, he scored 32.4 points per game. Now the big man from China is helping the Houston Rockets in the NBA．He is the son of two great basketball players and learnt how to play basketball when he was young. Now, as one of the stars in the NBA, he is working hard to make his dream come true and show the world that Chinese basketball players love this game too.

Pele was a football player that everyone knew. He was born in Brazil （巴西） in 1940. He started playing for Santos when he was only 16 and he didn't stop playing until 1977, He played for Brazil 111 times and he scored 97 international goals. Pele came from a poor family. He started  playing football in the street, like many people around the world do. He was soon picked to play  for Santos and quickly became an international figure.

Steffi Graf was born in Germany in 1969．She won the tennis semi-final （決賽）at Wimbledon in l985 when she was only 16．but she lost the final to another great tennis player， Martina Navratilova. People were surprised by the strength and power of her game．She soon became a famous tennis player and she has won most of the main matches several times．

（   ）1．Which of the following is RIGHT?

      A．Yao Ming is a table tennis player.

      B．Yao Ming is on the Houston Rockets now.

      C．Yao Ming's parents are not basketball players.

      D．Yao Ming is playing for the Chinese Football Team.

（   ）2．Which of the following is WRONG?

A．Pele was born in a poor family.        

B．Pele was a great football player.

      C．Pele played football in the street all his life.

      D．Pele became famous soon after he was picked to play for Santos.

（   ）3．From the passage, we know that______

      A．Steffi Graf was born in Wimbledon in 1985.

      B．Martina Navratilova was also a tennis player

      C．Steffi Graf won the tennis final when she was only 16

      D．Steffi Graf has won few of the main matches since 1985.

Snooker(臺(tái)球)is a big sport in China．It is said that there are 300 million snooker players in China, so it's not surprised that some of the world's best players come from China．Ding Junhui is one of them．

When Ding Junhui was eight years old, there were not many snooker clubs．His father often

played with his friends on a table in the street，and one day Ding Junhui played with one of his father friends and beat him．His father，a shoe salesman，discovered that his son was talented at snooker．He then took Ding Junhui to China's nation snooker training center in Dongguan，Guangdong Province．There．they lived in a room of five square meters．When they ran out of money．Ding's father phoned his wife and told her to sell their house．

After years of hard training，Ding turned professional in 2003 and became China's No．1．

In 2005．more than 100 million people watched Ding Junhui win the 2005 World Snooker China Open．Since then, snooker has become more and more popular in China．

　“When I was a small boy, snooker was not in the top 10 favorite sports in China，”Ding says．“Table tennis was top, followed by soccer, basketball and badminton．Now，basketball is top，but snooker is surely in the top five．”

(　 )56．Ding Junhui’s father usually played snooker ---When Ding Junhui was young．

　 A．in a club　 B．in the street C．a(chǎn)t home D．in a training center

(　 )57．Ding Junhui became the best snooker player in China 　　　　 ．

　 A．in 2003　 B．in 2005　 C．when he was 6　 D．when he was 8

(　 )58．Ding Junhui and his father lived a_____ life when he was training in Dongguan．

　 A．rich　　　 B．colorful　 C．hard　　　　 D．modern

(　 )59．According to Ding Junhui’s words，_________ is the top sport in China now．

　 A．ping-pong　 B．soccer　 C．snooker　　　 D．basketball

( )60．The passage mainly tells us ____ ．

A．how to be a top player in snooker

B. what is the most popular sport in China

C．snooker player Ding Junhui's story

D. the history of snooker in China