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Practice Test 2, Paper 1)
‘You are going to read a newspaper article about a litle-known spor called ko‘ball. Seven sentences
hhave been removed from the arlcle. Choose from the sentences AH the cne which fits each gap
(8-15). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
‘Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.
It’s not a basket or a net, it’s a korf
In 1996 korfball celebrated its fiieth birthday in
‘London with a spectal match ~ and very few people
noticed
3 1m 1920 the game was demonstrated at
the Olympic Games in Belgium and in 1946 Dutch
players demonstrate the game for the first time in
the UK. Although it became established in
London, its development was very
limited. However, ia the last fiReen years the
development of korftall has been very impressive
worldwide [H0)] Interestingly, most ofthese
centres are in university towns.
south-east
Tl] | onder to doseribe it to the vast
‘majority who have never heard of the game,
best defined as a mixcure of basketball and netball,
‘The pitch is rectangular and measures 40 metres by
29 metres indoors or 60 metres by 90 metres on
‘and is divided into two like a football pte,
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‘There are gt payers in team; wo men ad tmo
women payin defence and the sae numbers In
attack, but afer every to goals ~ scored by ether
team ~ the players change divisions, and rol
attackers become dfandars and efanders become
stickers, IBA] —]Siee tis very nach team
fame, tosuced atte top evel indus require
Balance, sped andthe abiliy to think ahead and
maven space,
‘Tho most recent world championship was held in
India in 1905, and internationally Korfball is
‘established in more thar fifty countries. It has
recently been given full membership ofthe Olympic
movement, and in magazines there have boon
articles about the gamo in various countries from
‘Australia to Russia, South Africa to the USA.
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Tt may have faken a very long time to lay the
foundations of the game, but with Olympic
recognition perhaps in the nottoodistant future,
oral! ssems set toexpard. [45 >
Play, therefore, can continue when a shot
is missed.
‘The game was adasted by a Dutch teacher
in a mixed school in Amsterdam, from a
game he saw berg played in southern
Sweden in 1902.
In Taiwan the game even receives
‘government funding
you touch the lines around your division,
you are breaking the rules.
The day may then come when people
stop asking, ‘You play what?”
F Players are not alowed to run with the ball
0 the use of space and rrovement away
from your opponent are important
G By definition korfball must be played by
mixed teams and is a handball game of
‘speed and immense varity
H_ Moreover in 1987 a national league was
formed in the UK which now attracts
around 4,000 players in more than thirty
centres.
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