Номер 1, страница 4 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс рабочая тетрадь Афанасьева, Михеева

Unit one. Аудиозапись номер один к упражнению один.

Listen to the text and match its parts with their titles in your workbook. There is one title you don't have to use.

A lot of people in Russia enjoy watching and playing ice hockey. We often think and say that it's our national sport. Though in fact, ice hockey was born in Montreal, Canada, in eighteen seventy-seven. That was the year when Canadian students at McGill University invented the first seven rules for the game. Two years later, in eighteen seventy-nine, the first organized team, the McGill University Hockey Club, was formed. Very soon, the sport became popular all over Canada. By eighteen ninety-three, there were almost a hundred teams in Montreal alone.

By the beginning of the twentieth century, the game of ice hockey quickly spread to Great Britain and other European countries. In nineteen seventeen, the USA and Canada founded the National Hockey League, NHL. Nowadays, ice hockey is an Olympic sport, and the most popular team sport played on ice.

Hockey is also the world's fastest game. Players often skate forty-eight kilometers per hour. They get tired very quickly. Hockey players leave a game quite often, and other players come in to substitute them. In hockey, players use hockey sticks and a puck. The colder it is, the better the puck slides on the ice. That's why players often put the puck in the freezer before a game. In some games, players use more than thirty pucks. The puck moves faster than the players. Hockey players are heavy, and pucks are not. Sometimes pucks go at one hundred sixty kilometers per hour. As you see, hockey looks easy to play, but it isn't.

Hockey is a dangerous game. Today, players wear special clothes to protect their bodies. Goalkeepers wear special masks to protect their faces. A goalkeeper without a mask can break his nose or teeth. In the past, there were many players without their front teeth.

People play hockey not only on ice fields. For example, there is street hockey, for which you don't need any ice. This type of hockey was also born in Canada and is now popular in many countries because you can play it all year round and in lots of places: car parks, school yards, empty streets. You wear tennis shoes, not ice skates. And you can use a ball or a puck. But the tactical methods and the rules are the same. Street hockey is especially popular with young people.