Navodaya English Passage 1 - Football

 Passage 1


Football is the world’s most popular sport, and is played in every country in the world. The rules of soccer were laid down in Britain in the 1860s when the Football Association was formed to control the sport. It is really a simple game in which two teams of 11 players try to score by putting a ball into the opposing team’s goal-mouth.


फुटबॉल हा जगातील सर्वात लोकप्रिय खेळ आहे आणि जगातील प्रत्येक देशात खेळला जातो. 1860 च्या दशकात ब्रिटनमध्ये फुटबॉलचे नियम घालून दिले गेले, जेव्हा या खेळावर नियंत्रण ठेवण्यासाठी फुटबॉल असोसिएशनची स्थापना करण्यात आली. हा खरोखर एक साधा खेळ आहे ज्यामध्ये 11 खेळाडूंचे दोन संघ विरुद्ध संघाच्या गोल-माऊथमध्ये चेंडू टाकून गोल करण्याचा प्रयत्न करतात.


Players control the ball with their feet or head, but they are not allowed to touch it with their arms and hands. Only the goalkeeper may handle the ball, and that too only inside the penalty area in front of his own goal-post.


खेळाडू त्यांच्या पायाने किंवा डोक्याने चेंडू नियंत्रित करतात, परंतु त्यांना त्यांच्या हातांनी आणि तळहातांनी बॉलला स्पर्श करण्याची परवानगी नाही. फक्त गोलरक्षकच चेंडू हाताळू शकतो आणि तोही पेनल्टी क्षेत्राच्या आत त्याच्याच गोल-पोस्टसमोर.


1) Players control the ball with their ____


  1. Arms and hands

  2. Hands and legs

  3. Head and feet

  4. Friends and viewers



2) The goalkeeper can touch the ball with his hands _____


  1. Anywhere in the field

  2. Before the referee

  3. Outside his penalty area

  4. Inside his penalty area



3) The most popular sport of the world is ____


  1. Volleyball

  2. Cricket

  3. Chess

  4. Football



4) The rules of football were framed _____


  1. To guide the viewers

  2. To control the sport

  3. To make it simple

  4. To make it popular



5) Football is played between two teams having _____


  1. Nine players each

  2. Ten players each

  3. Eleven players each

  4. Twelve players each



Answers: 1 - c, 2 - d, 3 - d, 4 - b, 5 - c

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