六级练习2013.09.08 interest, schools, anything, popular, football

Rebecca949

In the 1970s, the famous Brazilian football player Pele (1)______________________of Brazil and became a professional player for a team in New York. Football, or soccer, wasn’t very popular in the United States at that time.
Few North Americans knew anything about this fast-moving sport. There was (2)_____________________and there was little interest in football in high schools and colleges.
When Pele and other international stars began playing in various US cities, (3)_______________________was and began to go to the matches. It is now common for important games to have fifty to sixty thousand fans.

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伊梦青依

retired from a national team

susan.sui

retired from the national team
no money to pay professional players
people saw how interesting the game

高明英

(1)retired for a national team;
(2)no money to pay for the national players;
(3)people saw how interesting the game.