Football is,I believe• the most popular game in England: one has only to go to one of the important matches to see this. Rich and poor, young and old,one can see them all there, shouting for one side or the other.
To a stranger one of the mosi surprising things about football in England is the great knowledge of the game which even the smallest boy seems to have. He can tell you the names of the players in most of the important teams： he has pictures of them and knows the results of large numbers of matches. He will tell you who he expects will win such a match, and his opinion is usually as good as that of men three or four times his age.
Most schools in England take football seriously— much more seriously than nearly all European schools, where lessons are all that are important, and games are left for the children themselves. In England it is believed that education is not only a matter of filling a boy's mind with facts in the classroom, education also means the training of character； and one of the best ways of training character is by means of games, especially team games, instead of working for himself alone. The school therefore plans games and matches for its pupils. Football is a good team game.it is good both for the body and the mind. That is why it is every school s game in England.
In England,school boys seem _____ football games.
A、to know a great deal about
B、not to know much about
C、to know a little about
D、to know nothing about
【正确答案】：A
【题目解析】：题干问“在英国，学校的男孩子看起来对足球比赛了解的怎么样"，文章第二段告诉我们男孩们能说出选手的名字、并对他们很是了解、能说出很多著名比赛的结果等等，最后告诉我们他们的观点就像年龄长他们三四倍的人的观点那样成熟，可见孩子们对于足球比赛了解的很多。答案为A。
