单选题     Basketball is still a young game. in the winter or 1891, a certain college was having trouble with its boy students. The weather was so terrible that the students had to stay indoors. Since they could not enjoy their sports outside as usual, they were unhappy, and some of them often got into fights from time to time.
    Finally, one of the teachers at the college, J. E. Naismith, was asked to invent a new game for the students. It was not an easy job because such a game had to be played indoors, and the court was not very large.
    Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast. exciting game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was played between two teams. To make score, the ball had to be thrown into a basket ten feet high above the floor on the wail. At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first, Naismith had planned to have the ball thrown into a box. As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit basket in- stead. That is how the game got its name.

单选题     In fact, it has just a history of ______.

单选题     ______today, basketball was invented as an indoor game at first.

单选题     Naismith had thought of using a box in the game, yet he gave up the idea before long and fixed something different '______' on the wall.

单选题     Indeed the name of the new game ______ what the ball should be thrown into in a match.