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Tottenham Hotspur Reading Comprehension

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Tottenham Hotspur Reading Comprehension

Tottenham Hotspur football club crest

📖 Read the passage about Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club

Tottenham Hotspur is a famous football club from North London. The club was founded in 1882, making it one of the oldest football clubs in England. Fans often call the team "Spurs" for short, and the players are known as "The Lilywhites" because they wear white shirts.

Spurs play their home matches at a magnificent stadium that can hold 62,850 supporters. The new stadium opened in 2019 and cost over £1 billion to build! It has the longest bar in Europe and even has its own cheese room. The stadium is famous for having the loudest crowd in the Premier League.

The club's symbol is a cockerel (a male chicken) standing on a football. Legend says that cockerels were kept by local people hundreds of years ago for fighting, which shows the brave and fighting spirit of the team. Tottenham's biggest rivals are Arsenal, another North London team, and when they play each other it's called the "North London Derby."

Some of the greatest players in football history have worn the Spurs shirt, including Harry Kane, who scored over 200 goals for the club before moving to Germany in 2023.

📚 Part 1: Finding Facts (Retrieval Questions)

1. When was Tottenham Hotspur founded?

1881

1882

1883

1884

2. What is the nickname that fans use for Tottenham Hotspur?

______________

3. How many supporters can fit in Tottenham's stadium?

60,850

62,850

64,850

66,850

4. What animal is on Tottenham's club symbol?

A _______________

5. What is the match called when Tottenham play Arsenal?

The _________________ _________________ _________________

🧠 Part 2: Reading Between the Lines (Inference Questions)

6. Why do you think the new stadium cost over £1 billion to build?
7. The text says the cockerel shows the "brave and fighting spirit" of the team. What does this tell us about how Tottenham players should behave on the pitch?
8. Harry Kane scored "over 200 goals" for Spurs. What does this suggest about what type of player he was?

He was probably a goalkeeper

He was probably a very good striker

He was probably a defender

He was probably not very good at football

9. The passage mentions that Tottenham's stadium has "the loudest crowd in the Premier League." How do you think this helps the Tottenham players during matches?

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