Задание

Read the text about snowboarding.

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Рис. \(1\). Snowboarding

Snowboarding is a popular winter sport. Lots of people all over the world are fond of snowboarding. It involves gliding over snow slope while standing on a board.

It originated in the United States and became hugely popular at the end of the \(XX\) century and was introduced at the \(1998\) Winter Olympics.

There are various types of snowboarding: freeriding, freestyle, urban, half pipe, boardercross, jibbing, etc.

Snowboarding can be dangerous and challenging and requires proper training and using special gear. However, skiing is more dangerous than snowboarding, though people usually think the opposite. All in all, a person should be in good physical shape before trying snowboarding.

Despite all the risks this relatively young kind of sport is great fun and more and more people are becoming keen on racing down the snow-covered slopes.

Fill in the gaps:

  1. Snowboarding [ ] winter sport

  2. There are [ ] of snowboarding: freeriding, freestyle, urban, half pipe, boardercross, jibbing, etc.

  3. All in all, a person should be  [ ] before trying snowboarding.