Lawn tennis is a good sport,being based on the ancient game of c

Lawn tennis is a good sport,being based on the ancient game of court tennis,which probably came?up in Egypt or Persia some 2,500 years ago.Major Walter Wingfield thought that.something like court?tennis could be played outdoors on lawns,and in December 1873,he introduced his new game,which he?called Sphairistike,at a lawn party in Wales.The sport became popular very rapidly,but the strange,difficult name disappeared almost at once,being replaced by the very simple and logical term"lawn?tennis". By 1874 the game was being played by British soldiers in Bermuda,and in the early months of that year a young lady named Mary Outerbridge returned from Bermuda to New York,bringing with her the equipment necessary to play the new game.With the help of one of her brothers,she laid out a court on the grounds of the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club,and there,in the spring of 1874,Miss Outerbridge and some of her friends played the first game of lawn tennis in the United States.And just two years later,in"1876,the first United States lawn tennis tournament(锦标赛)was held--at Nahant near Boston. The new game called Sphairistike appeared in__________in 1873.
A、America
B、Europe
C、Bermuda
D、Egypt
【正确答案】：B
【题目解析】：在提供的文章第一段中，我们了解到“Major Walter Wingfield”在1873年12月在威尔士的一个草坪聚会上介绍了他的新游戏，并将其命名为“Sphairistike”。这里的关键信息是“at a lawn party in Wales”，Wales（威尔士）位于欧洲，因此我们可以推断出这个新游戏是在欧洲被首次展示的。 接着，我们逐项检查给出的选项： A. America - 文章中没有提到Sphairistike（即后来的lawn tennis）在美国的首次出现是在1873年。 B. Europe - 如前所述，Major Walter Wingfield在威尔士的草坪聚会上介绍了这个游戏，因此选项B是正确的。 C. Bermuda - 文章提到1874年英国士兵在百慕大玩这个游戏，但这发生在Sphairistike首次出现之后。 D. Egypt - 文章提到草地网球可能起源于埃及，但并未提及Sphairistike在埃及的出现。 综合以上信息，我们可以确定新游戏Sphairistike是在1873年在欧洲出现的，因此正确答案是B。