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William E. Hoy was born in Houckstown Ohio on May 23, 1862. He became deaf when he was two years old. He attended the Columbus Ohio School for the deaf. After graduation he started playing baseball while working as a shoemaker.
Hoy began playing professional baseball in 1886 for Oshkosh(Wisconsin) of the Northwestern League. In 1888 he started as an outfielder(外场手) with the old Washington Senators. His small figure and speed made him an outstanding base runner. He was very good at stealing bases during his career. In the 1888 major league season he stole 82 bases. He was also the Senators’ leading hitter in 1888. Hoy was clever and he threw right-handed and batted left-handed. On June 19,1889 he threw out three batters(击球手) at the plate from his outfield position.
The arm signals used by judges today to show balls and strikes began because of Hoy. The judge lifted his right arm to show that the pitch was a strike and his left arm to signal that it was a ball.
For many years people talked about Hoy’s last ball game in 1903. He was playing for Los Angeles of the Pacific Coast Winter League. It was a memorable game because Hoy hit a wonderful ball which won the game. It was a very foggy day and therefore very hard to see the ball. In the ninth inning(棒球的一局) with two men out, Hoy managed to catch a fly ball to make the third out in spite of the fog. Los Angeles defeated their opposition and won the game.
After he retired Hoy stayed busy. He ran a dairy farm near Cincinnati for 20 years. He also became a public speaker and traveled giving speeches. Until a few years before his death he took 4-10 mile walks several mornings a week. On December 15, 1961 William Hoy died at the age of 99.
小题1:In which order did the following things happen in Hoy’s life?
a. Hoy worked as a shoemaker.
b. Hoy began to run a diary farm.
c. Hoy played a memorable game in the heavy fog.
d. Hoy threw the first ball of the World Series.
e. Hoy became deaf.
A.d e a c b | B.e a c b d | C.d a e c b | D.e a b c d |
A.became famous | B.led a relaxed life |
C.traveled around the world | D.was in good physical condition |
A.a deaf player devoted to the game of baseball |
B.baseball game rules and important players |
C.the rise in the social position of the deaf people |
D.where the baseball judge hand signals came from |
A.Hoy was the greatest baseball player in his time. |
B.Speaking and listening are not necessary in baseball games. |
C.The judge had to study the hand signals very seriously. |
D.Hoy’s family encouraged him to become a baseball player. |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:A
解析
本文介绍了美国20世纪初最杰出的棒球选手Hoy不平凡的一生。
小题1:细节题。此题要求对事件发生的先后顺序进行排序。可用首尾定位法,即找到第一个发生的事件 (e. Hoy became deaf.),再找到最后一个发生的事件 (d. Hoy threw the first ball of the World Series.),故可排除A、C。再进行比较可知B最佳。
小题2:推断题。根据Until a few years before his death he took 4-10 mile walks several mornings a week.,可见在他生命的最后岁月里,他的身体状况很好。
小题3:主旨题。纵观全文可知。
小题4:推断题。根据he stole 82 bases…the Senators’ leading hitter…threw out three batters…managed to catch a fly ball to make the third out in spite of the fog. 等细节,可以判断Hoy是他那个时代最杰出的棒球选手。
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试题【In October 1961 at Crowley Field in Cincinnati Ohio an old deaf gentleman named 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Oh! My hands! Don’t come any closer... Don’t touch me! That poor doctor just couldn’t get my gloves off. Each time he took a step towards me, I broke into painful shouting. Much later, I discovered that I had crashed(碰撞) heavily with another bicycle, and I hadn’t spoken one word of sense for at least three hours! After some time, my mother arrived at the hospital, her face as white as a sheet, and gave me a hug(拥抱), only then did the doctor begin to stitch(缝合) my head wound, not only did he merrily cut off a long lock of my hair, but used no anaesthetic(麻药) either! Later. I seemed to hear faraway voices saying that my right hand was broken. I almost burst into tears. How would I ever play the piano again?
小题1:On her way to Jinghai, the writer felt _______.
A.nervous | B.comfortable | C.light-hearted | D.upset |
A.Because she wanted to attend a party on time. |
B.Because she wanted to meet her friend who was waiting for her there. |
C.Because she just wanted, to join some of her friends and drink some wine. |
D.We are not quite sure about what she was really going there for. |
A.Friendly. | B.Cruel. | C.Hardworking. | D.Kind. |
A.often went to Jinghai Bar with her friends |
B.liked playing the piano |
C.didn’t like any doctors at all |
D.would burst into tears when she was in trouble |
Adrian’s “Amazing Race” started early when his parents realized that he, as a baby, couldn’t hear a thing, not even loud noises. In a special school for the hearing-impaired (听觉受损的),he learned sign language and got to mix with other disabled children. However, the sight of all the disabled children communicating with one another upset his mother. She wanted him to lead a normal life. So after speaking to an advisor, she sent him to private classes where he learned to read lips and pronounce words.
Later on, Adrian’s parents decided to send him to a regular school. But the headmaster tried to prevent them from doing so, saying regular school couldn’t take care of a special needs students. His parents were determined to take the risk and push him hard to go through his work everyday because they wanted to prove that, given the opportunity, he could do anything. Adrian made the grade and got accepted. It was a big challenge. The pace (节奏)was faster so he had to sit at the front of the class and really pay attention to the teacher, which wasn’t always easy. But he stuck to it and did a lot of extra work after school.
The efforts made by Adrian and his parents paid off. Adrian graduated with good grades and got into a top high school. He also achieved a lot in life outside school. He developed a love for the outdoors and went to Nepal to climb mountains. He even entered the World Yacht Race 05/06--- being the first hearing-impaired Asian to do so.
But none of these achievements would have been possible without one of the most important lessons from his mother.” “If you believe in yourself and work hard, you can achieve great results.” She often said.
小题1:How did Adrian communicate with other children in the special school?
A.By speaking. | B.By using sign language |
C.By reading lips | D.By making loud noises |
A.they wanted him to live a normal life |
B.they wanted to prove the headmaster wrong |
C.he wouldn’t mix with other disabled children |
D.he wasn’t taken good care of in the special school |
A.He did a lot of outdoor activities. |
B.He was pushed hard to study every day. |
C.He attended private classes after school. |
D.He worked very hard both in and after class |
A.He did very well in his study |
B.He succeeded in entering a regular school |
C.He reached his goals in spite of his disability |
D.He took part in the World Yacht Race 05/06 |
“If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”
“I can’t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.”
I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, “What do all you people do?”
“We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.”
“So when it goes down, you go down with it.”
“That’s good, sir.”
“How long will the computer be down?” I wanted to know.
“I have no idea. Sometimes it’s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There’s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it’s down it won’t answer us.”
After the girl told me they had no backup(备用) computer, I said. “Let’s forget the computer. What about your planes? They’re still flying, aren’t they?”
“I couldn’t tell without asking the computer.”
“Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he’s flying to Washington, ” I suggested.
“I wouldn’t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn’t take you if you didn’t have a ticket.”
“Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?”
“I wouldn’t know, ” she said, pointing at the dark screen. “Only ‘IT’ knows. ‘It’ can’t tell me.”
By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.
小题1:The best title for the article is _______.
A.When the Computer Is Down | B.The Most Frightening Words |
C.The Computer of the Airport | D.Asking the Computer |
A.She could sell a ticket. |
B.She could write out a ticket. |
C.She could answer the passengers’ questions. |
D.She could do nothing. |
A.Because it was easy down |
B.Because it was very expensive. |
C.Because it was not advanced enough. |
D.Because it was not as big as the main computer. |
A.a modern computer won’t be down. |
B.computers can take the place of humans |
C.sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people |
D.there will be great changes in computers |
Jack stopped at my grandmother’s house to sell her some oranges just a stone’s throw from downtown Miami, and he was delivering her whiskey a week later. He stayed for thirty years. Jack hated the front yard because he thought it was against him. There had been a beautiful lawn(草坪) there when Jack came along, but he let it wander off into nothing. He refused to water it or take care of it in any way.
Now the ground was so hard that it gave his car flat tires(轮胎) in the summer. The yard was always finding a nail to put in one of his tires or the car as always sinking out of sight in the winter when the rains came on. The lawn had belonged to my grandfather, who lived out the end of his life in an insane hospital. It had been his pride and joy and was said to be the place where his powers came.
小题1:It can be inferred that the real reason Jack had problems with the yard was that _______.
A.he didn’t like the lawn. |
B.the author’s grandfather was against Jack working on the lawn |
C.the lawn was full of living things |
D.he himself did not take care of the lawn |
A.beautiful | B.worn out | C.wasted | D.full of nails |
A.They both hated the front lawn. |
B.Jack was jealous of the author’s grandfather. |
C.They sold fruit in Florida. |
D.They came from Italy and lived together. |
Years later, as a ___11___ in Los Angeles, I heard about an immigrant child who was born with his fingers connected, webline. His family could not ___12___ a corrective operation, and the boy lived in ___13___, hiding his hand in his pocket.
I ___14___ my boss to let me do the story. After my story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the ___15___ for free.
I visited the boy in the recovery room soon after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his ___16___ hand and say, “Thank you.” I felt a sense of ___17___.
In the past, while I was ___18___, I always sense I was working for the customers, not the store. Today it’s the same. NBC News pays my salary, ___19___ I feel as if I work for the ___20___, helping them make sense of the world.
1. A. maps B. titles C. articles D. reports
2. A. the reader B. the college student C. the shop owner D. the customer
3. A. a book B. a job C. some tea D. any help
4. A. planning B. saving C. preparing D. studying
5. A. read B. studied C. cooked D. worked
6. A. boring B. surprising C. satisfying D. disappointing
7. A. anything B. something C. nothing D. everything
8. A. in need B. in all C. in order D. in store
9. A. worried B. satisfied C. excited D. puzzled
10. A. pride B. failure C. regret D. surprise
11. A. doctor B. store owner C. bookseller D. TV reporter
12. A. pay B. cost C. afford D. spend
13. A. shame B. honour C. horror D. danger
14. A. advisedB. forced C. persuaded D. permitted
15. A. action B. program C. treatment D. operation
16. A. repaired B. connected C. injured D. improved
17 A. pleasureB. sadness C. interest D. disappointment
18. A. at the TV station B. in the Students Union
C. at the U. S. Forest Service D. at McCarley’s Bookstore
19. A. so B. and C. but D. because
20. A. readers B. viewers C. customers D. passengers
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