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The American game of baseball more than likely came from several European ball games. Russia had an early form of baseball and so did Germany and Romania. People in England played a game called “stool ball”. In this game, the pitcher(投手)tried to hit a stool(凳子)or chair with a ball and the batter(击球手)used a stick to keep the ball away. But American baseball was most likely based on another English game, which is called “rounders”. Players use a soft ball rater than a hard ball while playing rounders.
So when was the first real game of “baseball” played? It seems that it took place in the 1840s. The father of baseball was Alexander Cartwright, who organized a baseball club in New York. Cartwright developed 20 rules that distinguished baseball from previous ball games.
In 1858, the first organized baseball league—the National Association of Baseball players—was formed. This league began charging fans to watch the games. However, the players were all amateurs and did not get paid . In 1869, the Cincinnati Red Stockings began to pay their players. Since they could hire the best players, Cincinnati won 57 games and lost none in their first season. As a result, other teams decided to hire players too. By 1871, the National Association was the first professional baseball league.
Today baseball is liked very much in America. Top professional baseball players earn millions of dollars each year. There are two professional leagues—the National League and the American League. The best teams from these two leagues compete for the baseball championship every year.
小题1:81.What do Americans think of baseball? (No more than 3 words)2’
小题2:82. Why was Alexander Cartwright called “the father of baseball ”?(No more than 16 words).3’
小题3:83. Where did the American baseball most probably come from?(No more than 5 words).2’
小题4:84.What does the passage mainly talk about?(No more than 5 words).3’
答案
小题1:An American sport
小题2:Because he organized a baseball club and developed 20rules distinguishing baseball fromprevious ball games
小题3:An English gamecalled“rounders”
小题4:The history of American baseball
解析
试题分析:
【文章大意】本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了美国棒球的发展史。
小题1:An American sport 或 Very important考查同义句表达。根据文章第一段中的Americans consider baseball as an American sport.可知答案;
小题2:Because he organized a baseball club and developed 20rules distinguishing baseball fromprevious ball games 根据文章第三段中的The father of baseball was Alexander Cartwright, who organized a baseball club in New York. Cartwright developed 20 rules that distinguished baseball from previous ball games.可提炼出答案;
小题3:An English gamecalled“rounders” 根据第二段中的American baseball was most likely based on another English game, which is called “rounders”. Players use a soft ball rater than a hard ball while playing rounders.可知答案;
小题4:The history of American baseball 考查文章主旨要义。根据文章第一段提出的问题可知,本文主要讲的是美国棒球的历史。
核心考点
试题【Americans consider baseball as an American sport. They often refer to something 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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He summoned the best artists and architects from India, Turkey, Persia and Arabia and finally, the design was complete. It took more than twenty thousand men working over a period of 18 years to build the Taj Mahal, one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.
The building itself stands on a marble platform 29 meters square and 6-7 meters high. Towers rise from each of the four corners. The Mahal itself soars another 61 meters into the air. It is an eight-sided building made of white marble.
The emperor planned to build an identical tomb of black marble for himself on the other side of the river connected by a silver bridge. However, his son put him into a prison in the palace before he could finish, and for the rest of his life, he could only gaze across the river at the tomb of his beloved wife.
小题1: The whole passage tells us about ______.
A.a beautiful fairy tale |
B.the story of the Taj Mahal |
C.white and black marble tombs made for two emperors |
D.the love story of Emperor Shah Jahan and his wife |
A.It was completed quickly owing to the efforts of the best artists and workers. |
B.A lot of people took part in the building work. |
C.It is a magnificent building. |
D.It is a tomb for the emperor’s beloved wife. |
A.61 meters high | B.eight-sided | C.black-colored | D.white-colored |
A.died soon after Taj Mahal died |
B.was killed by his son |
C.was beloved by his people |
D.died after 1648 |
Ireland has had a very difficult history. The problems started in the 16th century when English rulers tried to conquer(征服) Ireland. For hundreds of years, the Irish people fought against the English. Finally, in 1921, the British government was forced to give independence to the south of Ireland. The result is that today there are two “Irelands”. Northern Ireland, in the north, is part of the united kingdom. The Republic of Ireland, in the south, is an independent country.
In the 1840s the main crop, potatoes, was affected by disease and about 750,000 people died of hunger. This, and a shortage (短缺) of work , forced many people to leave Ireland and live in the USA, the UK, Australia and Canada. As a result of these problems, the population fell from 8.2 million in 1841 to 6.6 million in 1851.
For many years, the majority of Irish people earned their living as farmers. Today, many people still work on the land but more and more people are moving to the cities to work in factories and offices. Life in the cities is very different from life in the countryside, where things move at a quieter and slower pace.
The Irish are famous for being warm-hearted and friendly. Oscar Wilde, a famous Irish writer, once said that the Irish were “the greatest talkers since the Greeks”. Since independence, Ireland has revived(复兴) its own culture of music, language, literature and singing. Different areas have different styles of old Irish song which are sung without instruments. Other kinds of Irish music use many different instruments such as the violin, whistles, etc.
小题1:What does the author tell us in paragraph 1?
A.How the Irish fought against the English. |
B.How Ireland gained independence. |
C.How English rulers tried to conquer Ireland. |
D.How two “Irelands” came into being. |
A.food shortages in the 1840s led to a decline in population |
B.people are moving to the cities for lack of work in the countryside |
C.it is harder to make a living as a farmer than as a factory worker |
D.different kinds of old Irish songs are all sung with instruments |
A.the Irish character |
B.Irish culture |
C.Irish musical instruments |
D.a famous Irish writer |
A.Life in Ireland |
B.A Very Difficult History |
C.Ireland, Past and Present |
D.The Independence of Ireland |
There is plenty to see in Manchester and something to suit all taste. For example, you have a taste of the Orient in Chinatown, home to Manchester’s large Chinese population. Another place to visit is the historical Eastlefield area, which contains the first urban heritage park in Britain. Here you can walk around the museums and experience the atmosphere of the 19th century Manchester.
Football fans need not feel left out; they can always make a trip to the Old Trafford Manchester United Museum which also contains a coffee shop and a souvenir shop
It’s easy to find your way around the city center and you’re never too far away from a bus, which will take you wherever you want to go. However, many people prefer walking in a city where there’s so much to see, and much of it is off the main travel lines.
If you get tired with all that walking, you can refresh yourself at one of the many café bars in the city. There’s a wide variety of homely and old-fashioned ones
Whatever you do, you won’t have a dull moment in the place which was awarded the title of “most interesting city in Europe “. Despite its unpopular industrial image in the past, Manchester is becoming more and more popular as a tourist destination nowadays.
小题1:According to the passage, Manchester is _________.
A.a big city in the southwest of England |
B.only known for its heavy industry |
C.interesting only if you like football |
D.a very popular place now |
A.you will see the 18th century center building |
B.you can go to Chinatown |
C.you don’t have a big choice |
D.you can visit the Eastlefield |
A.A small and dull city. | B.A city full of factories |
C.An exciting city to visit | D.A popular destination |
A.Europe’s | B.Tourism’s | C.Manchester’s | D.Industry’s |
An early American use of the word wildcat was quite different. It was used to describe members of Congress who declared war on Britain in 1812. A magazine of that year said the wildcat congressmen went home. It said they were unable to face the responsibility of having involved their country in an unnecessary war.
Wildcat also has been used as a name for money in the 1800s. At that time, some states permitted banks to make their own money. One bank in the state of Michigan offered paper money with a picture of a wildcat on it. Some banks, however, did not have enough gold to support all the paper money they offered. So the money had little or no value. It was called a wildcat bill or a wildcat banknote. The banks who offered this money were called wildcat banks. A newspaper of the time said those were the days of wildcat money. It said a man might be rich in the morning and poor by night.
Wildcat then was also used for an oil well or gold mine that had almost no oil or gold in it. Dishonest developers would buy such property. Then they would sell it and leave town with the money. The buyers were left with worthless holes in the ground. Today, wildcat oil wells are in areas that are not known to have oil.
小题1:What is the main idea of the passage?
A.Wildcats and their stories. |
B.Wildcats and their characters. |
C.Varieties of animal species. |
D.Relationship between animals and humans. |
A.gasoline companies | B.automobile manufacturers |
C.brands of automobile | D.names of wildcats |
A.Wildcat congressmen. | B.Wildcat oil wells. |
C.Wildcat banks. | D.Wildcat cars. |
A.people couldn"t buy anything with the money |
B.people complained and suffered a lot |
C.the rich invested too much on oil wells |
D.people didn"t know how to save money |
You see, Thursday is Flag Day in the United States. The unofficial holiday commemorates the adoption of the stars-and-stripes design of the American flag by the Continental Congress 235 years ago, on June 14, 1777. According to lore, the Ross House is the birthplace of the nation’s flag. That’s open to debate, but it’s a story that schoolbooks still tell. Betsy Ross was a seamstress, busy sewing cushions for chairs in Philadelphia, which was the focus place of the American revolution against British rule. The Declaration of Independence by the colonists was signed there, and so was the new nation’s Constitution after independence was won.
Widowed when her husband, a member of the local militia, was killed in a gunpowder explosion, Betsy Ross often mended the clothes of the rebels’ leader and future U.S. president, George Washington. According to what some say in history and others a stretch of what really happened, Washington asked Ross to design and sew the new nation’s flag. The story was promoted by Ross grandson, who wrote that Betsy Ross had “made with her hands the first flag.” She became a role model for girls - a shining example of women’s contributions to the nation’s history. Most research indicates that Ross did sew the first flag. She’s credited with substituting artful five-point white stars for six-pointed ones in the upper-left blue field. But many other accounts indicate George Washington brought the design to Ross and simply asked her to stitch it together.
In a letter, Washington wrote: “We take the stars from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her. And the white stripes shall go down to posterity as representing liberty.”
小题1:People would like to go to Ross’s house in Philadelphia to _____.
A.ask Betsy Ross who created the first American flag |
B.meet her grandson who wrote a book about flags |
C.debate over who designed the first American flag |
D.remember her as the creator of the first American flag |
A.Betsy Ross was one of the people who signed The Declaration of Independence |
B.All are in agreement that Ross designed the first American flag |
C.It is almost certain that Ross did sew the first American flag |
D.It is George Washington who designed the stars and stripes flag |
A.a person who designs flags |
B.a person who makes a living by sewing |
C.a person who takes part in revolution |
D.a person who creates chairs |
A.It implies that the U.S. is independent from Britain |
B.It implies that Washington liked Ross’s design of the flag |
C.It implies that Washington might be the designer of the flag |
D.It implies that Ross did have helped with the design of the flag |
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