Passage Two

　　Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage。

　　There are people in Italy who can’t stand soccer. Not all Canadians love hockey. A similar situation exists in America, where there are those individuals you may be one of them who yawn or even frown when somebody mentions baseball. Baseball to them means boring hours watching grown men in funny tight outfits standing around in a field staring away while very little of anything happens. They tell you it’s a game better suited to the 19th century, slow, quiet, and gentlemanly. These are the same people you may be one of them who love football because there’s the sport that glorifies “the hit”。

　　By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent, still。

　　On TV the game is fractured into a dozen perspectives, replays, close-ups. The geometry of the game, however, is essential to understanding it. You will contemplate the game from one point as a painter does his subject; you may, of course, project yourself into the game. It is in this projection that the game affords so much space and time for involvement. The TV won’t do it for you。

　　Take, for example, the third baseman. You sit behind the third base dugout and you watch him watching home plate. His legs are apart, knees flexed. His arms hang loose. He does a lot of this. The skeptic still cannot think of any other sports so still, so passive. But watch what happens every time the pitcher throws: the third baseman goes up on his toes, flexes his arms or brings the glove to a point in front of him, takes a step right or left, backward or forward, perhaps he glances across the field to check his first baseman’s position. Suppose the pitch is a ball. “Nothing happened,” you say. “I could have had my eyes closed。”

　　The skeptic and the innocent must play the game. And this involvement in the stands is no more intellectual than listening to music is. Watch the third baseman. Smooth the dirt in front of you with one foot; smooth the pocket in your glove; watch the eyes of the batter, the speed of the bat, the sound of horsehide on wood. If football is a symphony of movement and theatre, baseball is chamber music, a spacious interlocking of notes, chores and responses。

　　62.The passage is mainly concerned with_____________。

　　［A］the different tastes of people for sports

　　［B］the different characteristics of sports

　　［C］the attraction of football

　　［D］the attraction of baseball

　　63.Those who don’t like baseball may complain that_______________。

　　［A］it is only to the taste of the old

　　［B］it involves fewer players than football

　　［C］it is not exciting enough

　　［D］it is pretentious and looks funny

　　64.The author admits that____________。

　　［A］baseball is too peaceful for the young

　　［B］baseball may seem boring when watched on TV

　　［C］football is more attracting than baseball

　　［D］baseball is more interesting than football

　　65.By stating “I could have had my eyes closed。” the author means (4th paragraph last sentence)_____________。

　　［A］the third baseman would rather sleep than play the game

　　［B］even if the third baseman closed his eyes a moment ago, it could make no difference to the result

　　［C］the third baseman is so good at baseball that he could finish the game with eyes closed all the time and do his work well

　　［D］the consequence was so bad that he could not bear to see it

　　66.We can safely conclude that the author__________________。

　　［A］likes football

　　［B］hates football

　　［C］hates baseball

　　［D］likes baseball

　　Part Ⅴ Cloze (15 minutes)

　　Directions:There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked ［A］, ［B］, ［C］and ［D］on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre。

　　Who won the World Cup 1994 football game? What happened at the United Nations? How did the critics like the new play?  67  an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets  68  the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reports are on the spot to  69  the news. Newspapers have one basic  70  , to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to  71  it. Radio, telegraph, television,and  72  inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication.  73  , this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the  74  and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are  75  and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out to many other fields. Besides keeping readers  76  of the latest news, today’s newspapers  77  and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers’ economic choices 78 advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very  79  . Newspapers are sold at a price that80even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main  81 of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The  82  in selling advertising depends on a newspaper’s value to advertisers. This  83  in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends  84  on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment  85  in a newspaper’s pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper’s value to readers as a source of information  86  the community, city, country, state, nation, and world—and even outer space。

　　67.［A］Just when［B］While

　　［C］Soon after［D］Before

　　68.［A］to give［B］giving

　　［C］given［D］being given

　　69.［A］gather［B］spread

　　［C］carry［D］bring

　　70.［A］reason［B］cause

　　［C］problem［D］purpose

　　71.［A］make［B］publish

　　［C］know［D］write

　　72.［A］another［B］other

　　［C］one another［D］the other

　　73.［A］However［B］And

　　［C］Therefore［D］So

　　74.［A］value［B］ratio

　　［C］rate［D］speed

　　75.［A］spread［B］passed

　　［C］printed［D］completed

　　76.［A］inform［B］be informed

　　［C］to informed［D］informed

　　77.［A］entertain［B］encourage

　　［C］educate［D］edit

　　78.［A］on［B］through

　　［C］with［D］of

　　79.［A］forms［B］existence

　　［C］contents［D］purpose

　　80.［A］tries to cover

　　［B］manages to cover

　　［C］fails to cover

　　［D］succeeds in

　　81.［A］source ［B］origin

　　［C］course［D］finance

　　82.［A］way［B］means

　　［C］chance ［D］success

　　83.［A］measures［B］measured

　　［C］is measured［D］was measured

　　84.［A］somewhat ［B］little

　　［C］much［D］something

　　85.［A］offering［B］offered

　　［C］which offered［D］to be offered

　　86.［A］by ［B］with

　　［C］at［D］about

　　Part Ⅵ  Translation  (5 minutes)

　　Direction:Complete the sentences on Answer Sheet 2 by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets。

　　87.There’s a man at the reception desk who seems very angry and I think he means_______________ (想找麻烦)。

　　88.Why didn’t you tell me you could lend me the money? I___________________ (本来不必从银行借钱的)。

　　89.____________________(正是由于她太没有经验) that she does not know how to deal with the situation。

　　90.I________________ (将在做实验) from three to five this afternoon。

　　91.If this can’t be settled reasonably, it may be necessary to_____________ (诉诸武力)。

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