Amanda Clement grew up in Hudson, South Dakota. Baseball was always her favorite sport. Once in a while her brother Hank and his friends would let her play first base in their games. More often, however, they asked her to umpire (裁判) for them, because they knew her calls would be fair and there would be no arguing.
One day in 1904, Amanda and her mother traveled to Hawarden, Iowa, to watch Hank play for the home team against Hawarden. When they arrived at the ball field, two local teams were waiting to play a preliminary (预备) game. The umpire hadn’t arrived, so Hank argued that the teams should let his sister serve as umpire. The players finally agreed.
Amanda, then sixteen and standing five feet, ten inches tall, made perfect calls. She was so good that players for the main game asked her to umpire for them and even offered to pay her. Thus, at sixteen, Amanda Clement became the first paid female baseball umpire of all time. She is honored in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
1.Why did Hank and his friends often ask Amanda to umpire for them?
A. Because she called them brothers.
B. Because they wanted to make her happy.
C. Because no one else wanted to do it for them.
D. Because she knew the rules well and was fair.
2.Amanda went to Hawarden in order to ______.
A. serve as umpire
B. watch her brother play
C. make money
D. help the local teams
3.Amanda most probably learned how to umpire a baseball game ______.
A. in her P. E. classes at school
B. in an umpire training school
C. by watching and playing the games
D. from her mother, a baseball umpire
4.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A. The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown
B. Amanda Clement, First Female Umpire
C. Baseball Games in Hawarden, Iowa
D. A Family of Baseball Fans
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There’s an old man in our village calling Old Joe who said to be 110 years old．This can’t be proved though he doesn’t have a birth certificate．All his personal papers were destroy during the World War Ⅱ. I don’t know if he really is so old, and it doesn’t matter．He certainly looks very old．Of course, he is often asked question by people who want to be told the secret of long life．Old Joe always answered them like this, “If you are offered a cigarette, never accept it; if you are annoyed by someone, never lose his temper; and if you are asked foolishly questions, never answer them.”
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Until recently daydreaming was viewed as a waste of time or it 1. (consider) an unhealthy escape from real life and its duties. But now some people are taking a fresh look at daydreaming. Some think it may be a very 2. (health) thing to do. Some researchers are finding that daydreaming may be important to mental health. Daydreaming, they tell us, 3. a good means of relaxation. But its benefits go 4. this. A number of psychologists have conducted experiments and have reached some 5. (surprise) conclusion.
Dr. Joan T. Freyberg has concluded that daydreaming contributes growth. It also improves 6.(concentrate),attention span, and the ability to get along with others. Industrialist Henry J.Kaiser believed that much of his success was due 7. the positive use of daydreaming. Florence Nightingale dreamed of becoming a nurse. The young Thomas Edison pictured 8. as an inventor.
For these notable achievers, it appears that their daydreams came 9. .Dr Harry Emerson Fosdick offered this advice: “Hold a picture of yourself…in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself 10. (vivid) as defeated and that alone will make victory impossible.
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
I was required to read one of Bernie Siegel’s books in college and was hooked on his positivity from that moment on. The stories of his unconventional and the exceptional patients he wrote about were so to me and had such a big on how I saw life from then on. Who knew that so many years later I would look to Dr. Bernie and his CDs again to my own Cancer experience ？
I’m an ambitious , and when I started going through chemo( 化疗 )，even though I’m a very ________ person, I lost my drive to write. I was just too tired and not in the . One day, while waiting to go in for , I had one of Dr. Bernie’s books in hand. Another patient what I was reading and struck up a conversation with me ________ he had one of his books with me as well. It ________ that among other things, he was an eighty—year---old writer. He was ________ a published author, and he was currently ________ on a new book.
We would see each other at various times and ________ friends. Sometimes he wore a duck hat, and I would tell myself, he was definitely a ( n ) ________ of Dr. Berline. He really put a ________ on my face. He unfortunately ________ last year due to his cancer, ________ he left a deep impression on me and gave me the ________ to pick up my pen again. I ________ to myself, “If he can do it, then so can I. ”
1.A．ideas B．tastes C．notes D．memories
2.A．amazing B．shocking C．amusing D．strange
3.A. strike B. push C. challenge D. impact
4.A. learn from B. get through C. go over D. refer to
5.A. reader B. writer C. editor D. doctor
6.A. honest B. agreeable C. humorous D. positive
7.A. state B. position C. mood D. way
8.A. advice B. reference C. protection D. treatment
9.A. viewed B. knew C. noticed D. wondered
10.A. because B. while C. although D. providing
11.A. came out B. turned out C. proved out D. worked out
12.A. naturally B. merely C. hopefully D. actually
13.A. deciding B. investing C. relying D. working
14.A. became B. helped C. missed D. visited
15.A. patient B. operator C. fan D. publisher
16.A. smile B. sign C. mark D. mask
17.A. showed up B. passed away C. fell down D. set off
18.A. since B. but C. so D. for
19.A. guidance B. trust C. opportunity D. inspiration
20.A. promised B. swore C. replied D. thought
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Millions of people all over the world use the word OK．In fact, some people say the word is used more often than any other word in the world．OK means all right or acceptable．It expresses agreement or approval．
1. Some people say it came from the Native American Indian tribe known as the Choctaw（乔克托语）．The Choctaw word “okeh” means the same as the American word okay．Experts say early explorers in the American West spoke the Choctaw language in the nineteenth century．
But many people doubt this．Language expert Allen Walker Read wrote about the word “OK” in reports published in the 1960s．He said the word began being used in the 1830s． 2. Some foreign-born people wrote “ all correct” as “o-l-l-k-o-r-r-e-c-t”, and used the letters OK．Other people say a railroad worker named Obadiah Kelly invented the word long ago．They said he put the first letters of his name---O and K---on each object people gave him to send on the train．
3. The organization supported Martin Van Buren for president in 1840．They called their group the OK club．The letters were taken from the name of the town where Martin was born---Old Kinderhook, New York．
Then there is the expression A-OK．It is a space-age expression．It was used in 1961 during the flight of astronaut Alan Shepard．He was the first American to be launched into space．His flight ended when his spacecraft landed in the ocean, as planned．Shepard reported, “Everything is A-OK.” 4. One story says it was first used during the early days of the telephone to tell an operator that a message had been received．
There are also funny ways to say okay． 5. These expressions were first used in the 1930s．Today, a character on the American television series “The Simpsons” says it another way．He says okely-doke．
A．Some people say okey-dokey or okey-doke．
B．Still others say a political organization invented the word．
C．Therefore, it has become popular in that area from then on．
D．But many experts don’t agree on what the expression means．
E．Still, language experts do not agree about where the word came from.
F．It was a short way of writing a different spelling of the word “all correct”.
G．However, some experts say the expression did not begin with the space age．
