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Richard is an exchange student from the USA. He is teaching his friends at Rose Garden School how to play Softball. He is explaining the rules.
Richard:     First, we need a bat, a ball and some bases.
Ben:        What are bases?
Richard:     They are flat squares that show you where to run. After you hit the ball, you have to run around the bases.
If you stand on a base, you are safe. If you are running to a base, and the other team touches the base with the ball, then you are out.
Jennifer:     Oh, I see. How would I hit the ball?
Richard:     Have you seen baseball on television?
Jennifer:     I have.
Richard:     Well, Softball is like baseball, only the ball is bigger and softer too.
Jennifer:     Do you like volleyball? I love it.
Richard:     I like to play beach volleyball. It's different from volleyball.
Ben:        How?
Richard:     In beach volleyball, you only have two people on each team and the court is smaller.                                                                         
Jennifer:     Do you play on the beach?
Richard:     Yes. It’s good because if you dive for the ball, you don’t hurt yourself.
Ben:        Do you play football at your school?
Richard:     Which kind of football?
Jennifer:     I don't understand there more than one kind? I thought everyone play the same kind of football.
Richard:     No. In the USA, we have football and soccer. Soccer is a game that is played around the world.
In other countries, soccer is called football. In the USA, we also play a different game called football.
In this game, you throw the ball and you have to wear a helmet to play.
Jennifer:     Well, I want to play softball.
【小题1】 The rules for playing softball are nearly the same as those for playing baseball.
【小题2】In a softball game, if your team is running to a base and the other team touches the base with the ball, you are safe.
【小题3】A baseball is smaller and harder than a softball.
【小题4】Richard is teaching his friends how to play softball.
【小题5】 According to Richard, playing beach volleyball is much more dangerous than playing volleyball.
【小题6】 Jennifer thought that the word 'football' had only one meaning.
【小题7】In the USA, 'soccer' is also called 'football'.
Most people around the world are right-handed. This also seems to be true in history. In 1799, scientists studied works(作品) of art made at different times from 1, 500 B. C. to the 1950s. Most of the people shown in these works are right-handed, so the scientists guessed that right-handedness has always been common through history. Today, only about 10% to 15% of the world's population is left-handed.
Why are there more right-handed people than left-handed ones? Scientists now know that a person's two hands each have their own jobs. For most people, the left hand is used to find things or hold things. The right hand is used to work with things. This is because of the different work of the two sides of the brain (大脑). The right side of the brain, which makes a person's hands and eyes work together, controls(控制) the left hand. The left-side of the brain, which controls the right hand, is the centre for thinking and doing problems. These findings show that more artists should be left-handed, and studies have found that left-handedness is twice as common among artists than among people in other jobs.
No one really knows what makes a person become right-handed instead of left-handed. Scientists have found that almost 40% of the people become left-handed because their main brain is damaged(损害) when they are born. However, this doesn't happen to everyone, so scientists guess there must be another reason (原因) why people become left-handed. One idea is that people usually get right-handed from their parents. If a person does not receive the gene (基因) for right-handedness, he/she may become either right-or left-handed according to the chance (偶然性) and the people they work or live with.
Though right-handedness is more common than left-handedness, people no longer think left-handed people are strange or unusual. A long time ago, left-handed children were made to use their right hands like other children, but today they don't have to.
【小题1】 After studying works of art made at different times in history, the scientists found      .
A. the art began from 1, 500 B. C.
B. the works of art ended in the 1950s
C. most people shown in the works of art are right-handed
D. most people shown in the works of art are left-handed
【小题2】 How many people in the world are left-handed now?
A.Less than one sixth.
B.More than a half.
C.About 40%.
D.The passage doesn't tell us.
【小题3】 What is the left hand for most people used to do?
A.It's used to find or hold things.
B.It's used to work with things.
C.It's used to make a person's eyes work together.
D.It's the centre for thinking and doing problems.
【小题4】  According to (根据) the  passage, which of  the following is NOT true?
A.No one really knows what makes a person become right-handed.
B.Left-handedness is cleverer than right-handedness.
C.Today children are not made to use their right hands only.
D.Scientists think there must be some reason why people become left-handed.
【小题5】The best title(标题) for this passage is      .
A.Scientists' New Inventions
B.Left-handed People
C.Which Hand
D.Different Brains, Different Hands.

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