题目内容
His sister left home in 1998, and_______ since.
| A．had not been heard of | B．has not been heard of |
| C．had not heard of | D．has not heard of |
B
解析
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 10 umpire for them and even offered to pay her．Thus，at sixteen，Amanda Clement became the first paid female baseball umpire on record．She is honored in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown，New York．
【小题1】Hank and his friends often asked Amanda to umpire for them because
| A．they wanted to make her happy |
| B．she called them brothers |
| C．no one else wanted to do it for them |
| D．she knew the rules well and was fair |
| A．serve as umpire |
| B．make money |
| C．watch her brother play |
| D．help the local teams |
| 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 |
| A．Amanda Clement．First Female Umpire |
| B．A Family of Baseball Fans |
| C．Baseball Games in Hawarden，Iowa |
| D．The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown |
Compared with his sister, Jerry is even more ______ to, and more easily troubled by, emotional and relationship problems.
|
A．skeptical |
B．addicted |
C．available |
D．sensitive |
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One of the most well-known directors of our time is Stephen Spielberg. He was born in Cincinnati on 18 December 1946. His father was an electric engineer and his mother was a performing pianist. His sister, Anne Spielberg, became a screenwriter who wrote the stories for many famous films.
Stephen had always wanted to be a director ever since he was a young boy. When he was just 13 years old, he made a 40-minute film. It won a local competition. Three years later, he produced a film called Firelight, which made one hundred dollars’ profit at the cinema in his hometown. Many of the ideas from this film were later used for one of his most famous films called Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
When he was 18 years old, he wanted to go to film school so that he could improve his skills and become an even better director. Unluckily, he was unsuccessful in getting a place at this school so he went to a university in California to study English. Even though he had failed to get into the school he wanted to go to, he didn’t let this stop him following his dream to become a great director.
Stephen Spielberg has directed many films since his first major film in 1976. He now owns many different businesses, most of which are involved in the film industry.
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Year |
What happened |
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1946 |
Stephen Spielberg 1 2 in Cincinnati. |
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1959 |
Stephen Spielberg made a 3 film and it 4 a local competition. |
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1962 |
Stephen Spielberg produced a film called 5 , from which many 6 were later used for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. |
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_ 7 |
Though he 8 to get into the film school he wanted to go to, Stephen Spielberg didn’t give up his dream to become a great director. |
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1976 |
Stephen Spielberg 9_ his 10 major film. |