题目内容
Football is，I believe，the most important game in England：one has only to go to one of the important matches to see this. Rich and poor，young and old，one can see them all there，shouting for one side or the other.
To a stranger，one of the most surprising things about football in England is the great knowledge of the game which even the smallest boy seems to have. He can tell you the names of the players in most of the important teams. He has pictures of them and knows the results of large numbers of matches. He will tell you who he expects will win such a match，and his opinion is usually as good as that of men three or four times his age.
Most schools in England take football seriously―much more seriously than nearly all European schools，where lessons are all that are important，and games are left for the children themselves. In England，it is believed that education is not only a matter of filling a boy’s mind with facts in classroom，it also means the training of character by means of games，especially team games，where the boy or girl has to learn to work with others for the team instead of working for himself or herself alone. The school therefore plays games and matches for its pupils. Football is a good team game；it is good for both body and mind. That is why it is every school’s game in
46. In paragraph 1，“this ”means .
A．people often shout at each other in a football match
B．people，rich and poor，young and old， often play football
C．football is the most popular game in
D．people usually go to the important matches
47．People often one football team or the other by shouting.
A．beat B win over C support D laugh at
48．What does education mean in England？
A．Filling a boy’ mind with facts. B．Teaching how to work with others for the team.
C．Training character by means of games. D．More than the teaching of knowledge.
49．From the passage， we learn that .
A．football is popular mostly among English children.
B．schools in
C．football is more important than lessons in
D．other European schools consider football unimportant
---- What do you think of Tom’s playing football.
------ I think he plays football ______ , if not better than, Jack.
| A．very well | B．so well | C．as well as | D．wonderfully |
“Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. “If you carry on, one day something good will happen. And you’ll realize that it wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous disappointment.”
Mother was right, as I discovered after graduating from college in 1932, I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way up to a sports announcer. I hitchhiked to Chicago and knocked on the door of every station—and got turned down every time. In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn’t risk hiring an inexperienced person. “Go out in the sticks and find a small station that’ll give you a chance,” she said. I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois.
While there were no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I applied. The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn’t hired. My disappointment must have shown. “Everything happens for the best.” Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to hunt a job. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, my frustration (挫折) boiled over. I asked aloud, “How can a fellow get to be a sports announcer if he can’t get a job in a radio station?” I was waiting for the elevator when I heard MacArthur calling, “What was you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast an imaginary game. The preceding (在前的) autumn, my team had won a game in the last 20 seconds with a 65-yard run. I did a 15-minute build-up to that play, and Peter told me I would be broadcasting Saturday’s game! On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother’s words: “If you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous disappointment.”
I often wonder what direction my life might have taken if I’d gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.
【小题1】The writer shows his _____ by saying “… if I’d not gotten the job at Montgomery Ward”.
| A．regret | B．happiness | C．gratefulness | D．disappointment |
| A．in radio stations | B．in the country |
| C．in big cities | D．in Dixon, Illinois |
| A．it was his mother’s words that encouraged him |
| B．his mother was a person who talked a lot |
| C．nothing good has happened to him up to now |
| D．he got turned down every time he tried |
| A．There was a small radio station in Dixon, Illinois. |
| B．Peter MacArthur was a program director in Scotland. |
| C．WOC Radio in Davenport broadcast imaginary games. |
| D．Montgomery Ward had a store with a sports department. |
| A．When he hitchhiked to Chicago. | B．After he graduated from college. |
| C．Before he graduated from college. | D．As soon as he was turned down. |