2．Amanda went to Hawarden in order to　　　

A．serve as umpire

C．make money

B．watch her brother play

D．help the local teams

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

5．What lesson can you learn from the story?

　　 A．There’s always someone better than you in this world．

　　 B．You must never try to become better than your teacher．

　　 C．The older a man is，the better archer he usually becomes．

D．Always use a piece of wood to protect yourself from an arrow．高*考*资*源*网

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(III)★

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．

4．What do you think would most probably happen next?

　　 A．The young archer died from the wound soon after．

　　 B．The king declared the young man the greatest archer．

　　 C．The young archer found the old man’s master and killed him．

　　 D．The young archer set off to look for the old man’s master．

3．The following pictures show what happened between the young archer and his master．

Which is the right order of the events?

　　 A．1-2-3-4　　 B．4-3-2-1

　　 C．4-2-3-1　　 D．4-2-1-3

2．The young archer wanted to kill the old man in the _______.

　　A．he had nothing more to learn from him

B．he could then become the greatest archer

　　 C．the old man refused to teach him everything

　　 D．the king’s old servant ordered him to do SO

1．The underlined word in the 1st paragraph is closest in meaning to “　　　 ”.

　 A．admire　　 B．advise　　 C．announce　　 D．admit

4．What is the most important lesson the writer learned from the incident?

A．Freedom is very valuable to all creatures. 高*考*资*源*网

　 　B．All birds put in a cage won’t live long.

　　 C．You should keep the birds from their mother.

D．Be careful about food you give to baby birds.

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(II)★★

Once upon a time a man became a great archer(射手)．He asked the king to declare him as the greatest archer of the country．The king was about to do so when an old servant of the king said，“Wait，sir．I know an old man who lives in the forest．He is a much greater archer．Let this young man go to him and learn from him for at least three years．”

　　 The man could not believe that there could be a greater archer than him，but he went and found the old man and he was! For three years he learned from him．Then one day，when he thought he had learned everything，the thought arose in him：“If I kill this old man，then I will be the greatest archer．”

　 The old man had gone to cut wood and he was coming back carrying wood on his shoulder．The young man hid behind a tree，waiting to kill him．He shot an arrow．The old man took a small piece of wood and threw it．It struck the arrow and the arrow turned back and wounded the young man very deeply．The old man came，took Out the arrow and said。“I knew that some day or other you were going to do this．That’s why I have not taught you this secret．There is no need to kill me．My Master is still alive，and I’m　 nothing before him．You must be　 with him for at least thirty years．And he is very old，SO go fast! Find the old man!”

3．An ornithologist probably means ______.

　　 A．a religious person　　　　　　 　　　　　 B．a kind person

　　 C．a schoolmaster　　　　　　　 　　　　　　 D．an expert in birds

2．The mockingbird died because it ______.

　　 A．was frightened to death　　　　 　　　　　 B．ate the poisonous food its mother gave it

　　 C．refused to eat anything　　　　 　　　　　 D．drank the poisonous water by mistake