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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　There are people in Italy who can't stand soccer．Not all Canadians love hockey．A similar situation exists in America, where there are those individuals you may be one of them who frown when somebody mentions baseball．Baseball to them means boring hours watching grown men in funny tight outfits standing around in a field staring away while very little of anything happens．They tell you it's a game better suited to the 19 th century, slow, quiet, and gentlemanly．These are the same people you may be one of them who love football because there's the sport that values “the hit”．

　　By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent, still．

　　On TV the game is divided into a dozen perspectives, replays, close-ups．The geometry(几何学) of the game, however, is essential to understanding it．You will view the game from one point as a painter does his subject; you may, of course, project yourself into the game．It is in this projection that the game affords so much space and time for involvement．The TV won't do it for you．

　　Take, for example, the third baseman．You sit behind the third base and you watch him watching home plate．His legs are apart, knees flexed(弯曲)．His arms hang loose．He does a lot of this．The skeptic(怀疑论者) still cannot think of any other sports so still, so passive．But watch what happens every time the pitcher throws：the third baseman goes up on his toes, flexes his arms or brings the glove to a point in front of him, takes a step right or left, backward or forward, perhaps he glances across the field to check his first baseman's position．Suppose the pitch is a ball．“Nothing happened,” you say．“I could have had my eyes closed．”

　　The skeptic and the innocent must play the game．And this involvement in the stands is no more intellectual than listening to music is．Watch the third baseman．Smooth the dirt in front of you with one foot; smooth the pocket in your glove; watch the eyes of the batter, the speed of the bat, the sound of ball on wood．If football is a symphony of movement and theatre, baseball is chamber music, a spacious interlocking(连锁) of notes, chorus(和声) and responses．

(1)

The passage is mainly concerned with ________．
[　　]
A．	the different tastes of people for sports
B．	the superiority of football
C．	the attraction of baseball
D．	the different characteristics of sports

(2)

Those who don't like baseball may complain that ________．
[　　]
A．	it is only to the taste of the old
B．	it is not exciting enough
C．	it involves fewer players than football
D．	it is pretentious and looks funny

(3)

The author admits that ________．
[　　]
A．	baseball is too peaceful for the young
B．	football is more attracting than baseball
C．	baseball is more interesting than football
D．	baseball may seem boring when watched on TV

(4)

By stating “I could have had my eyes closed．” the author means (4 th paragraph last sentence) ________．
[　　]
A．	Even if the third baseman closed his eyes a moment ago, it could make no difference to the result
B．	The third baseman is so good at baseball that he could finish the game with eyes closed all the time and do his work well
C．	The consequence was so bad that he could not bear to see it
D．	The third baseman would rather sleep than play the game

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请认真阅读下列短文，并根据短文的内容要点完成文章后的表格。注意：补全填空应符合语法和搭配要求，每空只填一个单词。请将答案写在答题纸上的相应位置。

To tweet, or not to tweet?

A guide to the social networking/ microblogging service Tewitter

SINCE its creation in 2006, Twitter, the social networking service, has taken cyber space by storm. At first glance it might seem like Facebook, but Twitter is in a league of its own, connecting people with fast-paced updates. It has become a place for activities, celebrities, businesses and everyday people to let others know about videos, opinions, interesting news, advertisements-and, yes what they are eating for lunch.

Twitter: n. a free social networking service that connects users through fast-paced status updates.

Twitter-er: n. one who uses Twitter.

Tweet: n. short updates or messages, of 140 characters or less, wh ich are posted on your profile and sent to your followers.

Retweet (RT): n. unofficial Twitter feature that indicates a re-posting of a tweet from another user. Often uses the text RT@username (of the original source) before the post.

Follower: n. one who receives another user’s updates on his or her Twitter profile.

Direct message: n. a private message sent from one Twitter-er to another.

The phenomenon includes a host of new vocabulary terms and concepts that every self-respecting Twitter-er should know. Here’s a quick course on Twitter.

So you’ve finally been swept up by the techno-tide and gotten a Twitter account. But what to write? Who knew 140 characters could be so overwhelming?

Darren Rowse of the TwiTip blog(www.twitip.com) recommends a two- step tweeting process: figure out what your follows want, and then give it to them. Some combination of cool links, conversation- starting quotes or questions , retweets and photos works well, Rowse writes.

Keep in mind that Twitter doesn’t directly offer photo hosting. You will need to use a third-party site like TwitPic (www.twitip.com) to upload your photos. Other sites, like TwitVid (tweetdeck.com/beta) can be used to post videos.

If you th ink the Twitter Web Site too complicated, try a Twiiter client—Tweetdeck(tweetdeck. Com/beta) and the Mac-only Tweetie(www. stebits. com)are popular, and both also are available as iPhone apps(应用程序).

Even without an iphone, you can update you Twitter on the go. After adding your phone number to your Twitter account, you can text updates to 40404(check Twitter’s Web site for numbers to use outside the United States)

But no matter how you tweet, remember that people can see what you post, and Twitter might not be the best place to complain about your boss, even if you make your Twitter private, your followers may not share your sense of discretion.

Twitter is crowded with celebrith accounts. The famous , who once avoided the media in their private lives, are posting everything on Twitter for all the cyber world to see, gathering followers in the millions. Who’s leading the celebrity pack? TwitterCounter(www.twittercounter.com), a site that tracks the most popular Twitter users, lists Ashton Kuntcher and former fashion model, as the nost popular Twitter-er with, as of our publication date, 2,691,112 followers.

Title: To tweet, or not to tweet?

Introductionto Twitter	(71) in 2006, twitter, the soclal networking service, has enjoyed(72) among the cyber world.
Basic Twitter(73)	●twitter ●twitter-er ●tweet ●retwwet
(74) to tweet your tweets	●Follow a two-step tweeting process, according to the (75) of Darren Rowse. ●Use a third-party site to upload your photos and post videos. ●Try Twitter clients to help you (76) Twitter, among which the Tweet-deck and the Mac-only Tweetie are well (77) . ●Add your phone number to your Twitter account if you don’t have an iPhone. ●Be(78) of what you post even if your twitter is made private
Celebrity twitter-ers	Celebrties now are (79) about tweeting, among whom Ashton Kutcher is the most popular, (80) by the largest number of twitter users.