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　　A famous philosopher(哲学家) once wrote,“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn base-ball.” Many people believe that Abner Dou-bleday 1 ndline　 baseball. They say that in 1839, in Cooperstown, NY, Doubleday organize(组织)the first game of baseball ever 2 ndline. Cooperstown is now the 3 ndline　 of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Others believe that baseball 4 ndline　 from an English game called rounders. As early as the 1600s, people were playing rounders. People playing rounders first hit a ball with a bat and then ran 5 ndline　 bases. It looked like baseball, 6 ndline　 there were some differences. The main difference was the way 7 ndline　 fielders(外野手)got run-ners out. In rounders, the fielder threw the ball at the runner. If the ball 8 ndline　 the runner while he was running around the bases, the 9 ndline　 was out.

　　Gradually(逐渐地), Americans changed rounders to make it baseball. The big 10 ndline　 came when the fielder stopped 11 ndline　 　the ball at the runner. Instead， the fielder tagged(追上)the runner, just as fielders 12 ndline　 today.

　　In 1845, a sportsman called Alexander Cartwright wrote a set of baseball rules 13 ndline　 the clubs. Many of these rules are still used.

　　With the 14 of the modem equip-ment(设备), baseball has become more and more15 ndline.

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阅读理解。

　　Once there was a piano player in a bar．People came just to hear him play．But one night, a lady asked him to sing a song．

　　"I don't sing, " said the man．

　　But the lady told the waiter, "I'm tired of listening to the piano．I want the player to sing!

　　The waiter shouted across the room, "Hey, friend! If you want to get paid, sing a song! '

　　So he did．He had never sung in public before．Now he was singing for the very first time! Nobody had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung so beautifully!

　　He had talent he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano player in a no-name bar．But once he found, by accident, that he could sing well, he went on working hard and became one of the best-known singers in the US．His name was Nat King Cole．

　　You, too, have skills and abilities．You may not feel that your talent is great, but it may be better than you think．With hard work, most skills can be improved．Besides, you may have no success at all if you just sit on your talent．

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　　He Junquan is a Chinese swimmer and has won many Paralympic(残奥会)gold medals．Born in Jingmen, Hubei province, He Junquan was a healthy boy．But one day at the age of three, he climbed up to the high－voltage electricity(高压线)box and lost both of his arms forever．He became a disabled boy!

　　From then on he learnt to do everything with his feet：writing, eating, getting dressed and taking things．Seeing other pupils swimming in the river, he jumped in, too．Without arms, he suffered a lot in the river at the beginning．But he finally learnt to balance himself in water and could swim much faster than the other pupils．Once he even saved a little boy who fell into the water and couldn't swim．His father was so happy to see that this son had a talent in swimming．

　　In 1995, He Junquan became a real swimmer．He practices swimming for more than four hours every day．Since 1996, he has won more than twelve gold medals of the world class．At the 2008 Summer Paralympics, he won a silver medal．Reporting on the competition at the 2008 Games, Will Swanton of the Sydney Morning Herald wrote：

　　“ The Water Cube has been a sight for sore(气愤的)eyes．China's He Junquan, with no arms, was leading the 50m backstroke(仰泳)final．…He came to the finish－ and had to crash into the wall with his head．As he slowed down to lessen(减少)the impact(撞击力), Brazilian Daniel Dias hit the wall first with a hand．You’ve never heard a silence like it．”

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