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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 yawn or even 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.』① They tell you it’s a game better suited to the 19th century, slow, quiet, gentlemanly. These are the same people you may be one of them who love football because there’s the sport that glorifies “the hit”.By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent, still.
On TV the game is fractured into a dozen perspectives, replays, closeups. The geometry of the game, however, is essential to understanding it. You will contemplate 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 ba百度竞价推广an. You sit behind the third base dugout and you watch him watching home plate. His legs are apart, knees flexed. His arms hang loose. He does a lot of this. The skeptic still cannot think of any other sports so still, so passive. 『But watch what happens every time the pitcher throws: the third ba百度竞价推广an goes up on his toes, flexes his arms or bring 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 ba百度竞价推广an’s position.』② 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 ba百度竞价推广an. 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 horsehide on wood. If football is a symphony of movement and theatre, baseball is chamber music, a spacious interlocking of notes, chores and responses.
1. The passage is mainly concerned with ______.
A. the different tastes of people for sports
B. the different characteristics of sports
C. the attraction of football
D. the attraction of baseball
2. Those who don’t like baseball may complain that ______.
A. it is only to the taste of the old
B. it involves fewer players than football
C. it is not exciting enough
D. it is pretentious and looks funny
3. The author admits that ______.
A. baseball is too peaceful for the young
B. baseball may seem boring when watched on TV
C. football is more attracting than baseball
D. baseball is more interesting than football
4. By stating “I could have had my eyes closed. ” the author means :
A. The third ba百度竞价推广an would rather sleep than play the game.
B. Even if the third ba百度竞价推广an closed his eyes a moment ago, it could make no different to the result.
C. The third ba百度竞价推广an is so good at baseball that he could finish the game with eyes closed all the time and do his work well.
D. The consequent was too bad he could not bear to see it.
5. We can safely conclude that the author ______.
A. likes football B. hates football
C. hates baseball D. likes baseball
参考答案：
1. D 主旨题。文章第一段简述了大家对垒球所持的偏见——觉得它毫无活力、从容和缓，不像橄榄球那样迭起、让人激动。文章的2、3、4、五段探讨了垒球的根本特点及赏析角度，文章的最后一句话用一个比喻概括了垒球的魔力：“假如橄榄球是一曲交响乐的话，那样，垒球中所表现出来的运动恰似一曲优美的室内乐。”可见，本文主要探讨的是垒球的特征及其赏析。
2. C 细节题。文章第一段指出：很多人不喜欢垒球，一提起垒球这类人就打哈欠甚至皱眉头。对他们来讲，看垒球意味着眼巴巴地观看着身着运动服饰的人呆立在球场上，东瞧瞧西望望，极少有哪些事发生——没意思透了。他们觉得如此的运动更合适上个世纪的人的口味，不像橄榄球那样充满活力。
3. B 判断题。第三段指出，在电视上，垒球运动被切换成不同角度的画面，而且不断地用重放、特写等电视制作技术，这破坏了该运动的整体运动感，使观众没办法将自己投入到运动中去，以领会到这种寓动于静的运动之美。电视办不到这一点，因此，电视上的垒球比赛看起来孤孤单单、冷冷清清、沉沉静静、慢慢腾腾。C、D不对，作者仅指出了不同运动有不同运动的特点，并未说哪种运动优于哪种。
4. B 判断题。第四段整个都在描述垒球场上的一个场景：拿三垒的运动员假设他们全投出好球，作好了所有筹备，但他们投出的并非好球。所以在那时候他的筹备做不做都不会干扰比赛结果。他说本来可以闭上双眼，意思就是B项所写的。
5. D 判断题。在本文中，作者主要探讨了垒球的特点及赏析，作者着重指出的是：只有依据垒球的特点来赏析它，才能领会到它的魔力。在他看来，察看到垒球比赛中运动员的各种动作、垒球位之间的关系等是赏析它的重要。只有从整体来把握它，才能看到每个小的动作、每个眼神乃至于“静止”的意义，也只有如此，才能全身心地投入比赛中，赏析到它的魔力。可见，作者对垒球有非常深的理解而且很喜欢垒球。
