2011闵行区英语二模(3)

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Part 3 Reading and Writing（第三部分 读写）

Ⅷ. Reading comprehension(阅读理解):（共56分）

A. True or False （判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用"T"表示，不符合的用"F"表示）：（7分）

Richard is an exchange student from the USA. He is teaching his friends at Rose Garden School how to play Softball. He is explaining the rules.

Richard: First, we need a bat, a ball and some bases.

Ben: What are bases?

Richard: They are flat squares that show you where to run. After you hit the ball, you have to run around

the bases.

If you stand on a base, you are safe. If you are running to a base, and the other team touches the

base with the ball, then you are out.

Jennifer: Oh, I see. How would I hit the ball?

Richard: Have you seen baseball on television?

Jennifer: I have.

Richard: Well, Softball is like baseball, only the ball is bigger and softer too.

Jennifer: Do you like volleyball? I love it.

Richard: I like to play beach volleyball. It's different from volleyball.

Ben: How?

Richard: In beach volleyball, you only have two people on each team and the court is smaller. Jennifer: Do you play on the beach?

Richard: Yes. It’s good because if you dive for the ball, you don’t hurt yourself.

Ben: Do you play football at your school?

Richard: Which kind of football?

Jennifer: I don't understand there more than one kind? I thought everyone play the same kind of football. Richard: No. In the USA, we have football and soccer. Soccer is a game that is played around the world.

In other countries, soccer is called football. In the USA, we also play a different game called

football.

In this game, you throw the ball and you have to wear a helmet to play.

Jennifer: Well, I want to play softball.

71. The rules for playing softball are nearly the same as those for playing baseball.

72. In a softball game, if your team is running to a base and the other team touches the base with the ball, you are safe.

73. A baseball is smaller and harder than a softball.

74. Richard is teaching his friends how to play softball.

75. According to Richard, playing beach volleyball is much more dangerous than playing volleyball.

76. Jennifer thought that the word 'football' had only one meaning.

77. In the USA, 'soccer' is also called 'football'.

B. Choose the best answer（根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案）：（7分）

In the 1500s, South American fishermen said that the sea became warmer every few years. They gave this

special event a Spanish name 'El Nino', meaning 'the baby'. It is called 'the baby' because it arrives around