题文
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 19th 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.
小题1:The passage is mainly concerned with.A．the attraction of baseballB．the superiority of footballC．the different tastes of people for sportsD．the different characteristics of sports小题2:Those who don’t like baseball may complain that .A．it is only to the taste of the oldB．it is not exciting enoughC．it involves fewer players than footballD．it is pretentious and looks funny小题3:The author admits that .A．baseball may seem boring when watched on TV B．football is more attracting than baseballC．baseball is more interesting than footballD．baseball is too peaceful for the young小题4:By stating “I could have had my eyes closed”, the author means (4th paragraph last sentence) .A．The consequence was so bad that he could not bear to see it 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 wellC．Even if the third baseman closed his eyes a moment ago, it could make no difference to the resultD．The third baseman would rather sleep than play the game 题型：未知难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:C
解析
文章主要谈论了棒球这项体育运动。有人不喜欢看棒球比赛，他们认为棒球比赛很无聊，一点也不精彩。相比足球比赛的激情，棒球比赛显得过于平静。
小题1:根据“baseball to them means boring hours ...while very little of anything happens...On TV the game is divided into a dozen perspectives, replays, close-ups...baseball is chamber music, a spacious interlocking(连锁) of notes, chorus（和声）and responses”可知，文章主要谈论的是棒球这项运动，故选A。
小题2:根据第一段“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...slow, quiet, and gentlemanly”可知，有的人觉得棒球无聊，是一种过时的运动。故选B。
小题3:根据第三段“It is in this projection that the game affords so much space and time for involvement. The TV won’t do it for you.”可知，亲临现场能够给你足够的参与空间和时间，而在电视上观看棒球比赛，没有一点参与感，故选A。
小题4:根据“ “Nothing happened,” you say.”可知，运动员做了一系列的动作之后，让观众以为会像看足球比赛一样看到什么精彩的内容，结果却令人失望，他们根本就没有行动，闭眼跟不闭眼没有什么区别。故选C。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“There are people in .....”主要考查你对 [日常生活类阅读 ]考点的理解。日常生活类阅读
日常生活类阅读的概念：
日常生活这一话题主要涉及人们衣食住行等方面的活动。这一话题的选材主要针对人们日常的工作，生活以及学习情况。做这一类题时，最主要的是要把握好人物的活动内容，时间和地点。
日常生活类阅读题答题技巧：
【题型说明】
该类文章内容涉及到人们的言谈举止、生活习惯、饮食起居、服饰仪表、恋爱婚姻、消遣娱乐、节日起源、家庭生活等。文章篇幅短小，追根溯源，探索各项风俗的历史渊源，内容有趣。命题也以送分题为主，如事实细节题、语义转换题、词义猜测题和简单推理判断题等。虽然这类文章读起来感觉轻松，试题做起来比较顺手，但绝不能掉以轻心。因为稍不留神，就会丢分。
【备考提醒】
为了保证较高准确率，建议同学们做好以下几点：
1、保持正常的考试心态。笔者在教学中发现，越是容易的试题，同学们越是容易失分。为什么呢？因为在这种情况下，同学们极易产生麻痹思想，认为题目好做，就不引起高度重视，于是思维不发散、不周密。而命题人就是利用同学们的这一弱点，设计陷阱题。所以，无论试题难易与否，我们都要保持正常的考试心态。试题容易，不欣喜；试题难，不悲观。
2、根据前面讲到的方法，认认真真、细细心心做好事实细节题。
3、做好语义转换题。这类题是根据英语中一词多义和某些词语在文中能表达一定的修辞意义的原则而设计的。要求同学们解释某生词的含义，确定多义词或短语在文中的意思，确认文中的某个代词所指代的对象，或者对英语中特有的表达、格言、谚语进行解释。这种题要求同学们一定要根据上下文猜测词义或理解句子，切不可望文生义。
4、做好简单推理判断题。简单推理判断题要以表面文字为前提，以具体事实为依据进行推理，做出判断。这种推理方式比较直接，只要弄清事实，即可结合常识推断出合理的结论。
