Boxing was long viewed sickly. Generally forbidden by law in earlier days, the fighting was usually done with bare fists, and matches often lasted forty or fifty rounds.
In 1882 John L. Sullivan, a fighter of great power, won the world heavyweight championship from Paddy Ryan in a bare fisted battle marked by hitting, scratching, and biting without any rule. Five years later, while fighting Patsy Cardiff at Minneapolis, Sullivan broke his right arm in the third round, but he continued fighting to the sixth round and won. In 1889, Sullivan defeated Jade Kilrain with his bare fists in another championship fight, winning twenty thousand dollars and a diamond prize medal. His admirers talked then of running him for the next governor, but he traveled to Australia for a boxing tour instead, coming back only to lose his title in a twenty-one-round match with a young Californian named James J. Corbett.
“Gentleman James” victory in this match marked a turning point, for it showed scientific boxing was over strength. But Corbett’s title ended in 1897, when another boxer, Bob Fitzsimmons, in less than three seconds, achieved his feats and then Fitzsimmons knocked out an Irishman, won the heavyweight championship of the world, and invented the terrible “solar plexus punch.”
小題1: Boxing matches in the early days were ________.
A．short and bloodyB．usually spare-time competitions
C．governed by strict rulesD．cruel
小題2:Sullivan held the world’s heavyweight title for ________.
A．a(chǎn)t least seven yearsB．only a year
C．five yearsD．twenty-one years
小題3:Sullivan’s fight with Kilrain was ________.
A．the first boxing championship match
B．a(chǎn) bare-fisted championship fight
C．the last boxing match to be fought bare-fisted
D．a(chǎn) six-round match
小題4:Sullivan was so popular that his admirers ________.
A．encouraged him to be a governor
B．raised twenty thousand dollars for him
C．a(chǎn)dvised him to take boxing tour of Australia
D．refused to believe he could be defeated

小題1:D
小題2:A
小題3:B
小題4:A

本文向我們介紹拳擊手John Lsullivan的故事。
小題1:推理判斷題。根據(jù) Boxing was long viewed sickly. Generally forbidden by law in earlier days, the fighting was usually done with bare fists, and matches often lasted forty or fifty rounds 可知拳擊是一項(xiàng)很危險(xiǎn)的運(yùn)動(dòng)，因此答案為D。
小題2:事實(shí)細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù) In 1882 John L. Sullivan, a fighter of great power, won the world heavyweight championship from paddy Ryan in a bare fisted battle marked by hitting和In 1889, Sullivan defeated Jade Kilrain with his bare fists in another championship fight, winning twenty thousand dollars and a diamond prize medal 可知答案為A。
小題3:事實(shí)細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)In 1889, Sullivan defeated Jade Kilrain with his bare fists in another championship fight, winning twenty thousand dollars and a diamond prize medal可知答案為B。
小題4:事實(shí)細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù) His admirers talked then of running him for the next governor可知答案為A。
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