Amanda Clement grew up in Hudson，South Dakota．Baseball was always her favorite sport．Once in a while her brother Hank and his friends would let her play first base in their games．More often，however，they asked her to umpire(裁判) for them，because they knew her calls would be fair and there would be no arguing．
One day in 1904，Amanda and her mother traveled to Hawarden，Iowa，to watch Hank play for the home team against Hawarden．When they arrived at the ball field，two local teams were waiting to play a preliminary(預(yù)備) game．The umpire hadn’t arrived，so Hank argued that the teams should let his sister serve as umpire．The players finally agreed．
Amanda，then sixteen and standing five feet，ten inches tall，made perfect calls．She was so good that players for the main game asked her 10 umpire for them and even offered to pay her．Thus，at sixteen，Amanda Clement became the first paid female baseball umpire on record．She is honored in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown，New York．

  1. 1.

    Hank and his friends often asked Amanda to umpire for them because______.

    1. A.
      they wanted to make her happy
    2. B.
      she called them brothers
    3. C.
      no one else wanted to do it for them
    4. D.
      she knew the rules well and was fair
  2. 2.

    Amanda went to Hawarden in order to______.

    1. A.
      serve as umpire
    2. B.
      make money
    3. C.
      watch her brother play
    4. D.
      help the local teams
  3. 3.

    Amanda most probably learned how to umpire a baseball game______.

    1. A.
      in her P．E．classes at school
    2. B.
      in an umpire training school
    3. C.
      by watching and playing the games
    4. D.
      from her mother，a baseball umpire
  4. 4.

    Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

    1. A.
      Amanda Clement．First Female Umpire
    2. B.
      A Family of Baseball Fans
    3. C.
      Baseball Games in Hawarden，Iowa
    4. D.
      The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown
DCCA
試題分析：本文敘述了Amanda最喜歡體育運(yùn)動(dòng)，她的哥哥和朋友經(jīng)常邀請(qǐng)她去當(dāng)棒球裁判，她熟悉比賽規(guī)則并且她是公平的，她通過經(jīng)常觀看比賽和參加比賽而獲得的對(duì)棒球運(yùn)動(dòng)的了解。她成了第一個(gè)女棒球裁判。
1.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)More often，however，they asked her to umpire(裁判) for them，because they knew her calls would be fair and there would be no arguing．她了解規(guī)則并且是公平的，故選D。
2.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Amanda and her mother traveled to Hawarden，Iowa，to watch Hank play for the home team against Hawarden．故選C。
3.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Once in a while her brother Hank and his friends would let her play first base in their games．和Amanda and her mother traveled to Hawarden，Iowa，to watch Hank play for the home team against Hawarden．Amanda通過觀看和打球來學(xué)會(huì)當(dāng)裁判，故選C。
4.標(biāo)題歸納題。根據(jù)at sixteen，Amanda Clement became the first paid female baseball umpire on record．故選A。
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