When an official at the U. S. Open Pocket Pool(臺球)Championship saw a 9-year-old girl playing at one of the tournament tables, he told her that spectators(觀眾)were not allowed to play. But much to his surprise, the girl was actually a competitor. That was nine years ago, and today, with five U. S. Open Women’s titles behind her and a recently won world championship, no one is likely to mistake Jean Balukas for a spectator again.
It doesn’t seem too surprising that Jean became caught up in pool——her father owns a pool hall within walking distance of the family’s home in Brooklyn. When she was just tall enough to see over the table, she fell in love with the game soon. Five years later Jean was ready to enter her first U. S. Open. She still remembers the letter the officials sent her reminding her that she wouldn’t be allowed to stand on a box to play.

As Jean improved, she found it increasingly difficult to play games at her father’s pool hall. “If I’d beat one of the guys, his friends would laugh at them about losing to me,” she says. Now Jean comes to the hall only weeks before a tournament when she plays Johnny Goon, her father’s pool manager.
That Johnny can beat her shows the gap that now exists in pool — as in other sports — between the top men and women competitors. “I’m supposedly the top woman player, but I’d have a hard time beating the number 50 man,” says Jean. “If I was a boy and played pool, I’d be a nobody.”
Jean thinks that women pool players still have a long way to go because pool has been a man’s game for so long. “When they think of pool players, people have this picture in their head of gambling(賭博) and smoke,” she says.
Jean won four of the seven games in these two years. She was as surprised as anyone else at her performance, even though she was a New York City tennis champion and center for her high-school basketball team. Jean does not take full credit for her achievements, saying, “I think what I have in sports is a gift from God, and that’s why I can get out there and do so well.”
小題1:We can learn from the first passage that Jean Balukas_____.
A．had become well-known at the age of 9
B．had achieved great fame at the age of 18
C．was often asked to play with men players
D．was refused to play in the U. S. Open for her young age
小題2:The letter Jean received before her first U. S. Open_____.
A．told her to arrive in time for the game
B．showed people’s doubt about her ability
C．told her about the basic rules of the game
D．invited her to compete in the U. S. Open
小題3:Jean Balukas believed that women pool players_____.
A．fall far behind men players
B．a(chǎn)ren’t suitable for a man’s game
C．a(chǎn)re impossible to beat any man player
D．have a bad reputation(名聲) for gambling and smoking
小題4:By saying the underlined words in the last paragraph Jean meant that _____.
A．women players had a long way to go
B．she wouldn’t stop before her great achievement
C．she had much confidence in the game
D．she achieved her success because of her born gift

小題1:B
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:D
本文介紹了一位少年成名的女臺球手。
小題1:推理題。根據(jù)文章第一段可知9年前她9歲，那么現(xiàn)在就是18歲。贏得了5次美國錦標(biāo)賽和2次世界錦標(biāo)賽，什么她成就斐然。選擇B。
小題2:推理題。文章第二段She still remembers the letter the officials sent her reminding her that she wouldn’t be allowed to stand on a box to play.答案為B。根據(jù)文章ACD都是錯誤的。
小題3:推理題。根據(jù)文章第四段That Johnny can beat her shows the gap that now exists in pool — as in other sports — between the top men and women competitors.可知在很多運動領(lǐng)域女性都落后男性。選擇A。
小題4:猜測詞義題。根據(jù)文章最后一句話“I think what I have in sports is a gift from God, and that’s why I can get out there and do so well. ”可知她認為自己的成功是因為天賦。
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Mr．Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer．He rejoined Apple in nineteen ninety-seven after it bought NeXT．He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today．
Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a "great visionary and leader'' and a "marketing genius（天才）"．
President Obama said in a statement: "By building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity．By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun．"
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A．He was very courageous in the face of cancer．
B．He became very rich though dropping out college．
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D．He revolutionized technology and made it enjoyable．
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A．After Apple, he founded NeXT Computer．
B．He made Apple very valuable once again in the world．
C．He developed a series of Apple products．
D．He was considered the greatest industrial figure of all time．
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A．Jobs was a typical example of American spirit of creation．
B．Jobs enriched the American spirit of science and freedom．
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A．Jobs's parents discouraged him from working on electronics
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c. His father died and he became poor.
d. He was asked to learn to make shoe tacks.
e. He settled in another country.
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The American local food movement has been all about buying seasonal food from nearby farmers. Now, thanks to the Web, it is expanding to include far-away farmers too. A new start-up, Foodzie, is an online farmers market where small food producers and growers can sell their products.
Foodzie was started by Mr LaFave and two of his friends, who met during college at Virginia Tech, where they would pay frequent visits to farmers markets. Last year, while living in North Carolina, one of them, Emily Olson, now 24, came up with one idea. She was working as a brand manager for a gourmet grocery chain and realized that people who enjoyed fine food but didn’t work in the business had no way to discover handmade foods outside their local farmers markets. Small farmers had no way of finding or selling to faraway customers, either.
Mr LaFAve and the third co-founder, Nik Bauman, both 25, worked in corporate sales and software development. “With business, food and computer science backgrounds, we figured we had everything we needed.” Mr LaFAve said.
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小題1: The passage is mainly about _______________.
A．how an online farmers’ market works
B．the American local food movement
C．three youths starting an online farmers’ market
D．the reasons why people are interested in local food
小題2:Why did the founders start the online farmers’ market?
A．Because it met the need of the market.
B．Because the founders were interested in seasonal food.
C．Because some people wanted to buy locally grown food.
D．Because farmers wanted to sell their foods.
小題3: The underlined word in Paragraph 2 can be used to describe ______________.
A．food of high qualityB．terrible foodC．food of low fatD．fried food
小題4:The founders of the site employed another person to help _______________.
A．open new shops in faraway markets
B．buy locally grown and handmade food
C．find more food outside their local farmers’ markets
D．find more food growers to open shops on their site
小題5:About the three founders, we know that ________________.
A．they are of the same ageB．to start the website they gave up their work
C．they used to be colleagueD．they majored in farming at college

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