1、 1 高中英语黄金阅读 (高三版 ) Golden Reading for Senior Middle School Students 一、人物类 (1) In October 1961 at Crowley Field in Cincinnati Ohio an old deaf gentleman named William E. Hoy stood up to throw the first ball of the World Series. Most people at Crowley Field on that day probably did not remember Hoy be
2、cause he had retired(退休 ) from professional baseball 58 years earlier in 1903. However he had been an outstanding player and the deaf people still talk about him and his years in baseball. William E. Hoy was born in Houckstown Ohio on May 23, 1862. He became deaf when he was two years old. He attend
3、ed the Columbus Ohio School for the deaf. After graduation he started playing baseball while working as a shoemaker. Hoy began playing professional baseball in 1886 for Oshkosh(Wisconsin) of the Northwestern League. In 1888 he started as an outfielder(外场手 ) with the old Washington Senators. His smal
4、l figure and speed made him an outstanding base runner. He was very good at stealing bases during his career. In the 1888 major league season he stole 82 bases. He was also the Senators? leading hitter in 1888. Hoy was clever and he threw right-handed and batted left-handed. On June 19,1889 he threw
5、 out three batters(击球手 ) at the plate from his outfield position. The arm signals used by judges today to show balls and strikes began because of Hoy. The judge lifted his right arm to show that the pitch was a strike and his left arm to signal that it was a ball. For many years people talked about
6、Hoy?s last ball game in 1903. He was playing for Los Angeles of the Pacific Coast Winter League. It was a memorable game because Hoy hit a wonderful ball which won the game. It was a very foggy day and therefore very hard to see the ball. In the ninth inning(棒球的一局 ) with two men out, Hoy managed to
7、catch a fly ball to make the third out in spite of the fog. Los Angeles defeated their opposition and won the game. After he retired Hoy stayed busy. He ran a dairy farm near Cincinnati for 20 years. He also became a public speaker and traveled giving speeches. Until a few years before his death he
8、took 4-10 mile walks several mornings a week. On December 15, 1961 William Hoy died at the age of 99. 1. In which order did the following things happen in Hoy?s life? a. Hoy worked as a shoemaker. b. Hoy began to run a diary farm. c. Hoy played a memorable game in the heavy fog. d. Hoy threw the fir
9、st ball of the World Series. e. Hoy became deaf. A. d e a c b B. e a c b d C. d a e c b D. e a b c d 2. We can infer from the last paragraph that Hoy _ in his late years. A. became famous B. led a relaxed life C. traveled around the worldD. was in good physical condition 3. This passage is mainly ab
10、out _. A. a deaf player devoted to the game of baseball B. baseball game rules and important players C. the rise in the social position of the deaf people D. where the baseball judge hand signals came from 4. What can be inferred from this passage? A. Hoy was the greatest baseball player in his time
11、. B. Speaking and listening are not necessary in baseball games. C. The judge had to study the hand signals very seriously. D. Hoy?s family encouraged him to become a baseball player. (2) The Man of Many Secrets Harry Houdini was one of the greatest American entertainers in the theater this century.
12、 He was a man famous for his escapes from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great Houdini and his “magic” tricks. Of course, his secret was not magic, or supernatural powers
13、. It was simply strength. He had the ability to move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted. Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo 2 performed card tricks in club in New York. T
14、hey called themselves the Houdini Brothers. When Harry married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. But for a long time they were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape, in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to e
15、scape from the prison, and he invited the local newspapermen to watch. It was the publicity(宣传 ) that came from this that started Harry Houdini?s success. Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape ankle chins. But his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prison
16、doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck and a small skeleton key, which is a key that fits many locks, pass quickly from her mouth to his. Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local prison of every town he visite
17、d. In the afternoon, the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result? World-wild fame, and a name remembered today. 1. According to the passage, Houdini?s success in prison escapes depends on
18、_. A. his special tricks and supernatural powers B. his unusual ability and a skeleton key C. his magic tricks and unhuman powers D. his wisdom and magic tricks 2. In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word “this” refers to _. A. his first prison escape B. the year 1898 C. the publicity D. Harry H
19、oudini?s success 3. It can be inferred from the passage that Houdini became famous _. A. in 1894 B. before he married C. at the age of 17 D. when he was about 24 4. Which of the following is the best title for the passage? A. A Skeleton Key B. A Man of Many Secrets C. World-wild Fame D. Great Escape
20、 (3) On May 29, 1973, Thomas Bradley, a black man, was elected mayor of Los Angeles. Los Angeles is the third largest city in the United States, with a population of three million. About sixteen percent of the city?s population are black. News of this election appeared on the front pages of newspape
21、rs everywhere in the United States. Here is how one major newspaper reported the event: LOS ANGELES ELECTS BRADLEY MAYOR UNSEATING YORTYBLACK WINS 56% OF VOTES Bradley called his victory over Yorty “the fulfillment (实现 ) of a dream”. During his childhood and youth, people had kept telling him, “You
22、can?t do this, you can?t go there, because you are a Negro.” Nevertheless he had won a decisive victory over a man who had been won 43.7 percent. Los Angeles voters have had many opportunities to judge. Thomas Bradley had to form an opinion of him. The son of a poor farmer Texas, he joined the Los A
23、ngeles police force in 1940. During his twenty-one years on the police force he earned a law degree by attending school at night. He was elected to the city council (市政厅 ) ten years ago. At the time of the Los Angeles election, three other American cities already had black mayors, but none of those
24、cities had as large a population as Los Angeles. Besides, the percentage of blacks in those other cities was much larger. Cleveland, Ohio, had thirty-six percent black when Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland in 1967. In the same year Richard Hatcher was elected mayor of Cary. In Newark, New
25、Jersey, sixty percent of the population were black when Kenneth Gibson was elected in 1970. Thus election of a black mayor in those cities was not very surprising. In Los Angeles thousands of white citizens voted for Thomas Bradley because they believed he would be a better mayor than the white cand
26、idate(候选人 ). Bradley had spent forty-eight of his fifty-five years in Los Angeles. Four years ago Bradley lost mayoral election to Yorty. This time Bradley won. 1. In the author?s opinion, it was surprising that _. A. the whites would vote for a black mayor B. a black mayor would be elected in such a large city C. a black from a poor farmer?s family could
