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"It’s such a simple thing," said John Spitzer, managing director of equipment standards for the United States Golf Association.
"It’s such a simple thing," said John Spitzer, managing director of equipment standards for the United States Golf Association.
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2017-01-12
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"It’s such a simple thing," said John Spitzer, managing director of equipment standards for the United States Golf Association. "I’m amazed that so many people spend so much time and energy on trying to change it" The simple thing to which he refers is the humble golf tee, a peg made of wood that most of us grab by the handful or buy for a few pennies each, stick in our pockets, and don’t give a second thought to.
The road to the tee began with a Boston-area dentist named George F. Grant, who received a patent in 1899 for "an Improvement in Golf-Tees." Grant’s tees consisted of a small piece of rubber tubing attached to a tapered wooden peg to be pushed into the ground. The rubber held the ball, and yielded when the club contacted it. He had them produced by a nearby manufacturing concern and gave them out to his friends but never tried to sell or market them.
That fell to William Lowell—another tooth doctor, coincidentally—who created the Reddy Tee in 1921. It was a one-piece implement of solid wood, painted red at the top so it could be easily found and cleverly named. He paid Walter Hagen and trick-shot artist Joe Kirkwood to endorse and use the device, and it was a commercial success, with more than $100,000 in sales by the time it was patented in 1925.
The introduction of the oversize metal driver in the 1980s led most golfers to adopt longer tees to go along with the larger and higher sweet spot of those clubs. The USGA has banned tees longer than 4 inches, a height that is well past the point of diminishing returns. Even back in the 1960s, Jack Nicklaus understood the value of teeing the ball high, which he explained by saying, "Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt."
Golfers who have fairly steep swings (like me) break a lot of tees. We can only envy the legendary Canadian pro Moe Norman, who could play for weeks with a single tee. When his playing partners asked him how he managed to stripe his drives without dislodging the peg, he answered, "I’m trying to hit the ball, not the tee." So are we all, Moe. So are we all.
According to Paragraph 2, a small piece of rubber tubing______.
选项
A、can support the ball
B、must fall when the ball is hit
C、will be pushed into the ground
D、will be broken when being contacted
答案
A
解析
细节题。根据题干关键词定位到第二段。本段倒数第二句提到The rubber held the ball(橡胶管将球托住),A项中的support与句中的held属于同义替换,故A项“可以支撑球”为正确答案。倒数第二句提到“球杆一触碰到它(橡胶管),它(橡胶管)就会倒下”,B项的must太过绝对,因为球杆如果没有触碰到橡胶管,它可能不会倒下;D项中的broken与文中的yielded“倒下”意思不符,也排除。根据文中的peg to be pushed into the ground可知,push的宾语是peg“木钉”,故不选C项“将被按进泥土中”。
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