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There are people in Italy who can’t stand soccer. Not all Canadians love hockey. A similar situation exists in America, where th
There are people in Italy who can’t stand soccer. Not all Canadians love hockey. A similar situation exists in America, where th
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2010-07-24
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There are people in Italy who can’t stand soccer. Not all Canadians love hockey. A similar situation exists in America, where there are those individuals you may be one of them who yawn or even frown when somebody mentions baseball. Baseball to them means boring hours watching grown men in funny tight outfits standing around in a field staring away while very little of anything happens. They tell you it’s a game better suited to the 19th century, slow, quiet, gentlemanly. These are the same people you may be one of them who love football because there’s the sport that glorifies "the hit".
By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent, still. On TV the game is fractured into a dozen perspectives, replays, close-ups. The geometry of the game, however, is essential to understanding it. You will contemplate the game from one point as a painter does his subjects; you may, of course, project yourself into the game. It is in this projection that the game affords so much space and time for involvement. The TV won’t do it for you.
Take, for example, the third baseman. You sit behind the third base dugout and you watch him watching home plate. His legs are apart, knees flexed. His arms hang loose. He does a lot of this. The skeptic still cannot think of any other sports so still, so passive. But watch what happens every time the pitcher throws; the third baseman goes up on his toes, flexes his arms or brings the glove to a point in front of him, takes a step right or left, backward or forward, perhaps he glances across the field to check his first baseman’s position. Suppose the pitch is a ball. "Nothing happened," you say, "I could have had my eyes closed."
The skeptic and the innocent must play the game. And this involvement in the stands is no more intellectual than listening to music is. Watch the third baseman. Smooth the dirt in front of you with one foot; smooth the pocket in your glove; watch the eyes of the batter, the speed of the bat, the sound of horsehide on wood. If football is a symphony of movement and theatre, baseball is chamber music, a spacious interlocking of notes, chorus and responses.
We can safely conclude that the author ______.
选项
A、likes football
B、hates football
C、hates baseball
D、likes baseball
答案
D
解析
解题的主要根据在最后一段中的最后一句话:If football is a symphony of movement and theatre,baseball is chamber music,a spacious interlocking of notes,chorus and responses.前两个选项说的是足球,而文章讨论的是棒球。从最后一句话可以看出,作者认为,只有根据棒球的特征来欣赏它,才能体会到它的魅力。由此可以推断作者是喜欢棒球的。故选D。
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大学英语四级
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