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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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2014-08-25
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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(打呵欠) or even frown when somebody mentions baseball. (78)
Baseball to them means boring hours watching grown men in funny fight 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 who love football because it’s a sport that glorifies "the hit".
By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent, still.
On TV, baseball game is fractured into a dozen perspectives, replays, close ups. The geometry of the game, however, is essential to understanding it. You should contemplate the game from one point as a painter does his subject; 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 fight 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 innocent must play the game. And this involvement in the stands is no more intellectual than listening to music is. Watch the third baseman. (79)
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, chores and responses.
选项
A、the different tastes of people for sports
B、the different characteristics of sports
C、the attraction of football
D、the attraction of baseball
答案
D
解析
主旨题。文章第一段简述了人们对棒球所持的偏见。文章的第二至五段探讨了棒球的基本特征及其欣赏角度,文章的最后一句话用一个比喻概括了垒球的魅力:“If football is a symphony of movement and theatre, baseball is chamber music…”(如果橄榄球是一曲交响乐的话,那么,棒球就恰似优美的室内音乐。)可见,文主要探讨的是棒球的特点以及如何欣赏它。 选项A不正确,第一段确实提到了不同观众对不同运动形式的偏好,但这只是用以引出对棒球的讨论。
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