Davey wanted to play baseball. But fifty years ago, in his small town, he couldn’t find enough players for two full teams or an empty lot big enough for a field. And when he played ball in his back yard, he just broke windows and got into trouble. So Davey began playing with a plastic golf ball and a broom handle for a bat.
When his dad, David Mullaney, a former semi-pro baseball pitcher(投手), realized his son was hurting his arm trying to throw curves with the little plastic ball, he decided to find a better solution. Mullaney got a bunch of hollow plastic spheres from a local factory, sat down at his kitchen table and began cutting different size holes in the balls with a razor knife. He thought maybe the holes would alter the ball’s flight and help his son throw curves and sliders without hurting his arm.
All the balls failed—except the one with the eight oblong(長橢圓形的) holes cut into one of the hemispheres. This ball curved naturally and sharply without a violent snap of the wrist. In fact, Davey was now striking out so many batters; he called his new ball a “wiffle ball”. A year later, Mullaney borrowed $20,000 from family and friends and started producing Wiffle Balls in his little suburban town of Shelton, Connecticut.
“I didn’t want investors.” He said, “I wanted to control my own company.” This was the beginning of one of the hottest fads(時尚) of the fifties and a perennial(長久的) best seller well known all around the world. Since then millions of boys and girls have enjoyed countless hours of safe, wholesome fun playing with a Wiffle ball and bat. Esquire Magazine has even called the Wiffle Ball “a national treasure”. By producing a high quality product at an affordable price, three generations of Mullany’s have enjoyed the satisfaction and benefits of running a successful and profitable family business.
Over the years, they’ve had plenty of offers to buy them out, but they’re still working out of a small factory in Shelton, making a new Wiffle Ball every couple of seconds. Creativity and persistence are two of the important sources for wealth. If he gave up his attempts at trying new things, Mullany would not have invented the wiffle ball, nor would he have made such a big fortune.
小題1:From the passage we can know that           .          
A．Mullaney made the invention of Wiffle ball with the help of his son
B．fifty years ago people didn’t like playing baseball very much
C．Mullaney’s attempts to help Davey better enjoy ball-playing led to the invention of Wiffle ball
D．playing balls would hurt one’s arm before the Wiffle ball’s appearance
小題2:All the following are true EXCEPT         .
A．Davey was a good ballplayer after the Wiffle ball came into existence
B．David Mullaney wanted to run the family business on his own
C．Mullaney’s family made a big fortune through the production of Wiffle balls
D．Mullaney’s business was nearly bought out but they worked hard to keep it
小題3:The underlined word “spheres” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to         .
A．ballsB．bottlesC．bagsD．boxes
小題4:The two important factors for Mullaney’s successful family business are         .
A．time and fortune　B．persistence and creativity
C．quality and fameD．cooperation and efforts
小題5:The passage mainly tells us something about         .
A．Davey, a famous baseball playerB．a(chǎn) popular ball game in the 1950’s
C．the birth of Wiffle ballD．the success of a family business

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:A
小題4:B
小題5:C

試題分析：文章介紹Mullaney為了讓孩子更好的享受打球發(fā)明洞洞球，并創(chuàng)辦了自己的家族產(chǎn)業(yè)，生意越做越大，洞洞球深受年輕人喜愛，他們也掙了一大筆錢。
小題1:推理題：從第二段和第三段的描述，可知Mullaney為了讓孩子更好的享受打球?qū)е露炊辞虻陌l(fā)明，選C
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第四段的句子：By producing a high quality product at an affordable price, three generations of Mullany’s have enjoyed the satisfaction and benefits of running a successful and profitable family business. 可知Mullaney家族的生意非常成功，選D。
小題3:猜詞題：從第二段的句子：sat down at his kitchen table and began cutting different size holes in the balls with a razor knife.可知spheres 是“balls”，選A
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)題：從最后一段的句子：Creativity and persistence are two of the important sources for wealth.可知Mullaney成功的家族生意是因為堅持和創(chuàng)造力，選B
小題5:主旨題：從全篇文章：可知這篇文章講的是洞洞球是怎么發(fā)明的，選 C
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B．She didn’t enjoy writing stories.
C．She didn’t have any particular ambitions.
D．She didn’t respect her teacher’s views.
小題4:What’s the writer’s purpose in this text?
A．To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter’s books.
B．To introduce Mollie Hunter’s work to a wider audience.
C．To provide information for Mollie Hunter’s existing readers.
D．To describe Mollie Hunter’s most successful books.

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With the average home in the capital selling for 19,548 yuan a meter in November, a tiny mobile home built by a 24-year-old office worker is creating a stir(震動) online.
Dai Haifei built the 6-square-meter pad(住所) because he could not afford to buy or rent in the capital.
Dai’s new home costs him 6,400 yuan and he has been living in it for nearly two months in courtyard at Chengfu
Road, Haidian district.
Dai, who is one of the millions of migrants who moved to the capital from other parts of China seeking a better
life and better job, said he realized his financial burden had become too great.
The Hunan native said he simply could not make ends meet(收支相抵) when he became an intern at a
Beijing-based construction design company in 2009.
“I rented a home at the very beginning--a small room in an apartment that cost me about 900 yuan per month,”
said Dai in an interview with local media. “It was too expensive for me. ”
Dai’s father works on a construction site in his hometown and his mother is a cleaner.
Dai, who ended up becoming a formal employee of the company, figured out his own way to solve the
problem---with inspiration from a housing design project at his company’s exhibition early this year.
The project, named“An egg given birth to by the city”, included a series of egg-like movable houses, with a
karaoke house, chair house and trader’s house in it.
Dai, who borrowed 6,400 yuan from an older cousin and who got additional help from several friends, decided to
make one of his own. He spent nearly two months building his“egg house”in his hometown, a village in southeast
Hunan that is around 1,700 kilometers from Beijing.
小題1:Where is this passage probably taken from?
A．A story book.B．A cartoon film. C．A news report. D．A research report.
小題2:What is Dai Haifei?
A．An official of government.B．A journalist.
C．An office worker of a company.D．A manager of a company.
小題3:Why did he build the pad?
A．Because he will sell it for money.
B．Because he has no house to get married in.
C．Because he doesn’t have enough money to buy or rent a house.
D．Because he wants to get help from the society.
小題4:Which statement is not TRUE?
A．He comes from a Hunan village.
B．He has lived in the egg home for two months.
C．He got the idea from a friend.
D．He once rented a room.
小題5:What’s the writer’s attitude?
A．Supporting.B．Puzzled.C．Criticizing.D．Objective.

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