Reading Comprehension( 60 points)
第36题单选 根据以下材料，回答下面试题
Lawn tennis is a good sport, being based on the ancient game of COLUt tennis, which probably came up in Egypt or Persia some 2,500 years ago. Major Walter Wingfield thought that something like court tennis could be played outdoors on lawns, and in December 1873, he introduced his new game, which he called Sphairistike, at a lawn party in Wales. The sport. became popular very rapidly, but the strange, difficult name disappeared almost at once, being replaced by the very simple and logical term "lawn tennis " . By 1874 the game was being played by British soldiers in Bermuda, and in the early months of that
year a young lady named May Outerbridge retumed from Bermuda to New York, bringing with her the
equipment necessary to play-the new game. With the help of one of her brothers, she laid out a corut on
the grounds of the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club, and there, in the spring of 1874, Miss
Outerbridge and some of her friends played the first game of lawn tennis in the United States.
And just two years later, in 1876, the first Uruted States lawn tennis tournament(锦标赛)washeld-at Nahant near Boston.
第36题单选 Mary Outerbridge is important in the history of lawn tennis because .
A. she invented it
B. she gave it its name
C. she introduced it to Bermuda
D. she brought it to America
第37题单选 The new game called Sphairistike appeared in in 1873.
A. America
B. Europe
C. Bermuda
D. Egypt
第38题单选 The first United States lawn tennis game was played _
A. at Nahant
B. on the Staten Island
C. in Boston
D. in New York
第39题单选 Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Lawn tennis became popular very rapidly in the United States.
B. It was Major Walter Wingfield who invented court tennis.
C. The sport was called "lawn tennis" shortly after it was invented.
D. Miss Outerbridge set up a lawn tennis court with the help of her brother.
第40题单选 根据以下材料，回答下面试题
Deep inside a mountain near Sweetwater in East Tennessee is a body of water known as the Lost Sea. It is listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world' s largest underground lake.
The Lost Sea is part. of an extensive and lustoric cave system called Craighead Caverns.
The cavems have been known and used since the days of the Cherokee Indian nation. The cave expands into a series of huge rooms from a small opening on the side of the mountain. Approximately one mile from the entrance, in a room called "The Council Room" ,many Indian artifacts have been found. Some of the items discovered include pottery, arrowheads, weapons, and jewelry.
For many years there were persistent rumors of a large underground lake somewhere in a cave,but it was not discovered until 1905. In that year, a thirteen-year-old boy named Ben Sands crawled through a small opening three hundred feet underground. He found himself in a large cave half filled with water.
Today tourists visit the Lost Sea and ride far out onto it in glass-bottomed boats powered by
electric motors. More than thirteen acres of water have been mapped out so far and still no end to the lake has been found. Even though teams of divers have tried to explore the Lost Sea, the full extent of it is still unknown.
第40题单选 The Lost Sea is unique because it is .
A. part of a historical cave system
B. the biggest underground_lake in the world
C.listed in the Guinness Book of World Records
D. the largest body of water in Tennessee
第41题单选 Who located the Lost Sea in recent times?
A. The Cherokee Indians.
B. Tourists.
C. Ben Sands.
D. Scientists.
第42题单选 What was found in "The Council Room"?
A. A small natural opening.
B. A large cave.
C. Another series of rooms.
D. Many old Indian objects.
第43题单选 1t can be inferred from the passage that the Craighead Cavers presenty serve as
A. an underground testing site
B. an Indian meeting ground
C. a tourist attraction
D. a motor boat race course
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