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PAGE 1 PAGE 1 2018-2019学年名校高一下期中汇编——六选四 1、新中高级中学 Directions: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable sentence from A-F for each blank. There are two extra sentences which you do not need. A. Unfortunately for both men, any profit went to pay for their lawyers’ fees. B. But Popov wasn’t happy. C. But who had caught it? D. Then Hayashi got it and held it in the air. E. The story surprised everyone who had been there. F. The story started when baseball champion, Barry Bonds, hit a baseball into the stands. Making baseball history This is the story of how a baseball came to be worth $1 million … and of how two men both felt that they owned the ball. When Alex Popov and Patrick Hayashi went to a baseball game, neither of them owned the ball. But when the match was over, both Popov and Hayashi were sure the ball was theirs. 66 At that moment, he had no idea he was starting one of the strangest legal battles in sporting history. Bonds, who was playing for the San Francisco Giants at the time, completed his seventy-third home run of the season, beating the existing record. As this record-breaking champion hit the ball towards the crowd, it instantly became worth a million dollars—and the fans knew it. The fight over who owned the ball began as soon as it was caught. 67 Either Alex Popov or Patrick Hayashi had caught it. But which one was it? They were both confident: both of them said they had caught the ball. The truth is, according to TV video recordings, Popov caught the ball first and it was in his hands for less than a second. It was then knocked out of his hands by other fans. 68 He was taken away by officials and they gave him a certificate saying it was his. At that point, the ball was worth $1 million if Hayashi wanted to sell it. However, Popov claimed that the ball was his, because he had got it first, and he took Hayashi to court. First, history was made with a record-breaking home run. Then, legal histor