2015年6月英语四级阅读理解练习及解析.pdfVIP

2015 年 6 月英语四级阅读理解练习及解析 1 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 menin funny tight outfits standing around in a field staring away while very little of anything happens. 』① 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 gamefrom 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 bring 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