Tyrus Raymond Cobb was born in Narrows, Georgia in 1886. He grew up in Royston, Georgia with his parents, William and Amanda Cobb. Ty began playing baseball as a child and was a professional baseball player before the age of twenty. Cobb played mostly for the Detroit Tigers and served as their player manager from 1921~1926. He played baseball for a total of twenty-four years before retiring. Cobb won twelve American League batting titles and was known for his great speed and excellent batting skills. He used both of these as weapons on the baseball diamond. Cobb still holds the record as the all-time leading hitter in the major leagues, with a 367 lifetime batting average. His career total of 4 191 hits was the major league record until it was broken by Pete Rose in 1985.Ty Cobb was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936 and was one of the first five players to receive this award. Cobb died in Atlanta, Georgia on July 17, 1961 and will be remembered as the great "Georgia Peach". Ty Cobb is called "the Georgia Peach" because ()
A. he had won many awards
B. he played for the Atlanta Braves
C. Georgia was proud of him
D. he lived in Georgia most of his life
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For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words.In (36) a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend (37) can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are (38) readers.Most of us develop poor reading (39) at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency (40) in the actual stuff of language itself—words. Taken individually, words have (41) meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and para-graphs. (42) , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to (43) words or passages.Regression, the tendency to look back over (44) you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which (45) down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as (46) reads. To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an (47) , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate (48) the reader finds comfortable, in order to "stretch" him.The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, (49) word-by-word reading, regression and sub vocalization, practically impossible. At first (50) is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, (51) your comprehension will improve.Many people have found (52) reading skill drastically improved after some training. (53) Charlce Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute (54) the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can (55) a lot more reading material in a short period of time. (37) should choose ()
A. quickly
B. easily
C. roughly
D. decidedly
Can you believe it There’s a world paper shortage. There’s a national bottle shortage, and we’re running out of raw materials like timber and tin -- or so the papers say. Well, I’ve just emptied my shopping basket after my weekly shopping trip and it was full of things made from these scarce materials. Half of what I’d bought I threw away at once; all those unnecessary paper bags, plastic bags, fresh wrapping paper and old newspapers they put the food in nowadays.Modern packaging makes shopping cleaner and more convenient, but at what cost Every time you throw away a paper bag you’re throwing away part of a tree -- and trees don’t grow overnight! At this rate there soon won’t be any trees left, and then what shall we doPerhaps we’ll learn to do what my mother did. She used to keep a store of paper bags in a kitchen drawer and use them again and again for her shopping. Most goods were sold loose in those days. And the shopkeeper weighed out the amount you wanted. Of course, liquid goods have always been sold in bottles or cans, but why can’t we use these containers more than once If we re-use all our bottles we would save on the raw materials and energy needed to make new ones. At the moment 90% of our rubbish is just dumped. It’s time we started to think seriously about the growing shortage of raw materials in the world today. What does the author want us to do()
A. He asks for an awareness of the shortage of raw materials.
B. He wants us to use paper bags again and again.
C. He wants us to buy liquid goods.
D. He wants us to re-use all our bottles.
Tyrus Raymond Cobb was born in Narrows, Georgia in 1886. He grew up in Royston, Georgia with his parents, William and Amanda Cobb. Ty began playing baseball as a child and was a professional baseball player before the age of twenty. Cobb played mostly for the Detroit Tigers and served as their player manager from 1921~1926. He played baseball for a total of twenty-four years before retiring. Cobb won twelve American League batting titles and was known for his great speed and excellent batting skills. He used both of these as weapons on the baseball diamond. Cobb still holds the record as the all-time leading hitter in the major leagues, with a 367 lifetime batting average. His career total of 4 191 hits was the major league record until it was broken by Pete Rose in 1985.Ty Cobb was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936 and was one of the first five players to receive this award. Cobb died in Atlanta, Georgia on July 17, 1961 and will be remembered as the great "Georgia Peach". Ty Cobb’s interest in baseball began()
A. in Philadelphia.
B. when he lived in Detroit.
C. at the University of Georgia.
D. as a young boy.
For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words.In (36) a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend (37) can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are (38) readers.Most of us develop poor reading (39) at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency (40) in the actual stuff of language itself—words. Taken individually, words have (41) meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and para-graphs. (42) , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to (43) words or passages.Regression, the tendency to look back over (44) you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which (45) down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as (46) reads. To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an (47) , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate (48) the reader finds comfortable, in order to "stretch" him.The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, (49) word-by-word reading, regression and sub vocalization, practically impossible. At first (50) is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, (51) your comprehension will improve.Many people have found (52) reading skill drastically improved after some training. (53) Charlce Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute (54) the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can (55) a lot more reading material in a short period of time. (48) should choose ()
A. then
B. as
C. beyond
D. than