Bernice Gallego sat down one day this summer, as she does pretty much every day,

Bernice Gallego sat down one day this summer, asshe does pretty much every day,and began listing items on eBay. She dug into abox and pulled out a baseball card. She stopped for a moment and admired thepicture. “Red Stocking B. B. Club of Cincinnatti,” the card read, under thereddish brown color photo of ten men with their socks pulled up to their knees.

As a collector and seller, it’s her job to spotold items that might have value today. It’s what Bernice,72, and her husband,Al Gallego, 80, have been doing since 1974 at their California antique store.

This card, she figured, was worth selling oneBay. She took a picture, wrote a description and put it up for auction.She puta $10 price tag on it, deciding against $15 because it would have cost her anextra 20 cents. Later that night she got a few odd inquiries---someone wantingto know whether the card was real, someone wanting her to end the caution andsell him the card immediately.

The card is actually 139 years old. Sports cardcollectors call the find “extremely rare” and estimate the card could fetchfive, or perhaps, six figures at caution.

Just like that, Bernice is the least likelycharacter ever for a rare-baseball card story. “I didn’t even know baseballexisted that far back,” Gallego says, “I don’t think that I’ve ever been to abaseball game.” The theory is that the card came out of a storage space theybought a few years back. It is not uncommon in their line of work to buy theentire contents of storage units for around $200.

When she met with card trader Rick Mirigian, shefound out what the card was-----an 1869 advertisement with a picture of thefirst professional baseball team, the Cincinnatti Red Stocking.

“When I came to meet her and she took it out ofa sandwich bag and she was smoking a cigarette, I almost fainted,” Mirigiansays. “ They’ve uncovered a piece of history that few people will ever be ableto imagine. That card is history. It’s like unearthing a Mona Lisa or aPicasso.”

67. 1.What can we conclude from paragraph 3?

   A.Bernice had to pay some fees forher card on eBay.

   B.Bernice wanted to end the cautionthat night.

   C.Bernice decided to sell the cardfor $15.

   D.eBay charged her 20 cents for thecard.

68. 2.The underlined word “fetch” in paragraph 4most probably means “_______”.

   A. go and bring   B. addup to   C. go down to   D. be sold for

69. 3.From the passage we may learn that_______.

   A. Bernice is a baseball fan

   B. Bernice is the last person topurchase the rare-baseball card

   C. Bernice unexpectedly became theowner of the rare-baseball card

D. Bernice didn’trealize the value of the card until she put it up for auction

70. 4.What would be the best title for thepassage?

A.A Surprisingly Valuable Discovery

B.The History of the Baseball Card

C.Bernice Gallego---A lucky collector 

D. Sports Card Collectors

试题答案

【答案】

1.A

2.D

3.C

4.A

【解析】略