Amanda Clement grew up in Hudson.South Dakota．Baseball was always her fa- vorite

Amanda Clement grew up in Hudson，South Dakota．Baseball was always her fa—

vorite sport．Once in a while her brother Hank and his friendswould let her play first

base in their games．More often，however，they asked her to umpire(裁判)for them，

because they knew her calls would be fairand there would be no arguing．

One day in 1904，Amanda and her mother traveledto Hawarden，Iowa，to watch

Hank play for the home team againstHawarden．When theyarrived at the ball field，

two local teams were waiting to play apreliminary(预备)game．The umpire hadn’t ar—

rived，so Hank argued that the teams should let his sister serve as umpire．The players

finally agreed．

Amanda，then sixteen and standing five feet，ten inches tall，made perfect calls．

She was so good that players for the maingame asked her 10 umpire for them and even

offered to pay her．Thus，at sixteen，Amanda Clement became the firstpaid female

baseball umpire on record．She is honored in the BaseballHall of Fame in Cooperstown，

New York．

61．Hank and his friends often asked Amanda to umpire for thembecause      

　A．they wanted to make her happy

　B．she called them brothers

　 C．no one else wanted to do it forthem

　 D．she knew the rules well and wasfair

62．Amanda went to Hawarden in orderto      

A．serve as umpire

C．make money

B．watch her brother play

D．help the local teams

63．Amanda most probably learned how to umpire a baseballgame       .

　A．in her P．E．classes at school    B．in an umpire training school

　 C．by watching and playing thegames D．from hermother，a baseballumpire

64．Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

　 A．Amanda Clement．First Female Umpire

　 B．A Family of Baseball Fans

　 C．Baseball Games in Hawarden，Iowa

　 D．The Baseball Hall of Fame inCooperstown

试题答案

【答案】

 D

 B

 C

 A

【解析】略