Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.Mickey Mantle was one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He played for the New York Yankees in their years of glory. From the time Mantle began to play professionally in 1951 to his last year in 1968, baseball was the most popular game in the United States. For many people, Mantle symbolized the hope, prosperity, and confidence of America at that...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Mickey Mantle was one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He played for the New York Yankees in their years of glory. From the time Mantle began to play professionally in 1951 to his last year in 1968, baseball was the most popular game in the United States. For many people, Mantle symbolized the hope, prosperity, and confidence of America at that time.
Mantle was a fast and powerful player, a “switch-hitter” who could bat both right-handed and lefthanded. He won game after game, one World Series championship after another, for his team. He was a wonderful athlete, but this alone cannot explain America’s fascination with him.
Perhaps it was because he was a handsome, red-haired country boy, the son of a poor miner from Oklahoma. His career, from the lead mines of the West to the heights of success and fame, was a fairy-tale version of the American dream. Or perhaps it was because America always loves a “natural”: a person who wins without seeming to try, whose talent appears to come from an inner grace. That was Mickey Mantle.
But like many celebrities, Mickey Mantle had a private life that was full of problems. He played without complaint despite constant pain from injuries. He lived to fulfill his father’s dreams and drank to forget his father’s early death.
It was a terrible addiction that finally destroyed his body. It gave him cirrhosis of the liver and accelerated the advance of liver cancer. Even when Mickey Mantle had turned away from his old life and warned young people not to follow his example, the destructive process could not be stopped. Despite a liver transplant operation that had all those who loved and admired him hoping for a recovery, Mickey Mantle died of cancer at the age of 63.
What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Mickey Mantle’s success and private life full of problems
B. Mickey Mantle as the greatest baseball player of all time
C. Mickey Mantle and the history of baseball
D. Mickey Mantle and his career as a baseball player
Ex 5: Read the passage and fill in each gap with one word below
Pablo Picasso ( 1881- 1973 )
No other artist is more associated with the term Modern Art than Pablo Picasso. He created .....thousands ...(1)......... of paintings, prints, sculptures and ceremics during a time span .........(2).....of...... about 75 years. Picasso is considered one .......(3).....greatest..... art geniuses of the twentieth century.
Picasso was born .....(4)..on.. October 25, 1881 ......(5).in..... Malaga, Spain, as the son of an art and drawing teacher. He was a brilliant student. He .....passed..(6)........ the entrance examination for the Barcelona school of Fine Arts ....at.(7)...... the age of 14 in just one day and was allowed ......(8)..to skip...... the first two classes. According to one of many legends about the .....(9)..artist's..... life, his father, recognizing the extraordinary talent of his son, .....gave....(10)........ him his brushes and palette and vowed to paint never again
Ex 5: Read the passage and fill in each gap with one word below
Pablo Picasso ( 1881- 1973 )
No other artist is more associated with the term Modern Art than Pablo Picasso. He created ........(1)......... of paintings, prints, sculptures and ceremics during a time span .........(2)........... about 75 years. Picasso is considered one .......(3).......... art geniuses of the twentieth century.
Picasso was born .....(4).... October 25, 1881 ......(5)...... Malaga, Spain, as the son of an art and drawing teacher. He was a brilliant student. He .......(6)........ the entrance examination for the Barcelona school of Fine Arts .....(7)...... the age of 14 in just one day and was allowed ......(8)........ the first two classes. According to one of many legends about the .....(9)....... life, his father, recognizing the extraordinary talent of his son, .........(10)........ him his brushes and palette and vowed to paint never again
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3. a. the greatest
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6. a. failed
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8. a. to skip
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9. a. artist
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10. a. giving
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