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To China,Yao is a home-grown superstar who helped make the world’s first basketbll league（联赛） closer to Chinese players.To the NBA,the 2.23 meter center offers an opening of a different sort into the world’s largest new market.Yao’s NBA first appearance against the Indiana Pacers in October reached 287 million families in US.That game might have been a bit of letdown to Yao’s fans:He played just 11 of the 48 minutes,had two rebounds(篮板球) got no points,Comparing that will his performance on December 19,also against Indiana,Yao won 29 point’s and 10,rebounds. “This is one of the most exciting games I’ve had,” Yao said after Houston’s 95-83 victory(胜利). The NBA has to be excited about his on-count success.In all his games,he’s averaging 12.7 points and 7.7 rebounds,quite good for a new star. “Yao Ming has brought the NBA closer to the Chinese,”said NBA spokeswoman Cheong San Ching, “That makes the dream seem practical for other people in China and proud to be Chinese.”
Yao is not the country’s first player in the NBA:Wang Zhizhi broke down the Dallas Mavericks in November 2003.But Yao’s combination,of modesty and skills make him a favourite back home.
33.What’s the direct reason for Xing Tao to join this school basket team?
A.He watched an NBA gave B.He liked baskedball
C.He hoped to play for NBA D.He had a dream that he would become a basketball star.
34.How many points did Yao Ming win in his first game in NBA?
A.0 B.2 C.29 D.10
35. What does the word “letdown”in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.failure B.surprise C.disappointment D.sadness
36.What’s the main idea of this passage?
A.Middle school students want to play basketball .
B.Yao Ming makes NBA closer to China.
C.There’ll be no Americans left in the NBA
D.There are many new stars from China in the NBA.
(C)
Ballooning:Transportion of Competition?
From earliest times human beings have looked to the sky and wished to soar through it like the birds,Pioneer airmen Wilbur and Orville Wright launched the modern Aviation Age with their motor-powered plane in 1903,but some 140 years earlier daredevils(铤而走险的人) had begun leaving the earth by ballon（气球）,in a different way of flying that still continues today.
The first manned balloon took to the sky in France in 1783 after its inventors had safely tested their device(装置) with a sheep,a rooster and a duck as passengers.Though that hot-air-filled ballon remained high up in the air for only 20 minutes and traveled only five miles,within two years ballonists had traversed (横越；横跨)the 30-mile-wide English Channel .In 1793 the first balloon went up in America,a hydrogen-filled (充满氢气的)device whose take-off was observed by George Washington himself.
Once airplanes had replaced balloons as the principal(主要的) means of air transportation,balloonists concentrated on setting height,distance and duration(持续) records.In the 1970s and 1980s sereral transoceanic(横越海洋的)records were set and broken.These achievements were make possible because of new techniques for keeping balloons---now generally helium(氦)-filled-at steady temperatures.
But flying around the globe remained the final,most difficult target until March 1999.After a 19-day flight,Bertrand Piecard of Switzerland and Brian Jones of England landed in Egypt,having flown 29,056 miles to circle the globe.At times they flew at more than 36,000 feet and over 114 miles per hour.
37.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A.People began flying in balloon in 1783.
B.Hunman beings have always had the desire to fly.
C.Once a method for transportation,ballooning is now mainly a sport
D.New technique made it possible for balloons to go higher and farther.
38.The purpose of this passage is maily to provide____________.
A.a comparision between airplanes and balloons
B.information about the life of Steve Fossert
C.a short history of ballooning
D.a list of ballooning records
39.The first manned ballon flight was_____________.
A.in Amerca B.over a field in France
C.over the English Channel D.across the Atlantic