Take, for example, the third baseman. You sit behind the third base dugout and you watch him watching home plate. His legs are apart, knees flexed. His arms hang loose. He does a lot of this. The skeptic still cannot think of any other sports so still, so passive. But watch what happens every time the pitcher throws: the third baseman goes up on his toes, flexes his arms or brings the glove to a point in front of him, takes a step right or left, backward or forward, perhaps he glances across the field to check his first baseman’s position. Suppose the pitch is a ball. “Nothing happened,” you say. “I could have had my eyes closed.”

The skeptic and the innocent must play the game. And this involvement in the stands is no more intellectual than listening to music is. Watch the third baseman. Smooth the dirt in front of you with one foot; smooth the pocket in your glove; watch the eyes of the batter, the speed of the bat, the sound of horsehide on wood. If football is a symphony of movement and theatre, baseball is chamber music, a spacious interlocking of notes, chorus and responses.

62.The passage is mainly concerned with .
［A］the different tastes of people for sports
［B］the different characteristics of sports
［C］the attraction of football
［D］the attraction of baseball

63.Those who don’t like baseball may complain that.
［A］it is only to the taste of the old
［B］it involves fewer players than football
［C］it is not exciting enough
［D］it is pretentious and looks funny

64.The author admits that.
［A］baseball is too peaceful for the young
［B］baseball may seem boring when watched on TV
［C］football is more attracting than baseball
［D］baseball is more interesting than football

65.By stating “I could have had my eyes closed.” the author means (4th paragraph last sentence).
［A］the third baseman would rather sleep than play the game
［B］even if the third baseman closed his eyes a moment ago, it could make no difference to the result
［C］the third baseman is so good at baseball that he could finish the game with eyes closed all the time and do his work well
［D］the consequence was so bad that he could not bear to see it

66.We can safely conclude that the author.
［A］likes football［B］hates football
［C］hates baseball［D］likes baseball

Part Ⅴ Cloze (15 minutes)

Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked ［A］, ［B］, ［C］and ［D］on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

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