“Some day, there’ll be no Americans left in the NBA,” said 12-year-old Xing Tao, who joined his school team two weeks ago after watching Yao Ming in a televised NBA game, “The players will all be Chinese, like Yao.”
To China, Yao is a home-grown superstar who helped make the world’s first basketball league 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 the US. That game might have been a bit of a letdown to Yao’s fans: He played just 11 of the 48 minutes, had two rebounds(籃板) and got no points. Comparing that with his performance on December 19, also against Indiana, Yao won 29 points and 10 rebounds. “This was one of the most exciting games I’ve had,” Yao said after Houston’s 95-83 victory. 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 Sau Ching, “That makes the dream seem practical for other people in China and proud to be Chinese.”
The 22-year-old 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 favorite back home.
小題1:What’s the direct reason for Xing Tao to join the school basketball team?
A. He watched an NBA game
B. He liked basketball.
C. He hoped to play for the NBA.
D. He had dream that he would become a basketball star.
小題2:How many points did Yao Ming win in his first game in the NBA?
A．zeroB．twoC．29D．10
小題3:What does the word “l(fā)etdown” in line 4, Paragraph 2 mean?
A．failureB．surpriseC．disappointment D．sadness.
小題4:Why does Yao Ming win more popularity than Wang Zhizhi at home?
A．He is modest and performs excellently.
B．He is too kind to others.
C．More and more Chinese people like to watch his games.
D．He is very modest but proud.
小題5: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.
   
小題1:A
小題2:A
小題3:C
小題4:A
小題5:B

試題分析：本文敘述了中國的運(yùn)動(dòng)員加入了NBA使中國人的名氣加大了，文中敘述了人們熟知的姚明在參加第一次比賽時(shí)，他只搶了兩個(gè)籃板，但是沒有得分曾經(jīng)讓粉絲很失望，可后來憑借姚明的謙遜和他的技能使他在中國人中家喻戶曉。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)after watching Yao Ming in a televised NBA game，他在看了NBA后加入了學(xué)�；@球隊(duì)，故選A。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Yao’s NBA first appearance against the Indiana Pacers in October reached 287 million families in the US. That game might have been a bit of a letdown to Yao’s fans: He played just 11 of the 48 minutes, had two rebounds(籃板) and got no points. 他沒有得分，故選A。
小題3:詞義猜測題。根據(jù)He played just 11 of the 48 minutes, had two rebounds(籃板) and got no points. 因?yàn)樗麤]有得分人們對(duì)他有點(diǎn)失望，故選C。
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Yao’s combination of modesty and skills make him a favorite back home.是他的謙遜和技能使人們更喜歡他，故選A。
小題5:主旨大意題。根據(jù)To China, Yao is a home-grown superstar who helped make the world’s first basketball league closer to Chinese players.姚明使NBA與中國的關(guān)系更親密，故選B。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：主旨大意題，就是指那些針對(duì)文章的主要內(nèi)容、主題、標(biāo)題或?qū)懽髂康乃O(shè)置的問題。這類題主要考查同學(xué)們在理解全文的基礎(chǔ)上運(yùn)用概括、判斷、歸納、推理等邏輯思維方法對(duì)文章進(jìn)行高度概括或總結(jié)的能力。
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