完形填空阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中, 选出最佳选项. Schools may be frightening to young children. They are __1__ in their school. Before that they stayed at home. At home children may have been able to do __2__ they wanted to do at any time. But in schools they are __3__ time for talking, working, playing and eating. At home children are scolded in private(私下责备), but in schools children will be scolded in front of their __4__. "Bob,"the teacher may say, "__5__ didn't you do your yesterday's homework "Or,"David, why are you the only one who can't work quietly at your __6__ "In schools the child may not be noticed very much by the teacher or the teacher is too busy to __7__ him or her. But at home the parents will treat(对待) their son or daughter __8__. For these and other reasons, it is not __9__ that children may not like to stay at school. Though it is much __10__ in schools, the children can learn a lot. They can't learn so much out of school.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

(完形填空)

　　A famous philosopher(哲学家) once wrote,“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn base-ball.” Many people believe that Abner Dou-bleday 1 ndline　 baseball. They say that in 1839, in Cooperstown, NY, Doubleday organize(组织)the first game of baseball ever 2 ndline. Cooperstown is now the 3 ndline　 of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Others believe that baseball 4 ndline　 from an English game called rounders. As early as the 1600s, people were playing rounders. People playing rounders first hit a ball with a bat and then ran 5 ndline　 bases. It looked like baseball, 6 ndline　 there were some differences. The main difference was the way 7 ndline　 fielders(外野手)got run-ners out. In rounders, the fielder threw the ball at the runner. If the ball 8 ndline　 the runner while he was running around the bases, the 9 ndline　 was out.

　　Gradually(逐渐地), Americans changed rounders to make it baseball. The big 10 ndline　 came when the fielder stopped 11 ndline　 　the ball at the runner. Instead， the fielder tagged(追上)the runner, just as fielders 12 ndline　 today.

　　In 1845, a sportsman called Alexander Cartwright wrote a set of baseball rules 13 ndline　 the clubs. Many of these rules are still used.

　　With the 14 of the modem equip-ment(设备), baseball has become more and more15 ndline.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

(11)

(12)

(13)

(14)

(15)