501 Critical Reading Questions
b. Alice Marble believed that talent should decide who can be a champion, not race (choice b
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501 Critical Reading Questions
b. Alice Marble believed that talent should decide who can be a
champion, not race (choice b). Nowhere in her comments did Alice Marble say baseball, football, and boxing are more enter- taining than tennis (choice a), or that there were undeserving 501 Critical Reading Questions players in the U.S. Nationals (choice c). Nor did she propose that the USLTA make the tournament open to anybody (choice d). 429. d. Althea’s friend probably suggested that Althea try lawn tennis because she was a champion paddle tennis player and enjoyed the sport very much (lines 16–17). The other choices either don’t make sense or are not supported by facts from the passage. 430. e. In lines 71–75, the passage states that Althea won a total of eleven Grand Slam titles in her career. However, nowhere in the passage does it state that those eleven titles were a record number for a female. 431. e. The answer is found in line 58 of the passage. Chick Gandil first approached the gambler with his scheme, and then recruited the seven other players. 432. b. Parsimonious is a word used to describe someone who is frugal to the point of stinginess. Comiskey’s pay cuts (line 27), bonus of cheap champagne (lines 32–33), refusal to launder uniforms (lines 33–34), and his benching of Eddie Ciccotte (lines 42–44) are all clues that should help you deduce the answer from the given choices. 433. b. Answering this question involves a bit of deductive reasoning. Though the actual name of the ballpark is never given in the passage, lines 20–21 state that the 1917 White Sox won the World Series playing in a park named for their owner. 434. a. As it is used in line 54, thrown means to have lost intentionally. The answer to this question is found in lines 59–60. For $100,000 Chick Gandil would make sure the Sox lost the Series. 435. c. Lines 14–16 state between the years of 1900 and 1915 the White Sox had won the World Series only once, and then line 21 tells us they won it again in 1917. Be careful not to mistakenly select choice d, three; the question asks for the number of World Series the Sox won, not the number of Series played. 436. d. In lines 42–44 the author states that after Ciccotte won his twenty- ninth game he was benched by Comiskey for the rest of the season. Choice d asks for the number of games he pitched. It is stated that he pitched and won twenty-nine games in 1919, but the passage doesn’t mention the number of games he pitched in which he lost, so you can’t know for sure. 437. b. Ignominious is a word used to describe something marked with shame or disgrace, something dishonorable. The ignominious label referred to in lines 71–72 is Black Sox—the nickname the Chicago press took to calling the scandalized and disgraced White Sox team. 2 4 0 501 Download 0.98 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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