1. Who might the speaker be?
| A．A coach. | B．A referee. | C．A player. |
| A．They are two goals down. |
| B．They have got more yellow cards. |
| C．They are the home team. |
| A．He is too tired. | B．He is injured. | C．He has retired. |
| A．The event continues. | B．The coach complains. | C．The referee cheers. |
Everyone wants a blue ribbon (丝带). Blue. First place. The best. In sports,1 was never a blue-ribbon girl. In a race, I was always last. In baseballl was as likely to get hit on the head as to drop the ball. Where I got my horrible sports ability, I don't know.
During the spring of my kindergarten year, our class had a field trip to a park. Looking back now, I don't remember much of that day. I'm sure we ate our sack lunches and played on the swings typical 6-year-old stuff. Then it was time for the races.
These were no ordinary races. Some parents had come up with the idea to have the picnic kind of races, like passing the potato under your neck and holding an egg on a spoon while you run to the other side. I don't remember too much about these, but there was one race that will forever be lodged (牢记) in my memory - the three-legged race.
The parents decided not to use potato sacks for this particular race. Instead, they tied our feet together. One lucky little boy got me for a partner. This little boy was the second most athletic boy in our class. I'm sure he knew he was in trouble the second they laced his foot to mine. As for me, I was embarrassed. This guy was a winner. He almost always won, and I knew that, with me, he didn't have a chance.
He laced his arm with mine, the gun sounded, and we were off to the other side. Couples were falling and stumbling (绊脚) all around us, but we stayed on our feet and made it to the other side. Unbelievably, when we turned around and headed back for home, we were in the lead! Only one other couple even had a chance, and they were a good several yards behind us.
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Then only feet from the finish line, disaster struck.
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After the race, we were awarded a red ribbon instead of the blue one.
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3 . To discuss bow to improve the game of football, President Roosevelt called coaches and athletic advisers from Yale University, Princeton University and Harvard University to White House.
The changes caused by the President were the first steps in a long line of reforms to make American football safer.
At that time, football was very dangerous and violent. In 1904 alone, at least 18 people died and more than 150 were injured because of playing football. According to The Washington Post, at least 45 football players died from 1900 to October 1905.
Roosevelt liked football and thought being violent wasn't necessarily a bad thing. But his son was injured while playing as a freshman at Harvard, bleeding badly from a cut over his eye, and the nation was shocked at the number of young men who died or were seriously injured in playing the game. People were especially shaken by the death of Union College player Harold Moore, who died after being kicked on the head.
A movement rose up to ban the sport, which was led by the president of Harvard and a number of other well-known people. They thought football had no place in civilized society and wanted to throw it away. Roosevelt wanted to reform the game and complained in a letter that Eliot wanted to kill it.
Roosevelt again called Harvard, Yale and other football coaches and officials to the White House with a view to a taking away its dangerous features. A committee was formed after the 1905 season to look at changing the rules.
The rules were changed for the 1906 season, but there were still some doubts. The head coach at Swarthmore College wrote a series of articles called How to Play Football. And it took several years for the rules to be accepted.
1. How does the author show the violence of football?| A．By providing some data. | B．By making comparisons. |
| C．By telling personal experiences | D．By showing research findings. |
| A．He hoped it would disappear from the world. |
| B．He took pleasure in it although it was violent. |
| C．He thought football was a bad and violent sport. |
| D．He didn't like it at all because of his son's injury. |
| A．Because of the support from athletes. | B．Because of Harold Moore's death. |
| C．Because of the public's angry feelings. | D．Because of the anti-football movement. |
| A．Players were required to wear helmets. | B．People accepted them slowly. |
| C．Elite played an important role in making them. | D．Players found football was much easier to play. |
