Practice Drawing Conclusion(Level C-2) Class____Number____Name______
(1)Many people in the United States are sports fans. They like sports. Football is the sport most people like. The second most popular sport is baseball. The third favorite sport is fishing. There is one interesting thing about fishing. Fishing fans actually fish.
From this story you can tell that most Americans ______.
(A)play baseball and football (B))watch fishing contests (C)watch football or baseball games (D)eat fish
(2)John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were alike in many ways. Both men helped found the United States. Both served as president. Both men also died on the same day. Jefferson died the morning of July 4, 1826. Adams died later that day. When Adams died, his last words were, “Thomas Jefferson still survives.”
The story suggests that Adams ______.
(A)was a better president than Jefferson (B)did not know Jefferson had died (C)was older than Jefferson (D)did not like Jefferson
(3)Are you familiar with the belief about broken mirrors(鏡子)? If you break one, you are supposed to have seven years of bad luck or ill health. This belief is about tow thousand years old. The early Romans were the first to have this notion. They thought that a person’s health changed in cycles of seven years. They believed that mirrors reflected one’s health. So to break a mirror was to break one’s health.
The story does not tell ______.
(A)what is supposed to happen if you break a mirror (B)how old this notion is
(C)what the Romans thought about the cycles of health (D)what might happen if you fix a broken mirror
(4)Today many people shake hands when they meet. But the handshake was not always a sign of friendship. Long ago when a man met a stranger, he would reach for his knife. The stranger would do the same. Then the men would slowly circle each other. Certain that no danger was present, they would shake with their weapon(武器) hands. The handshake served as a sign of good will. The handshake served as a sign of goodwill.
The story suggests that the handshake was ______.
(A)once used by the police (B)not always a friendly action
(C)part of a funny dance (D)not a sign of goodwill
(5)Jesus, Matty, and Felipe Alou were brothers. They all liked baseball and played in the outfield(外野). In 1965 the Alou brothers made baseball history. That year all three played for the San Francisco Giants. The three made up baseball’s first all-brother outfield.
From this story you cannot tell ______.
(A)which outfield position each Alou brother played (B)on which team that Alou brothers played (C)which year the Alou brothers made baseball history (D)if the Alou brothers liked to play baseball