Amanda Clement grew up in Hudson，South Dakota．Baseball was always her favorite sport．Once in a while her brother Hank and his friends would let her play first base in their games．More often，however，they asked her to umpire(裁判) for them，because they knew her calls would be fair and there would be no arguing．
One day in 1904，Amanda and her mother traveled to Hawarden，Iowa，to watch Hank play for the home team against Hawarden．When they arrived at the ball field，two local teams were waiting to play a preliminary(预备) game．The umpire hadn’t arrived，so Hank argued that the teams should let his sister serve as umpire．The players finally agreed．
Amanda，then sixteen and standing five feet，ten inches tall，made perfect calls．She was so good that players for the main game asked her 10 umpire for them and even offered to pay her．Thus，at sixteen，Amanda Clement became the first paid female baseball umpire on record．She is honored in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown，New York．
【小题1】Hank and his friends often asked Amanda to umpire for them because A．they wanted to make her happyB．she called them brothersC．no one else wanted to do it for themD．she knew the rules well and was fair【小题2】Amanda went to Hawarden in order to A．serve as umpireB．make moneyC．watch her brother playD．help the local teams【小题3】Amanda most probably learned how to umpire a baseball game A．in her P．E．classes at schoolB．in an umpire training schoolC．by watching and playing the gamesD．from her mother，a baseball umpire【小题4】Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?A．Amanda Clement．First Female UmpireB．A Family of Baseball FansC．Baseball Games in Hawarden，IowaD．The Baseball Hall of Fame in CooperstownD
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(答案→)D
解析：本文叙述了Amanda最喜欢体育运动，她的哥哥和朋友经常邀请她去当棒球裁判，她熟悉比赛规则并且她是公平的，她通过经常观看比赛和参加比赛而获得的对棒球运动的了解。她成了第一个女棒球裁判。
【小题1】细节理解题。根据More often，however，they asked her to umpire(裁判) for them，because they knew her calls would be fair and there would be no arguing．她了解规则并且是公平的，故选D。
【小题2】细节理解题。根据Amanda and her mother traveled to Hawarden，Iowa，to watch Hank play for the home team against Hawarden．故选C。
【小题3】细节理解题。根据Once in a while her brother Hank and his friends would let her play first base in their games．和Amanda and her mother traveled to Hawarden，Iowa，to watch Hank play for the home team against Hawarden．Amanda通过观看和打球来学会当裁判，故选C。
【小题4】标题归纳题。根据at sixteen，Amanda Clement became the first paid female baseball umpire on record．故选A。