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培优训练题 薛维中 2012.3.16 （一） 一、缺词填空（共10空；每空1分，计10分）Baseball is one of the favorite s__1____ in the USA. Children play baseball in sports fields or in parks. 　　At summer picnics, there is often an informal baseball g__2____. Boys and girls, young and old take turns to bat(用棒击球. Each team has nine p__3______. 　　The baseball season goes from A_4___ to September. D___5____ this time, baseball matches are shown on TV and members of the important baseball teams become Americas h__6______.Many people admire them. At the end of season the two top teams play against each other. Many baseball fans go along to watch the game. Millions of others listen to the r _7___ and watch television. People seem to talk only about the result and the players. 　　American football is perhaps the most popular sport in the USA. The football season b____8___ when the baseball season ends. More people are i__9____ in football than baseball when there is an important game, thousands of people sit beside the radio or in front of the television set to hear the r___10____.　 We can’t stop an earthquake(地震), but we can do things to make sure they don’t destroy(毁坏) whole cities. First, it is not a g.____1____ idea to build houses along lines where t ____2____ of the earth’s plates(板块) join together. Second, if you think there m ____3____ be an earthquake, it is better to build houses on rocks , not on s____4____. Third, you must make the houses as s _____5___ as possible. Weak buildings will fall down in an earthquake, but strong ones may s. ____6____ up . . Scientists are a _____7___ that one day an even bigger earthquake will hit the part around San Francisco(旧金山) . They call it “ The Big One ”. However, people today are still building more h ____8____ . The population in and around San Francisco is n____9____ ten times more than it was in 1906. This means that i ___10_____ there is another earthquake, a great many houses and b