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Question III: Read the passage and choose the best answers to questions below.(10 pts)
MICKEY MANTLE
Mickey Mantle was one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He played
for the New York Yankees in their years of glory. From the time Mantle began
to play professionally in 1951 to his last year in 1968, baseball was the most
popular game in the United States. For many people, Mantle symbolized the
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hope, prosperity, and confidence of America at that time.
Mantle was a fast and powerful player, a “switch-hitter” who could bat both
right-handed and left-handed. He won game after game, one Would Series
championship after another, for his team. He was a wonderful athlete, but this
alone cannot explain America’s fascination with him.
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Perhaps it was because he was a handsome, red-haired country boy, the son of
a poor miner from Oklahoma. His career, from the lead mines of the West to
the heights of success and fame, was a fairy-tale version of the American
dream. Or perhaps it was because America always loves a “natural”, a person
who wins without seeming to try, whose talent appears to come from an inner
grace. That was Mickey Mantle.
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But like many celebrities, Mickey Mantle had a private life that was full of
problems. He played without complaint despite constant pain from injuries. He
lived to fulfill his father’s dreams and drank to forget his father’s early death.
It was a terrible addiction that finally destroyed his body. It gave him cirrhosis
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of the liver and accelerated the advance of liver cancer. Even when Mickey
Mantle had turned away from his old life and warned young people not to
follow his example, the destructive process could not be stopped recovery,
Mickey Mantle died of cancer at the age of 63.
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