单选题 "It"s such a simple thing," said John Spitzer, managing director of equipment standards for the United States Golf Association. "I"m amazed that so many people spend so much time and energy on trying to change it." The simple thing to which he refers is the humble golf tee, a peg made of wood that most of us grab by the handful or buy for a few pennies each, stick in our pockets, and don"t give a second thought to.
The road to the tee began with a Boston-area dentist named George F. Grant, who received a patent in 1899 for "an Improvement in Golf-Tees." Grant"s tees consisted of a small piece of rubber tubing attached to a tapered wooden peg to be pushed into the ground. The rubber held the ball, and yielded when the club contacted it. He had them produced by a nearby manufacturing concern and gave them out to his friends but never tried to sell or market them.
That fell to William Lowell—another tooth doctor, coincidentally—who created the Reddy Tee in 1921. It was a one-piece implement of solid wood, painted red at the top so it could be easily found and cleverly named. He paid Walter Hagen and trick-shot artist Joe Kirkwood to endorse and use the device, and it was a commercial success, with more than $100,000 in sales by the time it was patented in 1925.
The introduction of the oversize metal driver in the 1980s led most golfers to adopt longer tees to go along with the larger and higher sweet spot of those clubs. The USGA has banned tees longer than 4 inches, a height that is well past the point of diminishing returns. Even back in the 1960s, Jack Nicklaus understood the value of teeing the ball high, which he explained by saying, "Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt."
Golfers who have fairly steep swings (like me) break a lot of tees. We can only envy the legendary Canadian pro Moe Norman, who could play for weeks with a single tee. When his playing partners asked him how he managed to stripe his drives without dislodging the peg, he answered, "I"m trying to hit the ball, not the tee." So are we all, Moe. So are we all.

单选题 The sentence "most of us...a second thought to" in the first paragraph explains that the tee is ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 推断题
the first paragraph, explains, tee
根据题干关键词定位到第一段。引句意为“对于这种东西，我们大多数人都是一把一把地抓，或者花几美分买一只，然后把它们塞进口袋里，不会为它们多费心思”，引号前面提到The simple thing to which he refers is the humble golf tee，所以所选的词应该与文中的simple和humble意思相近，故C项“给人印象不深的，不惹人注意的”为正确答案。A项“便携式的”，B项“便宜的”，D项“容易抓的”，均与题意不符。

单选题 According to Paragraph 2, a small piece of robber tubing ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题
Paragraph 2, a small piece of rubber tubing
根据题干关键词定位到第二段。本段倒数第二句提到The rubber held the ball(橡胶管将球托住)，A项中的support与句中的held属于同义替换，故A项“可以支撑球”为正确答案。倒数第二句提到“球杆一触碰到它(橡胶管)，它(橡胶管)就会倒下”，B项的must太过绝对，因为球杆如果没有触碰到橡胶管，它可能不会倒下；D项中的broken与文中的yielded“倒下”意思不符，也排除。根据文中的peg to be pushed into the ground可知，push的宾语是peg“木钉”，故不选C项“将被按进泥土中”。

单选题 According to Paragraph 3, which of the following is NOT true of the Reddy Tee?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题
Paragraph 3, NOT true, Reddy Tee
根据题干关键词定位到第三段。第三段末句指出“洛厄尔花钱请沃尔特·哈根和高尔夫特技表演大师乔·柯克伍德宣传和使用该器械”，故B项“沃尔特·哈根和乔·柯克伍德买了这个专利”不符合文意，为本题的正确答案。根据第三段第二句“这是件由实木制成的一体式器械，顶部漆成了红色，这样就可以轻松找到它，而且与它的名字正好相称”可知，A项符合文意。第三段句首的tooth doctor，created与C项的dentist，invented属于同义替换；且根据第二段结尾的never tried to sell or market them和第三段首句的That fell to...进一步判断C项符合文意。文中指出发明时间为1921年，获得专利时间为1925年，所以D项符合文意，但不选。

单选题 Jack Nicklaus believes that golfers get longer tees to elevate the ball because ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题
Jack Nicklaus, longer tees, because
根据题干关键词定位到第四段。题干中的because问原因，在文中找到关键词explain“解释”，解释的内容是“在多年的经验中，我发现空气产生的阻力要比泥土小”，故D 项“更高的击球点有助于高尔夫球手把球击得更远”是该句的同义替换，为本题的正确答案。A项“更长的球钉与更长的高尔夫球杆相配”并不是原文杰克·尼克劳斯的观点，B项“球在泥土中比在空气中更容易脏”是对该段末句的曲解，C项“高度远远超过回报递减点”是USGA禁止的高度，并不是题干的原因，故三项均排除。

单选题 We may learn from the last sentence that the author ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 推断题
last sentence, author
根据题干关键词定位到第五段最后一句。前一句讲他的球伴向他询问他是如何做到挥杆时不会把球钉打偏，他的回答是：“我会尽量去击球，而不是去击打球钉。”说明作者可能也像默伊说的那样做了，但是击球技术不及默伊，所以还是打坏很多球钉，故A项“已经像默伊那样做了但还是失败了”为正确答案。B项“一件球钉也可以用几个星期”说的是默伊，并不是作者；C项“认为默伊并没有告诉他的球伴真相”和D项“认为默伊没有理解他的球伴问的问题”属于过度推断，从原文中并不能得出该结论。