2．When Sally Ride was ten years old，she had no idea that she would someday grow up to be one of America's first women astronauts．In fact，if you had asked her then what she wanted to be，she would have said，"I want to play shortstop （游击手） for the Los Angeles Dodgers．"Sally collected baseball cards by the boxful，and she knew the name and batting average of every player in the National League．
But major league baseball didn't seem much of a possibility for a girl，even an athletic one like Sally，so her father and mother talked her into taking tennis lessons when she was twelve．At first she hated to trade in her baseball bat for a tennis racket，but it wasn't long before she started to win tournaments in her new sport．"Tennis became much more fun when I started winning，"Sally remembers．
Sally first became interested in the space program in 1962when astronaut John Glenn orbited the earth in his Mercury space capsule．Sally was ten years old at the time，but she remembers the launch and the splashdown as if they happened yesterday．The girl who used to memorize batting averages became a space fan．She quickly learned the name of all the eight NASA astronauts，the date of every launch，and the name and number of every spacecraft from Freedom 7to Skylab 3．
By the time she was sixteen，Sally had decided to become an astrophysicist．She had also become a nationally ranked tennis player．She remembers yawning through an important tennis match on June 20，1969，after staying up all night to watch Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon．Sally lost the match．As Sally got older，many of her friends started playing professional tennis．Some of them tried to talk her into quitting school to join them on the professional tennis circuit．But Sally said no．"Black holes are more interesting to me than backhands，"she told them．Now she knows that she made the right choice，but in 1970Sally had no way of knowing that NASA would open the space program to women．
56．When still a child，Sally Ride wanted to be a （an）A when she grew up．
A．baseball player B．astronaut C．tennis player D．astrophysicist
57．Sally Ride became a space fanB．
A．when she was 12 B．in 1962 C．in 1970 D．in 1976
58．She lost an important tennis match on June 20，1969becauseC．
A．she kept yawning while playing the game
B．she was no longer interested in tennis
C．she didn't have enough sleep the night before
D．she was thinking of becoming an astrophysicist．
分析 本文主要介绍了美国的女天体物理学家萨莉赖德的故事，她小时候想当一名棒球运动员，后来被家人说服去参加网球课，在她十岁的时候成为了一个航天迷，最终成为了美国的第一个女宇航员，作者写这篇文章是为了告诉我们要坚守自己的梦想，终有一天它会实现的．
解答 56．A 细节理解题，由第一段In fact，if you had asked her then what she wanted to be，she would have said，"I want to play shortstop （游击手） for the Los Angeles Dodgers．"可知萨莉小时候想当一名棒球运动员，故选A．
57．B 细节理解题，由第三段Sally first became interested in the space program in 1962when astronaut John Glenn orbited the earth in his Mercury space capsule．可知她成为航天迷是在1962年，故选B．
58．C 细节理解题，由最后一段She had also become a nationally ranked tennis player．She remembers yawning through an important tennis match on June 20，1969，after staying up all night to watch Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon．Sally lost the match．可知她熬夜看阿姆斯特朗登上月球因此没睡好输了比赛，故选C．
点评 考点：本文考察学生的记叙类人物传记，抓住题干关键词，采用寻读的方法查找细节描述事实细节题，这种题的答案一般在原文中可以直接找到，只要读懂文章，掌握文章中的事实，就能找到正确答案．
