二、文意選填 (每題 1 分, 共 10 分) 選項:
This year, it seems there is a “rising phoenix” in Surprise, Arizona, and it has got a lot of people
____21 ____. Chien-Ming Wang’s remarkable spring comeback has landed him back in the big leagues
in Texas the Royals. The entire league is wondering how Chien-Ming Wang, a 35-year-old, twice injured
____22____ pitcher who was sitting at 86-88 mph in AAA last year is now bumping 96 mph and is
showing better stuff than any time in his career. Wang has not pitched in MLB since 2013. He spent the 2014-15 seasons ___23___around Triple-A and an independent league. The former Yankees ace won
38 games from 2006-07 and his once ___24___ sinker topped out at 89 mph, but a foot injury in 2008
and a major shoulder injury in 2009 ___25__ his career. Wang suffered a torn shoulder capsule. Torn
capsules usually ____26___ the death for pitchers, which has ended the careers of Rich Harden, Mark
Prior, and John Maine, among others. Wang lost a lot of ____27___off his trademark sinker following
the surgery, hence his ineffectiveness. By last summer, he was still lost into the ____28____ of darkness
and toiling in an independent league, his career beginning to fade away. Now the Internet gurus are
____29___ to analyze his mechanics, looking for the “magic bullet” change that holds the secret to his
improvement. The secret of “the rising Phoenix” lies in the Ron Wolforth, a(n) ___30_ pitching
guru Ron Wolforth’s off-season boot camp
_ and peculiar
pitching guru who promised help. After a two-year exile to the minor leagues, Wang enrolled in
and came to receive intensive training and recovery sessions.