NBA commissioner David Stern was in Orlando on Thursday night, getting ready for Sunday’s

NBA commissioner David Stern was in Orlando on Thursday night, getting ready for Sunday’s All-Star Game. Of course, all he could talk about was the only player anyone wants to talk about these days: New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin.
Hours before Lin took the court against the Heat, a few hundred miles South down I-95 in Miami, Stern told reporters that Lin’s instant popularity hasn’t ever been matched in sports history, not even by Sunday’s biggest names, LeBron James or Kobe Bryant.
The Associated Press had the details.
“I haven’t done a calculation, but it’s fair to say that no player has created the interest and the craze in this short period of time, in any sport, that I’m aware of like Jeremy Lin has,” Stern said Thursday.
Lin, an undrafted(未选秀的)guard from Harvard, has become the NBA’s biggest story since coming off the Knicks’ bench earlier this month to lead them to nine wins in 11 games heading into their matchup with Miami on Thursday night.
With Lin’s popularity in Asia as the league’s first American-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent, and with the religious community because of his strong Christian faith, Stern says he’s “never quite seen anything like” the attention on Lin.
“It’s fascinating,” Stern said after the All-Star Jam Session opening ceremonies.
The top five videos on NBA.com since Feb. 4, when Lin joined the circulation, are all Lin or Knicks related. Lin went from 190,000 followers on Sina, China’s version of Twitter, on Feb. 2 to more than 1 million as of Feb. 16.
Indeed, Lin’s popularity is so out of this world that the NBA made a late list switch to ensure his participation in the Rising Stars Challenge on All-Star Saturday, a game that includes the NBA’s best rookies(新秀球员)and sophomores. Lin is in such high demand that all of the game’s other participants will meet with the media following a team practice on Friday while Lin will have his own, separate press conference later in the night.
This is Jeremy’s world, folks. We’re all just living in it. Even David Stern and the rest of the league’s All-Stars, at least for the moment.
【小题1】The following statements about Jeremy Lin’s instant popularity are true EXCEPT that .A．Jeremy Lin led New York Knicks to win all the recent games this monthB．David Stern said Lin was the only instant popular player in NBA’s historyC．Lin has become the NBA’s greatest story though he was an undrafted guardD．no player has created the interest and the enthusiasm in such a short period of time【小题2】Why did Jeremy Lin have so many followers in Asia on Sina, China’s version of Twitter?
A. Because Jeremy Lin was born in Taiwan with strong Christian faith.
B. Maybe because he is the first player born in America but has Chinese descent.
C. Because Sina has a large group of surfing people, maybe more than 10 million.
D. Because the top five videos on NBA. com since Feb. 4 are all Lin or Knicks related.
【小题3】The underlined phrase “out of this world” in Paragraph 9 may probably be replaced by .A．impossibleB．importantC．exceptionalD．excellent【小题4】What can we learn from the above passage about Jeremy Lin’s instant popularity?A．Knowledge starts with practice.B．Failure is the mother of success.C．Every dog has its day.D．No pains, no gains.A

(答案→)A 解析：文章向大家介绍了林书豪的故事，分析了他出名的原因。【小题1】推理题。根据第五段第2行lead them to nine wins in 11 games heading into their matchup with Miami on Thursday night.可知并不是他参加的所有的比赛都赢了，11场赢了9场，输了2两场。【小题2】细节题。根据第六点第一行With Lin’s popularity in Asia as the league’s first American-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent。【小题3】猜测词义题。本题可以使用代入法，A不可能；B重要；C不同一般，特殊的；D优秀根据上下文可知林书豪的成功不同一般，他是突然崛起。【小题4】通读全文可知C凡人皆有得意日。符合文意。

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