今天前程百利小编为大家分享的是托福听力的背景学习。备考托福听力就要把听力文本吃透分析彻底。这样不仅能积累背景材料，还能把听力的专业词汇积累起来一块背诵，为托福听力打下坚实的基础。下面跟小编一起学习女性投手的速度这篇文章吧!
Contemporary women's baseball chronicler Jennifer Ring says the fastest women pitchers currently hit speeds in the 80s (mph) and it keeps going up. Steve Mirsky reports.
In 2010 the U.S. fielded a baseball team to compete in the Women’s Baseball World Cup in Caracas. Not softball—baseball. Most Americans never heard about the team. But Jennifer Ring knew about it. Ring is a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. She writes about the team, which included her daughter, in a new book called A Game of Their Own: Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball.
Ring talked about the book recently at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse in New York City. Her response to an audience member’s question raises the possibility that the fastest route for a woman to make it to Major League Baseball would likely be as a pitcher.
Audience member: “Just comparing men to women, how fast can the fastest female pitcher pitch?”
Jennifer Ring: “You know, it keeps going up. And I think this is another thing, which is, we don’t know how good women are. Boys have been taught to throw hard from the time they’re five or six years old, probably too much so, there’s too much pressure, too much arm injuries, too much year-round pressure on boys.
“The best girl fastball pitchers pitch in the 80s. The thing that makes it easier for girls to succeed as a pitcher on a boys’ or a men’s team are a couple of things. One is that you really have to be fast, you have to run fast and you have to have a big arm if you’re going to be an outfielder. The pitchers can win with off-speed stuff. So the girls who are the best pitchers can hit their spot, can throw off-speed stuff. They can’t compete with men throwing in the 90s at this point, although it may be coming.”
疑难词汇：
Contemporary n. 同时代的人;同时期的东西adj. 当代的;同时代的;属于同一时期的
Chronicler n. 记录者;年代史编者
Pitcher n. 投手;大水罐
Outfielder n. 外场手
off-speed 离速
长难句解析：
1. She writes about the team, which included her daughter, in a new book called A Game of Their Own: Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball.
难句类型：
Which引导的非限制性定语从句
句子主干：
She writes about the team
难句拆分：
which included her daughter， Which引导的非限制性定语从句;in a new book called A Game of Their Own作team的定语。
2. Her response to an audience member’s question raises the possibility that the fastest route for a woman to make it to Major League Baseball would likely be as a pitcher.
难句类型：
That引导的宾语从句
句子主干：
Her response raises the possibility
难句拆分：
that the fastest route for a woman to make it to Major League Baseball would likely be as a pitcher，That引导的宾语从句;for a woman作fastest route的定语;to make it目的状语。
3. And I think this is another thing, which is, we don’t know how good women are.
难句类型：
插入语
句子主干：
I think this is another thing
难句拆分：
文本结构特点：
which is，是插入语;we don’t know how good women are，作thing的定语。
本篇文章主要讲的是最快的女性投手的速度在80米每小时。这个速度还在不断地加快;在与男性相比的情况下，女性投手会更加容易成功。
好了，以上就是前程百利小编为大家整理的备考托福听力背景材料以及专业词汇的学习。大家学会了吗?希望能在备考托福的路上助大家一臂之力。预祝大家取得好成绩。
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