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As part of an effort to provide a visually appealing device for cheerleaders, given the advent of color television,
Herkimer created the pom-pon with a hidden handle and was granted patent $3,560,313 by the United States Patent and
Trademark Office in 1971. He chose the name “Pom pon” after hearing that the word “pompom” had vulgar meanings
in other languages.
While cheerleading at scholastic sports events dates back to the 19th century, Herkimer boasted that he took it
“from the raccoon coat and pennant to greater heights,” especially after World War II, when more women began
enrolling in the nation’s colleges. “I feel we have a recession-proof business,” he said in 1990. “If times get bad, a
father would sell the boat before he would tell his daughter she can’t have pompons and her cheerleading sweater.” By
the time he sold his various cheerleading enterprises in 1986 for an estimated $20 million, he was considered the
undisputed pacesetter of the cheerleading business.
36 What is this passage mainly about?
Herkimer’s success as a college teach er.
Herkimer’s contributions to cheerleading.
How Herkimer made cheerleading into an annual event.
How Herkimer built a million-dollar cheerleading organization.
37 How many people attended Herkimer’s cheerleading camp in 1948?
52 53 350 1500
38 According to the passage, which of the following was NOT created by Lawrence R. Herkimer?
Megaphone Pom-pom The Herkie jump The cheerleader skirt
39 What did Herkimer try to describe by using the phrase “from the raccoon coat to pennant to greater heights”?
His pompom patent. His cheerleading jumps.
His cheerleading profits. His contribution to cheerleading.
40 According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
Before World War II, women were not allowed to join cheerleading squads.
Herkimer was teaching at a university when he started his cheerleading camp.
When performing the Herkie jump, one has to put his two arms up in the air.
Herkimer used “pom-pon” instead of “pom-pom” due to some TV producers.
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One azure morning in December, Laura Cozzolino arrived at her corner cafe in central Naples and ordered her
usual: a dense espresso, which arrived steaming hot on the dark marble counter. She lingered over the aroma, and then
knocked it back in two quick sips. But instead of paying for one coffee, she paid for two, leaving the receipt for the
other — a caffè sospeso, or suspended coffee — with the bartender for a stranger to enjoy.
The suspended coffee is a Neapolitan tradition that boomed during World War II and has found a revival in
recent years during hard economic times. From Naples, by word of mouth and via the Internet, the gesture has spread
throughout Italy and around the world, to coffee bars as far-flung as Sweden and Brazil. In some places in Italy, the
generosity now extends to the suspended pizza or sandwich, or even books.
Naples is a city well known for its grit, beauty, chaos and crime. Despite those things, or perhaps because of
them, its people are also famous for their solidarity in the face of hardship. With its rich diversity of neighborhoods,
coffee bars in Naples hold a special place as gathering points for all: senators, families with grandchildren, street
artists, businessmen and beggars.
No one here seems to know precisely when or how the suspended coffee began. But that it started here speaks to
the small kindnesses that Italians are known for — and also of the special place that coffee occupies in the culture. In a
time of hardship, Italians can lack many things, but their coffee is n o t one of them. So it may be the most common item
left at many cafes, as a gift, for people too poor to pay.
“Coffee consumption predated the unification of Italy by more than 200 years, so the rituals and traditions
around it are very ancient,” Andrea Illy, chairman of Illy, said in a phone interview. “In Naples, coffee is a world in
itself, both culturally and socially. Coffee is a ritual carried out in solidarity.” That solidarity is spreading. In 2010, an
ensemble of small Italian cultural festivals gave form to the tradition of generosity by creating the Suspended Coffee
Network.
The purpose was to weather the severe cuts to the state cultural budgets by organizing and promoting their own
activities together. But it also started solidarity initiatives for those in need. Encouraging a donated coffee was one of
them. Now, across Italy, the bars that ha ve joined the network display the suspended coffee label — a black and brown
sticker with a white espresso cup — in their windows.
“To me,” said a bartender, “The philosophy of the suspended coffee is that you are happy today, and you give a
coffee to the world, as a present.”
41 What is the main idea of this passage?
A heartwarming tradition and its practice. A recipe for making good coffee.
The folklore and geography of a city. A moral lesson about generosity.