？Read the article below about Newtown.？For each question 31-40,write one word on your Answ

？Read the article below about Newtown.

？For each question 31-40,write one word on your Answer Sheet.

"Slugging It Out In Japan" by Warren Cromartie with Robert Whiting

Rodansha International Press, Tokyo and New York, Y 3,000 (US $ 22,50) This book is the story of how Warren Cromartie, a 29-year-old African-American major league baseball-player from Mia- mi, made good in Japan. It is also a tale of how this good-natured, plain-spoken player came to eventually understand and like the Japanese and their way of life, of which "Cro" learned the meaning of being a team player in Japan, "a group person."

Someone once wrote that if white Americans wanted to understand the black experience in the US, they should try living in Japan," writes Cro, summing up the problem he faced, being non-Japanese first and foremost, and black second. He knew what he was writing (31)

Cro is a child of Liberty City, the tough ghetto of Miami, He (32) up in a broken home, with a stepbrother who (33) time in jail for armed robbery. Following in the footsteps of his neighbour Cassius Clay, Cro used his athletic skill as a ticket to a better world. Rising steadily in the baseball circuit, he had a success full seven years with the Montreal Expo team (34) there were a number of personality clashes with his coaches and some of the other players. Then in 1984, the Giants, Japan's premier team, offered Cro more money. (35) any American team would to join them. He went.

Soon Cro was stuck in a cramped apartment in Tokyo, photographers ever ready outside his door, his days composed of endless, exhausting practices and long, slow games where he would be (36) to taunts from the terraces.

More than any other Japanese team, the Giants put a premium (37) team harmony and mental training as well as the physical side of play. Young pitchers would be forced to throw fast- bells for hours before a big game. The same training films would be shown day-in, day-out. Coaches would repeat identical speeches before every game. (38) Cro and other foreigners were allowed some leniencey, their tolerance for that kind of treatment was much lower, and their attitudes were quite different. "If you smiled, someone would criticize you for not being serious enough," Cro says of Japan's sports press. "If you scowled, some writer would attack you for disrupting team harmony. God forbid fooling around."

Cro's six-season stint gradually taught him in the end to become a team player, winning praise not only for helping to boost the Giants standing in the league, but for becoming well attuned to Japanese mores and attitudes. Much to his own surprise, he felt the he had learned to .fit in , and the Japanese had learned to respect him. "I got the impression (39) now I has endured six years in Japan, taking everything that had been thrown my way, the Japanese has finally decided to adopt me." he writes.

"People back home have told me that I have a different attitude than I used to. Mind you, I'm still not the type of person to hold everything in. I express emotions. I moan, I'll still curse, which is something the Japanese never do but , living in Japan, I've tried to tone it down," say Cro. "Slugging It Out" nicely combines a treatise on personal growth and international understanding with amusing stories about a bevy of colourful characters. It (40) a keen insight into both the way the Japanese play baseball and the way they outsiders.

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