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請依下文回答第 36 題至第 40 題Lawrence R. Herkimer (October 14, 1925 – July 1, 2015) was an American innovator in the fieldof cheerleading. He created the widely used Herkie cheerleading jump, which was named after him, and received apatent for the pom-pom, which has become a staple of cheerleading. Herkimer was known as the grandfather ofmodern cheerleading and often called Mr. Cheerleader.Herkimer had been a scholarship student and head cheerleader at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. As acheerleader, he developed what became known as the Herkie by accident while intending to perform a split jump. Themove features one arm extended straight up in the air and the other on one’s hip, with one leg extended straight out, andthe other bent back. At Southern Methodist, he formed a national organization for cheerleaders and created acheerleading-oriented magazine called Megaphone.After graduating from Southern Methodist in 1948, Herkimer started his first cheerleading camp at Sam HoustonState Teachers College with 52 girls and one boy with $600 borrowed from a friend of his father-in-law’s. By thefollowing year, enrollment had grown to 350 participants. Shortly thereafter, he was making more money from hissummer programs than he was teaching the remainder of the year at Southern Methodist, so he gave up teaching andtook up the cheerleading business full time. His camps had as many as 1,500 instructors teaching tens of thousands ofstudents nationwide each summer, and his Cheerleader Supply Company was successfully retailing skirts and sweatersfor cheerleading squads. 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 andTrademark Office in 1971. He chose the name “Pom pon” after hearing that the word “pompom” had vulgar meaningsin 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 beganenrolling in the nation’s colleges. “I feel we have a recession-proof business,” he said in 1990. “If times get bad, afather would sell the boat before he would tell his daughter she can’t have pompons and her cheerleading sweater.” Bythe time he sold his various cheerleading enterprises in 1986 for an estimated $20 million, he was considered theundisputed pacesetter of the cheerleading business.
36 What is this passage mainly about?
(A)Herkimer’s success as a college teacher.
(B)Herkimer’s contributions to cheerleading.
(C)How Herkimer made cheerleading into an annual event.
(D)How Herkimer built a million-dollar cheerleading organization.

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答案：B
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(2),C(2),D(0),E(0)

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