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“I remember how well-meaning but misguided people questioned whether someone with my background could succeed at an elite (精英) university,” she said. “When I was accepted, I had all kinds of worries and doubts. I wouldn’t be as well prepared as students from privileged families and I wouldn’t fit in. But you are just as capable and have just as much to offer as anyone else.”
This was Mrs. Obama’s only solo outing during the state visit and part two of an unusual relationship which she has struck up with Anderson College in Islington. Two years ago on her first visit to the UK she visited the school.
Yesterday she returned to meet the pupils but this time at Christchurch College where they were taking part in an open day run to improve Oxford’s still poor record on diversifying student intake.
Mrs. Obama was asked why she married her husband, what it was like being First Lady and when there would be a female President in the White House. Her message—which she repeated time and again—was work hard, have self-belief, and don’t be afraid to fail. It was very un-British, but rather effective. Afterwards there were hugs for everyone and a photo with her.
And watching the group of multicultural young Britons surround her among the splendor of the college building one thought stood out. Had Mrs. Obama been born in Britain, she would almost certainly not have made it to Oxford as she did to Harvard. But now—thanks in part to her—some of these children just might.
小题1:According to the passage, Michelle Obama ____________.
A.graduated from Anderson College |
B.paid her first visit to the UK this time |
C.was confident when she entered the college |
D.came from a family without good background |
A.were all from the United States |
B.were students of Oxford University |
C.came from different cultural backgrounds |
D.stayed with Mrs. Obama because of hard work |
A.working hard | B.believing in yourself |
C.good opportunities | D.facing failure without fear |
A.The British pupils couldn’t understand her message. |
B.Her message reached the British pupils successfully. |
C.Repetition is not the British way to give a message. |
D.All effective messages are not conveyed in British. |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:C
小题4:B
解析
小题1:D 细节题。由第二段I remember how well-meaning but misguided people questioned whether someone with my background could succeed at an elite (精英) university,可知选D
小题2:C 细节题。由第一段Her audience were 40 young girls from a London state school where 50 languages are spoken.可知40个年轻姑娘来自不同的地方,故选C
小题3:C 细节题。由最后第二段Her message—which she repeated time and again—was work hard, have self-belief, and don’t be afraid to fail.中可知并没有提到good opportunities,故选C
小题4:B 文章理解题。根据上下文可知,英国人都相信了她的话。故选B
核心考点
试题【Despite being tall, Michelle Obama is much smaller than she appears on televisio】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
So his family moved to another city. It was Saturday 39. When Terry and his wife were busily putting their things in their new home, the lights suddenly 40 and they were forced to stop work. Terry was sorry to have 41 to bring along some candles. Just then he heard light 42 on his door.
“Who is it?” he wondered. Terry knew 43 else in the new city, and this was the moment he especially hated to be 44. He opened the door impatiently (不耐烦地). At the door was a little 45, shyly asking, “Sir, do you have 46? I’m your neighbor.” “No,” answered Terry angrily. He shut the door 47.
After a while the door was knocked again. He opened it and 48 the same little girl outside. But this time she was 49 two candles radiating (放光) red light. She said, “My grandma told me the 50 neighbor downstairs might need candles. She sent me here to51 you these.”
At that moment Terry suddenly realized what 52 his failure in life. It was his indifference (冷漠) and 53 to other people. The person who had fooled him in life was actually nobody else 54 himself, for his eyes had been covered by his 55 mind.
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“How did you write your advertisement?”asked one of the listeners, a merchant.
“Here it is, said the man, taking out of his pocket a slip cut from a newspaper.The other man took it and read, “Lost from the City Church last Sunday evening, a black silk umbrella.The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No.10 Broad Street.”
“Now, ”Said the merchant, “I often advertise, and find that it pays me well.But the way in which an advertisement is expressed is of extreme importance.Let us try for your umbrella again, and if it </PGN0332.TXT/PGN>fails, I"ll buy you a new one.”
The merchant then took a slip of paper out of his pocket and wrote:“If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening doesn"t wish to get into trouble, he will return the umbrella to No.10 Broad Street.He is well known.”
This appeared in the paper, and on the following morning, the man was astonished when he opened the front door.In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colours that had been thrown, and his own was among them.Many of them had notes fastened to them saying that they had been taken by mistake, and begging the loser not to say anything about the matter.
小题1:The result of the first advertisement was that ______________.
A.the umbrella was found somewhere near the church |
B.the man got his umbrella back |
C.the man wasted some money advertising |
D.nobody found the missing umbrella |
A.buy a new umbrella |
B.write another and better advertisement |
C.go on looking for his umbrella |
D.report the police |
_______________.
A.wanted to buy him a new umbrella |
B.didn’t know what to do |
C.was rich enough to buy one |
D.was quite sure of success |
A.a useless advertisement |
B.how to make an effective advertisement |
C.what the merchant did for the umbrella owner |
D.how the man lost and found his umbrella |
But there is more to books and writing than this. If we think about it, even realistic writing is only 5 . How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real? For example, when we read about Harry Potter, we do seem to learn something about the real world. And when Harry studies magic at Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than 6 . Reading, like writing, is an action. It is a way of 7 . When we read or write something, we do much more than simply look at words on a page. We use our 8 --- which is real --- and our imagination ---which is real in a different way --- to make the words 9 in our minds.
Both realism and fantasy use the imagination and the “magic” of reading and writing to make us think. When we read 10 realistic, we have to imagine that the people we are reading about are just like us, even though we know that we are real and they are not. It sounds 11 , but it works. When we read, we fill in missing information and 12 about the causes and effects of what a character does. We help the writer by pretending that what we read is like real life. In a way, we are writing the book, too.
Most of us probably don’t think about what is going on in our 13 when we are reading. We 14 a book and lose ourselves in a good story, eager to find out what will happen next. Knowing how we feel 15 we read can help us become better readers, and it will help us discover more about the real magic of books.
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Seriousness was one of Sontag’s lifelong watchwords (格言), but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poorly-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture. In Notes Camp, the 1964 essay that first made her name, she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous. Notes on Camp, she wrote, represents “a victory of ‘form’ over ‘content’, ‘beauty’ over ‘morals’”.
By conviction she was a sensualist (感觉论者), but by nature she was a moralist, and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s, it was the latter side of her that came forward. In Illness as Metaphor ------published in 1978, after she suffered cancer ------ she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed (被压抑的) personalities, a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact, re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit.
In America, her story of a 19th century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was as a tireless, all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame.
“Sometimes,” she once said, “I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending… is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness.” And in the end, she made us take it seriously too.
小题1:It is implied but not stated in the first paragraph that Sontag _________.
A.was a symbol of American cultural life |
B.developed world literature, film and art |
C.published many essays about world culture |
D.kept pace with the newest development of world culture |
A.publishing essays in magazines like Partisan Review |
B.her story of a Polish actress |
C.her explanation of a set of difficult understandings |
D.her book Illness as Metaphor |
A.she was more of a moralist than a sensualist |
B.she was more of a sensualist than a moralist |
C.she believed repressed personalities mainly led to illness |
D.she would like to re-examine old positions |
A.We should try hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art. |
B.Cancer can be defeated because it is a special problem of repressed personalities. |
C.‘Form’ should be over ‘content’, ‘beauty’ should be over ‘morals. |
D.We should defend the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness. |
A.A lifelong watchword: seriousness |
B.Susan Sontag is the symbol of American culture |
C.How Susan Sontag became famous |
D.An introduction to Susan Sontag and her watchword |
on a low income so I was afraid that I couldn’t afford the long 38 . Gas is so expensive nowadays! 39 , I filled my tank with gas and set off.
I 40 at a shopping mall and found a present. It was the 41 gift and I knew she would love it. 42 when I got to the cashier, my card was 43 !
I didn’t have enough money to 44 the gift!
So I thought about the 45 for a few minutes. I could put it back and get something 46 , but I knew there was 47 else in the store she would have liked as much. So, I transferred some money from my saving account and was able to buy the gift. It took a 48 part of my savings but I wanted her to have something special.
It turned out that she loved the gift and I 49 that even though I had spent almost all my money, my stepmother 50 the best. I was glad I gave her the best I could.
Before I 51 my parents’ house, my dad took me to one side and, with our secret handshake, he gave me some money. I hadn’t 52 anything to him about my financial 53 , but I guessed my dad just knew. When I got to the car, I saw the 54 he gave me was three times what I had spent on the gas and the gift! It shows that doing the right thing always comes with great 55 .
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