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My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college an the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.
Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt(收养) and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic---and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.
You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8. Our home was a complete zoo---a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant taking as few as one class each semester.
The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit, But I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.
In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree！
I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you’re looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you’re in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won’t arrive in your life on one day. It’s a process. Remember；little steps add up to big dreams.
小题1:When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be_____________
| A．a writer | B．a teacher |
| C．a judge | D．a doctor |
| A．She wanted to study by herself. |
| B．She fell in love and got married. |
| C．She suffered from a serious illness. |
| D．She decided to look after her grandma. |
| A．She was busy yet happy with her family life. |
| B．She ignored her guilty feeling for her sons. |
| C．She wanted to remain a full-time housewife. |
| D．She was too confused to make a correct choice. |
| A．Failure is the mother of success. |
| B．Little by little, one goes far. |
| C．Every coin has two sides. |
| D．Well begun, half done. |
A. Caring and determine.
B. Honest and responsible.
C. Ambitious and sensitive.
Innocent and single-minded.
答案
小题1:C
小题1:D
小题1:A
小题1:B
小题1:A
解析
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试题【In the fall of 1985. I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, 】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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ker Bush, became the first son to follow his father into the White House since John Quiney Adams followed John Adams in the early 19th century. Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush. Although George Herbert Walker Bush began his career in the oil industry, he finally served as a congressman(国会议员), and vice(副) president and president of the United States.
At the age of two,Bush moved with his parents from Connecticut to Odessa, Texas, where his father took up the oi
l business. After a year in Texas, the family moved to California for business reasons. A year later, the family returned to Texas and settled in Midland, where Bush lived from 1950 to 1959.In 1959, again for business reasons, the family moved to Houston, Texas. In 1961 Bush left Texas and went to Andover, Massachusetts, to attend Phillips Academy, aboarding school(寄宿学校) that his father had also attended.
At Phillips, Bush played basketball, baseball, and football. He was best known for being head cheerleader. In 1964 he enrolled at Yale University in Connecticut.His father and grandfather had also attended Yale. At Yale, Bush was considered an average student, but he was
popular with his classmates.Bush graduated from Yale with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1968. Then he joined the Air National Guard and re
mained in the Guard until 1973. After earning his MBA from Harvard in 1975, Bush returned to Midland. Like his father, he first entered the oil industry as a “landsman(新手)”. However, Bush’s oil companies never enjoyed grea
t success. He took more interest in politics. He helped his father to become president and in 1994 he himself
was elected governor of Texas.In the s
ummer of 1999, Bush began to run for the president of the USA and on January 20, 2001, George W. Bush, hand raised, took the oath(宣誓) of office to become the 43rd president of the US.小题1:What does the writer intend to tell us in the first paragraph?
| A．George W. Bush is the first son in American history to follow his father into the White House. |
B．George W. Bush is the first son of former presi dent George Herbert Walker Bush. |
| C．John Quincy Adams and his father were both former American presidents. |
| D．George W. Bush is the second one in American history to follow his father into the White House. |
| A．got on very well at the universities |
| B．was very good at basketball, baseball and football |
| C．did everything as his father had done |
| D．was a very successful politician like his father |
| A．Young Bush lived with his family in Texas from 1948 to 1961. |
| B．He once studied at a university that his father and grandfather had also attended. |
| C．He once ruled over an American state before he entered the White House. |
| D．He once served at the Air National Guard for about five years. |
One day, Kerry promised marriage to Alice. Surprised and pleased by the
offer, the girl was not sure whether she would spend her future as a wife or a painter. After a moment she replied as follows, "Each of us must paint a picture. If yours is superior to mine, you can make me your wife. If not, please drop the question." Then it was decided to give it the following day.The next morning. Alice hung her picture on the gate. It showed a bunch of flowers and
won high praise from everyone who passed by. In fact, a crowd collected in front of her masterpiece and fixed eyes on it.Several hours passed. Then Kerry was seen coming along to the gate with what appeared to be a beautiful leather suitcase in his hand. When he finally stopped before Alice, the girl artist brushed like a rose and agreed to marry him without any hesitation. Why?
小题1:What did Alice think Kerry"s offer?
| A．She liked Kerry, but she didn"t expect him to promise marriage to her. |
| B．She didn"t want to marry anybody. |
| C．She didn"t like it at all. |
| D．She thought the offer wasn"t polite. |
| A．not so better than | B．better than |
| C．so good as | D．as good as |
| A．Kerry didn"t accept Alice"s suggestion. |
| B．Kerry wasn"t sure of his painting so he dropped his offer. |
| C．Kerry did go the next day, but he failed to take a picture |
| D．Kerry agreed to Alice"s suggestion. |
| A．it was true to nature | B．the flowers were red |
| C．it showed so large a bunch of flowers | D．people felt it strange to hang it on the gate |
| A．a real one | B．a painting drawn by Kerry |
| C．a box with a picture in it | D．made up of leather |
His father was a doctor, so Darwin was sent to Edinburgh to study medicine, and was planned to follow a medical career. But Charles found the lectures boring. Then his father sent him to Cambridge University to study to be a priest. While at C
ambridge, Darwin’s interest 
in zoology and geography grew. Later he got a letter from Robert Fitzroy who was planning to make a voyage around the world on a ship, the Beagle. He wanted a naturalist to join the ship, and Darwin was recommended(推荐). That voyage was the start of Darwin’s great life.As the Beagle sailed around the world, Darwin began to wonder how life had developed on earth. He began to observe everything. After he was home, he set to work, getting his collection in order. His first great work The Zoo
logy of the Beagle was well received, but
he was slow to make p
ublic his ideas on the origin of life. Later Darwin and Wallace, another naturalist who had the same opinions as Darwin, produced a paper together. Darwin’s great book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (《物种起源》) appeared. It attracted a storm. People thought that Darwin was saying they were descended from monkeys. What a shameful idea! Although most scientists agreed that Darwin was right, the Church was still so strong that Darwin never received any honors for his work.
Afterwards, he published another great work, The Descent of Man. His health grew worse, but he still worked. “When I have to give up observation, I shall die,” he said. He was still working on 17, April, 1882. He was dead two days later.
小题1:Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
| A．Charles Darwin’s ideas |
| B．Charles Darwin’s works |
| C．Father of modern biology: Charles Darwin |
D．The  greatest scientist: Charles Darwin |
| A．make him like natural history |
| B．make him become a doctor |
| C．let him change his hobbies |
| D．have him give up his collection |
A．his study at Cambr idge University |
| B．his collection of coins |
| C．the naturalists at Cambridge |
| D．the voyage of the Beagle |
| A．they gave monkeys life |
| B．they were different from monkeys |
C．they were developed from monkeys |
| D．they had to live with monkeys |
Crayon Shinchan（蜡笔小新）enjoys great popularity in China. He has many fans in Hong Kong , Taiwan and on the mainland. And he is one of the hottest cartoon characters in his home country, Japan.
But, the trouble-maker’s show was ranked the No. 1 most unwanted cartoon program by Japan’s Parents’ Association on April 18.
More than half the parents who took part in the study thought Shinchan was a negative role model for children. They believed his actions and speech were adult in nature and not suitable for kids.
Many parents and education experts in China agree with them. Shinchan, they say, is really offensive. He looks out for pretty ladies on the street; at the bookstore he reads magazines full of sexy women; he pretends to be kidnapped by his teacher when he sees a police car; and he raises his mum’s skirt and shouts out the color of her underpants if she doesn’t buy him what he wants.
“Crayon Shimchan is full of dirty humor. The boy shows some terrible adult ment
ality(心态),which doesn’t match his age,” said Pang Lijuan, professor of the Education Department at Beijing Normal University. Pang further pointed out that Shinchan destroys the traditional image of a polite, hard-working boy. She fears that some teens may copy his behavior and harm their psychological development. Pang and many others in China think that Shinchan is a cartoon for adults-----not for children.But some kids disagree. Jiangxin, a senior 2 student in Luhe Middle School
in Beijing, became a fan of Shinchan after he first saw the cartoon two years ago. He said it is Shinchan’s humor , courage, and cleverness that makes him and his friends love the little cartoon character . “Shinchan looks at the adults’ world with kid’s eyes. He uncovers the hypocrisy(虚伪) and selfishness in a childish way,” explained Jiang. “We watch it just for fun.” But Jiang also admitted that Shinchan is not good for all ages. “It may not be suitable for primary school kids. They may try to blindly copy him.”Shinchan’s “father ”, Japan’s popular cartoonist, Yoshito Ushi, never thought Shinchan would cause such a heated discussion. He argued that Shinchan is a childish copy of Japan’s middle-aged men. The boy does everything adults would like, but don’t dar
e to do. “People can easily forgive him because he’s only five years old,” said Yoshito.小题1: Teachers and parents dislikes Crayon Shincha
n because .| A．he looks very ugly |
| B．he caused a heated discussion |
| C．the character was created by an adult cartoonist |
| D．he was regarded as a negative role model for children to follow |
| A．he looks very funny |
| B．the cartoon character is suitable for all ages |
| C．they think he is humorous, clever and brave |
| D．he is a childish copy of Japan’s middle-aged men |
| A．humorous | B．ugly-looking | C．funny | D．unpleasant |
| A．Shinchan is such a naughty boy that he can’t behave himself. |
| B．Shinchan is trying to draw people’s attention by doing some offensive things. |
| C．Shinchan wants to set a role model in a different way. |
| D．Shinchan’ s behaviour is just a childish copy of Japan’s middle-aged men. |
One evening, the telephone rang while the old woman was preparing supper. She went to answer it. She was told that one of her sons died in a traffic accident. She heard this and fell in a faint. When she came back to life, she was in hospital. And she needed to be helped after that.
Several months later she was told on the telephone her daughter died while she was being operated on. The old woman was so sad that she had to be in hospital again. From then on she was afraid to answer any telephones and sometimes she was afraid hear the bell. Of course it brought them some trouble and some important business was held up. So her husband advised her to see a psychiatrist. The man examined her carefully and then asked her some questions.
“You will soon be all right if you follow my advice, Mrs Keller.” said the psychiatrist.
The old woman took the medicine the doctor gave on time and tried to forget her dead son and daughter. And two months later she went to see the psychiatrist again.
“You have saved me, Doctor,” the old woman said, as soon as she saw him.
“Are you afraid to answer the telephone now?”
“No,” answered Keller.
“I dare answer it whether it rings or not.”
小题1:Mrs Keller could do all housework because ______.
| A．she had no money to employ a helper. |
| B．she was strong enough to do all at home |
| C．she didn’t believe anybody |
| D．only she was free at home |
| A．she went to answer the telephone. |
| B．she was very ill that evening |
| C．she walked in the room carelessly |
| D．she heard the news about her son’s death. |
| A．strong | B．able | C．clever | D．sad |
| A．The doctor’s advice | B．Her husband’s suggestion |
| C．Her poor health | D．The two pieces of bad news |
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