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In April, Jean finished the Boston Marathon in 1 hour 34 minutes 22 seconds. That"s about 33 minutes
faster than the winning male runner! She competed on the track, too. She was second in the 800 meter
wheelchair race at the 1992 Olympics.
Jean doesn"t like to be told she"s brave. "I"m in sports because I"m a competitive person!" Jean was born
with spinal bifida (脊柱裂), a birth illness that damages the spine (脊椎). She began to use a wheelchair to get
around in high school. Then she tried wheelchair race and was amazed. "Players crashed into each other and
fell out of their chairs," she says, "It was fun."
Jean tried other wheelchair sports. At the University of Illinois, her wheelchair basketball team won two
national titles.
Now Jean coaches and teaches. She tries to get people to set goals. "When I sign my autograph (亲笔签
名)," says Jean, "I write, dream big and work hard."
B. She was competitive.
C. She was strong.
D. She was disabled.
B. Junior middle school.
C. High education.
D. Primary school.
B. Hope for the best.
C. Dream a lot.
D. Have great wishes and work hard.
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试题【阅读理解。 Jean Driscoll can go faster in her wheelchair than the world"s best ma】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton. University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the
army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some
money to impress her.
His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary:"My own happiness in the past often
approached such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet
streets and take down parts of it in my diary."
This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began
to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a
collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest
success was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quick brought him praise from the literary world.
Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short
stories All the Sad Young Men.
However, Fitzgerald"s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to
reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this
period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The Love of the Last Tycoon in 1940. while his
wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend,
helped him fight his alcoholism.
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8
a. He became addicted to drinking.
b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.
c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.
d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.
e. He failed to reorder his life.
f. He joined the army and met Zelda.
B. b-e-a-f-c-d
C. f-d-e-c-b-a
D. b-f-c-d-e-a
B. was well educated and well off before he served in the army
C. would have completed more works if his wife hadn"t broken down
D. helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital
B. Zelda"s illness and treatment
C. Fitzgerald"s friendship with Graham
D. Fitzgerald"s contributions to the literary world
two decades, has won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for her most recent book, "Versed".
"I"m delighted and amazed at how much media recognition that the Pulitzer brings, as compared to even
the National Book Critics Award, which I was also surprised and delighted to win," said Armantrout.
"For a long time, my writing has been just below the media radar, and to have this kind of attention,
suddenly, with my 10th book, is really surprising."
Armantrout, a native Californian, received her bachelor"s degree at UC Berkeley, where she studied with
noted poet Denise Levertov, and her master"s in creative writing from San Francisco State University. She is
a founding member of Language Poets, a group in American poetry that analyzes the way language is used
and raises questions to make the reader think.
In March, she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for "Versed."
"This book has gotten more attention," Armantrout said, "but I don"t feel as if it"s better."
The first half of "Versed" focuses on the dark forces taking hold of the United States as it fought the war
against Iraq. The second half looks at the dark forces casting a shadow over her own life after Armantrout
was diagnosed with cancer in 2006.
Armantrout was shocked to learn she had won the Pulitzer but many of her colleagues were not. "Rae
Armantrout is a unique voice in American poetry," said Seth Lerer, head of Arts and Humanities at UCSD.
"Versed", published by the Wesleyan University Press, did appear in a larger printing than her earlier
works, which is about 2,700 copies. The new edition is scheduled to appear in May.
B. her winning the Pulitzer is unexpected
C. the media is surprised at her works
D. she likes being recognized by her readers
B. She used to teach Denise Levertov.
C. She started a poets" group with others.
D. She taught creative writing at UC Berkeley.
B. It is mainly about the American army.
C. It is a book published two decades ago.
D. It partly concerns the poet"s own life.
B. has a sweet voice
C. deserves the prize
D. is a strange professor
B. Cancer made Armantrout stop writing.
C. Armantrout got her degrees at UCSD.
D. "Versed" has been awarded twice.
a million miles away. Hey, stop! This is no vacation－you have to finish something!
Here lies the problem for travel writer and food critic (评论家) Edie Jarolim. "I always loved traveling
and always liked to eat, but it never occurred to me that I could make money doing both of these things,"
Jarolim said. Now you can read her travel advice everywhere－in Arts and Antiques, in Brides, or in one
of her three books. The Complete Idiot"s Travel Guide to Mexico"s Beach Resort.
Her job in travel writing began some eight years ago. After getting a PhD in English in Canada, she took
a test for Frommer"s travel guides, passed it, and got the job. After working at Frommer"s, Jarolim worked
for a while at Rough Guides in London, then Fodor"s, where she fell so in love with a description of the
Southwest of the U.S. that she moved there.
Now as a travel writer, she spends one-third of her year on the road. The rest of the time is spent
completing her tasks and writing reviews of restaurants at home in Tucson, Arizona.
As adventurous as the job sounds, the hard part is fact-checking all the information. Sure, it"s great to
write about a tourist attraction, but you"d better get the local (当地的) museum hours correct or you could
really ruin someone"s vacation.
B. The U.S.
C. The U.K.
D. Canada.
B. Checking all the facts to be written in the guides.
C. Finishing her work as soon as possible.
D. Passing a test to write travel guides.
B. She finds her life full of stresses.
C. She spends half of her time traveling.
D. She is especially interested in museums.
B. Working as a Food Critic
C. Travel Guides on the Market
D. Vacationing for a Living
Private library, so Owen was able to educate himself. He read a lot in his spare time and at nineteen he was
given the job of superintendent (监工) at a Manchester cotton mill. He was so successful there that he
persuaded his employer to buy the New Lanark mill in Scotland.
When he arrived at New Lanark it was a dirty little town with a population of 2,000 people. Nobody paid
any attention to the workers" houses or their children"s education. The conditions in the factories were very
bad. There was a lot of crime and the men spent most of their wages on alcoholic drinks.
Owen improved the houses. He encouraged people to be clean and save money. He opened a shop and
sold the workers cheap, well-made goods to help them. He limited the sale of alcoholic drinks. Above all, he
fixed his mind on the children"s education. In 1816 he opened the first free primary school in Britain.
People came from all over the country to visit Owen"s factory. They saw that the workers were healthier
and more efficient than in other towns. Their children were better fed and better educated. Owen tried the
same experiment in the United States. He bought some land there in 1825, but the community was too far
away. He could not keep it under control and lost most of his money.
Owen never stopped fighting for his idea. Above all he believed that people are not born good or bad.
He was a practical man and his ideas were practical. "If you give people good working conditions," he
thought, "they will work well and, the most important thing of all, if you give them the chance to learn, they
will be better people."
B. helping people to save money
C. preventing men from getting drunk
D. providing the children with a good education
B. into a noble family
C. into a poor family
D. into a middle class family
B. he did not buy enough land
C. people who visited it were not impressed
D. it was too far away for him to organize it properly
B. 1816
C. 1825
D. 1860
comic books, on the TV and the big screen.
In a survey of fans by the sci-fi (科幻) and fantasy website, SFX.co.uk, Batman, 70 years old this year,
was voted Britain"s favorite superhero.
Unlike many crime-fighting superheroes Batman has no special powers. He can"t fly like Superman or
shoot a sticky (粘性的) web like Spider-Man.
Bruce Wayne is born to a wealthy Gotham City business family. However, when his parents are murdered
his life changes completely.
Wayne feels anger at their deaths and guilty that he did not prevent them. He travels around the world
learning how to fight. Upon returning to Gotham, he creates a disguise (伪装) to enable him to fight crime
without being recognized.
A childhood fear of bats leads him to choose to dress as one. His idea is that through the bat persona (角
色) he can prove to himself that he has overcome his childhood fears.
Wayne is the CEO of the company he inherits (继承) from his father. He seems to live the lifestyle of a
millionaire playboy. But this is a ruse (计策). He works hard at the image to allow himself the freedom he needs
to do his work as a crime fighter. "Bruce Wayne, playboy" is the disguise(伪装); Batman is the real person.
"Wayne is not a born superhero. Instead, he is a real, complex person," said Dace Golder, editor of the
website. "He is the most realistic of all the superheroes. I am particularly interested in the emotional process
by which a boy becomes a hero. His superhero qualities come from within."
B. How to overcome childhood fears.
C. What makes a superhero.
D. Why superheroes enjoy great popularity in Britain.
B. he had an unhappy childhood
C. he doesn"t have any special powers
D. he does his best to fight crime
B. his childhood fear of bats
C. his parents" sudden death
D. his unusual travel experiences
B. He doesn"t know how to run a company.
C. He loves freedom more than anything else.
D. He needs to disguise his crime fighting activities.
B. He has special powers
C. The turning point of his life is due to his parents" sudden death
D. He actually lives the lifestyle of a millionaire playboy
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