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“What I mean is,” explained the recorder, “do you have a job, or are you just a …”
“Of course I have a job,” said Emily. “I’m a mother.”
“We don’t list ‘mother’ as an occupation… ‘housewife’ covers it,” said the recorder.
One day I found myself in the same situation. The clerk was obviously a career woman, confident and possessed of a high sounding title. “What is your occupation?” she asked.
The words simply popped out. “I’m a Research Associate in the field of Child Development and Human Relations.”
The clerk paused, ballpoint pen frozen in midair.
I repeated the title slowly, then I stared with wonder as my statement was written in bold, black ink on the official questionnaire.
“Might I ask,” said the clerk with new interest, “Just what you do in this field?”
Coolly, without any trace of panic in my voice, I heard myself reply, “I have a continuing program of research (what mother doesn’t), in the lab and in the field (normally I would have said indoors and out). Of course, the job is one of the most demanding in the humanities (any mother care to disagree?), and I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). But the job is more challenging than most careers and rewards are more of a satisfaction rather than just money.”
There was an increasing note of respect in the clerk’s voice as she completed the form, stood up, and showed me out.
As I drove into our driveway, buoyed up (受鼓舞) by my glamorous new career, I was greeted by my lab assistants---ages 13, 7, and 3.
Upstairs I could hear our new experimental model (a 6 month old baby), in the child-development program, testing out a new vocal pattern.
I felt proud! I had gone on the official records as someone more distinguished and indispensable (不可缺少的) to mankind than “just another mother.”
Motherhood…What a glorious career! Especially when there’s a title on the door.
小题1:What can we infer from the conversation between the woman and the recorder at the beginning of the passage?
A.The recorder was impatient and rude. |
B.The woman felt ashamed to admit what her job was. |
C.The author was upset about the situation that mothers faced. |
D.Motherhood was not recognized and respected as a job by society. |
A.curious | B.indifferent | C.puzzled | D.interested |
A.Because the author cared little about rewards. |
B.Because she thought the author did admirable work. |
C.Because she admired the author’s research work in the lab. |
D.Because the writer did something she had little knowledge of. |
A.To show how you describe your job affects your feelings toward it. |
B.To argue that motherhood is a worthy career and deserves respect. |
C.To show that the author had a greater job than Emily. |
D.To show that being a mother is hard and boring work. |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:B
解析
试题分析:
小题1:D 推理题。根据第五行“We don’t list ‘mother’ as an occupation… ‘housewife’ covers it,” said the recorder. 说明人们并没有把妈妈当成一个职业,也没有收到这社会的尊重,故D正确。
小题2:C 推理题。根据第七段The clerk paused, ballpoint pen frozen in midair. 说明她犹豫了,很困惑,不知道我所说的职业是什么。故C正确。
小题3:B 推理题。根据文章倒数第六段I have a continuing program of research (what mother doesn’t), in the lab and in the field (normally I would have said indoors and out). Of course, the job is one of the most demanding in the humanities (any mother care to disagree?), and I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). But the job is more challenging than most careers and rewards are more of a satisfaction rather than just money.”我把妈妈的工作描述得很伟大,很高级。使对方感觉我的工作很重要,使用对我也很尊敬。故B正确。
小题4:B 主旨大意题。在本文中作者主要是想向我们表示做家庭主妇是一个值得尊敬的职业,也是一个值得去从事的职业。故B正确。
点评:文章通过我和一位工作人员的对话,来阐述做家庭主妇这份工作的价值和重要性,目的是想让人们重视这一职业也尊重这一职业。以推理题的考查为主,不能以自己的观点代替作者的观点,最主要的方法是根据词义关系推断具体细节。
核心考点
试题【A woman named Emily renewing her driver’s license at the County Clerk’s office w】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
"That million number has driven me crazy!" says Sandy Baum, a Skidmore economist who studied the value of a college degree for the College Board last year.
Baum"s research showed that college graduates earn, on average, about $20,000 a year more than those who finished their educations at high school. Add that up over a 40-year working life and the total differential is about $800,000, she figures. But since much of that bonus is earned many years from now, taking away the impact of inflation means that$800,000 in future dollars is worth only about $450,000 in today"s dollars.
Then, if you remove the cost of a college degree--about ,$30,000 in tuition and books for students who get no aid and attend public in-state universities--and the money a student could have earned at a job instead of attending school, the real net value in today"s dollars is somewhere in the $300,000 range, a number confirmed by other studies.
But, especially these days, that still makes a college degree one of the most lucrative investments a person can make, Baum notes.
Better yet, college graduates can go on to earn advanced degrees, which return even bigger payoffs. The average holder of a bachelor"s degree earns about$51,000 a year, Baum calculates. But those who"ve gone on to earn MBAs, law degrees, or other professional degrees earn about $100,000 a year.
In addition, Baum found that there are plenty of other rewards for a degree. The quality of the jobs college graduates get is far better, for example. College graduates are more likely to get jobs with health insurance. And it is easier for them to find and hold jobs. The unemployment rate for college graduates was just 2.2 percent last year, half the unemployment level of those with only high school diplomas.
There are lots of other nonmonetary benefits as well. College graduates are healthier, contribute more to their communities, and raise kids who are better prepared academically, studies show.
Other researchers have found that the payoff of a degree is especially lucrative for students from low-income families, since the education and degrees give them a chance to break out of low-paying careers.
小题1:What can be inferred from Para 1 ?
A.The payoff of a college degree is still big enough to match the advertised. |
B.It’s more and more difficult to get a college degree. |
C.The return of a college degree is less than often quoted. |
D.A college degree is worth about one million dollars. |
A.attractive | B.worthless | C.approachable | D.balanced |
A.By getting jobs with health insurance immediately. |
B.By going on for higher degrees. |
C.By breaking out of low-paying jobs. |
D.By contributing more to his or her community. |
A. According to Baum"s research, high school graduates earn more than those who have college degrees. |
B. College education is enough to ensure you a good life. |
C. Nonmonetary benefits from the degree attract students more than monetary ones. |
D.Students from low-income families still think degrees are profitable to change their life. |
I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.
After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the bushes scattered around the orphanage.
I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after another, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings,pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet.
How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes,all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head,face and hands so I could look at them up close.
When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement(水泥)step and went inside to answer the phone. I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly who he had just pinned to the large paper. It was still moving about so I reached down and touched it on the wing causing one of the pins to fall out.It started flying around and around trying to get away but it was still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin.Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground and just trembled.
I picked up the torn wing and the butterfly and I spat on its wing and tried to get it to stick back on so it could fly away and be free before the house parent came back.But it would not stay on him.
小题1:The author set the living butterfly free because_______.
A.he liked it very much |
B.he had sympathy for the beautiful butterfly |
C.he couldn’t bear a butterfly dying in his favorite bushes |
D.its wing broke off |
A.dull and full of strict rules |
B.simple and easy |
C.happy and full of hope |
D.hard and busy |
A.tolerant | B.unconcerned | C.disgusted | D.discouraged |
A. the author lived alone in the dormitory
B. there were one hundred butterflies living in the bushes
C the cardboard paper was left on the step so as to be watched
D. the author failed to stick the worn wing onto the butterfly with his spit
小题5:Which of the following is right according to the passage?
A.I found beauty meant nothing special to me. |
B.The house parent helped the children handle the quilt. |
C.The house parent chased the butterfly in order to show it to the children. |
D.I thought it cruel to catch the butterfly. |
‘‘So… Your leg? I mean, how did your leg heal (恢复健全)?”
“To tell you the truth — my legs have been well all my life,” she sighed.
“But I don’t understand!” I said, “Your dancing career (事业)… You pretended all these years?”
‘‘Very much so, and for a very good reason.”
She thought for a while and then continued. “We were talking about engagement (订婚) when your grandfather had to go to war. I was so afraid of losing him that the only way I could stay normal was to dance. I put all my energy and time into practicing and I became very good. Critics praised me, the public loved me, but all I could feel was the ache in my heart, not knowing whether the love of my life would ever return. Then one day a letter came. There were only three sentences: ‘I have lost my leg. I am no longer a whole man and now give you back your freedom. It is best you forget about me.’’’
“I made my decision there and then. I traveled away from the city. When I returned I had bought myself a stick. I told everyone I had been in a car crash and that my leg would never completely heal again. My dancing days were over. No one doubted the story — I had learned to limp (一瘸一拐地走) convincingly before I returned home. And I made sure the first person to hear of my accident was a reporter I knew well. Then I traveled to the hospital. They had pushed your grandfather outside in his wheelchair. I took a deep breath, leaned on my stick and limped to him.”
“I showed him newspaper articles of my accident. ‘There is a whole life waiting for us out there! But I am not going to carry you. You are going to walk yourself.’”
“I limped a few steps toward him and showed him what I’d taken out of my pocket. ‘Now show me you are still a man.’ I said. He bent to take his stick from the ground and struggled out of that wheelchair. He managed it on his own and walked to me and never sat in a wheelchair again in his life.”
“What did you show him?” I had to know. Grandma looked at me and smiled. “Two engagement rings, of course. I had bought them the day after he left for the war and I was not going to waste them on any other man.”
小题1:What does the underlined word “it” in the first paragraph refer to?
A.Her accident. | B.Her pet. | C.Her leg. | D.Her dancing career. |
a. Grandfather lost his leg in the war.
b. Grandmother bought two engagement rings.
c. Grandfather was inspired to stand up on his own.
d. Grandmother pretended she was lame.
e. Grandmother became an excellent dancer.
f. Grandfather had to go to war.
A.e-f-b-a-d-c | B.f-e-a-c-b-d |
C.f-b-e-a-d-c | D.e-b-f-a-c-d |
A.Thoughtful and determined. | B.Unselfish but stubborn. |
C.Courageous but unreliable. | D.Sensitive and dishonest. |
A.The love of a disabled couple. | B.The grandmother’s unconditional love. |
C.The meaning of an engagement. | D.The grandfather’s brave story. |
When Dr. Gibbs didn’t work, he planted trees. His house covered an area of ten acres, and his life’s goal was to make it _ 13_ .
He had some interesting _ 14 _ concerning planting. He belonged to the “No pains, no gains” __15 of plant growing. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked _16__, he said, “Watering plants will spoil them, and if you water them, each successive tree_ 17_ will grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things 18__for them and weed out the weak ones.” So he never watered his trees. He would _19__a pine, and instead of _20__it every morning, he beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. I __21__ him why he did so, and he said it was to get the tree’s _22__.
I planted a couple of trees a few _23__ ago. I carried water to them for a solid summer, sprayed them and prayed over them. Two years of careful tending has _24__ in trees that expect to be _25__ to hand and foot. Whenever a cold wind blows in, they tremble their branches.
Dr. Gibbs passed away a _26__of years after I left home. Now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees. They’re _27__ now, big and healthy.
Funny things about Dr. Gibbs’ trees. Hardship and difficulty seemed to benefit them _28__
comfort and ease never could.
Life is tough, whether we want 29_ to be or not. Too many times we pray for ease, but that’s a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is to pray for 30_ that reach deep into the earth, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won’t be swept away.
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Attitudes are important. Whether they’re positive or negative (消极的), they’re all rubbing off on you. If you’re around people who are always complaining(抱怨) or blaming (责备) others, it is possible that you will start doing the same as well. If you spend lots of time with people who don’t support your dreams, it is time to take a look at the people you call "friends".
There is an easy exercise you can try. Make a list of the people who you often stay with, and simply stop spending time with the negative people on your list. Set a new standard for yourself and don’t become friends with people who fall below that standard. The choice is always yours to make. Of course, this exercise is entirely different from making friends only for the good of oneself. We really should try to help and spend time with those who are working towards a goal or dream.
小题1:The musicians’ conversation at the beginning is to show that ______.
A.musicians’ living conditions are not good |
B.people in that town have poor taste in music |
C.different people have different attitudes |
D.young people are more likely to succeed |
A.they’ll push you ahead | B.they’ll have an influence on you |
C.they’ll keep you from moving on | D.they’ll help you realize your dreams |
A.He is more active than the others. |
B.He can earn more than the others. |
C.He has more things to do than the others. |
D.His attitude is more positive than the others. |
A.make the right kind of friends |
B.improve your ability to make friends |
C.develop a better relationship with your friends |
D.make some new friends with the same interests as you |
A.the younger musician is a positive person and would be a good friend |
B.one will start complaining if one spends too much time with negative people |
C.the exercise can help you keep close to really helpful friends |
D.one should avoid making friends with people who have lots of difficulties |
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