题目内容
She hoped to earn _____ living by selling drinks.
A. the B. / C. her D. an
C
earn / make one’s living = earn / make a living谋生。
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of the most private women in the world, yet when she went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed (展现) herself as she did nowhere else.
After the death of her second husband, Greek shipping magnate(巨头) Aristotie Onassis Jacqueline’s close friend and former White House secretary Letitia Baldrige made a suggestion that she consider a career in publishing. After consideration, Jacqueline accepted it. Perhaps she hoped to find there some ideas about how to live her own life .She became not less but more interested in reading. For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publisher’s editor, first at Viking, then at Doubleday, pursuing(追求)a late-life career longer than her two marriages combined. During her time in publishing, she was responsible for managing and editing more than 100 successfully marketed books. Among the first books were In the Russian Style and Inventive Paris Clothes. She also succeeded in persuading TV hosts Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell to transform their popular television conversations into a book ,The Power of Myth. The book went on to become an international best-seller. She dealt, too, with Michael Jackson as he prepared his autobiography(自传),Moonwalk.
Jaequeliner may have been hired for her name and for her social relations, but she soon proved her worth. Her choices, suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publishing firms and to Jacqueline herself. In the books she selected for publication, she built on a lifetime of spending time by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind. Her books are the autobiography she never wrote. Her role as First lady, in the end, was overshadowed by her performance as an editor. However, few knew that she had achieved so much.
【小题1】We can learn from the passage that Jacqueline ______.
A.became fond of reading after working as an editor |
B.was in charge of publishing 100 books |
C.promoted her books through social relations |
D.gained a lot from her career as an editor |
A.Jacqueline ended up as an editor rather than as First Lady |
B.Jacqueline’s life as First Lady was more colorful than as an editor |
C.Jacqueline was more successful as an editor than as First Lady |
D.Jacqueline’s role as First Lady was more brilliant than as an editor |
A.Jacqueline’s two marriages lasted more than 20 years |
B.Jacqueline’s own publishing firm was set up eventually |
C.Jacqueline’s views and beliefs were reflected in the books she edited |
D.Jacqueline’s achievements were widely known |
A.an introduction of Jacqueline’s life both as First Lady and as an editor. |
B.a brief description of Jacqueline’s lifelong experiences. |
C.a brief account of Jacqueline’s career as an editor in her last 20 years. |
D.an analysis of Jacqueline’s social relations in publishing |
My 8-year-old daughter is making an experiment. She has been making her own colorful smile cards and often takes them with her everywhere.
Last Sunday, I took my kid to go shopping with me. She was hoping to see John, who is an elderly man and gives out samples. We see him from time to time and he is so happy and friendly. John wasn’t at the store on Sunday, so my daughter decided that it would be a good idea to distribute her smile cards to the store’s other employees.
So she did. In the produce department, she gave a card to a young man and she hoped it would make him smile. And he smiled at her and thanked her. Then she came across an older gentleman who looked rather impatient. And she snuck a card into his cart on top of his groceries, remarking to me later that he looked at her suspiciously as if she was dumping trash in his cart. But I thought he would be happy later.
When we got back from our shopping trip, she had run out of cards. She was walking by a woman with two babies in her cart. My daughter smiled at her and the young mother smiled back. My daughter came to me and said excitedly, “Mom, I just realized something. You don’t need cards to make someone smile. All you need to do is make eye contact and smile into their eyes and they will smile back.”
What a beautiful lesson my daughter reminded me of. You are never too young or too old to experiment with kindness and smiles.
【小题1】At first, the writer’s daughter made an experiment by ______.
A.giving smile cards | B.giving samples |
C.making eye contact | D.giving groceries |
A.who is very young and lively | B.who may be a salesman |
C.who is in trouble and needs smiles | D.who is never seen to smile |
A.make up | B.tear up | C.give out | D.sell out |
A.John got a smile card from the writer’s daughter |
B.the older gentleman would smile later after he got the smile card |
C.we could make others smile only by giving them what they wanted |
D.the mother with two babies smiled because she got a smile card |