题目内容
When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame(克服)these terrible problems to win a highly competitive scholarship(奖学金)and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”, shown in late April.
Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up with two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.
Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.
She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time.”
Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.
1. In which order did the following things happen to Liz?
a. Her mother died of AIDS. b. She worked at a petrol station.
c. She got admitted into Harvard. d. The movie about her life was put on.
e. She had trouble finding a place to sleep.
A. b, a, e, c, d B. a, b, c, e, d C. e, d, b, a, c D. b, e, a, d, c
2. The main idea of the passage is ________.
A. how Liz managed to enter Harvard University
B. what a hard time Liz had in her childhood
C. why Liz loved her parents so much
D. how Liz struggled to change her life
3. What actually made her go towards her goal?
A. Envy and encouragement. B. Willpower and determination.
C. Decisions and understanding. D. Love and respect for her parents.
4. When she wrote “What drove me to live on ... I had only experienced a small part of the society”, she meant that ________.
A. she had no place in the world B. she could hardly understand the society
C. she would do something for her own life D. she needed to travel more around the world
ADBC
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I prefer reading cartoon books,and as usual, parents |
(1)____ |
are against my favorite things.I have to read these book |
(2)____ |
at night when other people fall asleep.One night I became |
(3)____ |
so interested in reading it that I forgot to do my Chinese |
(4)____ |
homework. On my way school I had a good idea. So when |
(5)____ |
my Chinese teacher, he is very strict, asked me why I |
(6)____ |
have not handed in my homework, I stood up and said |
(7)____ |
softly, “Last night when I was doing my homework, my |
(8)____ |
little brother played a trick on me and spilled the ink all |
(9)____ |
over my homework, so ...”On hear this,my teacher asked, |
(10)____ |
“Aren't you the only son in your family?” |
When other nine-year–old kids were playing games , she was working at a petrol station.When other teens were studying or going out , she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street.But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholar and gain entry to Harvard University.
Her amazing story has inspired a move , “ Homeless to Harvard : The Liz Murray Story ”, shown in late April.
Liz Murray , a year- old American girl , has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination.
Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted.There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house.Liz was the only member of the family who had a job.
Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old.The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life.Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died , she decided to do something about it.
Liz went back to school.She threw herself into her studies , never telling her teachers that she was homeless.At night , she lived on the streets.
“ What drove me to survive had to do with understanding , by understanding that there was a whole other way of being.I had only experienced a small part of the society , ” she wrote in her book “ Breaking Night ”.
She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on.She used the benefits that come easily to others , such as a safe living environment , to encourage herself that “ next to nothing could hold me down ”.
She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University.But Liz decided to leave her top university for a couple of moths earlier this year in order to take care of her father , who has also developed AIDS.“ I love my parents so much.They are drug addicts.But I never forget that they love me all the time.”
Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “ as simple a making a decision.”
【小题1】In which order did the following thing happen to Liz ?
a.Mum died b.Worked at the petrol station
c.Got admitted into Harvard d.had trouble finding a place to sleep
A.b-a-d-c | B.a-b-d-c | C.d-b –a –c | D.b-d-a –c |
A.To go back to school | B.To go to the best university |
C.To survive | D.To live a different life from her parents |
A.Envy | B.Her love for her parents |
C.He Mum’s death | D.Her willpower and determination |
A.wanted to encourage herself |
B.suggested something she wanted for her life |
C.suggested people often look back |
D.meant that she had little experience |
Dogs have an understanding of fair play and become angry if they feel that another dog is getting a better deal, a new study has found.
The study looked at how dogs react when a companion is rewarded for the same trick in an unequal way. Friederike Range, a famous researcher, and her colleagues did a series of experiments with dogs who knew how to respond to the command “give the paw”. The dogs were normally happy to repeatedly give the paw, whether they got a reward or not.
But that changed if they saw that another dog was being rewarded with a piece of food, while they received nothing. The dogs hesitated significantly longer when obeying the command to give the paw. Eventually, the unrewarded dogs stopped cooperating.
Researchers always assumed that only humans pay close attention to unfairness. That changed in 2003 when Frans De Waal, a professor of psychology, and a colleague named Sarah Brosnan did a survey on monkeys. Monkeys had to hand a small rock to researchers to get a piece of cucumber(黄瓜) in return. However, the monkeys would suddenly become angry when receiving the piece of cucumber if they saw another monkey receive a more delicious reward, such as a grape, for doing the same job. The monkey that got the cucumber would eventually throw away the food and the rock, and would later just stop performing.
In that experiment, the monkeys considered the fairness of two different types of payment, but when Range and her colleagues did a similar study with their trained dogs, testing to see if dogs would become upset if they only got bread when other dogs received sausage, they found that dogs did not make that kind of subtle (细微的) distinction. As long as the dogs got some kind of food payment, even if it wasn’t the most delicious kind, they would play along.
1. The dogs refused to give their paws when they _____________________.
A.were given too much reward |
B.realized they received less food |
C.found another dog was given nothing |
D.felt they were being treated unequally |
2.The underlined word “that” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to “__________________”.
A.the dogs obeyed the command happily |
B.the dogs waited for a reward |
C.the dogs hesitated to give the paw |
D.the dogs stopped cooperating |
3.The monkeys would become angry if they found _____________________.
A.they were being given the same type of food |
B.another monkey did much less work |
C.another monkey was offered tastier food |
D.other monkeys threw food and rocks |
4. Range finds that, compared with monkeys, dogs __________________.
A.enjoy playing interesting games with humans |
B.prefer to do the same jobs as humans |
C.pay little attention to the type of reward received |
D.aren’t sensitive to the stimulation (刺激) of food |