题目内容
She may have lacked a home, but now this teen has top honors.
A 17-year old student who spent much of high school living around homeless shelters and sometimes sleeping in her car-today graduated and spoke on behalf of her class at Charles Drew High School in Clayton County, Ga.，just outside of Atlanta.
Chelsea Fearce, who held a 4.466 GPA and scored 1，900 on her SATs despite having to use her cellphone to study after the shelter lights were turned off at night.
"I know I have been made stronger. I was homeless. My family slept on cushions on the floor and we were lucky if we got more than one full meal a day. Getting a shower, food and clean clothes was an everyday struggle,” Fearce said in a speech she gave at her graduation ceremony. Fearce overcame her day-to-day struggles by focusing on a better day. "I just told myself to keep working, because the future will not be like this anymore, she told WSBTV.
Fearce，one of five children, grew up in a family that sometimes had an apartment to live in, but at other times had to live in homeless shelters or even out of their car, if they had one. "You're worried about your home life and then worried at school. Worry about being a little hungry sometimes and go hungry sometimes. You just have to deal with it, You eat what you can, when you can.”
To our surprise, Fearce overcame the difficulties and even tested high enough to be ad- mitted into college halfway through her high school career. She starts college next year at Spelman College as a junior where she is planning to study biology, pre-"med（医学预科），"Don't give up. Do what you have to do right now so that you can have the future that you want,”Fearce said.
1.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. So Many Homeless Students in America
B. How Does a Homeless Student Live in Society?
C. The Hardship of Fearce and Her Family in America
D. Homeless Teen Graduates as a Speaker of High School Class
2.How did Fearce go on with her study without access to lights?
A. By the car light. B. By her cellphone.
C. By lights out of shelters. D. By moonlight.
3.When Fearce starts college at Spelman College, she will＿__．
A. have graduated earlier from high school than normal
B. be a 17-year-old student from a poor family
C. have a home without sleeping in her car or shelters
D. have raised enough money to go to college
4.From the passage, we can learn that＿__．
A. SAT is easy for the students of high schools
B. Fearce's parents have six children to support
C. Fearce often had to struggle with starvation
D. Fearce gave a speech at a ceremony of Spelman College
5.What can we learn from Fearce's experience?
A. Knowledge can change your fate.
B. Don't give up, and tomorrow will be better.
C. Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
D. He that will not work shall not eat.
1.D
2.B
3.A
4.C
5.B
【解析】
试题分析：文章介绍Fearce是个无家可归的孩子，但是她通过自己的努力提早高中毕业被大学录取，从她的经历我们知道不能放弃，明天会更好。
1.主旨题：从第二段的句子：A 17-year old student who spent much of high school living around homeless shelters-and sometimes sleeping in her car-today graduated and spoke on behalf of her class 可知这篇文章讲的是：无家可归的毕业生做高中班级的演讲者，选D
2.细节题：从第三段的句子：having touse he r cellphone to study after the shelter lights were turned off at night.可知她是用手机照明的，选B
3.推理题：从最后一段的句子：To our surprise, Fearce overcame the difficulties and even tested high enough to be ad-mitted into college halfway through her high school career. 可知她上大学是提前高中毕业的，选A
4.细节题：从第四段的句子：we were lucky if we got more than one full meal a day. Getting a shower, food and clean clothes was an everyday struggle,” 可知她经常要和饥饿做斗争，选C
5.细节题：从最后一段的句子："Don't give up. Do what you have to do right now so that you can have the future that you want,”Fearce said.可知从她的经历看我们不能放弃，明天会更好，选B
考点：考查故事类短文
You've heard of the fat suit and the pregnancy suit；now meet AGNES—the old person suit．
AGNES stands for “Age Gain Now Empathy(换位体验) System” and was designed by researchers at MIT's AgeLab to let you know what it feels like—physically—to be 75 years old．“The business of old age demands new tools，”said Joseph Coughlin，director of the AgeLab．“While focus groups and observations and surveys can help you understand what the older consumer needs and wants，young marketers never get that‘Ah ha!’moment of having difficulty opening a jar, or getting in and out of a car．That’s what AGNES provides．”
Coughlin and his team carefully adjusted the suit to make the wearer just as uncomfortable as an old person who has spent a lifetime eating poorly and not doing much exercise．Special shoes provide a feeling of imbalance，while braces on the knees and elbows limit joint mobility．Gloves give the feeling of decreased strength and mobility in the hands and wrists，and earplugs make it difficult to hear high—pitched sounds and soft tones．A helmet with straps(带)attached to it presses the spine(脊柱)，and more straps attached to the shoes decrease hamstring flexibility, and shortens the wearer's step．
AGNES has been used most recently by a group of students working on a design of an updated walker．By wearing the suit they could see for themselves what design and materials would make the most sense for a physically limited older person．Coughlin said the suit has also been used by clothing companies，car companies and retail goods companies to help them understand the limitations of an older consumer．
“AGNES is not the destiny of everybody,” he said．“She is a badly behaved lady who didn't eat and exercise very well．A secondary benefit we’ve found with AGNES is that it has become a powerful tool to get younger people to invest in their long-term health．”
【小题1】AGNES has been developed to ．
| A．make the users more comfortable |
| B．1et us understand old people better |
| C．help old people move more quickly |
| D．produce new tools for the old-age business |
| A．someone who travels a lot |
| B．a physically limited old person |
| C．some equipment that helps old people walk |
| D．a company whose service involves old people |
| A．Young people respect old people． |
| B．Old-age business improves their service |
| C．Old people eat and exercise well． |
| D．Young people eat and exercise well． |