题目内容
Mary Kom from Manipur won the world women’s boxing championship thrice consecutively （三连冠）or in three straight years in the 46 kilogram category．She won her titles in Turkey in 2004，in Russia in 2005 and in Delhi in 2007．
How many of us know of the achievements of this powerhouse of punches who comes from a remote village in the northeastern state of Manipur．She is a known name，the best in her sport．But in India，many people would be surprised even to know that there is something called women’s boxing．
Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom was born into a farming family in Kangathei village．Life was hard．For her father，who lived by farming，looking after the needs of three daughters and a son was not very easy．At school Mary Kom played football and took part in athletics，but boxing was her secret love．Her inspiration was the Manipuri boxer Dingko Singh who had made a name for himself in the country and abroad．She had al so heard of greats like Muhammad Ali．
In 2000，the teenager had made up her mind．One day she went to the boxing coach at the local centre of the Sports Authority of India and said she wanted to take up boxing．The coach soon discovered that the small built girl had a tremendous fighting spirit．
Mary Kom insisted on going through the same training as the boys．In two weeks she had learnt all the basics．However，her family had no idea of the sport Mary Kom had got into-boxing is seen as a boys’ game and forbidden to girls．That very year Mary Kom won a state championship title in Manipur．Her photograph appeared in the newspapers．Her secret was out and her father was very angry．
1．In her ______year，she got the first world women’s boxing championship since she took up boxing．
A．third B．fourth C．fifth D．sixth
2．The third paragraph tells the background of Mary Kom in order to tell us ______．
A．Mary Kom was a self--independent and determined girl
B．Mary Kom’s father didn’t give her any help
C．Mary Kom wasn’t fit to take up boxing
D．how hard Mary Kom's childhood was
3．From this passage we can infer that ______．
A．Mary Kom took up boxing because of her family’s poverty
B．Mary Kom took up boxing breaking through great resistance
C．Mary Kom’s family were in favour of her choice
D．Mary Kom had quality to take up boxing
4．The most important quality to be a boxer is _____．
A．a strong body B．a small built body
C．tremendous fighting spirit D．strong inspiration
5．This passage mainly tells us that ______．
A．how Mary Kom began to take up boxing
B．Mary Kom's way to success
C．Mary Kom’s idea to be a boxer
D．Mary Kom’s difficulties to become a boxer
BABCB
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Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States, yet she did not start painting until she was in her late seventies. As she once said to herself: " I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me." No one could have had a more productive old age.
She was born Anna Mary Robertson on a farm in New York State, one of five boys and five girls. At twelve she left home and was in domestic service until, at twenty--seven, she married Thomas Moses, the hired hand of one of her employers. They farmed most of their lives, first in Virginia and then in New York State, at Eagle Bridge. She had ten children, of whom five survived; her husband died in 1927.
Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery (刺绣) pictures as a hobby, but only changed to oils in old age because her hands had become too stiff to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at the local drugstore and at a market and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought everything she painted. Three of the pictures exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York. Between the 1930's and her death, she produced some 2,000 pictures: detailed and lively portrayals of the country life she had known for so long, with a wonderful sense of color and form. "I think really hard till I think of something really pretty, and then I paint it" she said.
【小题1】According to the passage, Grandma Moses began to paint because she wanted to_______.
| A．make herself beautiful | B．become famous |
| C．earn more money | D．keep active |
| A．nursing | B．painting | C．farming | D．embroidering |
A. expressions B explanations C. descriptions . D. impressions
【小题4】From Grandma Moses' description of herself in the first paragraph, it can be inferred that she was ________.
| A．pretty | B．nervous | C．rich | D．independent |
| A．The Children of Grandma Moses. | B．Grandma Moses: Her Life and Pictures. |
| C．Grandma Moses: Her Best Exhibition. | D．Grandma Moses and Other Older Artists. |