题目内容
A school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids from my window as they played basketball. One day, among the children a girl attracted me. She seemed so small as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys. Running circles around the other kids, she managed to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the net with no one to stop her. Sometimes, I saw her play alone. She would practice dribbling (带球) and shooting over and over again until dark.
One day I asked her why she practiced so much. Without hesitation, she said, “I want to go to college. The only way I can go is that I get a scholarship. If I were good enough, I would get a scholarship. I like basketball. My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.” Then she smiled and ran towards the court to go on with practice.
I watched her through junior high and into high school. Every week, she led her school team to victory. One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head cradled (抱) in her arms. I went over there and sat down beside her. The coach told her that as a player as tall as
She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tighten as I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They did not understand the power of a dream. He told her that if she really wanted to play for a good college and if she truly wanted a scholarship, nothing could stop her except one thing ― her own attitude. He told her again, “If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”
The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college recruiter (招聘人员), and was offered a full scholarship, to a NCAA women’s basketball team. She was going to college, which she had dreamed of and worked toward for all those years.
41. Which of the following is true about the girl according to the passage?
A. She sometimes played alone because she was too short.
B. She played basketball so well that she could compete against some boys.
C. She believed girls had to pay more than boys to succeed.
D. She felt sad when her coach didn’t allow her to play for a college team.
42. What can we learn from the story?
A. Follow your dream and you’ll make it sooner or later.
B. Take our teachers’ advice when making a decision.
C. Whoever wants to succeed must get a scholarship.
D. Failure is the mother of success.
43. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Anyone who dreams every day will surely succeed.
B. Basketball players can go to college without studying well.
C. It’s not easy to become a member of NCAA basketball team.
D. Only if you have a good teacher can you succeed.
44. The coach advised the girl to quit because he thought ___________.
A. she had lost confidence in her ability to play well
B. she had been good enough to get a scholarship
C. she couldn’t get along well with her teammates
D. she was too short to realize her dream
BACD
D
This brief book is aimed at high school students , but speaks to anyone learning at any stage of life.
Its formal ,serious style closely matches its content ,a school-masterly book on schooling .The author , W .H . Armstrong ,starts with the basics : reading and writing . In his opinion , reading doesn’t just mean recognizing each word on the page ; it means taking in the information, digesting it and incorporating it into oneself just as one digests a sandwich and makes it a part of himself .The goal is to bring the information back to life , not just to treat it as dead facts on paper from dead trees . Reading and writing cannot be completely separated from each other ; in fact ,the aim of reading is to express the information you have got from the text .I’ve seen it again and again ：someone who can’t express an idea after reading a text is just as ineffective as someone who hasn’t read it at all.
Only a third of the book remains after that discussion, which Armstrong devotes to specific tips for studying languages, math, science and history. He generally handles these topics thoroughly and equally, except for some weakness in the science and math sections and a bit too much passion regarding history. Well, he was a history teacher---if conveyed only a tenth of his passion to his students, that was a hundred times more than my history teachers ever got across .To my disappointment, in this part of the book he ignores the arts. As a matter of fact, they demand all the concentration and study that math and science do, though the study differs slightly in kind. Although it’s commonly believed that the arts can only be naturally acquired ,actually ,learning the arts is no mor
e natural than learning French or mathematics.
My other comment is that the text aged. The first edition apparently dates to the 1960s—none of the references(参考文献)seem newer than the late 1950s. As a result, the discussion misses the entire computer age.
These are small points, though, and don’t 
affect the main discussion. I recommend it to any student and any teacher, including the self-taught student.
【小题1】According to Armstrong, the goal of reading is to________.
| A．gain knowledge and expand one’s view |
| B．understand the meaning between the lines |
| C．express ideas based on what one has read |
| D．get information and keep it alive in memory |
| A．requires great efforts |
| B．demands real passion |
| C．is less natural than learning math |
| D．is as natural as learning a language |
| A．Some ideas are slightly contradictory. |
| B．There is too much discussion on studying science. |
| C．The style is too serious. |
| D．It lacks new information. |
| A．an advertisement |
| B．a book review |
| C．a feature story |
| D．A news report |