题目内容
From poor beginnings to most expensive playerZINEDINE Zidane，who dreams of leading France to its second World Cup title in a row next month，has always preferred to express himself with a football rather
than with words．
Last Wednesday Zidane scored the decisive goal when Real Madrid of Spain won the Champions League final against Germany's Leverkusen 2一1．
He became one of the world’s most expensive players when he joined Real Madrid from Italy's Juventus for US $ 66 million．And he has been a national hero since he scored twice in the 3-O defeat of Brazil in the 1998 World Cup Final．
But despite his success，Zidane has always kept his feet on the ground．He leads a quite family life. There is hardly any gossip about him and he avoids putting his wife and two children in the spotlight．
“Just because I'm a public figure , it doesn't mean I have to express myself on everything．I don't like to discuss some personal matters publicly．”he said．
Even as a child playing football in the slum area of Marseille，France，where he was raised by his Algerian parents，Zidane was shy．
He loved football even as a little kid．“I realized football is a wonderful mixture of a sharp mind and hard training rather than just talking，”he said．
Even when the match awards were just chocolate and bread，Zidane found that football made his poor childhood rich．
Before he was 10 years old，it was obvious that he could become a great footballer．He was offered his first professional contract(合同)when he was just 20．Now，at the age of 29，he has already picked up two World Player of the year awards．
This quiet striker has not yet spoken of his hopes for the coming World Cup．But his fans across the world will be eagerly watching him to see what he'll do this time．
1. What did Zidane learn from his childhood football experience? He learned that_____________.
A．he could become a great footballer
B．he could become rich if he became a footballer
C．football is a mixture of a sharp mind and hard training but not just talking
D．football is a favorite sport in the future
2. According to the article，what are Zidane’s main characteristics?
A．He is a shy but successful man．
B．H e loves his wife and children．
C．He doesn't like to speak in public．
D．He is a quiet，down—to earth person of few words．
3. When the writer says “Zidane has always kept his feet on the ground”,he means_________.
A．Zidane spends more time standing than sitting most days
B．Zidane is a down-to earth person
C．Zidane has spent most of his time training on the pitch
D．Zidane likes standing when he succeeds
4. The sentence “Zidane found that football made his poor childhood rich”means___________．
A．football made Zidane's poor family wealthy when he was a child
B．Zidane knew that football could bring him fame and wealth even when he was a child
C．football brought happiness to Zidane when he was a child in a poor family
D．Zidane knew that if he wanted to be rich he must play football from childhood
解析：
| 1、细节题。由文中倒数第四段：“即使是个小孩他就热爱足球了，他意识到了足球的本质是什么。”
2、概括题。由文中第四段可推断。 3、猜义题。由上下文可知。 4、猜义题。即使当时的比赛奖品只是巧克力面包，他发现足球使他穷的童年生活变得富足了。
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提示：
We are all interested in equality, but while some people try to protect the school and examination system in the name of equality, others, still in the name of equality, want only to destroy it.
Any society which is interested in equality of opportunity and standards of achievement must regularly test its pupils. The standards may be changed — no examination is perfect — but to have no tests or examination would mean the end of equality and of standards. There are groups of people who oppose this view and who do not believe either in examinations or in any controls in schools or on teachers. This would mean that everything would depend on luck since every pupil would depend on the efficiency the values and the purpose of each teacher.
Without examinations, employers will look for employees from the highly respected schools and from families known to them — a form of favouritism will replace equality at the moment. The bright child from an ill-respected school can show certificates to prove he or she is suitable for a job, while the lack of certificate indicates the unsuitability of a dull child attending a well-respected school. This defense of excellence and opportunity would disappear if examinations were taken away, and the bright child from a poor family would be a prisoner of his or her school’s reputation, unable to compete for employment with the child from the favoured school.
The opponents of the examination system suggest that examinations are an evil force because they show differences between pupils. According to these people, there must be no special, different, academic class. They have even suggested that there should be no form of difference in sport or any other area: all jobs or posts should be filled by unsystematic selection. The selection would be made by people who themselves are probably selected by some computer.
1. The word “favouritism” in paragraph 3 is used to describe the phenomenon that .
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A．bright children also need certificates to get satisfying jobs. |
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B．poor children with certificates are favoured in job markets. |
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C．children from well-respected schools tend to have good jobs. |
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D．children attending ordinary schools achieve great success. |
2.. What would happen if examinations were taken away according to the author?
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A．Schools for bright children would lose their reputation. |
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B．There would be more opportunities and excellence. |
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C．Children from poor families would be able to change their schools. |
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D．Children’s job opportunity would be affected by their school reputation. |
3.. The opponents of the examination system will agree that .
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A．jobs should not be assigned by systematic selection |
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B．computers should be selected to take over many jobs. |
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C．special classes are necessary to keep the school standards |
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D．schools with academic subjects should be done away with |
4.. The passage mainly focuses on .
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A．schools and certificates |
B．examination and equality |
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C．opportunity and employment |
D．standards and reputation |