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【题目】Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of the most private women in the world, yet when she went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed(展现)herself as she did nowhere else.

After the death of her second husband, Greek shipping magnate(巨头)Aristotle Onassis, Jacqueline’s close friend and former White House social secretary Letitia Baldrige made a suggestion that she consider a career in publishing. After consideration, Jacqueline accepted it. Perhaps she hoped to find there some idea about how to live her own life. She became not less but more interested in reading. For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publisher’s editor, first at Viking, then at Doubleday, pursuing(追求)a late-life career longer than her two marriages combined. During her time in publishing, she was responsible for managing and editing more than 100 successfully marketed books. Among the first books were In the Russian Style and Inventive Paris Clothes. She also succeeded in persuading TV hosts Bill Moyer’s and Jose Campbell to transform their popular television conversations into a book, The Power of Myth. The book went on to become an international best-seller. She dealt, too, with Michael Jackson as he prepared his autobiography(自传), Moonwalk.

Jacqueline may have been hired for name and for her social relations, but she soon proved her worth. Her choices, suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publishing firms and to Jacqueline herself. In the books she selected for publication, she built on a lifetime of spending time by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind. Her books are the autobiography she never wrote._____________the end, was overshadowed by her performance as an editor. However, few knew that she had achieved so much.

1We can learn from the passage that Jacqueline _________

A. became fond of reading after working as an editor

B. was in charge of publishing 100 books

C. promoted her books through social relations

D. gained a lot from her career as an editor

2The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means that_________

A. Jacqueline was more successful as an editor than as First Lady

B. Jacqueline’s life as First Lady was more colorful than as an editor

C. Jacqueline ended up as an editor rather as First Lady

D. Jacqueline’s role as First Lady was more brilliant than as an editor

3What can be inferred from the passage?

A. Jacqueline’s two marriages lasted more than 20 years

B. Jacqueline’s views and beliefs were reflected in the books she edited

C. Jacqueline’s own publishing firm was set up eventually

D. Jacqueline’s achievements were widely known.

4The passage is mainly______________

A. a brief account of Jacqueline’s career as an editor in her last 20 years

B. a brief description of Jacqueline’s lifelong experiences

C. an introduction of Jacqueline’s life both as First Lady and as an editor

D. an analysis of Jacqueline’s social relations in publishing

【答案】

1D

2A

3B

4A

【解析】试题分析:本文对第一夫人作为编辑的卓越表现做了简介。

1D细节分析题。根据第一段最后一句, she revealed(展现)herself as she did nowhere else.此人做了编辑后,充分展现了自己,这是她在其他任何领域都没有过的,所以可以推断这个工作让她很受益。故选D

2A细节分析题。根据最后一段倒数第二句, Her role as First Lady, in the end, was overshadowed by her performance as an editor,故她作为编辑的表现使她第一夫人的角色黯然失色,推断她做编辑更加成功,故选A

3B推理分析题。第二段第四句,A不符;根据最后一段第四句In the books she selected for publication, she built on a lifetime of spending time by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind。她挑选出版的书里面,她在阐述自己一生的读书经历以及成长的心路历程,所以推测在她的书里面自然是有她自己的观点,故选B

4A总结分析题。本文通篇都在简要介绍她做编辑的一些事情,即简要描述了她的编辑生涯,故选A

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