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【题目】Elizabeth Freeman was born about 1742 to African American parents who were slaves. At the age of six months she was acquired, along with her sister, by John Ashley, a wealthy Massachusetts slaveholders. She became known as Mumbet or Mum Bett.

For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family. One day, Ashleys wife tried to strike Mumbets sister with a spade. Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead. Furious(狂怒的), she left the house and refused to come back. When the Ashleys tried to make her return, Mumbet consulted a lawyer, Theodore Sedgewick. With his help, Mumbet sued(起诉) for her freedom.

While serving the Ashleys, Mumbet had listened to many discussions of the new Massachusetts constitution. If the constitution said that all people were free and equal, then she thought it should apply to her. Eventually, Mumbet won her freedom---- the first slave in Massachusetts to do so under the new constitution.

Strangely enough, after the trial, the Ashleys asked Mumbet to come back and work for them as a paid employee. She declined and instead went to work for Segdewick. Mumbet died in 1829, but her legacy lived on in her many descendants(后裔). One of her great-grandchildren was W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founder of the NAACP, and an important writer and spokesperson for African American civil rights.

Mumbets tombstone still stands in the Massachusetts cemetery where she was buried. It reads, in part: She was born a slave and remained a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior or equal.

【1】What do we know about Mumbet according to Paragraph 1?

A. She was born a slave

B. She was a slaveholder

C. She had a famous sister

D. She was born into a rich family

【2】What did Mumbet learn from discussions about the new consititution?

A. She should always obey her owners’ orders

B. How to apply for a job

C. How to be a good servant

D. She should be as free and equal as whites

【3】What did Mumbet do after the trial?

A. She chose to work for a lawyer

B. She found the NAACP

C. She continued to serve the Ashleys

D. She went to live with her grandchildren

【4】What is the test mainly about?

A. A story of a famous writer and spokesperson

B. The friendship between a lawyer and a slave

C. A trial that shocked the whole world

D. The life of a brave African American woman

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】D

【3】A

【4】D

【解析】试题分析：这是一片人物传记。本文讲述了一位勇敢的奴隶为了获得自由和平等权而努力斗争的故事。

【1】A考查细节理解题。reeman was born about …who were slaves.” 可知，Mumbet出生在一个奴隶家庭里，所 以她也是一个奴隶。故选A。

【2】D细节理解题。the constitution said that all…she thought it should apply to her”可知，Mumbet在新宪法 的讨论中知道了所有人都是自由和平等的， 故选D。

【3】A细节理解题 Mumbet consulted a lawyer, 在审判之后拒绝了Ashleys家的聘用，去为律师Sedgewick工作，故选A

【4】D主旨理解题。通过阅读文章可知， 本文讲述的是一位勇敢的奴隶为了获得自由 而做出的努力。故选D。