题目内容
________ years and years, he didn't come back nor a word from him.
- A.Over
- B.For
- C.After
- D.Of
When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship（奖学金）and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”, shown in late April.
Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted（吸毒）parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.
Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets.“What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,”she wrote in her book Breaking Night.
She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time.”
Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.
1.In which order did the following things happen to Liz?
a. Her mother died of AIDS. b. She worked at a petrol station.
c. She got admitted into Harvard. d. The movie about her life was put on.
e. She had trouble finding a place to sleep.
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A．b, a, e, c, d |
B．a, b, c, e, d |
C．e, d, b, a, c |
D．b, e, a, d, c |
2.The main idea of the passage is ________.
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A．how Liz managed to enter Harvard University |
B．what a hard time Liz had in her childhood |
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C．why Liz loved her parents so much |
D．how Liz struggled to change her life |
3.What actually made her go towards her goal?
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A．Envy and encouragement. |
B．Willpower and determination. |
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C．Decisions and understanding. |
D．Love and respect for her parents. |
4.When she wrote “What drove me to live on...I had only experienced a small part of the society”, she meant that ________.
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A．she had little experience of social life |
B．she could hardly understand the society |
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C．she would do something for her own life |
D．she needed to travel more around the world |
Women are on their way to holding more than half of all American jobs. The latest government report shows that their share of non-farm jobs nearly reached fifty percent in September, 2009.
The job market continues to suffer the effects of last year’s financial crash. On the one hand more women have entered the labor market over the years, and on the other hand the economic recession (衰退) has hit men harder than women. In October the unemployment rate for men was almost 11% compared to 8% for women.
Industries that traditionally use lots of men have suffered deep cuts. For example, manufacturing (制造业) and building lost more jobs last month. But health care and temporary employment services have had job growth. Both of those industries employ high percentages of women.
Thirty years ago, women earned sixty-two cents for every dollar that men earned. Now, for those who usually work full time, women earn about eighty percent of what men earn. And a recent study from the University of California, Davis, reveals that women hold fifty-one percent of well-paid management and professional jobs. Yet the study also shows that men still hold about nine out of every ten top positions at most companies. The results have remained largely unchanged for five years.
Also, a new research paper in the journal Sex Roles looks at the experiences of women who are the main earners in their families. Rebecca Meisenbach at the University of Missouri in Columbia interviewed fifteen women. She found that they all value their independence and many enjoy having the power of control, though not all want it. But they even feel more pressure and worry. That is partly because of cultural expectations that working women should still take care of the children. Also, men who are not the main earners may feel threatened.
1.Which of the following is a reason why women have a larger share of jobs?
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A．Women workers are paid less than men. |
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B．More women now have higher education than men. |
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C．The economic recession has affected men more than women. |
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D．Industries that traditionally use lots of men now need more women. |
2.There have been an increasing number of jobs for women in .
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A．manufacturing |
B．building |
C．health care |
D．farming |
3.In the late 1970s, if a man earned 500 dollars a month, a woman probably earned .
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A．＄260 |
B．＄310 |
C．＄400 |
D．＄500 |
4.If a woman is the main earner in her family, she probably .
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A．hopes to be less independent |
B．has the power of control |
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C．feels a bit threatened |
D．is less worried |