摘要:She lives , but she doesn't feel . [ ] A.alone, alone B.lonely, lonely C.alone, lonely D.lonely, alone

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  This girl is almost without shelter.She may not realize it, but she’s more exposed to the world than she’s ever likely to be again.And it isn’t because she’s a girl.It could be a boy.It could be you.

  But why is she shelterless?She’s got a place to live in quite a pleasant place by the look of it and if shelter doesn’t mean a house, then what does it mean?When we say someone “lives a sheltered life”, we don’t only mean that their house is comfortable.We mean that they’re protected from too many worries and troubles, that they live in a settled home, probably surrounded by friends and family, and that they don’t have to cope with(应付)the difficulties the world is full of alone.

  Certainly no one would say that this girl was leading a sheltered life;she’s leaving home to earn her living in a strange city and live by herself in a bedsitter.She may be just as well protected physically as a “sheltered life” person, but she’s lost all the other shelters in her life-family, friends, the home she grew up in, school, the groups she belonged to.She’s on her own now and unless she’s very self-reliant(信赖自己的), she’s likely to feel unhappy and insecure(不安全的)at times.

  A young person setting out on her own like this is between the two main kinds of shelter most of us spend our lives in.One is our parents home where we grow up, and the other is the home we make ourselves and where we bring up our own children.For most people the time they spend between or outside these two shelters is only a small part of their lives.

(1)

It can be inferred from the passage that this girl ________.

[  ]

A.

has nowhere to live

B.

will have problems because she’s a girl

C.

is probably going to feel lonely

D.

wants to live in her home again

(2)

When we say someone “lives a sheltered life”, we mean they ________.

[  ]

A.

live in the country

B.

have a comfortable house

C.

don’t have any worries

D.

have a secure home life and don’t have to face problems alone

(3)

One could say that ________.

[  ]

A.

this girl will be unhappy because she is alone

B.

unless this girl is an independent type of person, she’ll probably be unhappy

C.

this girl will have difficulties because she has left school

D.

this girl will probably be unhappy because she is unreliable

(4)

What would be the best title for the passage?

[  ]

A.

Leaving Home

B.

Finding a House

C.

Living with the Family

D.

Making a Better Shelter

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Dorothea Shaw is 71 years old and nearly blind, and she chose to live alone far away from people. She lives in Belize — a county the size of Wales with a population only that of Swansea. Her home is at Gales Point, a tiny village which can be reached only by sea or air; after a 10-mile walk into the hills one finally reaches a piece of land and two small houses so hidden in the thick over-grown forest that only a handful of people know Dorothea is there.

She lives happily and totally alone – growing her vegetables, looking after her trees and dogs, cats and chickens. Once a month or so an old friend passes by with her food supplies and letters-usually including a letter from her sister in Scunthorpe and some bits of clothing from friends in Canada. Sometimes a local man will come and cut wood for her and a group of British soldiers will come across her and be greeted with the offer of a cup of coffee.

At night she lies in her tiny sleeping room with the dogs on the floor, the cats on the table near the typewriter and one of the hens settled down in a corner of the bookshelf, and listens for hours to any Spanish, English, German or French broadcasts she can find on her radio. Sometimes she gets lonely but most of the time the animals and the radio are company enough.

But recently the very things that she had tried to get free from so well have begun to catch up with her. The peace of the forest has been destroyed by the noise of earth-moving machines not many miles away. What she once only heard of distantly on the radio is now on her doorstep. Things began to change three years ago. The new main north-south road in Belize was cut through the forest only four or five miles away. “Now more people know I’m here.” She says. “I feel more and more uneasy each day.”

1.Dorothea’s small houses ________.    

A.are entirely surrounded by trees

B.have always been her home

C.were built for just a few people

D.are in a county with the same population as Wales

2.Dorothea lives in the tiny village because ________.

A.she doesn’t like living near people

B.she is too old to move

C.machines destroyed her home

D.there’s nowhere else for her to live

3. Dorothea doesn’t get lonely since she has _______ with her.

A.her sister

B.some animals

C.friends from Canada

D.a postman

4.Dorothea spends a lot of time __________.

A.growing all the food she needs

B.cutting down trees

C.listening to the radio

D.studying languages

 

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