Question

【题目】 I’m a 34-year-old man, married, lived in a nice house, and have a successful career. But my life was not always so great. I had a learning disability from an early age. I went to a special school where I got plenty of extra（额外的）help. Still, I suffered（遭受）the rest of my school days in public schools.

My life improved greatly when I discovered art. The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words. I went to a workshop and gradually became good at making things with clay. Here I learned my first important lesson: disabled as I was in language, I could still be smart and well express myself with clay. And my confidence（自信）came along.

I got my next lesson from rock climbing. It was a fun thing but I was scared from the start. I soon noticed it wasn’t an easy thing: it needed lots of practice. So I did it more. After about five years of climbing, I found myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall. I learned that if you fall in love with something and do it all the time, you will get better at it.

Later I decided to learn how to read and write. I practiced reading and writing, which I used to avoid as much as possible. After two years, I was literate（有文化的）.

Through the long process with art, climbing, and reading and writing, now I’ve got to a point in my life: I am smart enough to dive into（潜入）an area that is totally unknown, hard, but interesting.

【1】The writer’s _____________________________________ made his school days difficult.

【2】The writer got confidence from art because it gave him ___________________________.

【3】What else did the writer learn besides art and climbing?

【4】找出并写下第二段主题句。

_______________________________________________________________________________________.

【5】将文中画线句子译成汉语。

_______________________________________________________________________________________.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】learning disability

【2】a chance to express himself without words

【3】reading and writing

【4】My life improved greatly when I discovered art.

【5】我很快察觉到这不是一件容易的事，它需要大量练习。

【解析】

本文是一篇记叙文，讲述了作者小时候有学习障碍，所以学生时代学习很困难，但是他不放弃。当他发现艺术时，他的生活有了明显的改善，艺术帮助他不用语言也可以很好地表达自己。

【1】根据“I had a learning disability from an early age”，可知是他的学习障碍使得他学习困难，故答案为learning disability。

【2】根据“The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words”，可知艺术给他机会不用语言也可以很好地表达自己，故答案为a chance to express himself without words。

【3】根据“Later I decided to learn how to read and write”，可知他还学了读和写，故答案为reading and writing。

【4】通读整段，可知该段主要围绕“My life improved greatly when I discovered art”展开，讲述了作者发现艺术后生活是如何改善的，故答案为My life improved greatly when I discovered art.

【5】soon意为“很快”，noticed意为“察觉到”，其后跟一个省略引导词that的宾语从句；it是宾从的主语，easy thing意为“容易的事”；needed意为“需要”，lots of意为“大量的”，修饰其后名词practice，意为“练习”，故答案为“我很快察觉到这不是一件容易的事，它需要大量练习”。