Question

【题目】阅读下面短文, 完成文后小题

Pat McGee noticed her daughter hadn't returned to the dentist's waiting room just before her operation (手术).

She walked to the bathroom and found Jessica McDaniels, 32, in there, crying.

McGee took her daughter into her arms.

"We're going to say 'goodbye' to the old Jessica," she said. "And 'hi' to the new Jessica."

McDaniels, from St. Louis, US, had been wishing for this day since high school, when the bullying (霸凌) about her teeth started. Now that it was finally happening, she was worried and afraid.

It was a social media post（媒体帖子）two months ago that got her there. Someone posted a photo of McDaniels with words about her overbite (龅牙). (A)The post was shared many times, with many people making mean words on her appearance.

The bullies didn't know the road McDaniels had traveled. She had nine operations on her ears from age 2 to 12 years old. She was almost deaf in her right ear. Her adult teeth didn't start coming in until she was 11 or 12, and doctors couldn't (B) figure out why they were pushed outward. It got worse as she got older. McDaniels had been trying for years to get her teeth fixed, but it was always too expensive.

When her story got out, dentists wanted to help her. One of them, Maryann Udy, got in contact with McDaniels and offered her a new smile for free. McDaniels wasn't sure at first, so she called her mother. The mother told her that Udy was her angel. "You need to do it," she told her daughter.

The operation was long and complicated (复杂的). It took weeks for the swelling (肿块) to go down, and several more months before McDaniels' new smile was ready.

Later that year, she looked at her old photos online and smiled. "I loved (C)her," she said.

"She's thankful to be in less pain, to be on the way to a new smile. Sometimes, though, it feels like something is missing from who she was."

Still, she loves taking selfies（自拍） and admiring her new appearance.

"I looked good before," she said. "I look even better now."

【1】回答问题:How did McDaniels feel before she had the operation that Maryann Udy offered her?

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【2】翻译(A) 处划线句子：

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【3】从文中找出与“She could hardly hear anything in her right ear.”意思相同或相近的句子

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【4】根据上下文, 翻译(B) 处黑体词figure out

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【5】用英语解释(C)处划线单词 her 指代的是什么？

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Answer 1

【答案】

【1】Nervous（worried and afraid）.

【2】帖子被转发了许多次, 充满了人们对她外貌的卑劣的语言。

【3】She was almost deaf in her right ear.

【4】明白

【5】a new Jessica McDaniels

【解析】

文章讲述了McDaniels因为疾病有龅牙，她在上学时期经常受到欺负，后来她的照片被传到社交媒体上，得到了医生们的免费治疗，现在她更加自信了。

【1】根据文中Now that it was finally happening, she was worried and afraid. 现在事情终于发生了，她又担心又害怕。可知她手术前世很紧张的，又担心又害怕，故答案为Nervous / worried and afraid。

【2】The post帖子；was shared被分享；many times很多次；with介词，表示伴随；many people很多人；making制造；mean words低劣的话语；on关于；her appearance她的外貌；综合之后可以看出，这里表达的是“帖子伴随着对她外貌的低劣的语言被转发很多次”，故答案为：帖子被转发了许多次, 充满了人们对她外貌的卑劣的语言。

【3】根据所给的句子She could hardly hear anything in her right ear. 她右耳几乎听不到任何声音。可知文中的She was almost deaf in her right ear.是与题目中所给的意思相同的，都是说她的右耳朵几乎听不见，故答案为She was almost deaf in her right ear.

【4】根据文中句子Her adult teeth didn’t start coming in until she was 11 or 12, and doctors couldn’t (B) figure out why they were pushed outward. 直到她11岁或12岁，她的恒牙才开始长出来，医生们无法……为什么它们会向外长。可知，这里的figure out指的是弄明白，搞清楚，故答案为：明白。

【5】根据文中“She’s thankful to be in less pain, to be on the way to a new smile. Sometimes, though, it feels like something is missing from who she was.” “她很感激自己能少受点痛苦，在通往新微笑的路上。不过，有时候，她觉得自己身上少了些什么。”可知前句中的her指的是她手术之后的全新的自己，故答案为a new Jessica McDaniels。