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my mother fought strongly against it. When she saw me studying a photograph of my father on the sports
ground of Cornell, she tore it up.
"You can"t say it"s not a great university, just because Papa went there."
"That"s not it at all. And it is a top university." She was still holding the pieces in her hand. "But we can"t
afford to send you to college."
"I wouldn"t dream of asking you for money. Do you want me to get a job to help support you and Papa?
Things aren"t that bad, are they?"
"No," she said. "I don"t expect you to help support us."
Father borrowed money from his rich cousins to start a small jewellery shop, His chief customers were
his old college friends. To get new customers, my mother had to help. She picked up a long-forgotten
membership in the local league of women, so that she could get to know more people. Whether those people
would turn into customers was another question. I knew that my Parents had to wait for quite a long time
before their small investment (投资) could show returns. What"s more, they had not wanted enough to be rich
and successful; otherwise they could not possibly have managed their lives so badly.
I was torn between the desire to help them and change, their lives, and the determination not to repeat their
mistakes. I had a strong belief in my power to go what I wanted. After months of hard study I won a full
college scholarship (奖学金). My father could hardly contain his pride in me, and my mother eventually gave
in before my success.
B. his mother did not thinks it a great university
C. his parents needed him to help support the family
D. his parents did not have enough money for him
B. his university
C. his relatives
D. his college friends
B. To raise money for her son
C. To meet her long-forgotten friends
D. To better manage her life
B. To improve relations with his mother
C. To go to his dream university
D. To carry on with his father"s business
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试题【阅读理解。 In early autumn I applied for admission to college. I wanted to go now】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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When Mum 1 in October 2007, I was a cook. In December that year, while I was working for a wedding,
a pearl necklace Mum had left me 2 . I was distraught (忧心如焚的). Some days later, I was 3 that a guy
who was working with us that day, "could probably have made a fortune 4 the necklace he found." 5 , he
returned it. Hearing he I"d 6 Mum for six months before her death, he said, "Christmas is going to be 7 -
why not go out to the Alps for a couple of weeks?"
I come to Morzaine, a small, friendly village in the Alps and 8 fell in love with it. What was 9 to be a
stopgap (权宜之计) trip turned into a new life. I kept travelling between London and here and felt 10 than I
had in months. In December 2008, I was 11 as a hotel manager and moved here full time.
A month later, I met Paul, who was traveling here. We fell in love. In the beginning, I didn"t want to discuss
12 , because the sadness of losing Mum 13 felt great. Paul understood that and sever 14 me. But, by
summer, we got married. A year later, we used his saving, and the money from the sale of Mom"s house, to
build our own 15 .
We want to give our guests a 16 feel, so each room is themed (以……为题) around memories from our
lives. There are also styles to remind me of Mom-a tiny chair which 17 be in her bedroom is set in one room.
We are having a wonderful life Mum 18 naturally part of it, 19 there"s no way we would be here if it
wasn"t for the 20 she gave me. I know she"s here in spirit, keeping an eye on us.
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| In the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am later I am still a bright- eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell. My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait. Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No.3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy. You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 81. Our home was a complete zoo-a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant talking as few as one class each semester. The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit, But I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives. In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree! I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you"re looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you"re in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won"t arrive in your life on one day. It"s a process. Remember: little steps add up to big dreams. | |||||||||||||||||
| 1. When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be _____. | |||||||||||||||||
| A. a writer B. a teacher C. a judge D. a doctor | |||||||||||||||||
| 2. Why did the author quit school in her second year of college? | |||||||||||||||||
| A. She wanted to study by herself. B. She fell in love and got married. C. She suffered from a serious illness. D. She decided to look after her grandma. | |||||||||||||||||
| 3. What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5? | |||||||||||||||||
| A. She was buy yet happy with her family life. B. She ignored her guilty feeling for her sons. C. She wanted to remain a full-time housewife. D. She was too confused to make a correct choice. | |||||||||||||||||
| 4. What does the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph? | |||||||||||||||||
| A. Failure is the mother of success. B. Little by little, one goes far. C. Every coin has two sides. D. Well begun, half done. | |||||||||||||||||
| 5. Which of the following can best describe the author? | |||||||||||||||||
| A. Caring and determined. B. Honest and responsible. C. Ambitious and sensitive. D. Innocent and single-minded. | |||||||||||||||||
| 完形填空。 | |||||||||||||||||
| In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory 1 course about 20 years ago. The professor 2 the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans (豆), and invited the students to 3 how many beans the jar contained. After 4 shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the 5 answer, and went on saying, "You have just 6 an important lesson about science. That is Never 7 your own senses." Twenty years later, the 8 could guess what the professor had in mind. He 9 himself, perhaps, as inviting his students to start an exciting 10 into an unknown world. Invisible (无形的) to the 11 , which can be discovered only through scientific 12 . But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even 13 the invitation. She was just 14 to understand the world. And she 15 that her firsthand experience could be ture 16 . The professor, however, said that it was 17 . He was taking away her only 18 for knowing and was providing her with no substitute. "I remember feeling small and 19 ," the women says, "and I did the only thing I could do. I 20 the course that afternoon, and I haven"t gone near science since." | |||||||||||||||||
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