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【题目】阅读理解

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

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 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 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】The main idea of the passage is __________.

A. why Liz loved her parents so much

B. how Liz struggled to change her life

C. what a hard time Liz had in her childhood

D. how Liz managed to enter Harvard University

【2】What actually made her go towards her goal?

A. Willpower and determination.

B. Envy and encouragement.

C. Decisions and understanding.

D. Love and respect for her parents.

【3】When she wrote “What drove me to live on...I had only experienced a small part of the society”, what did she mean by that?

A. She needed to travel more around the world.

B. She would do something for her own life.

C. She could hardly understand the society.

D. She had little experience of social life.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】B

【解析】本文讲述了感动全美的“奇迹女孩”Liz Murray如何克服生活中的种种困难，最后取得成功的人生故事。

【1】C 主旨大意题。本文主要叙述的是Liz Murray如何克服生活中的种种困难，最后取得成功的人生故事，故C正确。

【2】A 细节理解题。根据文章第二段Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination可知，意志力和决心是她取得成功的关键。故A正确。

【3】B 推理判断题。根据本句“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,”可知，驱使她前进的是她理解了有另外一种生活方式，她只经历了这个社会的一小部分，所以她要为自己做点事。故B正确。