Doris Lessing, a novelist whose books have swept across continents and reflects her concern about the social and political issues of her time, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. The award comes with about $1.6 million.

    Ms Lessing never finished high school and largely educated herself through reading. She has written dozens of books of fiction, as well as plays, nonfiction and two volumes of autobiography. She is the 11^th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

    Ms. Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in 1919 in what is now Iran. Her father was a bank clerk, and her mother was trained as a nurse. Attracted by the promise of farming riches, the family moved to Zimbabwe, where Ms. Lessing had what she has called a painful childhood.

She left home when she was 15, and in 1937 she moved to Salisbury in southern Rhodelsia, where she took jobs as a telephone operator and nursemaid. She married at 19 and had two children. A few years later, feeling as if she were put in prison, she abandoned her family. She later married Gottfried Lessing, and they had a son.

    When Mr. Lessing and her marriage broke up, she and her young son, Peter, moved to London, where she began her writing career. Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing was published in Britain in 1949. Ms Lessing’s strongest influence may be that she inspired a generation of feminists（女权主义者）with her breakthrough novel, The Golden Notebook. The book was published in 1962, which wrote about  the story of Anna Wulf, a woman who wanted to live freely and was, in some ways, Ms. Lessing’s secondary personality. She wrote about the inner lives of women and rejected the opinion that they should abandon their lives to marriage and children.

1. Ms. Lessing’s family moved from Iran to Zimbabwe because__________.

A．farming could make them become well off

B．her laid-off parents could find jobs

C．she could receive a better education

D．she could have a chance to take up writing

2. It can be learned from the passage that ________.

A．Doris Lessing is Ms. Lessing’s pen name.

B．Doris May Tayler is the name of Ms.Lessing’s birth place

C．Anna Wulf is Ms. Lessing’s name used before

D．Doris May Tayler is Ms. Lessing’s once used name

3. Which of the following statements is true?

A．Ms. Lessing is the 11^th person to win the Nobel Prize Literature.

B．Ms. Lessing got down to writing after graduation from high school.

C．Ms. Lessing married three times and has three children

D．Ms. Lessing disapproves of women abandoning their life to their marriage.

4. We can know from the text that _________.

A．Ms. Lessing’s writing career took off in her twenties

B．The Golden Notebook was about Ms. Lessing’s broken marriage life

C．Ms. Lessing’s books are involved in social and political issues of her time

D．The failure of Ms. Lessing’s marriage was due to her devotion to career.

第三部分 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

请阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项 （A、B、C和D） 中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项的标号涂黑。

May 16th               Wednesday                                                  Sunny

They used to call her “the witch（女巫）”, but today I found things were different.

         My legs were too short to reach the floor from up there on the big chair. I was so afraid. My legs started to shake.

         It was the first time I had been to the principal’s（校长的） office. And I knew what she was going to ask me.

         Why had I been running on the concrete（混凝土） in the playground? Why hadn’t I followed the school rules?

         The principal’s secretary was sitting at her desk. She kept asking me questions like whether I liked school and what grade I was in. I didn’t want to talk to her, so I just gave one-word answers.         

         Then she asked what my dad did. But I didn’t really know what he did, so I made something up. “He plays basketball for the Boston Celtics,” I said.

         The secretary just looked at me, and said nothing more.

         Just then, the door to the principal’s office opened. There she was, the woman that everyone called “the witch”.

         Was she really that bad? I was surprised to see her office walls were bright yellow, and there were some nice pictures on the desk.

         She told me about the pictures. I was surprised that she had a family and a kid, just like me.

         Then she asked how my family was. It turned out that she had known me since I was only a few weeks old. I was happy to hear that. If she knew my mum, then I wouldn’t get into much trouble.

 She cleaned the cut on my knee and told me to be more careful. She also told me about the rules of the playground. But she didn’t punish or shout at me. And I forgot all the bad things I had heard about “the witch”. I had met her and I knew she was nice.

1．“The witch” in the story refers to _______.

A. the writer                            B. the writer’s father                C. the secretary    D. the principal

2．Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The writer often asked the principal for help.

　  B. The principal must be very strict with students.

　  C. Running in the playground was allowed by the school rules.

　  D. The writer’s father was an excellent basketball player.

3．Which word can replace the underlined phrase “made up” (in Paragraph 6)?

　  A. Told.                            B. Invented.                  C. Minded.                  D. Memorized.

4. How did the writer find the principal in the end?

　  A. Terrible.                 B. Kind.                        C. Proud.                     D. Strict.

第三部分 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

请阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项 （A、B、C和D） 中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项的标号涂黑。

May 16th             Wednesday                                             Sunny

They used to call her “the witch（女巫）”, but today I found things were different.

       My legs were too short to reach the floor from up there on the big chair. I was so afraid. My legs started to shake.

       It was the first time I had been to the principal’s（校长的） office. And I knew what she was going to ask me.

       Why had I been running on the concrete（混凝土） in the playground? Why hadn’t I followed the school rules?

       The principal’s secretary was sitting at her desk. She kept asking me questions like whether I liked school and what grade I was in. I didn’t want to talk to her, so I just gave one-word answers.         

       Then she asked what my dad did. But I didn’t really know what he did, so I made something up. “He plays basketball for the Boston Celtics,” I said.

       The secretary just looked at me, and said nothing more.

       Just then, the door to the principal’s office opened. There she was, the woman that everyone called “the witch”.

       Was she really that bad? I was surprised to see her office walls were bright yellow, and there were some nice pictures on the desk.

       She told me about the pictures. I was surprised that she had a family and a kid, just like me.

       Then she asked how my family was. It turned out that she had known me since I was only a few weeks old. I was happy to hear that. If she knew my mum, then I wouldn’t get into much trouble.

 She cleaned the cut on my knee and told me to be more careful. She also told me about the rules of the playground. But she didn’t punish or shout at me. And I forgot all the bad things I had heard about “the witch”. I had met her and I knew she was nice.

1．“The witch” in the story refers to _______.

A. the writer                      B. the writer’s father            C. the secretary     D. the principal

2．Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The writer often asked the principal for help.

　  B. The principal must be very strict with students.

　  C. Running in the playground was allowed by the school rules.

　  D. The writer’s father was an excellent basketball player.

3．Which word can replace the underlined phrase “made up” (in Paragraph 6)?

　  A. Told.                     B. Invented.               C. Minded.               D. Memorized.

4. How did the writer find the principal in the end?

　  A. Terrible.             B. Kind.                         C. Proud.                 D. Strict.

第三部分阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
请阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项的标号涂黑。
May 16th            Wednesday                                            Sunny
They used to call her “the witch（女巫）”, but today I found things were different.
My legs were too short to reach the floor from up there on the big chair. I was so afraid. My legs started to shake.
It was the first time I had been to the principal’s（校长的） office. And I knew what she was going to ask me.
Why had I been running on the concrete（混凝土） in the playground? Why hadn’t I followed the school rules?
The principal’s secretary was sitting at her desk. She kept asking me questions like whether I liked school and what grade I was in. I didn’t want to talk to her, so I just gave one-word answers.         
Then she asked what my dad did. But I didn’t really know what he did, so I made something up. “He plays basketball for the Boston Celtics,” I said.
The secretary just looked at me, and said nothing more.
Just then, the door to the principal’s office opened. There she was, the woman that everyone called “the witch”.
Was she really that bad? I was surprised to see her office walls were bright yellow, and there were some nice pictures on the desk.
She told me about the pictures. I was surprised that she had a family and a kid, just like me.
Then she asked how my family was. It turned out that she had known me since I was only a few weeks old. I was happy to hear that. If she knew my mum, then I wouldn’t get into much trouble.
She cleaned the cut on my knee and told me to be more careful. She also told me about the rules of the playground. But she didn’t punish or shout at me. And I forgot all the bad things I had heard about “the witch”. I had met her and I knew she was nice.
1．“The witch” in the story refers to _______.
A. the writer                     B. the writer’s father            C. the secretary    D. the principal
2．Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. The writer often asked the principal for help.
　  B. The principal must be very strict with students.
　  C. Running in the playground was allowed by the school rules.
　  D. The writer’s father was an excellent basketball player.
3．Which word can replace the underlined phrase “made up” (in Paragraph 6)?
　  A. Told.                     B. Invented.             C. Minded.              D. Memorized.
4. How did the writer find the principal in the end?
　  A. Terrible.            B. Kind.                        C. Proud.                D. Strict.