The Girl From the Street
The workers who brought the girl to the orphanage（孤兒院）knew little about her. The streets where they found her had been her home for many years. Her parents were unknown. They left her long ago. At the orphanage, the girl, like all the children there, was taught to read and write. While she was studying at the orphanage, she learned something else—to be independent（獨(dú)立）. At twenty-one, she left the orphanage and began working as a secretary.（秘書(shū)）And then, in 1975, while she was still working as an ordinary secretary, something special happened. She entered the Miss Hong Kong competition and won it. This was the turning point in her life. Now her name, Mary Cheung, was known to everybody.
Mary entered the competition because she wanted to show that orphanage girls could be something. Winning the competition gave her the chance to start a new life. This led her first into television and then into business as a manager. When she was working as a manager, she had trouble with her reports. “My English just wasn’t good enough.” She says. Luckily, she had a boyfriend (who later became her husband) to help her.
Mary studied management（管理）at Hong Kong and graduated in 1980, She started her own business in 1985. But she did not stop developing herself. She then studied at the University of Hong Kong. Since 1987, she had spent a lot of time on photography. She has held several exhibitions of her work in many places---China, New Zealand and Paris. She still found time, however, to work on TV, write for newspapers and bring up her family.
The girl from the street has come a long way, but her journey is not finished yet.
小題1:Before Mary Cheung was brought to the orphanage, ___________.
A．She had lived with her parents whose names were not known
B．She had lived in the street for many years
C．The workers knew her well
D．She had learned to write and read by herself
小題2:The sentence “orphanage girl could be something” means that orphanage girls could be_________.
A．popular and successfulB．understood by others
C．Miss Hong KongD．known to everybody
小題3:This passage is probably taken from___________.
A．a(chǎn) newspaperB．a(chǎn) science magazine C．a(chǎn) history textbookD．a(chǎn) novel
小題4:According to the passage, which of the following is true?
A．All the children at the orphanage liked Mary.B．Mary was not happy as a secretary.
C．Mary’s boyfriend was good at English.D．Mary’s life in the orphanage was difficult.

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:A
小題4:C

試題分析：這篇短文主要介紹了在孤兒院長(zhǎng)大的香港著名人士，張瑪麗的成長(zhǎng)故事。
小題1:根據(jù)第一段The streets where they found her had been her home for many years. 描述，可知選B。
小題2:聯(lián)系上下文，張瑪麗自身的成功，可知此處指的是，孤兒院長(zhǎng)大的孩子也能獲得成功，受到歡迎。故選A。
小題3:這篇短文主要介紹了香港著名人士，張瑪麗的成長(zhǎng)故事。故最有可能出自一篇報(bào)紙。選A。
小題4:根據(jù)“My English just wasn’t good enough.” She says. Luckily, she had a boyfriend (who later became her husband) to help her.描述，可知他的男朋友的英語(yǔ)不錯(cuò)。故選C。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文難度較大，個(gè)別小題需要根據(jù)相關(guān)內(nèi)容進(jìn)行推理總結(jié)。首先要認(rèn)真閱讀短文，注意前后聯(lián)系，掌握短文大意，然后帶著問(wèn)題再讀短文，找出相關(guān)段落，分析總結(jié)，判斷出正確選項(xiàng)。文章所設(shè)試題主要考察細(xì)節(jié)查找，做題關(guān)鍵是找出原文的根據(jù)，認(rèn)真核查小題和原文的異同。
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