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 （獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金） 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 （吸毒） 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. In which order did the following things happen to Liz?

a. Her mother died of AIDS.

b. She worked at a petrol station.

c. She got admitted into Harvard.

d. The movie about her life was put on.

e. She had trouble finding a place to sleep.

A．b, a, e, c, d         B．a(chǎn), b, c, e, d         C．e, d, b, a, c         D．b, e, a, d, c

2.The main idea of the passage is ________.

A．how Liz managed to enter Harvard University

B．what a hard time Liz had in her childhood

C．why Liz loved her parents so much

D．how Liz struggled to change her life

3.What actually made her go towards her goal?

A．Envy and encouragement.                 B．Willpower and determination.

C．Decisions and understanding.              D．Love and respect for her parents.

4.When she wrote “ What drove me to live on...I had only experienced a small part of the society ” , she meant that ________.

A．she had little experience of social life

B．she could hardly understand the society

C．she would do something for her own life

D．she needed to travel more around the world

 

【答案】

1.A

2.D

3.B

4.C

【解析】

試題分析：本文主要敘述的是Liz Murray如何克服生活中的種種困難，最后取得成功的人生故事。

1.A 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第一句When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station可知他先在加油站工作，然后媽媽去世。她無家可歸，后來被哈佛大學(xué)錄取，最后關(guān)于她的生活的一部電影上演。故A正確。

2.D 主旨大意題。本文主要敘述的是Liz Murray如何克服生活中的種種困難，最后取得成功的人生故事，故D正確。

3.B 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第二段1,2行Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination可知意志力和決心是他取得成功的關(guān)鍵。故B正確。

4.C 推理題。根據(jù)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, ” 可知真正讓他前進(jìn)的是一種存在的方式，也就是為自己的生活而努力，去體驗(yàn)生活。故C正確。

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點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文主要敘述的是Liz Murray如何克服生活中的種種困難，最后取得成功的人生故事。本文要求考生在閱讀理解整體語(yǔ)篇的基礎(chǔ)上，把握文章的真正內(nèi)涵。要吃透文章的字面意思，從字里行間捕捉有用的提示和線索，這是推理的前提和基礎(chǔ);要對(duì)文字的表面信息進(jìn)行挖掘加工，由表入里，由淺入深，從具體到抽象，從非凡到一般，通過分析、綜合、判定等，進(jìn)行深層處理，符合邏輯地推理。不能就是論事，斷章取義，以偏概全。要忠實(shí)于原文，以文章提供的事實(shí)和線索為依據(jù)。

 

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