Question

For many people – especially those juggling (兼顧) family and work at the same time --- it can be difficult to stick with a college degree. Kathy Bitzthum thought many times about dropping out of her accounting program at Iowa State University: She had two children and a job at Electronic Technology Corp. She’d only enrolled in the first place because her boss would offer her a promotion if she took a few accounting courses.

Because she only had enough time to take one class at a time, it took her seven years to complete the courses her boss asked her to take on. She received the promotion as her boss promised and wasn’t planning to continue a degree. But a request from her father, who was dying of cancer, made her think twice. He said to her, “Kathy, why don’t you just keep going and get your degree?”

Before he passed away, he made her promise that she would finish it. And he made her a promise in turn. Vitzthum’s parents had agreed to give each of their children a valuable gift when they graduated from college, and Vitzthum was obsessed with an antique she’d come across and knew that she couldn’t afford. After she promised to graduate from college, her parents bought her the antique. Her father told her, “I’m not going to be around when you graduate, so I’ll give this to you now. But it doesn’t _________ until you graduate from college.”

Since then, Vitzthum has looked at that antique every day and remembered the promise she had made to her father. Despite a hectic life as a wife, mother and full-time employee, she’s taken one course every semester for the last 19 years. And finally, at the age of 48, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in accounting --- and she was excited to accept full ownership (所有權(quán)) of the antique that she’d borrowed for more than a decade.

1.What had contributed to Kathy’s studying the accounting program at Iowa State University?

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2.Why did it take Kathy seven years to finish the accounting program?(no more than 10 words)

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3.What did Kathy’s father make her promise to do before he died?(no more than 10 words)

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4.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with proper words.(no more than 3 words)

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5.What does the passage mainly talk about?(no more than 12 words)

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Answer 1

【答案】

1.Kathy’s boss promise of offering her a promotion.

2.Because she could only take one class at a time.

3.He made her promise to get her degree./He made her promise to graduate from dollege.

4.belong to you

5.Kathy Vitzthum gets a degree after 19 years of part-time study.

【解析】

試題分析：本文以兩個(gè)女性的例子告訴我們對于既要照顧家庭也要關(guān)注的女性來說去的大學(xué)文憑是多么的困難。

1.Kathy’s boss promise of offering her a promotion.

細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第一段最后2行She’d only enrolled in the first place because her boss would offer her a promotion if she took a few accounting courses.說明老板的諾言是她努力的原因。

2.Because she could only take one class at a time.

細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第二段第一句Because she only had enough time to take one class at a time說明時(shí)間太少是她畢業(yè)時(shí)間晚的原因。

3.He made her promise to get her degree./He made her promise to graduate from dollege.

推理題。根據(jù)第二段4,5行He said to her, “Kathy, why don’t you just keep going and get your degree?” Before he passed away, he made her promise that she would finish it.說明她對父親許下的諾言就是要大學(xué)畢業(yè)。

4.belong to you

推理題。根據(jù)本句上下文可知，只有在她大學(xué)畢業(yè)已經(jīng)這件古董才屬于她。

5. Kathy Vitzthum gets a degree after 19 years of part-time study.

細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第3行she’s taken one course every semester for the last 19 years.

考點(diǎn)：考查了社會(huì)現(xiàn)象類短文

點(diǎn)評：本文講述的是工作女性去的學(xué)歷的困難�？疾榈募�(xì)節(jié)題較多，答題時(shí)在文章找到對應(yīng)的地方，用筆進(jìn)行標(biāo)記，這有利于后期有時(shí)間檢查時(shí)可以立刻找到答案的位置。仔細(xì)理解作者所講的意思，再結(jié)合選項(xiàng)，通過排除法和自己對全文的把握，選出正確答案。