14.After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program,her mother recalled,Marie Colvin returned home to find that her classmates had narrowed down their college choices."Everyone else was already admitted to college,"her mother,Rosemarie Colvin,said from the family home."So she took our car and drove up to Yale and said,‘You have to let me in.'"
"Impressed--she was a National Merit (全國英才) finalist who had picked up Portuguese in Brazil--Yale did,admitting her to the class of 1978,where she started writing for the Yale Daily News and decided to be a journalist,"her mother said.
On Wednesday,Marie Colvin,56,an experienced journalist for The Sunday Times of London,was killed as Syrian forces shelled(炮擊) the city of Homs.She was working in a temporary media center that was destroyed in the attack.
"She was supposed to leave Syria on Wednesday",Mrs.Colvin said."Her editor told me he called her yesterday and said it was getting too dangerous and they wanted to take her out.She said she was doing a story and she wanted to finish it."
Mrs.Colvin said it was pointless to try to prevent her daughter from going to conflict zones."If you knew my daughter,"she said,"it would have been such a waste of words.She was determined,she was enthusiastic about what she did,it was her life.There was no saying‘Don't do this.'This is who she was,absolutely who she was and what she believed in:cover the story,not just have pictures of it,but bring it to life in the deepest way you could.""So it was not a surprise when she took an interest in journalism,"her mother said.
1.From the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1,we can infer thatB.
A.Yale was her last choice
B.Marie Colvin was confident of herself
C.Yale must keep its promise to Marie Colvin
D.Marie Colvin was good at persuading
2.Which of the following is the correct order to describe Marie Colvin's life?D
a.She was doing a story in Syria and got killed.
b.She was admitted to Yale University.
c.She studied in Brazil as an excellent student.
d.She was hired by The Sunday Times of London.
e.She began to take an interest in journalism.
A.d→e→c→a→b
B.b→c→d→e→a
C.e→d→c→b→a
D.c→b→e→d→a
3.From the last paragraph,we can know that Mrs.ColvinC.
A.dislikes the choice of her daughter.
B.cares little about her daughter.
C.knows her daughter very well.
D.doesn't fully appreciate her daughter.
4.What can be the best title of the text?D
A.Covering Stories in a Dangerous Conflict Area.
B.Applying for Top Universities,a Successful Case.
C.Choosing Lifelong Careers Based on Your Own Interest.
D.Recalling Her Daughter,a Journalist Killed in Syria.
分析 本文講述了戰(zhàn)地記者Marie Colvin的母親在她遇難后回憶她生前的一些事情,反映了Marie Colvin堅定的意志,和對工作的熱情.
解答 1.B.句意理解題.根據(jù)第一段."Everyone else was already admitted to college,"her mother,Rosemarie Colvin,said from the family home."So she took our car and drove up to Yale and said,‘You have to let me in可知,他在回國后,別的學(xué)生都上了大學(xué),但她并沒有灰心,準備去Yale,可知她的這句話,表明了他的自信;故選B.
2.D.細節(jié)理解題.通讀全文可知,Marie Colvin先參加了在巴西的一個交換生項目,然后被耶魯大學(xué)錄取,接著她對新聞業(yè)產(chǎn)生興趣,被倫敦的《星期日泰晤士報》雇用,最后在敘利亞作報道時被殺害.故答案為D項.
3.C.推理判斷題.從最后一段Mrs.Colvin對自己女兒的介紹If you knew my daughter,"she said,"it would have been such a waste of words.She was determined,she was enthusiastic about what she did,it was her life.There was no saying‘Don't do this可知,她對自己的女兒很了解,知道自己女兒的個性以及女兒的內(nèi)心世界.故答案為C項.
4.D.推理判斷題.根據(jù)最后一段'This is who she was,absolutely who she was and what she believed in:cover the story,not just have pictures of it,but bring it to life in the deepest way you could.""So it was not a surprise when she took an interest in journalism,"her mother said可知本文Marie Colvin的母親在她遇難后回憶她生前的一些事情,故選D.
點評 考察學(xué)生的細節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力,做細節(jié)理解題時一定要找到文章中的原句,和題干進行比較,再做出正確的選擇.在做推理判斷題不要以個人的主觀想象代替文章的事實,要根據(jù)文章事實進行合乎邏輯的推理判斷.