About twenty years ago I had the pleasure of teaching a disabled young woman. Not only was she good at math and science, but she was also extremely talented in art. She could draw and paint beautifully. When Audrey graduated from university she got two degrees, one in fine arts and one in chemistry. Not too many people do well in two such different areas of study.

  Just before her high school graduation, Audrey gave me a wonderful gift. It was a watercolor painting of a mother and her baby. A tear fell from the mother’s eye as she looked lovingly at her child. Beneath the painting Audrey had written these words: “The deep love from Mother, through me, touches another.” What a beautiful gift! I had the piece of art framed(給…做框) and hung in my office.

Years passed with many moves from one office to another and I lost the painting. Last year, after about eight years of not knowing where it was, I received a phone from a former colleague who said she had something of mine. It was the picture Audrey had painted for me 18 years ealier. When cleaning out a storage room she had discovered my gift.

I was struck that the precious gift came back. I knew Audrey very well. When she was four years old Audrey had a serious disease. What’s worse, her father left the house. It was her mother who brought her up with much trouble. She survived the disease but was disabled.

To any other it is just a painting, but to me it shows how a mother’s love has helped develop a talent and how its power pushes me ahead.

1. What made Audrey different from others was that she_______.

  A. could draw and paint beautifullly

  B. was good at math and chemistry

  C. got two degrees in two different fields

  D. was a student in a key university

2. How did the author regain the painting?

  A. She found it from one office.

  B. One of her former colleagues found it.

  C. She found it in a storage room.

  D. Audrey found it for her.

3. What is Paragraph 4 mainly talking about?

  A.The author’s feeling.

  B. Audrey’s family.

  C. Audrey’s experience.

  D. The author’s experience.

4. Why does the author value the painting so much?

  A. It was painted by her most talented student. 

B. The painting can be worth a lot of money.

  C. The art value of the painting is immeasurable(無法估計的).

  D. The painting encourages her to advance(前進).

 

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 “A 66-year-old grandmother has become the first elderly woman to bike a distance of 40,000 kilometres,” the Henan Daily reports.

 For seven years, Li Ailan biked through all of the country's 21 inland provinces and five autonomous regions (自治區(qū))and three municipal cities

 Li is a retired middle-school teacher in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province.

 In her 40 years of teaching, she had suffered from various illnesses.All seemed to have disappeared, however, during her biking journey.

 Since July of 1986, Li has biked alone seven times, even on the mighty(浩大 的)Qinghai-Tibet Plateau(高原).In April 1993, she took her six-year-old grandson with her through Beijing, Changchun, Tangshan and Beidaihe.

1This passage is taken from ________

[  ]

Aa book

Ba novel

Ca newspaper

DLi's diary

2Which of the following is wrong?   

[  ]

ALi is the oldest woman who has biked a distance of 40,000 kilometres

BNone has biked a distance of 40,000 kilometres

CLi gave up teaching in 1996

DLi has biked eight times since 1986

3She began her teaching ________

[  ]

Ain 1954

Bwhen she was about twen ty

Cat the age of twenty-six

Dforty years ago

4When she taught in a middle-school, ________

[  ]

Ashe was very strong

Bshe often felt tired

Cshe often travelled to some places by bike

Dshe was often ill

5Which title best gives the main idea of the passage?   

[  ]

AElderly Biker

B.Teacher and Grandson

C.Life After Retirement

D.A Traveller

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