Passage Five
Helen Keller was born a healthy normal child in Alabama in 1880. However, an illness with a high fever struck her when she was still a child. She became deaf, blind, and unable to speak. For little Helen, the world was suddenly a dark and frightening place. She was wild and stubborn. everal years later a miracle came into Helen's life when Anne Sullivan, a strong and loving person, became Helen's teacher. Miss Sullivan's teaching changed the child into a responsible human being. Through her help Helen Keller learned to communicate with those around her, and as she grew older, others benefited from her unique insights and courage. Miss Keller died in 1968, but her spirit lives on. It lives on in her articles and books and in the stories of people who were fortunate enough to meet her during her lifetime.
51. Why was Helen Keller blind, deaf and unable to speak?
A. Because she'd been born that way.
B. Because a horse had kicked her.
C. Because she'd had a very high fever.
D. Because she'd had a bad fall.
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The workers who brought the girl to the orphanage(孤儿院)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. At twenty-one,she left the orphanage and began work as a secretary. 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 at Hong Kong Polytechnic 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.
(1).Before Mary Cheung was brought to the orphanage,she had lived in the streets for many years.
A.T
B.F
(2).The sentence "orphanage girls could be something" means that orphanage girls could be popular and successful.
A.T
B.F
(3).Her life changed in 1985.
A.T
B.F
(4).This passage is probably taken from a novel.
A.T
B.F
(5).Mary's boyfriend was good at English.
A.T
B.F
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When the first white men arrived in Samoa, they found blind men, who could see well enough to describe things in detail just by holding their hands over objects. In France, Jules Roman tested hundreds of blind people and found a few who could tell the difference between light and dark. He narrowed their photosensitivity(感光灵敏度) down to areas on the nose or in the finger tips. In 1960 a medical board examined a girl in Virginia and found that, even with thick bandages over her eyes, she was able to distinguish different colours and read short sections of large print.
Rosa Kuleshova, a young woman in the Urals, can see with her fingers. She is not blind, but because she grew up in a family of blind people, she learned to read Braille to help them and then went on to teach herself to do other things with her hands. She was examined by the Soviet Academy of Science, and proved to be genuine, Shaefer made an intensive study with her and found that, securely blindfolded with only her arms stuck through a screen, she could tell the difference between three primary colours. To test the possibility that the cards reflected heat differently, he heated some and cooled others without affecting her response to them. He also found that she could read newsprint under glass, so texture was giving her no clues. She was able to identify the colour and shape of patches of light projected on to her palm or on to a screen. In rigidly controlled tests, with a blindfold and a screen and a piece of card around her neck so wide that she could not see round it, Rosa read the small print in a newspaper with her elbow. And, in the most convincing demonstration of all, she repeated these things with someone standing behind her pressing hard on her eyeballs. Nobody can cheat under this pressure.
31. The first white men to visit Samoa found people who ______.
A) were not entirely blind
B) described things by touching them
C) could see with their hands
D) could see when they hold out their hands
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What was Helen Keller like when Miss Sullivan met her?
A. She was quiet and shy.
B. She was bright and friendly.
C. She was weak from illness.
D. She was uncontrollable.
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whom
that
what
which
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discreet
suspicious
elated
sullen
tranquil
grumpy
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forgotten to feed her fish
forgotten to freeze her fish
misplaced a bag of dinner fish
misplaced a bag of tropical fish
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picked
taken
brought
grown
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Nellie Melba was Australia's "Queen of Opera".She was born in 1861 and her real name was Helen Porter Mitchell.She grew up in musical family.When she was 20 Helen Mitchell married the manager of a Queensland sugar farm. But she was not happy and the next year she went back to Melbourne to continue her music and singing lessons. She wanted to make a name for herself as an opera singer.
She stayed in Melbourne for four years then left for London. But no one seemed interested in this young unknown singer from Australia. She went to Paris to have lessons from a well-known teacher. In December the same year she gave a concert in which she used the name "Nellie Melba in honour of Melbourne her home city.
Nellie Melba was soon a star. She sang in London Europe Russia and America. She was paid well every time she sang. In 1902 she turned to Melbourne. The city was decorated (装饰) and thousands of people waited in the streets to wave and cheer as she drove by. From then on she divided her time between London and Australia. During World War I she sang in many concerts to raise money.
In 1918 Nellie Melba was made a Dame of the British Empire.
1.Nellie Melba's parents probably were ()
A.musicians
B.engineers
C.fanners
D.scientists
2.She went to London because she()
A.no one showed interest in her singing
B.she was not happy in Australia
C.she wanted to study music
D.she wanted to be a great singer
3.She became famous in her ()
A.thirties
B.twenties
C.fifties
D.forties
4.Which of the following is true?
A.She loved Melbourne but the people there didn't love her.
B.She didn't love Melbourne but the people there loved her.
C.She loved Melbourne and the people there loved her.
D.She didn't love Melbourne and the people there didn't love her.
5.What do you suppose "a Dame of the British Empire"?
A.A very beautiful woman.
B.A woman singer.
C.Queen of Opera.
D.A respected woman.
6.What does the author wants to tell us?
A.A Canadian girl tries record flying
B.A Canadian girl flew with her father
C.Two Youngest pilots
D.A Two-week flight
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人们将永远记住那小女孩身处危险时的甜美微笑。
her sweet smile when she was The little girl_________ always________ ________ ______her sweet smile when she was in danger.
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27. Ann-s mother died ____________ .
A. before she was born
B. after she was born
C. when she grew up
D. when her sister was born
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Once there was a little girl who came to live in an orphanage (孤儿院). As Christmas time was drawing near, all of the other children 11 telling the little girl about the beautiful Christmas tree that would appear in the hall downstairs on Christmas morning. After their usual 12 , each child would be given their only Christmas gift, a small orange. The headmaster of the orphanage was very 13 with the kids. So on Christmas Eve, when he 14 the little girl slipping down the stairs to peek(偷看)at the much-heard-of Christmas tree, he 15 that the little girl would not receive her Christmas orange because she had been so curious as to disobey the rules. The little girl ran back to her room 16 , crying at her terrible fate. The next morning as the other children were going down for breakfast, the little girl stayed in her bed. She couldn’t 17 the thought of seeing the others receive their gift while there would be 18 for her. Later, as the children came back upstairs, the little girl was surprised to be handed a napkin (餐巾). As she carefully opened it, there, to her 19 , was an orange all peeled and sectioned (分瓣). “ How could this be? ” she asked. Then, she realized how each child had taken one section from their orange for her so that she, too , would have a Christmas orange. What an example of the true meaning of Christmas those orphan children showed that morning! How I 20 the world would show the same kind of concern for others, not only at Christmas, but throughout the year! 请在20处填上正确答案()
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It was passed on to her from her parents.
She got it when she was a child.
She developed it after she had children.
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No sooner has she dipped
Scarcely had she dipped
As soon as she had dipped
Hardly she has dipped
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since she became
would she become
that she became
did she become
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