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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.
My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of
65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after
I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.
Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic—and very emotional. A year later came our cond adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.
You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8! Our home was a complete zoo—a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant taking as few as one class each mester.
The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit. But I knew I should t an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.
In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree!
I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you’re looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you’re in the midst of it, it just ems normal. Everything you want won’t arrive in your life on one day. It’s a process. Remember: little steps add up to big dreams.
26. When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be
________.
A. a writer
B. a teacher
C. a judge
D. a doctor
27. Why did the author quit school in her cond year of college?
A. She wanted to study by herlf.
B. She fell in love and got married.
C. She suffered from a rious illness.
D. She decided to look after her grandma.
28. What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5?
A.She was busy yet happy with her family life.
B.She ignored her guilty feeling for her sons.
C.She wanted to remain a full-time houwife.
D.She was too confud to make a correct choice.
29.What do the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?
A.Failure is the mother of success.
B.Little by little, one goes far.
C.Every coin has two sides.
D.Well begun, half done.
30. Which of the following can best describe the author?
A.Caring and determined.
B.Honest and responsible.
C.Ambitious and nsitive.
D.Innocent and single-minded.
【参考答案】26-30. CDABA
Passage 1
It is not often realized that women held a high place in southern European societies in the 10th and 11th centuries. As a wife, the woman was protected by the tting up of a dowry (嫁妆). Admittedly, the purpo of this was to protect her against the risk of dertion, but in reality its function in the social and family life of the time was much more important. The dowry was the wife’s right to receive a tenth of all her husband’s property. The wife had the right to with hold connt, in all transactions the husband would make, and more than just a right; the documents show that she enjoyed a real power of decision, equal to that of her husband. In no ca do the documents indicate any degree of difference in the legal status of husband and wife.
The wife shared in the management of her husband’s personal property, but the opposite was not always true. Women emed perfectly prepared to defend their own inheritance against husbands w
ho tried to exceed their rights, and on occasion they showed a fine fighting spirit. A ca in point is that of Maria Vivas. Having agreed with her husband Miro to ll a field she had inherited, for the needs of the houhold, she insisted on compensation. None being offered, she succeeded in dragging her husband to the scribe to have a contract duly drawn up assigning her a piece of land from Miro’s personal inheritance. The unfortunate husband was obliged to agree, as the contract says, “for the sake of peace.”Either through the dowry or through being hot-tempered, the wife knew how to win herlf, with the context of the family, a powerful economic position.
51.Originally, the purpo of a dowry is to_________.
A give a woman the right to receive all her husband’s property
B help a woman to enjoy a higher position in the family
C protect a woman against the risk of dertion
D both A and C
52.According to the passage, the legal status of the wife in marriage was__________.
A higher than that of a single woman
B higher than that of her husband
C lower than that of her husband
D the same as that of her husband
53. Why does the author give us the example of Maria Vivas?
A To show that the wife shared in the management of her husband s personal property.
B To show that the wife can defend her own inheritance.
C To prove that women have powerful position.
D To illustrate how women win her property.
54.The compensation Maria Vivas got for the field is____________.
A some of the land Miro had inherited
B a tenth of Miro’s land
C money for houhold expens
D money form Miro’s inheritance
55. The author’s attitude towards Maria Vivas is_____________.
A sympathetic
B disapproval
C indifferent
D objective 【参考答案】Passage1
欧洲南部的妇女在10和11世纪时享有较高的社会地位，这并未获得广泛认识。作为一个妻子，女性的地位受到其嫁妆的保护。诚然，嫁妆最初的目的是防止女性被抛弃；但是，它在当时家庭和社会现实生活中起着更重要的作用。妻子的嫁妆使她有权获得其丈夫十分之一的财物。妻子有权利拒绝丈夫所做的任何交易，但这不仅仅只是一项权利而已；文件表明她与丈夫一样平等地享有真正的决定权。文件没有表明丈夫和妻子在法律地位上有任何差别。
妻子享有管理丈夫私人财产的权利，但是反之则不然。如果丈夫要越权侵犯她们的利益，女性们会时刻准备着捍卫自己的利益，有时她们还会表现出一种坚强的斗争精神。Maria Vivas就是一个典型的例子。为了家庭的需要，她同意其丈夫Miro出售一块属于她的土地，但是她坚持要求获得补偿。但是丈夫没有给她提供补偿，于是她把丈夫拖到一个文书处，起草了一份合同，成功地把他丈夫的一块私人土地划归自己。正如合同所写的，“为了和平”，这个不幸的丈夫不得不同意。要么借助嫁妆，要么通过发脾气，妻子知道如何在家庭中为自己赢得强大的经济地位。
51. 【解析】[C 推断题。本文介绍了欧洲南部10和11世纪嫁妆对女性在婚姻中地位的重要性。虽然嫁妆最初的目的是防止女性被抛弃，但实际上它的作用远远不止于此。它使妻子在婚姻中的地位与丈夫平等，并保障了妻子的经济利益。女性在维护自己的利益上，是很坚定果敢的，Maria Vivas就是一个例子。见第一段第三句，“Admittedly, the purpo of this was to protect her against the risk ”，虽然在实际生活中嫁妆有更重要的作用，但最初它的作用只是为了防范女性被丈夫抛弃，所以C为正确答案。
52.【解析】[D 细节题。根据本文，妻子在婚姻中的法律地位和丈夫是平等的。见第一段最后一句，“In no ca do the documents indicate any degree of difference in the legal status of husband and wife”文件中并没有表
明丈夫和妻子在法律地位上有任何的差别，也就是说他们的地位是平等的，所以D为正确答案。
53.【解析】[B 推断题。作者举Maria Vivas的事例，是为了说明妻子是能够捍卫自己的利益的。见第二段第二句，“Women emed perfectly prepared to defend their hey showed a fine fighting spirit.”如果丈夫要侵占自己的利益，女性们就时刻准备着捍卫自己的利益，有时她们还表现出很强的斗争精神。接下来作者就举了Maria Vivas的例子，说明女性是有能力捍卫自己的利益的。所以B为正确答案。
54.【解析】[A 细节题。Maria Vivas得到的一份作为补偿的土地，本来是属于Miro的个人财产。见第二段第五句，“None being offered, she assigning her a piece of land from Miro s personal inheritance”由此知A为正确答案。
55.【解析】[D 推断题。作者对Maria Vivas所持的态度是客观的。作者客观地介绍了Maria Vivas的事例，并没有表示出同情、不满或者是漠不关心，所以A、B、C都是错误答案。
阅读理解
“Experience may possibly be the best teacher, but it is not a particularly good teacher.” You might think that Winston Chur chill or perhaps Mark Twain spoke tho words, but they actually come from James March, a professor at Stanford University and a pioneer in the field of organization decision making. For years March( possibly be wist philosopher of management) has studied how humans
think and act, and he continues to do so in his new book The Ambiguities of Experience.
He begins by reminding us of just how firmly we have been sticking to the idea of experiential learning :“Experience is respected；experience is sought；exper ience is explained.” The problem is that learning from experience involves（涉及）rious complications（复杂化），ones that are part of the nature of experience itlf and which March discuss in the body of this book.
In one interesting part of book，for example，he turns a double eye toward the u of stories as the most effective way of experiential learning. He says “The more accurately（精确的）reality is prented，the less understandable the story，and the more understandable the story, the less realistic it is.”
Besides being a broadly knowledgeable rearcher. March is also a poet, and his gift shines though in the depth of views he offers and the simple language he us. Though the book is short, it is demanding；Don’t pick it up looking for quick, easy lessons. Rather, be ready to think deeply about learning from experience in work and life.
( ) 1. According to the text, James March is ____________.
A. a poet who us experience in his writing
B. a teacher who teachers story writing in university
C. a rearcher who studies the way humans think and act
D. a professor who helps organizations make important decisions
( ) 2. According to James March, experience ______________.
A. is overvalued
B. is easy to explain
C. should be actively sought
D. should be inactively sought
( ) 3. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?
A. Experience makes stories more accurate.
B. Stories made interesting fail to fully prent the truth.
C. The u of stories is the best way of experiential learning.
D. Stories are easier to understand when reality is more accurately described.
( ) 4.What’s the purpo of this text?
A. To introduce a book.
B. To describe a rearcher.
C. To explain experiential learning.
D. To discuss organizational decision making.
【答案与解析】
【要点综述】文章介绍了James March所著的一本名为The Ambiguities of Experience书。本书针对人们生活中过分依赖经验这一现象作了分析实际上是告诫人们不可高估经验的作用。
1．C 细节理解题。根据首段“For years March( possibly be wist philosopher of management) has studied how humans think and act,”可知。2．A 推理判断题。根据首段第一句及第2段“The problem i
s that learning from experience involves（涉及）rious complications（复杂化），...”可得知March认为人们高估了经验的作用。
3．B细节理解题。根据第3段“The more accurately（精确的）reality is prented，the less understandable the story，and the more understandable the st ory, the less realistic it is.”可判断正确答案为B。
4．A 推理判断题。此题判断作者的写作意图。从首段最末一句“he continues to do so in his new book The Ambiguities of Experience.”及末段“Though the book is short, it is demanding；Don’t pick it up looking for quick, easy lessons.”可推断出本文是介绍March所著的这本书。
阅读理解------A
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