She was born to wealth and power in an era when money and politics were left to

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She was born to wealth and power in an era when money and politics were left to the men. Later, as The Washington Post’s publisher, Katharine Graham became one of America’s most powerful women. Despite a privileged background, Katharine had to deal, while growing up, with the high demands her mother placed on her children. Katharine’s love of journalism, which she shared with her father, led to her career after college at The Washington Post, the newspaper her father bought in 1933. At the Post, Katharine met Phil Graham, a young, charming lawyer who became her husband. When, in 1945, Katharine’s father cho Phil over her to take over his struggling paper, Katharine didn’t object and stayed at home as a wife and mother of four. While Phil’s successful efforts to restore the Post to prominence (显著) made the Grahams popular members of the Washington social scene, Katharine privately suffered tremendous pain from her husband’s increasingly abusive behavior and wild mood swings caud by vere depression. When Phil committed suicide (自杀), the 46-year-old Katharine found herlf thrown into a new job, that of newspaper publisher. But determined to save the family paper for her children, Katharine ro to the challenge of running the Post, attending meetings in every department, working endlessly to prove herlf to her critics, and becoming the toast of Washington. In 1971, Katharine ordered the Post to print a copy of the Pentagon Papers, the top-cret documents disclosing the truth about the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. What’s more, her courageous decision and support for her journalists prepared the Post to break the most important political story in modern history: Watergate, one of the greatest scandals (丑闻) in American political history. Katharine managed to keep control over the most chaotic (disorder) of situations when it was reported, all the time insisting the news stories be accurate and fair. Watergate made the Washington Post an internationally known Paper and Katharine was considered as the most powerful woman in America.小题1:Katharine Graham was born in a time when women were not ________.A．given the chance to receive educationB．considered as intelligent as menC．permitted to achieve their goalsD．allowed to enter every field小题2:When her husband was chon to take charge of the newspaper, Katharine Graham ________.A．was strongly against the ideaB．was not happy to be rejectedC．was willing to take her share of responsibilityD．didn’t believe her husband would do a good job小题3:Which of the following statements is true?A．It was Katharine Graham’s husband who made the greatest contributions to the Post.B．When Katharine Graham first took over the Post, her critics doubted her ability.C．Katharine Graham was successful in her career but suffered vere depression.D．Katharine Graham was free to do whatever she liked in her early life.小题4:Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A．Ups and downs of The Washington Post.B．Katharine Graham’s family life and career.C．Katharine Graham: from houwife to successful publisher.D．Katharine Graham: a woman who shaped American journalism. 题型：未知难度：其他题型

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小题1:D小题1:C小题1:B小题1:C

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一、文章特点： 生活感悟类的文章就是指能给人心灵以启迪，使人从中受到教育的文章。这类文章的体裁可以是记叙文，如生活中一些感人故事或情感故事，有点类似心灵鸡汤一样的短文。有时故事的结尾会有一句“点睛之笔”，点出全文的中心思想，就像《伊索寓言》里的寓言一样。还可能是夹叙夹议的哲理散文或生活随笔。散文随笔通常会阐述一种朴素易懂，耳熟能详的人生道理或宝贵品质。文章的结构和议论文类似，一般是总分总或总分结构。每段首句或尾句为主题句（论点），其它句子围绕主题展开论述（论据），论证方法多种多样，或举例，或引用名言，或正反对照等。二、解题技巧：针对生活感悟类文章的特点，做这类文章的完形填空时，要特别注意以下几点：1、重点理解全文的首句。如果是记叙文，找出when，where，who，what等基本要素。如果是散文随笔，充分理解文章的中心句—全文的主题。2、阅读全文的结尾段或结尾句，有助于理解文章所阐述或蕴含的哲理、感悟或忠告等。3、调动自己的背景知识和情感。这类文章不会讲大道理也不会涉及到一些很专业的知识技术领域，而是谈一些小事和简单的道理，所以如果读者能和作者产生感情上的共鸣，读者会更好地把握作者的意图态度，从而提高做题的准确度。因此，考生在平时要做一个有心人，即用心去感悟生活中发生的小事，思考人生的一些基本道理，多阅读一些短小精悍的美文，多写写自己的心情故事和对生活学习的感悟。只有平时多用心，做题时才能调动自己的背景知识和情感。