18．Before I started school，people felt that 1 was not going to be successful．At the age of four I started speech lessons because basically I could not speak well enough for anyone to understand me．The story goes downhill from here．
The first grade was a struggle．I not only had difficulty speaking，but also felt nervous about the fact that I was expected to learn to read and I just couldn't do it．The second grade was not much better．I still struggled with the inability to read．It was in the third grade that the school district built a new school close to my home．I remember going there with my parents and helping to get the school ready so that we could move to the new one．However，things were still not much better as far as my schooling was concerned and did not get better for the next two years．
It was in the fifth grade．Mi-s．Wakefield was my teacher，and if ever there was a teacher that deserved a gold star，it was her．She did not make me feel defeated．On the contrary，she did her best to let me know that I could be whatever I wanted to be．And that is just what I did．
For the past 22 years，I have been a fifth grade teacher．Because of Mrs．Wakefield's influence on my life，I am now encouraging students who have had difficulties in their lives to believe that they can overcome any difficulty and become someone．I have won numerous awards up to now，such as Teacher of the Year．I owe it all to one fifth grade teacher who believed in me and challenged me to be all that I could be．
56．The writerBwhen he was in the third grade．
A．did better in reading
B．began speech lessons
C．went to a new school
D．received a high award
57．We can learn from the passage that the writerA．
A．is a very successful teacher now
B．thinks teaching is a challenging job
C．has solved problems with his own effort
D．works in the same school with Mrs．Wakefield
58．What is the writer's purpose in writing the passage？B
A．To express his devotion to his work．
B．To show his respect to a special teacher．
C．To share his leaching experience with us．
D．To tell us his story of overcoming difficulties．
分析 本文主要講了作者在小時候時，成績并不理想，直到五年級時，她遇到了一位非常好的老師，作者的人生發生改變．作者已經是一位成功的優秀教師，她一直感激那位老師對自己的幫助．
解答 56．答案是C．細節理解題，根據短文第二段可知是在三年級的時候在他家附近建了一個新的學校，"so that we could move to the new one"因此我們能搬進這所新校，所以答案是C．
57．答案是A．細節理解題，根據文中句子"I have won numerous awards up to now，such as Teacher of the Year"到目前為止我已經贏得了很多獎項，如年度最佳教師獎，所以答案是A．
58．答案是B．根據全文內容以及"I owe it all to one fifth grade teacher who believed in me and challenged me to be all that I could be"我把這歸功于我的老師他相信我并讓我挑戰我自己，可見作者寫這篇文章的目的是為了表達對于這位特別的老師的崇敬之情，所以答案選B．
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