Question

Imagine landing in a foreign country where you cannot speak the language, understand the culture and don’t know anybody. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a friend who could help you out?
John Smith, an English explorer who landed in America in 1607, found the best friend ever. She was a Native American named Pocahontas (1595-1617). And she did more than teach Smith the language: she saved his life, twice.
Smith was captured(捕捉) by members of Pocahontas’s tribe(部落) and was going to be killed. But for some reason, the Chief’s daughter, Pocahontas, felt sorry for Smith (who was probably the first white man she had ever seen) and threw her body over his to protect him. Smith returned safely to the small village he was living in. During the winter the English settlers did not know how to get food from nature. Pocahontas often brought food for Smith and his friends.
A year later Pocahontas’s father tried to kill Smith again because the Native Americans were very scared the English would try to take over their land. Pocahontas warned him and he was able to escape. Later she became a Christian and eventually married an Englishman named John Rolfe. She spent the last year of her life in London. Pocahontas has become an American legend. Her life story has been re-created in many books and films, including Disney’s 1995 film, Pocahontas.
One of the reasons she is so popular is that many Europeans look at Pocahontas as an excellent example of how a minority can adjust into the majority. Pocahontas is also respected because of her selfless love. She proved that people can be kind and loving even to people of a different race or culture. John Smith was very different from Pocahontas but she could see he was a good man and that was all that mattered. No race or country owns goodness, love and loyalty

1. 1.
   What difficulties might early European settlers meet in America EXCEPT ______?
   1. A.
      the fierce conflict with Native Americans
   2. B.
      lack of food in winter
   3. C.
      bad-tempered natives who enjoyed killing
   4. D.
      unfamiliarity with a foreign land
2. 2.
   Pocahontas saved John Smith twice because ______.
   1. A.
      she believed in general kindness even to people of a different race
   2. B.
      she wanted to become a Christian and marry an English
   3. C.
      he was the first white man she had ever seen in her life
   4. D.
      she was on the settlers’ side and against her cruel father
3. 3.
   Which is Not an element to make Pocahontas a legend?
   1. A.
      Her tribal background and her marriage to a white settler
   2. B.
      The recreation of her life story in the 1995 Disney film
   3. C.
      Her complicated life story different from common people’s
   4. D.
      Her selfless help to people regarded as enemy of her tribe
4. 4.
   What can we infer from the passage?
   1. A.
      People from different cultures can never really get along well with each other
   2. B.
      The Europeans think the early settlers should have learned to adjust to the local cultures
   3. C.
      The creation of America is based on the settlers’ victory over the Native Americans
   4. D.
      The battles between early settlers and Native Americans resulted from their fighting for land

Answer 1

CABD
試題分析：
1.細節題。閱讀全文可以知道，早期的歐洲拓荒者遇到的困難顯然沒有C選項描述的本族人性格殘暴，喜歡殺戮這個描述。故C選項符合題意
2.推斷題。根據文章中最后一段第三行Pocahontas is also respected because of her selfless love，Pocahontas就斯密斯是出自他無私的愛，這種愛是不分種族和國度的故A正確
3.細節題。根據文章最后一段對Pocahontas成名的描述可知 根據她的生平于1995年拍的迪斯尼電影顯然不是她成名的原因，而是成名的結果 故D正確
4.推斷題。根據文章第四段的描述可以推斷早期拓荒者和本族美國人之間的戰爭史由他們之間爭奪地盤而起 。 故D正確
考點：考查人物介紹類短文
點評：該篇文章主要講述了Pocahontas傳奇的一生，也就是Pocahontas女士是如何通過自己無私的行為和對他人無私的愛，最終讓她名噪一時。文章傳達了我們應該多去愛別人，去寬容別人，特別是和自己種族，國度乃至信仰不一致的人。文章集中考察了細節題和推斷題，考生在作答時應找對答案區域，以細節題為起始點，通過推斷，演繹等手段做推斷題，大大提高準確率。