Question

One determined student stepped off the traditional job for blind people in China, and now challenges a new life at university in Britain. Being a message therapist （按摩師）is a perfect job for many people with a visual disability, but for Zheng Jianwei, it was far from enough.

The 30-year-old former massage therapist gave up his hospital job in 2009to prepare for admission to graduate school. He took IELTS（雅思考試）, the language-fluency test necessary for university admission in the UK, in 2012 and scored 6.5 points. He was the first blind examinee to take the IELTS in the Southeast Chinese region. After about four year’s struggles, Zheng successfully gain an offer from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom and became a graduate student.

However,Zheng’s path to graduate school was not easy. “I can’t take China’s national entrance exam for graduate school, which doesn’t provide study material（材料）for blind students,” he says.

He then turned to search for graduate school overseas. However, English became his nightmare. Zheng studied in special schools for visually challenged students since primary school, but foreign language was never a main subject.

Before giving up his job and learning English again in 2009, Zheng only knew the alphabet, a few words and some basic expressions. “Learning English again in my late 20s is not easy,” he says.

It took him three years of intensive study to gain entrance to a graduate school overseas. Because of the lack of study material, Zheng needs to spend hours and days looking for textbooks for the visually disabled and copying them, while it may take only five minutes for a sighted person to order a plain English textbook from Amazon.

In his parents’ eyes, Zheng has been a sensible, independent and decisive man from a young age. Zheng made all the major decisions by himself, including studying abroad and choosing majors. “We just follow his decisions, ” the mother says.

1.According to the first paragraph, a blind person in China is likely to .

A. go abroad for graduate school B. work as a message therapist

C. be far from pleased with life D. enjoy a perfect job

2.It can be learned from the passage that the blind students in China .

A. can’t take the national entrance exam to college

B. can find less study material than normal students

C. can never learn a foreign language well

D. can’t afford the English textbooks for an entrance exam

3.Which of the following can match Zheng Jianwei’s story?

A. All mankind is created equal. B. Many hands make light work.

C. Rome is not built in a day. D. Nothing is impossible when mind is set.

4.It can be inferred from the passage that Zheng’s .

A. parents have to follow any of his decisions

B. parents don’t understand or care about him

C. visual disability meant a hopeless damage to him

D. mind is healthy though physically disabled

 

Answer 1

1.B

2.B

3.D

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：文章大意：文章講述了一位30歲盲人放棄按摩師的工作，克服各種困難，通過自己的努力考進英國著名大學研究生。

1.細節理解題。根據第一段Being a message therapist （按摩師）is a perfect job for many people with a visual disability, but for Zheng Jianwei, it was far from enough.得知，鄭建偉是一位按摩師。故B正確。

2.2】B推理判斷題。根據文章第三段However, Zheng’s path to graduate school was not easy. “I can’t take China’s national entrance exam for graduate school, which doesn’t provide study material（材料）for blind students,” he says.可以得出答案。故B正確。

3.推理判斷題。文章講述了盲人鄭建偉的勵志故事，告訴我們：只要下定決心，沒有什么事不可能的。故D正確。

4.推理判斷題。文章講述了一位30歲盲人放棄按摩師的工作，克服各種困難，通過自己的努力考進英國著名大學研究生。說明了鄭建偉雖然身殘但志不殘。故D正確。

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