Question

●A 78-year-old grandmother whose education was cut short by the second world war celebrated an A-level with her 50-year-old daughter. Betty Allen and daughter Chris Branton of Sprotbrough, South Yorkshire, opened their results together on TV after completing the UK's only online English A-level course. Mrs Allen received a D and Ms Branton a C

●Actor Holly Grainger, 18, from East Didsbury, Manchester, achieved two As and two Bs. She is a regular face on television screens with roles in Terry Pratchett's Johnny and the Bomb and new legal drama New Street Law. She learned yesterday that she had landed a main part in a new school drama called Waterloo Road

●A teenage hockey star who hopes to play for England in the 2012 Olympic Games won three A-grades. Will Miles, 18, from Formby, Merseyside, who attends Merchant Taylors' school in Crosby, plans to study maths at Manchester University 

● Andrew Nowell, a student at Nottingham high school, got five grade As, including one of the top five marks in the country for his design and technology paper. He won the Young Engineers for Britain contest this year with an invention he produced for his Design and Technology A-Level - a "remote control and security interface system". He is off to Cambridge to study engineering .

● Jed McQueen Jones got A grades in chemistry, maths and physics, despite being diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2003 and being hospital for three months. Jed, a pupil at Richard Huish College in Taunton, restarted A-levels in September 2004 and continued chemotherapy(化療)into that Christmas. He is going to Exeter University on a science scholarship to study physics.

1. How did Betty Allen learn English and complete the course?

   A. On TV     B. On the Internet      C. By herself    D. Through her daughter

2. The underlined word “landed” in Paragraph Two means_______.

   A. moved down   B. arrive at   C. catch up     D. got successfully

3. Which of the following statements is WRONG according to the passage?

   A. She and her daughter were invited to appear online to celebrate.

   B. Her daughter did worse than her in the English A-level course.

   C. They completed the English A-level course on the internet.

   D. Betty Allen’s education was stopped by the Second World War.

4. What really made Andrew Nowell prouder and more successful?

   A. getting five grade As.

   B. an invention.

   C. his study on engineering

   D. His job as an engineer

5. The best title of the passage is probably_________

   A. Super students and their achievements

   B. Super gifts account for great achievements

   C. Hard work results in success

   D. Star pupils and super students

Answer 1

1.B

2.D

3.A

4.B

5.D

解析:

1.B  細節考查題。第一段 “South Yorkshire, opened their results together on TV after completing the UK's only online English A-level course.”中的 “online”可知答案為B。

2.D  詞義猜測題。由上下文可知Actor Holly Grainger 在一個新校園劇中獲得了扮演主角的機會, 故land的意思為 “成功地得到”。

3.A  正誤判斷題。由“Betty Allen and daughter Chris Branton of Sprotbrough, South Yorkshire, opened their results together on TV after completing the UK's only online English A-level course.”可知A項內容與此內容不吻合，故A符合題意。其他三項文中均有明確表述。

4.B  細節理解題。由第三則新聞可知, Andrew Nowell因發明了 “remote control and security interface system”, 而獲得了 “年輕工程師獎”,他將去劍橋大學深造, 這是他取得的偉大成就。

5.D  歸納文章標題。五則新聞報道了一些不尋常的學生以及他們取得的成績, D項作為題目最適合。B項與第一則中“Mrs Allen received a D and Ms Branton a C ”不符。