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After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program，her mother recalled，Marie Colvin returned home to find that her classmates had narrowed down their college choices.“Everyone else was already admitted to college，” her mother，Rosemarie Colvin，said from the family home.“So she took our car and drove up to Yale and said，‘You_have_to_let_me_in.'”

“Impressed—she was a National Merit (全國(guó)英才) finalist who had picked up Portuguese in Brazil—Yale did, admitting her to the class of 1978，where she started writing for the Yale Daily News and decided to be a journalist，” her mother said.

On Wednesday，Marie Colvin,56，an experienced journalist for The Sunday Times of London，was killed as Syrian forces shelled the city of Homs.She was working in a temporary media center that was destroyed in the attack.

“She was supposed to leave Syria on Wednesday”，Mrs.Colvin said.“Her editor told me he called her yesterday and said it was getting too dangerous and they wanted to take her out.She said she was doing a story and she wanted to finish it.”

Mrs.Colvin said it was pointless to try to prevent her daughter from going to conflict zones.“If you knew my daughter，” she said，“it would have been such a waste of words.She was determined，she was enthusiastic about what she did，it was her life.There was no saying ‘Don't do this.' This is who she was，absolutely who she was and what she believed in：cover the story，not just have pictures of it，but bring it to life in the deepest way you could.”“So it was not a surprise when she took an interest in journalism，” her mother said.

1.From the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1，we can infer that ________.

A．Yale was her last choice

B．Yale must keep its promise to Marie Colvin

C．Marie Colvin was confident of herself

D．Marie Colvin was good at persuading

2.Marie Colvin's story suggests some of the best qualities of being a journalist are ________.

A．patience and confidence

B．honesty and curiosity

C．flexibility and creativity

D．determination and courage

3.Which of the following is the correct order to describe Marie Colvin's life?

a．She was doing a story in Syria and got killed.

b．She was admitted to Yale University.

c．She studied in Brazil as an exchange student.

d．She was hired by The Sunday Times of London.

e．She began to take an interest in journalism.

A．d→e→c→a→b　B．c→b→e→d→a

C．e→d→c→b→a　D．b→c→d→e→a

4.From the last paragraph we can know that Mrs.Colvin ________.

A．knows her daughter very well

B．cares little about her daughter

C．dislikes the choice of her daughter

D．doesn't fully appreciate her daughter

5.What can be the best title of the text?

A．Covering Stories in a Dangerous Conflict Area

B．Applying for Top Universities，a Successful Case

C．Recalling Her Daughter，a Journalist Killed in Syria

D．Choosing Lifelong Careers Based on Your Own Interest

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.D

3.B

4.A

5.C

【解析】本文主要講述了Mrs.Colvin回憶女兒Marie Colvin的一些故事，從中我們可以知道：她的女兒是一位優(yōu)秀的新聞?dòng)浾撸�在敘利亞沖突地區(qū)作報(bào)道時(shí)不幸殉職。

1.

2.2】　細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Mrs.Colvin said it was pointless to try to prevent her daughter from going to conflict zones.”可知，沒(méi)人能阻止Marie Colvin去沖突地區(qū)，這點(diǎn)說(shuō)明Marie Colvin很勇敢；同時(shí)從文章最后一段中的“She was determined”可知，她意志很堅(jiān)定。所以答案為D項(xiàng)。

3.3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。通讀全文可知，Marie Colvin先參加了在巴西的一個(gè)交換生項(xiàng)目，然后被耶魯大學(xué)錄取，接著她對(duì)新聞業(yè)產(chǎn)生興趣，被倫敦的《星期日泰晤士報(bào)》雇用，最后在敘利亞作報(bào)道時(shí)被殺害。故答案為B項(xiàng)。

4.4】推理判斷題。從最后一段Mrs.Colvin對(duì)自己女兒的介紹可知，她對(duì)自己的女兒很了解，知道自己女兒的個(gè)性以及女兒的內(nèi)心世界。故答案為A項(xiàng)。

5.5】主旨大意題。通讀全文可知，本文主要敘述了Mrs.Colvin對(duì)她女兒的回憶，所以C項(xiàng)作為本文的標(biāo)題最合適。