The Girl From the Street
The workers who brought the girl to the orphanage（孤兒院）knew little about her. The streets where they found
her had been her home for many years. Her parents were unknown. They left her
long ago. At the orphanage, the girl, like all the children there, was taught
to read and write. While she was studying at the orphanage, she learned
something else—to be independent（獨立）. At
twenty-one, she left the orphanage and began working as a secretary.（秘書）And then, in 1975, while she was still working as an
ordinary secretary, something special happened. She entered the Miss Hong Kong
competition and won it. This was the turning point in her life. Now her name,
Mary Cheung, was known to everybody.
Mary entered the competition because she wanted to
show that orphanage girls could be something. Winning the competition gave her
the chance to start a new life. This led her first into television and then
into business as a manager. When she was working as a manager, she had trouble
with her reports. “My English just wasn’t good enough.” She says. Luckily, she
had a boyfriend (who later became her husband) to help her.
Mary studied management（管理）at
Hong Kong and graduated in 1980, She started her own business in 1985. But she
did not stop developing herself. She then studied at the University of Hong
Kong. Since 1987, she had spent a lot of time on photography. She has held
several exhibitions of her work in many places---China, New Zealand and Paris.
She still found time, however, to work on TV, write for newspapers and bring up
her family.
The girl from the street has come a long way, but her
journey is not finished yet.
1.Before Mary Cheung was brought to the orphanage,
___________.
A．She had lived
with her parents whose names were not known
B．She had lived
in the street for many years
C．The workers
knew her well
D．She had
learned to write and read by herself
2.The sentence “orphanage girl could be something”
means that orphanage girls could be_________.
A．popular and
successful B．understood by
others
C．Miss Hong
Kong D．known to
everybody
3.This passage is probably taken from___________.
A．a(chǎn) newspaper B．a(chǎn) science
magazine C．a(chǎn) history
textbook D．a(chǎn) novel
4.According to the passage, which of the following is
true?
A．All the
children at the orphanage liked Mary. B．Mary was not happy as a secretary.
C．Mary’s boyfriend was good at English. D．Mary’s life in the orphanage was difficult.