In the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl going to Howard University, aiming at a law career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different story to tell.
My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to leave college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.
Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a mix of adopted(收養(yǎng))and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To put eyes on him was wonderful---and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy then followed son No.3. in 2003, I gave birth to another boy.
You can imagine how engaged I became, raising four boys under the age of 8! Our home was a complete zoo---a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant taking as few as one class each term
The hardest part was feeling sorry about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to give up, but I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.
In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree!
I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you are looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you are in the middle of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won’t arrive in your life on one day. It’s a process(過程). Remember: little steps add up to big dreams.
1.When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be ________ .
A. a judge B. a teacher
C. a writer D. a doctor
2.Why did the author give up school in her second year of college?
A. She wanted to study by herself.
B. She fell in love and got married.
C. She suffered from a serious illness
D. She decided to look after her grandma.
3.What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5?
A. She was busy yet happy with her family life.
B. She ignored her sorry feeling for her sons.
C. She wanted to remain a full-time housewife.
D. She was too confused to make a correct choice.
4.What does the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?
A. failure is the mother of success.
B. little by little, one goes far.
C. every coin has two sides.
D. well begun, half done
1.A
2.D
3.A
4.B
【解析】
試題分析:記敘文。文章介紹了作者取得本科學位的過程中所遇到的種種磨難,但因為作者的堅持最終獲得自己理想的學位。
1.aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere.,可知答案為A。
2.細節(jié)題。D細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.可知答案。故選D。
3.You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8. Our home was a complete zoo---a joyous zoo. 作者需要養(yǎng)育4個兒女,同時還要堅持學習的夢想, joyous可見作者在感到家庭是忙碌而幸福的。故選A。
4.Everything you want won’t arrive in your life on one day. It’s a process. Remember;little steps add up to big dreams.可以看出作者的學習是在循序漸進,千里之行始于足下,最終才取得學位的。Little by little ,one goes far.與之符合。故選B。
考點:考查傳記類短文閱讀。
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