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     Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of the most private women in the world, yet when she
went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed (展現) herself as she did
nowhere else.
     After the death of her second husband, Greek shipping magnate (巨頭) Aristotle Onassis, Jacqueline's close friend and former White House social secretary Letitia Bald'rige made a suggestion that she consider a career(職業(yè)) in publishing.After consideration, Jacqueline accepted it.Perhaps she hoped to find there
some ideas about how to live her own life.She became not less but more interested in reading.For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publisher's editor,first at Viking, then at Doubleday, pursuing (追求) a latelife career longer than her two marriages combined.During her time in publishing, she was
responsible for managing and editing more than 100 successfully marketed books.Among the first books
were In the Russian Style and Inventive Paris Clothes.She also succeeded in persuading TV hosts Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell to transform their popular television conversations into a book, The Power of Myth.The book went on to become an international bestseller.She dealt, too, with Michael Jackson as
he prepared his autobiography (自傳),Moonwalk.
     Jacqueline may have been hired for her name and for her social relations, but she soon proved her
worth.Her choices, suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publishing firms and to Jacqueline herself.In the books she selected for publication, she built on a lifetime of spending time
by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind.Her books are the autobiography she
never wrote.Her_role_as_First_Lady,_in_the_end,_was_overshadowed_by_her_performance_as_an
editor.However, few knew that she had achieved so much.
1. We can learn from the passage that Jacqueline ________.                    
A. became fond of reading after working as an editor                          
B. was in charge of publishing 100 books                                      
C. promoted her books through social relations                                
D. gained a lot from her career as an editor                                  
2. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means that ________.
A. Jacqueline ended up as an editor rather than as First Lady                
B. Jacqueline's life as First Lady was more colorful than as an editor        
C. Jacqueline was more successful as an editor than as First Lady            
D. Jacqueline's role as First Lady was more brilliant than as an editor      
3. What can be inferred from the passage?                                    
A. Jacqueline's two marriages lasted more than 20 years.                      
B. Jacqueline's own publishing firm was set up eventually.                    
C. Jacqueline's views and beliefs were reflected in the books she edited.    
D. Jacqueline's achievements were widely known.                              
4. The passage is mainly ________.                                            
A. an introduction of Jacqueline's life both as First Lady and as an editor  
B. a brief description of Jacqueline's lifelong experiences                  
C. a brief account of Jacqueline's career as an editor in her last 20 years  
D. an analysis of Jacqueline's social relations in publishing                
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