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—Yaledid, 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”, Ms. 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. ”
Ms. 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.
小題1:From the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 we can infer that       .
A．Yale University was her last choice
B．Yale must keep its promise to Marie
C．Marie Colvin was confident of herself
D．Marie Colvin was good at persuading
小題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
小題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→bB．c→b→e→d→a
C．e→d→c→b→aD．b→c→d→e→a
小題4: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

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:C
本文講述了戰(zhàn)地記者M(jìn)arie Colvin的母親在她遇難后回憶她生前的一些事情，反映了Marie Colvin堅(jiān)定的意志，和對(duì)工作的熱情。
小題1:推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段可知，他在回國(guó)后，別的學(xué)生都上了大學(xué)，但她并沒有灰心，準(zhǔn)備去Yale,可知她的這句話，表明了他的自信。
小題2:推理判斷題。根據(jù)她媽媽后面的描述，她明知道呆在原地很危險(xiǎn)，可她在沒有完成任務(wù)前，并沒有離開，可見她的意志堅(jiān)定和勇敢的品質(zhì)。而這些品質(zhì)成就了一位優(yōu)秀的記者。
小題3:排列順序題。從文章的一開始就講到她作為一個(gè)交換生回國(guó)了，說明c是最先發(fā)生的。于是答案就出來了。
小題4:概括標(biāo)題。本文Marie Colvin的母親在她遇難后回憶她生前的一些事情，故選C.
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B．He was brave enough to put up performance.
C．The project has positive effect on young patients.
D．Singing is the best way to treat some illnesses.
小題4:What is probably the best title for the passage?
A．Purple Songs Can Fly
B．Singing Can Improve Health
C．A Shining Moment in Life
D．A Kind Woman—Anita Kruse

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