The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.
Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as ‘Would you really marry a woman who works?’ And today it’d be ‘Would you marry one who doesn’t?’ ”
The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump ” .
Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
小題1:The book Gone with the Wind was _________.
A．first published on a newspaper
B．a(chǎn)warded ten Academy Awards
C．written in “The Dump”
D．a(chǎn)dapted from a movie
小題2:The underlined phrase “tower over” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to_________.
A．be very pleased with
B．show great respect for
C．be much taller than
D．show little interest in
小題3:Why did Ms. Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?
A．Because she was rich enough.
B．Because she was injured then.
C．Because her husband didn’t like it.
D．Because she wanted to write books.
小題4:We can know about Margaret Mitchell from the passage that _________.
A．her height made her marriage unhappy
B．her interest in writing continued as an adult
C．writing stopped her working as a reporter
D．her life was full of hardship and sadness
小題5:Which is the best title for the passage?
A．A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell.
B． Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success.
C．An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House.
D．Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer.

小題1:C
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:B
小題5:A
本文通過作者對《亂世佳人》作者M(jìn)argaret Mitchell故居的參觀，講述Margaret Mitchell生前的相關(guān)事跡。
小題1:C 細(xì)節(jié)判斷題。A項(xiàng)文中并沒有提及；B根據(jù)這本書改變的電影贏得是個(gè)奧斯卡金像獎(jiǎng)，并非這本書贏得這些獎(jiǎng)；C項(xiàng)Margaret Mitchell故居就是她居住的地方，也就是她當(dāng)初寫作的地方。她把他們居住的房子戲稱為“The Dump”.故此項(xiàng)正確。D項(xiàng)錯(cuò)在電影改編自這本書，而非書本改編自電影。
小題2:C詞義猜測題。根據(jù)第二段She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her，可知，她比較矮，這些男孩都超過她的身高。故答案為B。
小題3:B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段第一句話可知，受傷后她才停止工作。
小題4:B 推理題。根據(jù)最后一段可知，她在讀了很多書后，開始了寫作。所以B項(xiàng)正確。
小題5:主旨大意題。本文主要講述了作者對Margaret Mitchell故居的參觀過程中的所見所聞所想。
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A．b, d, c, e, a B．b, c, d, a, e C．a(chǎn), c, b, e, d D．c, e, d, a, b
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A．A disabled woman’s service dog.
B．A cruel groomer killed a disabled woman’s dog.
C．People’s love for a disabled woman who lost her dog.
D．Disabled woman loves to have the dog as company.
小題2:People called and emailed to             .
A．offer help and care to Laurie Crouch.
B．give their angry voice to the groomer.
C．offer a cure for Crouch’s disease.
D．tell Crouch how to punish the groomer.
小題3:Gooch died mainly because           .
A．the groomer was careless.
B．the groomer sat on the dog with another man.
C．the dog was wearing a collar.
D．the groomer didn’t know how to trim the dog’s nails
小題4:We can infer from the passage that          .
A．Crouch refused to take another dog.
B．Crouch must be sad after losing her dog.
C．Crouch has accepted another dog from a stranger.
D．Crouch can live well without a dog’s company.

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