Question

Saturday, October 7th, was a marathon of sad tasks for Anna Politkovskaya. Two weeks earlier, her father, a retired official in the department of foreign affairs, had died of a heart attack as he emerged from the Moscow Metro while on his way to visit Politkovskaya’s mother, Raisa Mazepa, in the hospital. She had just been diagnosed(診斷) with cancer and was too weak even to attend her husband’s funeral. “Your father will forgive me, because he knows that I have always loved him,” she told Anna and her sister, Elena Kudimova, the day he was buried. A week later, she had an operation and since then Anna and Elena had been taking turns helping her deal with her grief.

Politkovskaya was supposed to spend the day at the hospital, but her twenty-six-year-old daughter, who was pregnant, had just moved into Politkovskaya’s apartment, on Lesnaya Street, while her own place was being prepared for the baby. “Anna had so much on her mind,” Elena Kudimova told me when we met in London, before Christmas. “And she was trying to finish her article.” Politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and, like most of her work, the piece focused on the terror that can be seen all over the southern republic of Chechnya. This time, she had been trying to report repeated cruel acts done by people faithful to the Prime Minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, who are in favour of Russia. In the past seven years, Politkovskaya had written dozens of accounts of life during wartime; many had been collected in her book “A Small Corner of Hell: reports from Chechnya.” Politkovskaya was far more likely to spend time in a hospital than on a battlefield, and her writing bore frequent witness to robbery, and the uncontrolled cruelty of life in a place that few other Russians—and almost no other reporters—cared to think about.

41. Politkovskaya’s father died of ______.

A. tiredness          B. a heart disease        C. an attack       D. an accident

42. From the text we know that Raisa Mazepa ______.

   A. didn’t love her husband                   

B. didn’t attend her husband’s funeral

C. was having an operation the day her husband was buried

   D. was too sad to attend her husband’s funeral

43. The underlined word “emerged” most likely means ______.

   A. came out        B. went into      C. disappeared      D. left for

44. How many family members of Anna are mentioned in the passage?

   A. Three.           B. Four         C. Five            D. Six

45. Which of the following words can best describe Politkovskaya’s character?

   A. Curious         B. easy-going     C. careless          D. responsible

Answer 1

41—45 BBACD

解析:

41. 答案B。從第2句中的“…h(huán)ad died of a heart attack…”可知B選項是正確答案。C選項attack是“攻擊”的意思，而文中出現的是heart attack，“心臟病”，因此C選項偷換了概念；其他選項與文中相關的表述不相干。

42. 答案B。從3、4、5三句可知B選項是正確選項，其他三個選項與文中的表述不一致。

43. 答案A。介詞“from”表示動作的出處、來源，而后面的介詞賓語是“the Moscow Metro”，可知“Moscow Metro”是“emerged”這一動作的起源地，因此，A選項符合原文的意思。

44. 答案C。文中提到Politkovskaya姐妹倆，以及她的父母、女兒。

45. 答案D。從“Politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta,…”一直到文章的結尾，作者簡述了Politkovskaya敢于直面社會的不良現象的正值性格，而這是其他記者所不屑的，因此D選項是正確答案。