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1、2012届高考英语二轮专题总复习精选阅读理解专练（二）A(2011天津卷B)In the fall of 1985，I was a brighteyed girl heading off to Howard University，aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhereTwentyone years later I am still a brighteyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tellMy gr
2、andma，an amazing woman，graduated from college at the age of 65She was the first in our family to reach that goalBut one year after I started college，she developed cancerI made the choice to withdraw from college to care for herIt meant that school and my personal dream would have to waitThen I got m
3、arried with another dream：building my family with a combination of adopted and biological childrenIn 1999，we adopted our first sonTo lay eyes on him was fantasticand very emotionalA year later came our second adopted boyThen followed son No3In 2003，I gave birth to another boyYou can imagine how full
4、y occupied I became，raising four boys under the age of 8！Our home was a complete zooa joyous zooNot surprising，I never did make it back to college fulltimeBut I never gave up on the dream eitherI had only one choice：to find a wayThat meant taking as few as one class each semesterThe hardest part was
5、 feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boysThey often wanted me to stay home with themThere certainly were times I wanted to quit，but I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their livesIn 2007，I graduated from the University of North CarolinaIt took me ove
6、r 21 years to get my college degree!I am not special，just singlemindedIt always struck me that when youre looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge，but when youre in the midst of it，it just seems normalEverything you want wont arrive in your life on one dayIts a processRemember：littl
7、e steps add up to big dreams1When the author went to Howard University，her dream was to be _Aa writer Ba teacherCa judge Da doctor2Why did the author quit school in her second year of college?AShe wanted to study by herselfBShe fell in love and got marriedCShe suffered from a serious illnessDShe dec
8、ided to look after her grandma3What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5?AShe was busy yet happy with her family lifeBShe ignored her guilty feeling for her sonsCShe wanted to remain a fulltime housewifeDShe was too confused to make a correct choice4What does the author mostly want
9、to tell us in the last paragraph?AFailure is the mother of successBLittle by little，one goes farCEvery coin has two sidesDWell begun，half done5Which of the following can best describe the author?ACaring and determinedBHonest and responsibleCAmbitious and sensitiveDInnocent and singleminded211工程(优秀生选
10、做题)2vocabulary：(1)care for喜欢；照顾_介意；在乎_小心地take care当心Would you care to do sth？请您做好吗？她让他觉得自己很特别，并得到了她的关爱。_(2)give up on sb放弃对某人的希望；对某人表示绝望give up to放任自己去做某事大多数老师多年前就放弃了试图改变她的努力。Most of the teachers_her years ago1Why did the writer not quit her dream during raising the four children?_1翻译句子It always str
11、uck me that when youre looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge，but when youre in the midst of it，it just seems normal_B(2011湖南卷B)My father was Chief Engineer of a merchant ship，which was sunk in Word War The book Night of the Uboats told the storyMemories In September,1940，my mothe
12、r，sister and I went to Swansea，where my fathers ship was getting ready to sailWe brought him a family photograph to be kept with him at all times and keep him safeThen I remember my mother lying face down，sobbingShe had heard from a friend that the ship had been sunk by a torpedo(鱼雷)I can remember t
13、he arrival of the telegram(电报)，which in those days always brought bad newsMy grandmother opened itIt read，“Safe，Love Ted” My most vivid memory is being woken and brought down to sit on my fathers knee，his arm in a bandageHe was judged unfit to return to sea and took a shore job in Glasgow for the re
14、st of the warFor as long as I can remember，he had a weak heartMother said it was caused by the torpedoesHe said it was because of the cigarettesWhichever，he died suddenly in his early 50sTen years later I read Night of the Uboats and was able to complete the storyTorpedo One torpedo struck the shipFather was in the engine room，where the third engineer was killedHe shut down the engin
