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1、徐州市2014高考英语一轮完形填空和阅读理解基本训练（6）附答案In the fall of 1985. I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell. My
2、 grandma, an amazing woman, graduated（毕业） from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to give up college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait
3、. Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt（收养）and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic-and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3. In 2003, I gave birth to anot
4、her boy. You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 81. Our home was a complete zoo-a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream, either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant talking as
5、few as one class each semester. The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit, but I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.In 2007, I gr
6、aduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree！I am not special, just single-minded. It 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 normal. Everything yo
7、u want wont arrive in your life on one day. Its a process. Remember：Little steps add up to big dreams.31. When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be_.A. a writer B. a teacher C. a judge D. a doctor32. Why did the author leave school in her second year of college?A. She wanted to
8、study by herself. B. She fell in love and got married.C. She suffered from a serious illness. D. She decided to look after her grandma. 33. What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5?A. She was busy yet happy with her family life.B. She took no notice of her guilty feeling for her so
9、ns.C. She wanted to remain a full-time housewife.D. She was too confused to make a correct choice.34. What dose the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?A. Failure is the mother of success. B. Little by little, one goes far.C. Every coin has two sides. D. Well begun, half done.35. Whi
10、ch of the following can best describe the author?A. Caring and determined (有决心的). B. Honest and responsibleC. Ambitious and sensitive D. Innocent and single-minded. Tim Richter and his wife, Linda, had taught for over 30 years near Buffalo, New York-he was in computers, she was in special education.
11、 Teaching means everything to us, Tim would say. In April 1998, he learned he would need a heart operation. It was the kind of news that leads to some serious thinking about lifes purpose. Not long after the surgery（手术）, Tim saw a brochure （小册子） describing Imagination Library, a program started by D
12、olly Parton s foundation (基金会) that mailed a book every month to children from birth to age five in the singers home town of Sevier, Tennessee. “I thought, maybe Linda and I could do something like this when we retire, Tim recalls. He placed the brochure on his desk, as a reminder. Five years later,
13、 now retired and with that brochure still on the desk, Tim clicked on imagination library .com. The program had been opened up to partners who could take advantage of book and postage discounts.The quality (品质) of the books was of great concern to the Richters. Rather than sign up online, they went
14、to Dollywood for a look-see. “We didnt want to give the children rubbish,” says Linda. The books-reviewed each year by teachers, literacy specialists and Dollywood board members-included classics such as Ezra Jack Keats s The Snowy Day and newer books like Anna Dewdneys Llama Llama series. Satisfied
15、, the couple set up the Richter Family Foundation and got to work. Since 2004, they have shipped more than 12,200 books to preschoolers in their area. Megan Williams, a mother of four, is more than appreciative（感激的）: “This program introduces us to books Ive never heard of.” The Richters spend about 400 a month sending books to 200 children. “Some people sit there and wait to die,” says Tim. “Others get as busy as they can in the time they have left.”36. What led Tim to think seriously about the meaning of life?A. His health problem. B .His love for teaching.C. The influence of his wife.
