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1、高中英语真题 :2014 届高考英语二轮专题复习阅读理解冲刺精编阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C 和 D 项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。In the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to , 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
2、a different tale to tell. My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated 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 withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my per
3、sonal dream would have to wait. Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantasticand very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3. In
4、2003, I gave birth to another boy. You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8! Our home was a complete zooa 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.
5、 That meant taking as 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 the
6、ir lives.In 2007, I graduated from the of . 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 you w
7、ant wont arrive in your life on one day. It s a process. Remember: little steps add up to big dreams.26. When the author went to , her dream was to be _.A. a writer B. a teacher C. a judge D. a doctor27. Why did the author quit school in her second year of college?A. She wanted to study by herself.B
8、. She fell in love and got married.C. She suffered from a serious illness.D. She decided to look after her grandma. 28. What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5?She was busy yet happy with her family life.She ignored her guilty feeling for her sons.She wanted to remain a full-time
9、housewife.She was too confused to make a correct choice.What dose the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?Failure is the mother of success.Little by little, one goes far.Every coin has two sides.Well begun, half done.30. Which of the following can best describe the author?Caring and
10、determined.Honest and responsible.Ambitious and sensitive.Innocent and single-minded.【参考答案】 26-30. CDABA Passage 1It is not often realized that women held a high place in southern European societies in the 10th and 11th centuries. As a wife, the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry (嫁妆).
11、 Admittedly, the purpose of this was to protect her against the risk of desertion, but in reality its function in the social and family life of the time was much more important. The dowry was the wife s right to receive a tenth of all her husbands property. The wife had the right to with hold consen
12、t, in all transactions the husband would make, and more than just a right; the documents show that she enjoyed a real power of decision, equal to that of her husband. In no case do the documents indicate any degree of difference in the legal status of husband and wife. The wife shared in the managem
13、ent of her husbands personal property, but the opposite was not always true. Women seemed perfectly prepared to defend their own inheritance against husbands who tried to exceed their rights, and on occasion they showed a fine fighting spirit. A case in point is that of Maria Vivas. Having agreed wi
14、th her husband Miro to sell a field she had inherited, for the needs of the household, she insisted on compensation. None being offered, she succeeded in dragging her husband to the scribe to have a contract duly drawn up assigning her a piece of land from Miro s personal inheritance. The unfortunat
15、e husband was obliged to agree, as the contract says, “for the sake of peace. ” Either through the dowry or through being hot-tempered, the wife knew how to win herself, with the context of the family, a powerful economic position. 51.Originally, the purpose of a dowry is to_. A give a woman the rig
16、ht to receive all her husbands property B help a woman to enjoy a higher position in the family C protect a woman against the risk of desertion D both A and C 52.According to the passage, the legal status of the wife in marriage was_. A higher than that of a single woman B higher than that of her husband C lower than that of her husband D the same as that of her husband 53. Why does the author give us the example of Maria Vivas? A To show that the wife shared in the management of her husbands pe
