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Questions 1 - 5 are based on the following passage:
In January 1955, Jill Kinmont,then 19, seemed certain to make the United States Olympic ski team. Since age twelve, she had focused on this goal. Throughout high school in Bishop, California, she had competed at most Western ski areas, including Mammoth Mountain, Sun Valley, Aspen, Jackson, and Brighton. She had won both the women's and the junior national slalom championships before traveling to Alta,Utah,to compete in the pre-Olympic tryout. As Jill says, "Skiing was it — everything — my world. "
Jill's world collapsed on January 30 when she skied off the Alta run and landed helpless on the slope. Her fourth, fifth, and sixth cervical vertebrae were broken. For days, Jill hovered between life and death. By April, it became clear that she would be paralyzed from the shoulders down.
Jill underwent rehabilitation therapy with cheerful determination. She learned to write, to type, and to feed herself. Once she had mastered daily living skills, she enrolled in the University of Califonia at Los Angeles, where she studied art, German, and-English. After overcoming yet another personal tragedy, the death of her boyfriend in a plane crash, Jill graduated in 1961.
By this time, Jill had chosen a new career goal: teaching elementary school children. Officials at UCLA, however, rejected her application for admission to the graduate school of education because of her paralysis. But she persevered, working with children in the UCLA Clinic School. When her family moved to Seattle, Jill was able to fulfill her new dream. She attended the School of Education at the University of Washington and began her new life's work as a teacher. 1. This passage could be entitled _____. A) Never Beaten B) Life and Death C) A New Ski Star D) Jill Kinmont,an Outstanding Teacher
2. Which of the following is NOT true about Jill? A) She had devoted herself to skiing during high school and proved herself a very promising skier. B) She had been a member of the U. S. Olympic ski team. C) She was seriously wounded in the pre-Olympic tryouts. D) Her career as a skier was destroyed in 1955.
3. Jill made up her mind to become a teacher _____. A) immediately after she was paralyzed B) because Jill had dreamed to be a teacher since her childhood C) when she had learned to write, to type, and to feed herself D) when she had recovered from her sadness over her boyfriend's death
4. It could be inferred from the passage that _____. A) Jill's devotion to her boyfriend made her determine to be a teacher B) Jill would totally recover from her paralysis because she underwent rehabilitation therapy with cheerful determination C) Jill would be as enthusiastic a teacher as she was a skier D) Jill would later become a college teacher specializing in skiing theory
5. The author will probably talk about Jill's _____ in the following paragraphs. A) new rehabilitation therapy B) further education in the University of Washington C) enthusiasm for her teaching D) family and children
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發(fā)表于 2008-10-17 18:37
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