高三英语二轮复习 专题限时检测(十六)阅读理解细节理解类之正误判断题 牛津版

专题限时检测(十六) 阅读理解细节理解类之正误判断题

(加★的为正误判断题，本卷限时24分钟)

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(2015·镇江市高三教学情况调研)“I decided that my education was the most important thing that I could ever have, because without your education, you can’t do much in this world. Some people find out the hard way. I did not want to be one of those people.”

Seventeen­year­old high school senior Diamond May is devoted to her education. She takes all college­level classes in her school’s demanding International Baccalaureate program, where her grade­point average last year was above a 4.0. Her favorite subjects are math, biology, psychology, and “Theory of Knowledge”， and she’s considering forensic science, mechanical engineering, and architecture as possible careers. Diamond also lives in southeast Washington, D．C., one of the most poverty and violence­stricken neighborhoods in our nation’s capital — and was homeless for part of her sophomore year and nearly all of her junior year.

When the temperature dropped dramatically, Diamond’s family was assigned to move to the D．C. General Homeless Shelter, a former abandoned hospital. The squalor (肮脏) and desperation in the shelter made national headlines after 8­year­old Relisha Rudd went missing just days before Diamond’s family moved in. In the wake of that tragedy, newly­enforced rules said that parents and children had to arrive at and leave the shelter together. One of Diamond’s biggest challenges was rearranging her own academic and after­school activities every day in order to coordinate with her mother and brother. Yet through it all, Diamond actually increased her academic performance — while many of her peers never had any idea what her family was going through.

On November 18 Diamond and four other extraordinary D．C.­area high school seniors will be honored with the Children’s Defense Fund’s Beat the Odds award and a scholarship for college, given each year to students who have overcome great odds stacked against them to give back to their communities. Diamond’s phenomenal high school counselor Nigel Jackson describes Diamond and children like her this way：

“There’s been breakdown in the family, poverty and homelessness. So all of what we call risk factors, you can apply to every facet of Diamond’s experience ... children who grow up in a community that is under­resourced, wh ere all of the public

schools are underperforming, where there’s crime, violence, where people experience trauma, where there’s loss, they are essentially being prepared to fail, and at worst, they’ve been prepared to die. Our students treat death like it’s a common occurrence. They haven’t been taught that they’re allowed to grieve. They’ve been taught that they have to tolerate trauma. And when you consider all those circumstances, she has beaten the odds because she has a warrior spirit. She is humble and she’s focused, and she has a goal. She’s not just alive but she’s thriving. She doesn’t see herself as small, or a victim, or minor. She sees herself as a diamond.”

I am so proud of Diamond, the other four young women the Children’s Defense Fund will honor, and the millions of other children like them who are forced to endure circumstances many adults could not imagine. Please consider joining us or supporting other Children’s Defense Fund Beat the Odds programs across the country or honoring a parent, grandparent, teacher, or mentor by providing a college scholarship in their honor. So many children need help escaping the poverty and violence and homelessness and unequal schools that are setting them up to fail. They have never been taught that they, too, are diamonds.

1．What do Diamond May’s words in the first paragraph imply?

A．She finds it a hard way to study.

B．She can do much with little education.

C．She values the importance of education.

D．She is unwilling to struggle for education.

★2.Which of the following about Diamond May is TRUE according to the passage?

A．She will be honored mainly for her excellent academic performance.

B．Terrible circumstances as she faces, she studies hard.

C．She was asked to arrive at and leave the shelter alone.

D．She dedicated herself to studying in order to become rich.

3．In the last paragraph, the author mainly intends to ________.

A．call on us to do something to help those in need

B．encourage the children to escape the poverty and violence

C．show sympathy for those who endure difficult circumstances

D．encourage those who are in terrible circumstances to realize their value 4．Which is the best title of the article?

A．Shining Like a Diamond