It() a retired worker that she was brought up after her mother’s death.
A.is
B.was
C.are
D.were
A.is
B.was
C.are
D.were
Her uncle told her that it is ______ that she was brought up after her mother's death.
A.a retired old professor B.from a retired old professor
C.with a retired old professor D.by a retired old professor
Her parents died when she was very young , so she was______by her aunt.
A. brought up
B. brought out
C. grown up
A、up
B、forward
C、to
D、out
A.brought up
B.revolved around
C.built on
D.singled out
A. could stay
B. could have stayed
C. can stay
D. must have stayed
The workers who brought the girl to the orphanage(孤儿院)knew little about her. The streets where they found her had been her home for many years. Her parents were unknown. They left her long ago. At the orphanage, the girl, like all the children there, was taught to read and write. While she was studying at the orphanage, she learned something else-to be independent. At twenty-one,she left the orphanage and began work as a secretary. And then,in 1975, while she was still working as an ordinary secretary, something special happened. She entered the Miss Hong Kong competition and won it. This was the turning point in her life. Now her name, Mary Cheung, was known to everybody. Mary entered the competition because she wanted to show that orphanage girls could be something. Winning the competition gave her the chance to start a new life. This led her first into television and then into business as a manager. When she was working as a manager, she had trouble with her reports. “My English just wasn't good enough.” she says. Luckily, she had a boyfriend (who later became her husband) to help her. Mary studied management at Hong Kong Polytechnic and graduated in 1980. She started her own business in 1985. But she did not stop developing herself. She then studied at the University of Hong Kong. Since 1987, she had spent a lot of time on photography. She has held several exhibitions of her work in many places-China, New Zealand and Paris. She still found time, however, to work on TV, write for newspapers and bring up her family. The girl from the street has come a long way, but her journey is not finished yet.
(1).Before Mary Cheung was brought to the orphanage,she had lived in the streets for many years.
A.T
B.F
(2).The sentence "orphanage girls could be something" means that orphanage girls could be popular and successful.
A.T
B.F
(3).Her life changed in 1985.
A.T
B.F
(4).This passage is probably taken from a novel.
A.T
B.F
(5).Mary's boyfriend was good at English.
A.T
B.F
阅读理解:阅读下面的短文,根据文章内容从A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项。
Mary began playing the violin when she was only six. Her father came across a really old instrument at his aunt’s house, and he brought it back home with him. Mary loved it and immediately tried to play it. After a few months she began to have lessons. She got on very well with the violin. When she was about eleven, she really needed a better violin. One day she took part in a concert, and a man went up to her parents and talked to them about her. He said that she had real talent and pointed out that she needed a better violin. When he found out that they couldn’t afford one, he offered to buy one for her. Later, when she was about 16, she set up her own group. She named it after the man who gave her the violin----she called it the Erio Sound.
1. Mary’s father {A、B、C}.
A. bought the violin from a shop
B. borrowed the violin from a friend
C. got the violin from his aunt
2. Mary began to need a better violin when she was about {A、B、C}.
A. 10
B. 11
C. 12
3. The man at the concert told Mary’s parents that {A、B、C}.
A. she had real talent
B. her voice was very good
C. She needed a better teacher
4. Mary {A、B、C} when she was 16.
A. graduated
B. set up her own group
C. had a new violin
5. Eric Sound was the name of {A、B、C}.
A. Mary’s violin
B. Mary’s music group
C. Mary’s friend
A large number of American presidents had experiences in the army. The two best known were Ulysses Grant and Dwight Eisenhower. Grant was a general in the American Civil War and Eisenhower was a hero in the Second World War. It happened that they graduated from the same school— West Point Military Academy (西点军校). One may be surprised to learn that both of them did not do well in the school. Eisenhower, for example, was once fined because he broke the roles of the school.
The jobs of the US president are tiring. He must keep an eye on anything important which happens both at home and abroad. Every day, a lot of work waits for him to do and he has to make many important decisions. When Franklin Roosevelt was a child, he was once brought to visit President Taft. The old president said to him, "When you grow up you should not be the president. It's a tiring job."
According to the passage, who regarded the jobs of the US president as tiring ones?
A.Grant.
B.Taft.
C.Eisenhower.
D.Roosevelt.