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The week I turned 50, my marriage came to a sudden end. My house, furniture and everything I’d owned was sold to pay debts that I didn't’ even know I had. In a week I had lost my husband, my home and my parents who had refused to accept a divorce in the family. I’d lost everything except my four teenage children. I used every penny I had to buy five plane tickets from Missouri to Hawaii. Everyone said I was crazy to think I could just go to an island and survive. I was afraid they were right.
Knowing that no one in the world was going to help us, I rented a cheap apartment. I worked 18 hours a day and lost 30 pounds because I lived on one meal a day. One night as I walked alone on the beach, I saw the red orange glow of the lave (火山岩) pouring out of Kilarea Volcano in the distance. It was time to live my imagination! The next day I quit my job and invested my last paycheck in art supplies and began doing what I loved. I hadn’t painted a picture in 15 years. I wondered if I could still paint. My hands trembled the first time I picked up a brush. But before an hour had passed, I was lost in the colors spreading across the canvas in front of me. And as soon as I started believing in myself, other people started believing in me, too. The first painting sold for $1,500 before I even had time to frame it.
The past six years have been filled with adventures. My children and I have gone swimming with dolphins, watched whales and hiked around the volcano. We wake up every morning with the ocean in front of us and the volcano behind us. The dream I had more than 40 years ago is now reality. I’m living freely and happily ever after.
1. It can be inferred from the passage that ______. A. the writer didn’t expect her marriage would end B. the writer’s parents were content with her divorce C. the writer’s husband took away most of her property D. there was something wrong with the writer’s job 答案解析：答案为A。本题为推理题。从第一段的第一句话 “The week I turned 50, my marriage came to a sudden end.” 可以推断，作者迈入50岁的那一周，婚姻突然解体，这个是她所没有预料到的。故答案为A。 从第一段的 “My house, furniture and everything I’d owned was sold to pay debts that I didn't’ even know I had„ I’d lost everything except my four teenage children.” 可以推断，作者失去了所有的财产，而不是大部分财产，故C选项错误。又从 “In a week I had lost my husband, my home and my parents who had refused to accept a divorce in the family.”可推断，她的父母拒绝接受她的离婚，故选项B错误。D选项未提及。
2. The writer went to Hawaii to ______.
A. free herself from trouble B. spend her holiday
C. earn a living for the family D. realize her childhood’s dream
答案解析：答案为C。本题为推理题。由第二段前两句话 “Knowing that no one in the world was going to help us, I rented a cheap apartment. I worked 18 hours a day and lost 30 pounds because I lived on one meal a day.”可知，作者带着四个孩子去夏威夷后，没人帮助，住廉价的公寓，一天工作18个小时，吃一顿饭，故可推断她去夏威夷为了谋生。
3. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage ? A. The writer is a woman of great determination. B. The writer has been fond of painting.
C. The writer sold her first framed painting for 1,500 dollars. D. The writer likes a life full of adventures.
答案解析：答案为C。本题为推理题。结合全文，作者50岁的时候，婚姻瓦解，带着四个孩子到夏威夷，偶然的机会发现了生财之道，利用自己以前的爱好谋生，自力更生，奋斗不息，可推断她是位有决心的伟大女性，故A选项正确。由作者的经历和最后一段的倒数第二句话 “The dream I had more than 40 years ago is now reality.” 可知，作者一直喜欢绘画，故B选项正确。由最后一段首句 “The past six years have been filled with adventures.” 可推断，作者喜欢冒险生活，故选项D正确。
由第三段最后一句话 “The first painting sold for $1,500 before I even had time to frame it.” 可知，作者的第一幅画在抽空上框之前就卖了$1,500，选项C与文意不符。故答案为C。
4. What would be the best title for this passage?
A. My Broken Marriage B. A Hard Life in Hawaii C. Adventures over 6 Years D. My Life After Divorce
答案解析：答案为D。本题考查文章标题。全文描述了作者离婚后去夏威夷如何发现谋生的机会，如何过上幸福自由的快乐生活。故答案为D。
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For ten years Jo Eddings felt that she had been banging her head against a brick wall. “I can’t describe my frustration. I felt so helpless,” she says. “What I wanted was the help with my very bright daughter who had a problem with language.” She was slow to learn to talk and at 9 her reading and writing were still poor.
“We took her to psychologists and all sorts of experts, but for years nobody seemed to be able to give us a proper diagnosis or know what to do.” But that changed this month when she heard a radio program about an exhibition called Genes Talking at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. It was about a research project to discover a gene lined with a condition known as specific language impairment. “As soon as I heard it I knew that this was what I’d been looking for,” she says. “I wasn’t alone; I wasn’t mad. There was someone who understood my daughter.”
SLI covers speech and grammar problems suffered by children, the most
familiar of which is dyslexia (诵读困难). About 8 percent of children are recognized as dyslexic. But a similar number may be suffering from other forms of SLI and are not recognized. The condition is the failure of different parts of the brain to deal with speech and language, and different failures manifest (表明) themselves in different ways.
The scientist involved in the ICA project was Professor Heather van der Leiy, the director of the Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, and a leading expert on SLI. “If we can find a genetic link, it will provide the kind of hard evidence that this is a genuine problem, which is needed if we are to cure the disease,” she says.
1. The underlined part in the first paragraph probably means Jo Eddings couldn’t _____.
A. understand her daughter and was very sad
B. help her daughter out of trouble and felt helpless C. afford to treat her daughter’s disease and felt sad
D. find where to treat her daughter’s disease and felt ashamed
答案解析：答案为B。本题为句意推测题。从划线部分后文 “I can’t describe my frustration. I felt so helpless,” she says. “What I wanted was the help with my very bright daughter who had a problem with language.”可知，Jo Eddings 对于女儿的疾病感到沮丧、无助，他非常需要帮助。故答案为B。
由第二段首句 “We took her to psychologists and all sorts of experts„”可推测，他们带着女儿看了许多心理医生和各种专家，应该有能力支付治疗费用，故C选项错误。A选项和D选项的 “felt ashamed” 与文意不符。
2. Jo Eddings was pleased when she _______.
A. visited and exhibition called Genes Talking B. heard a radio program about an exhibition
C. discovered a gene linked with her daughter’s problem D. was given a proper diagnosis of her daughter’s illness. 答案解析：答案为B。本题为细节题。由第二段 “But that changed this month when she heard a radio program„” 可知，答案为B。
3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage ? A. Jo Eddings’ daughter was lonely and mad.
B. Dyslexia is an unknown problem among the public. C. “SLI” stands for Specific Language Impairment. D. Jo Eddings’ daughter’s illness was cured at last.
答案解析：答案为C。本题为推理题。由第二段 “It was about a research project to discover a gene lined with a condition known as specific language impairment.” 和第三段首句 “SLI covers speech and grammar problems suffered by children, the most familiar of which is dyslexia.”可以推断，C选项正确。
由第二段倒数第二句话 ““I wasn’t alone; I wasn’t mad.” 可知，选项A错误。由第三段 “About 8 percent of children are recognized as dyslexic.” 可知，B选项错误。D选项未提及。
4. On which column can we read the above passage in a newspaper? A. Education News. B. Health News.
C. Business News. D. Economy News.
答案解析：答案为B。本题为推理题。结合全文和最后一段研究SLI的专家描述 “If we can find a genetic link, it will provide the kind of hard evidence that this is a genuine problem, which is needed if we are to cure the disease,” 可推断，Jo Eddings的女儿的疾病属于基因问题，和健康有关，故答案为B。
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