Question

Can a soft-looking girl be tough(坚韧的) inside? Taiwan’s pop singer Evonne Xu is like this. If she thinks something is right, she goes out of her way to do it.

“If anyone around me gets treated unfairly,” she said, “I can’t pretend not to see. I feel it’s my duty to speak out and protect their rights.” Her friends sometimes advise her not to invite trouble, but she isn’t afraid.

She was born in a hospital in Texas, America, where she was the only Asia baby. A lot of people came to look at her. She was so pretty that she was called “Snow White”.

Xu grew up with Western kids, doing the same things together. But she said her Chinese parents were much stricter than American parents. Even so, Xu did not want to lie to her parents like many kids did. “I could have told them I was going to the library to study, when in fact I was going to a party,” she said, “But it would have made me feel very bad. I would rather argue with them for my rights.”

“And it did work,” she said, “It helped them know me better and trust me, and now we get on very well.”

1.The underlined phrases in the first paragraph means .

A. to get off B. To get in the way

C. to go away D. to try one’s best

2.What does Xu think of Chinese parents and American parents?

A. Chinese parents are better than American parents.

B. Chinese parents are not as good as American parents.

C. American parents are not as strict with their kids as Chinese parents.

D. American parents are more worried about their kids than Chinese parents.

3.What can we know about Evonne Xu according to the passage?

A. She is always ready to say and do what she thinks right.

B. Her parents are both Americans.

C. She often argues with her parents, so they don’t get on well.

D. She prefers dancing to singing.

Answer 1