After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program, her mother recalled, Marie Colvin returned home to find that her classmates had narrowed down their college choices. “Everyone else was already admitted to college,” her mother, Rosemarie Colvin, said from the family home. “So she took our car and drove up to Yale and said, ‘You have to let me in.’?”
Impressed—she was a National Merit(全国英才) finalist who had picked up Portuguese in Brazil—Yaledid, admitting her to the class of 1978, where she started writing for The Yale Daily News “and decided to be a journalist,” her mother said.
On Wednesday, Marie Colvin, 56, an experienced journalist for The Sunday Times of London, was killed as Syrian forces shelled the city of Homs. She was working in a temporary media center that was destroyed in the attack.
“She was supposed to leave Syria on Wednesday”, Ms. Colvin said. “Her editor told me he called her yesterday and said it was getting too dangerous and they wanted to take her out. She said she was doing a story and she wanted to finish it. ”
Ms. Colvin said it was pointless to try to prevent her daughter from going to conflict zones. “If you knew my daughter,” she said, “it would have been such a waste of words. She was determined, she was enthusiastic about what she did, it was her life. There was no saying ‘Don’t do this.’ This is who she was, absolutely who she was and what she believed in: cover the story, not just have pictures of it, but bring it to life in the deepest way you could.” So it was not a surprise when she took an interest in journalism, her mother said.
1.From the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 we can infer that .
A. Yale University was her last choice
B. Yale must keep its promise to Marie
C. Marie Colvin was confident of herself
D. Marie Colvin was good at persuading
2.Marie Colvin’s story suggests some of the best qualities of being a journalist are .
A. patience and confidence
B. honesty and curiosity
C. flexibility and creativity
D. determination and courage
3.Which of the following is the correct order to describe Marie Colvin’s life?
a. She was doing a story in Syria and got killed.
b. She was admitted to Yale University.
c. She studied in Brazil as an exchange student.
d. She was hired by The Sunday Times of London.
e. She began to take an interest in journalism.
A. d→e→c→a→b B. c→b→e→d→a
C. e→d→c→b→a D. b→c→d→e→a
4.What can be the best title of the text?
A. Covering Stories in a Dangerous Conflict Area
B. Applying for Top Universities, a Successful Case
C. Recalling Her Daughter, a Journalist Killed in Syria
D. Choosing Lifelong Careers Based on Your Own Interest
1.C
2.D
3.B
4.C
【解析】本文讲述了战地记者Marie Colvin的母亲在她遇难后回忆她生前的一些事情,反映了Marie Colvin坚定的意志,和对工作的热情。
1.推理判断题。根据第一段可知,他在回国后,别的学生都上了大学,但她并没有灰心,准备去Yale,可知她的这句话,表明了他的自信。
2.推理判断题。根据她妈妈后面的描述,她明知道呆在原地很危险,可她在没有完成任务前,并没有离开,可见她的意志坚定和勇敢的品质。而这些品质成就了一位优秀的记者。
3.排列顺序题。从文章的一开始就讲到她作为一个交换生回国了,说明c是最先发生的。于是答案就出来了。
4.概括标题。本文Marie Colvin的母亲在她遇难后回忆她生前的一些事情,故选C.
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