Question

PEOPLE

NOBLE SMUGGLER

     This Thursday, Irena Sendler will be honoured for her work as a smuggler（偷运者）. During World WarⅡ, the Polish social worker smuggled nearly2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto（聚居区）. She gave them new identities, found them safe places with good-hearted Christians, and kept the children’s real names buried in jars in her neighbours’ gardens.（The play, Life in a Jar, based on her story, is being performed.）At 93, Sendler lives in a Warsaw nursing home and is too weak to travel to Washington D.C., to receive the 2003 Jan Karski Award for Valorand Compassion from the American Center of Polish Culture. One of the children she saved will accept the award for her.

You risked your life to save the children.

I was taught by my father that when someone is drowning, you don’t ask if they can swim，you just jump in and help. During the war, everyone was drowning, but mostly the Jewish children.

How did you persuade parents to give up their children？

I had to answer honestly that I didn’t even know if we would get past the guards.

What was the most frightening moment？

When I saw a priest（牧师）in charge of an orphan age for Jewish children in the ghetto walk with them out to be killed. The children were in then best Sunday suits. The priest was killed with them.

How did you get the children to be have as you smuggled them out？

I told the older children to act as if they were sick and sometimes gave the younger ones a sleeping pill. They were told to remember their new names. I also told the children to tell guards they had only been visiting a servant in the ghetto and were going back to their real homes outside.

Did you tell your own two children what you did？

I never told them. Only when my daughter went to Israel did she learn all about me. I thought it was only normal to do so. And it was a very painful subject. It was always on my mind that I couldn’t do more.

——Samantha Levine

1. We can learn from the passage that Irena Sendler____.

A. will go to Washington to accept the award with her daughter

B. was caught a few times while she was rescuing the Jewish children

C. told those parents that their children’s lives would be guaranteed

D. saved thousands of Jewish children at the risk of her ownlife

2. The expression “everyone was drowning” can best be replaced by“______”.

A. everyone was involved in the war

B. all the people were drowned

C. people were facing danger and death

D. Jewish children were being killed

3. Which of the following could NOT be expected when Sendler was smuggling the Jewish children？

A. Some children were told to pretend to be sick in front of the guards.

B. Some children pretended to be returning home after visiting servants in the ghetto.

C. The children were asked to remember and use new names instead of real ones.

D. The children pretended to be brothers and sisters from one big family.

4. Sendler didn’t tell her own children what she did in the war because ______.

A. she thought it was the most frightening experience

B. the topic was too painful and heart-breaking to mention

C. it was already recorded and made known to the public

D. she planned to bury the secret in her heart until her death

Answer 1

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解析:

短文介绍了Irena Sendler为了让犹太儿童生存下来，冒着生命危险把他们从华沙的聚居区偷运出来，帮他们获得新生。

1. D 点评：根据短文中During World WarⅡ，the Polish social worker smuggled nearly2，500 Jewish children out of the Warsawghetto一句可以确定此题的答案。

2.C 点评：根据此句前面I was taught by my father that when someone is drowning，you don’t ask if they can swim，you just jump in and help一句可以分析出everyone was drowning实际表明的是每个人都面临着危险和死亡。

3.D 点评：根据 I told the older children to act as if they were sick and sometimes gave the younger ones a sleeping pill一句可以认定A正确；根据I also told the children to tell guards they had only been visiting a servant in the ghetto and were going back to their real homes outside一句可以认定B正确；根据They were told to remember their new names一句可以认定C正确。由此可以确定此题答案。

4.B 点评：根据短文最后一段中And it was a very painful subject一句可以确定答案。