Question

Mary Jean Price Walls graduated second in her class in 1950.She had high hopes when she applied to a local college,Southwest Missouri State College.But after sending off her application，she spent months waiting for a reply.It never came.

Worse than simply being denied admission(拒絕接收)，the school didn’t reply to her at all.It wasn’t a matter of her school records，but of her skin color：Wallsis African American，and in those days，that fact alone closed a lot of doors. “I was sad and I was hurt,”Walls told ABC News.“I did not expect the skin color would affect my application.I thought I could go to university like other students.”

Four years later，the government declared that all schools should not discriminate against(歧視)African Americans— but it was too late for Walls.She’d moved on with her life, becoming a wife and a mother，and working as an elevator operator.She retired last year，at the age of 77.

She stayed quiet about the unfairness she’d faced in Missouri State.Her son，Terry，went through school records and found that she’d been the first black student to ever apply to the college.Today,four percent of the Southwest Missouri State College body is African American—including Terry.

Although it’s too late for Missouri State to change the past，the school is awarding Walls with an honorary degree(榮譽學位)from the school.While she knows it’s too late for herto change the course of her own life with the degree，it’s a chance for her to show her family that Missouri State has changed in the last 60 years，and there’s not a single door closed to them anymore.

1.Walls couldn’t enter the local college because________.

A．her examination performance is too bad

B．girls were not allowed to go to college

C．she was an African?American student

D．her parents had no enough money to support her

2.Before she was denied Walls thought that________.

A．her application would be accepted as others’

B．it was hard to become a college student

C．it was impossible for her to be admitted

D．she could be the best student in her college

3.What can we know about Walls’s son?

A．He helped his mother get the honorary degree.

B．He is a good student who teachers like best.

C．He was admitted by the college once his mother applied to.

D．He wants to be a government official who can help his mother.

4.What can we infer from the passage?

A．Walls did not fight for her right to education.

B．The college did not receive Walls’s application.

C．Walls got a good job after she received the degree.

D．The government gave Walls some money for the wrongs.

5.Walls’s honorary degree suggests that________.

A．she could change her life with the degree

B．her dream of going to college has come true

C．she has been leading a happy life with her family

D．great changes have taken place in Missouri State

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

2.A

3.C

4.A

5.D

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述了Mary Jean Price Walls所遭遇的種族歧視問題，以及在過去的幾十年里美國的種族歧視所發生的變化。

1.C 細節題。根據第二段2,3行.It wasn’t a matter of her school records，but of her skin color：Wallsis African American，and in those days，that fact alone closed a lot of doors.可知她被拒絕的原因是因為她的膚色，她是一個非洲裔的美國人，故C正確。

2.A 細節題。根據第二段最后一句“I did not expect the skin color would affect my application.I thought I could go to university like other students.”可知她原以為自己會和別的學生一樣被大學錄取。故A正確。

3.C 細節題。根據文章倒數第二段Her son，Terry，went through school records and found that she’d been the first black student to ever apply to the college.Today,four percent of the Southwest Missouri State College body is African American—including Terry.可知她的兒子被the Southwest Missouri State College錄取了。故C正確。

4.A 推斷題。根據第三段1,2行our years later，the government declared that all schools should not discriminate against(歧視)African Americans— but it was too late for Walls.可知她接受了命運，并沒有做出斗爭。沒有讀大學，而是成了一個貧窮的普通人。故A正確。

5.D 細節題。根據最后一段While she knows it’s too late for herto change the course of her own life with the degree，it’s a chance for her to show her family that Missouri State has changed in the last 60 years著重說明在這60年里，密蘇里州所發生的巨大變化。

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點評：本文講述了Mary Jean Price Walls所遭遇的種族歧視問題，以及在過去的幾十年里美國的種族歧視所發生的變化。本文考查細節題為主，細節題可以在文章中直接找到與答案有關的信息?或是其變體。搜查信息在閱讀中非常重要它包括理解作者在敘述某事時使用的具體事實、數據、圖表等細節信息。在一篇短文里大部分篇幅都屬于這類圍繞主體展開的細節。做這類題一般采用尋讀法?即先讀題，然后帶著問題快速閱讀短文，找出與問題有關的詞語或句子，再對相關部分進行分析對比，找出答案。