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阅读理解。     Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a
family of seven children, she often felt like she had"seven fathers," because her six brothers, as well as
her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated (躲避) into books. Despite
her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.
     In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and
worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because her thought
it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for
a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University
of Iowa. At the university"s Writers" Workshop, however, she felt lonely----a Mexican American from a
poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros
find her "Creative voice."
     "It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice.
I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn"t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance
in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That"s when I decided I would write about something my
classmates couldn"t write about."
     Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book
tells about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the
neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in
classes from high school through graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books
of poetry, a children"s book, and a short-story collection. 1. Which of the following is TRUE about Cisneros in her childhood? A. She had seven brothers.
B. She felt herself a nobody.
C. She was too shy to go to school.
D. She did not have any good teachers. 2. The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to _____. A. work for a school magazine
B. run away from her family
C. make a lot of friends
D. develop her writing style 3. According to Cisneros, what played the decisive role in her success? A. Her early years in college.
B. Her training in the Workshop.
C. Her feeling of being different.
D. Her childhood experience. 4. What do we learn about The House on Mango Street? A. It is quite popular among students.
B. It is the only book ever written by Cisneros.
C. It wasn"t success as it was written in Spanish.
D. It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine.

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Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once.
Note that there is one word more than you need.

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A. honoured B. set C. historic D. secretly E. citizen
F. granted G. route H. briefly I. restoration J. leading

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                                                            THE BRONTE FAMILY
      Yorkshire, England was the setting for two great novels (小说) of the 19th century. These were
Charlotte Bronte"s Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte"s also a gifted novelist, and her books have the same
extraordinary quality as her sisters".
     Their father was Pattick Bronte, born in Ireland. He moved with his wife, Maria Bronte, and their
six small children to Haworth in Yorkshire in 1820. Soon after, Mrs. Bronte and the two eldest children
died, leaving the father to care for the remaining three girls and a boy.
     Charlotte was born in 1816 Emily was born in 1818 and Anne in 1820. Their brother Branwell was
born in 1817. Left to themselves, the children wrote and told stories and walked over the hills. They grew
up largely self-educated Branwell showed a great interest in drawing. The girls were determined to earn
money for his art education. They took positions as teachers or taught children in their homes.
     As children they had all written many stories. Charlotte, as a young girl, alone wrote 22 books, each
with 60 to 100 pages of small handwriting Therefore, they turned to writing for income. By 1847,
Charlotte had written The Professor; Emily, Wuthering Heights; and Anne, Agnes Grey. After much
difficulty Anne and Emily found a publisher (出版商); but there was no interest shown in Charlotte"s book.
(It was not published until 1859.) However, one publisher expressed an interest in seeing more of her work.
     Jane Eyre was already started, and she hurriedly finished it. It was accepted at once; thus each of the
sister had a book published in 1847. Jane Eyre was immediately successful; the other two, however, did
not do so well People did not like Wuthering Heights. They said it was too wild, considered one of the
finest novels in the English language Emily lived only a short while after the publication of her book, and
Anne died in 1849. Charlotte published Shirley in 1849,and Villette in 1853. In 1854 she married Arthur
Bell Nicholls. But only a year later, she died of tuberculosis (肺结核) as her sisters had.

1. What did the Bronte sisters want to do for Branwell Bronte?

A. Help him write stories.
B. Help him get trained in art.
C. Teach him how to draw well.
D. Teach him how to educate himself.

2. We know from the text that ______.

A. Jane Eyre was published in 1847
B. Charlotte Bronte wrote 22 books in all
C. the Bronte sisters received good education
D. Patrick Bronte helped his daughters with their wiring

3. Which of the following was published after the death of it^,s writer?

A. Shirley
B. Villette
C. Agnes Grey
D. The Professor

4. The underlined words "the other two" in the 5th paragraph and refers to ______.

A. Shirley and Villette
B. The Professor and Agnes Grey
C. Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights
D. The Professor and Withering Heights

5. What do we know about the Bronte sisters from tile text?

A. Their novels interested few publishers.
B. None of them had more than two books published.
C. None of them lived longer than 4O yeah old .
D. Emily was the least successful of the three.

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     Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing   1   was something she picked
up by herself. After her first   2  , teaching disabled children, she became a part-time writer for IBM.   3  ,
writing stories was simply a   4  . interest. Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher (出版商).   5 , they
immediately suggested that she put them together to make a single one long   6   and paid Tracy a $ 50,000
advance. "A pretty money," said the publisher, "for   7   writer."
       8   Traey"s characters (人物) are interesting, her stories sometimes   9   readem uneasy: those about the
supernatural. "My mother believed I could  10  the afterlife world," she told a close friend. "She used to have
me speak with my grandmother, who died many years ago."
     "Can I? I don"t think I can," Tracy said with a laugh. "But I do have  11  when things come to me  12 ."
Once, she was wondering how to complete a  13  set in ancient (古代的) China.  14  the doorbell rang. It
was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese  15 . It came without her having  16  it.
     Though she has published 10 books, Tracy has remained  17  by her fame. She lives in the same  18  she
lived 27 years ago-although in a mom comfortable home. There" s more room for  19  in her life-and it wasn"t
just  20 .

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Since 1989, Dave Thomas, who died at age 69, was one of the most recognizable faces on TV. He appeared in more than 800 commercials (商业广告) for the hamburger chain named for his daughter, "As long as it works," he said in 1991, "I"ll continue to do those commercials." Even though he was successful,Thomas remained troubled by his childhood. "He still won"t let anyone see his feet, which are out of shape because he never had properfitting shoes," Wendy said in 1993. Born to a single mother,he was adopted (收养) as a baby by Rex and Auleva Thomas of Kalamazoo in Michigan. After Auleva died when he was 5, Thomas spent years on the road as Rex traveled around seeking construction work. "He fed me," Thomas said, "and if I got out of line,he"d beat me." Moving out on his own at 15,Thomas worked, first as a waiter, in many restaurants.But he had something much better in mind. "I thought if I owned a restaurant," he said, "I could eat for free." A 1956 meeting with Harland Sanders led Thomas to a career as the manager of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant that made him a millionaire in 1968. In 1969,after breaking with Sanders, Thomas started the first Wendy"s Old Fadhioned Hamburgers, in Columbus, Ohio, which set itself apart by serving made-to -order burgers. With 6,000 restaruants worldwide, the chair now makes $ 6 billion a year in sales. Although troubled by his own experience with adoption, Thomas, married since 1954 to Lorraine, 66, and with four grown kids besides Wendy, felt it could offer a future for other children.He started the Dave Thomas Foundation (基金会) for Adoption in 1992. In 1993, Thomas,who had left school at 15, graduated from Coconut Greek High School in Florida. He even took Lorraine to the graduation dance party. The kids voted him Most Likely to Succeed. "The Dave you saw on TV was the real Dave," says friends Pat Williams."He wasn"t a great actor or a great speaker. He was just Joe Everybody."
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