专题01 Women of achievement

第一节 阅读理解

阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。

A

Susan Brownell Anthony was a lady ahead of her time. She fought for women's rights long before it became a popular issue.

Susan was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. At that time, women had few rights. They could not own property. Money earned by a married woman belonged to her husband. Major decisions regarding children were made by the fathers. Women could not vote.

At the age of 15, Susan became a school teacher. She taught for 15 years. Then she began organizing women's groups to promote causes that were important to women. She helped gain better educational rights for women. She helped give married women possession of their earnings.

After the Civil War, Susan became very involved in the Woman's Suffrage Movement. After years of lecturing, writing, and appealing by Susan and other women, some parts of the United States changed their laws to give women the right to vote. The first state was Wyoming in 1869. Other areas and states gradually followed Wyoming's __decision__. It was not until 1920 that the US Constitution was changed to give all women voting rights.

Susan Brownell Anthony died in 1906 at the age of 86. She was elected to the American Hall of Fame in 1950. She was the first American woman to have a likeness(肖像) of her face on a coin. It was the 1979 Susan Brownell Anthony dollar.

语篇导读

本文为记叙文。苏珊·布劳内尔·安东尼为争取女性权利而不断努力，因此她成为第一位头像被印在硬币上的美国女性。

1．What was the situation of American women like when Susan was born? A．They had a low social status.

B．They could vote after getting married. C．They managed money for their husbands.

D．They were responsible for decision-making.

解析 A 细节理解题。第二段主要讲述了苏珊出生时美国妇女所处的境况，包括拥有很少的权利、婚后不能拥有财产、对自己孩子的事情没有话语权和不能投票等。总的来说，当时妇女社会地位低下，故选A项。

2．What is the third paragraph mainly about? A．Susan's teaching experiences.

B．Susan's educational background.

C．Susan's efforts to abolish slavery. D．Susan's fighting for women's causes.

解析 D 主旨大意题。第三段主要讲述了苏珊在当了15年教师之后，开始为争取妇女权利而奋斗，包括组织妇女团体、帮助女性获得更好的受教育的权利和帮助已婚妇女拥有自己的财产，故选D项。

3．What does the word “decision” in the fourth paragraph refer to? A．Promoting the social movement. B．Changing the US Constitution. C．Giving women voting rights. D．Uniting other areas and states.

4．What may be the best title for the text? A．The first American woman to invent coins B．The problem of women rights in the US C．The most popular women organizations D．A pioneer in fighting for women's rights

解析 D 标题归纳题。本文主要讲述了在女权运动兴起之初，率先为争取女性权利而努力的苏珊的生平事迹。D项用pioneer(先锋)来形容苏珊在争取女性权利事业上的开创性地位，符合文章主旨，故选D项。

B

The popular TV program Readers has prompted more people in China to practice reading aloud in booths(亭) set up in big cities across the country.

As the latest TV show to help people's love for literature recover, the CCTV program Readers invites people from all walks of life to read aloud their favorite poems, essays and books, or even personal letters they wrote to their loved ones. Just as the weekly show has been well-received, its reading booths, equipped with professional recording devices and cameras, have become instant

hits.

A crowd of more than 200 people were pictured lining up outside the Shanghai Library at 11 am on March 4—the first day of the booth's opening to the public in Shanghai. The deadline for registrations was brought forward to 2 pm instead of the scheduled 5：30 pm, as the number of waiting readers continued to grow. Some waited more than nine hours for a try-out in the booth, according to library management.

“There is an old photo in the late 1970s capturing people lining up outside the Shanghai Library before it opens. If that was a spring of reading in Shanghai, now I think another spring has arrived again，” library manager Zhou Deming, told the Shanghai-based The Paper.

The reading booth is the only one of its kind in the city of economic center at the moment, but more are expected to be put into use in the coming months, according to the library's website.

The Readers program has also led to booths in other cities including Beijing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Xi'an to appeal to more people to read and share their life stories.

With the recent boom of culture-themed TV shows such as Readers and Chinese Poetry Competition, some are optimistic that this will help the country love literature and reading again in general.

语篇导读

本文为夹叙夹议文。随着CCTV的《朗读者》节目受到人们的欢迎，全国范围开始刮起了“读书风”。各大城市纷纷建立“朗读亭”，人们阅读的热情也越来越高。

5．The CCTV program Readers aims to ________. A．teach people what to read B．attract people's attention to CCTV C．invite people to read aloud in the booth D．arouse people's flesh enthusiasm for reading

6．We can learn from Paragraph 3 that ________.

A．some people waited for a long time to read in the booth B．March 4 was the first day of the opening of Shanghai Library C．on March 4,200 people read in the booth

D．the time for registrations was lengthened for three and a half hours