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  Lisa, a middle-aged woman, went to prepare lunch, leaving her 3-year-old son, Barney, playing by himself in the backyard.

  All of a sudden, a sharp cry of Barney came into the mother’s ears, and Lisa rushed into the backyard and found a big snake entwining(纠缠)the little child with its body and trying to swallow the boy.Lisa was terrified and quite angry.She made up her mind to save her son from the snake’s mouth.

  It was a fearless mother’s love that made Lisa forget what she faced.She took up an old hatchet(斧头)from the ground and struck the snake with all her strength.

  With the hatchet, Lisa hit the snake again and again, but she felt as if she were striking a mass of solid rubber.The little boy’s voice and breath were getting weaker and weaker.Lisa’s heart was broken and she nearly went mad.

  Suddenly Lisa put aside the hatchet and threw herself on to the snake, opened her mouth and bit into its back, as if tearing a tough steak(牛排).Lisa was really mad.

  A small piece of flesh was bitten off.Lisa picked up the hatchet again and hit at the wound in the snake’s back madly and savagely.

  Stinking blood was spraying out of the snake’s body.The snake was so badly wounded that it let Barney go and moved back into the forest.It had never imagined that human beings had such terrible, sharp teeth.Halfway home, the snake died.

(1)

What did Lisa find when she came into the backyard?

[  ]

A.

A big snake was swallowing her son.

B.

Her son was playing with a poisonous snake.

C.

Her son was in danger of losing his life.

D.

Barney was fighting with a big snake.

(2)

Why did Lisa fail in killing the snake at first?

[  ]

A.

Because she was afraid that what she did would hurt her son.

B.

Because the hatchet was not sharp enough and the snake’s skin was too hard.

C.

Because the snake was even stronger than Lisa.

D.

Because she was too astonished to do anything.

(3)

________, so she bit the snake.

[  ]

A.

Lisa was really driven mad

B.

Lisa thought her teeth were much sharper than the hatchet

C.

Lisa couldn’t refuse the temptation of the snake’s meat

D.

Lisa had not got any other way to deal with the snake

(4)

From the story, we learned that it was a mother’s love that made ________.

[  ]

A.

Barney brave

B.

the snake frightened

C.

Lisa mad and angry

D.

the woman fearless

答案:1.C;2.B;3.D;4.D;
解析:

(1)

推断题。根据“found a big snake entwining the little child with its body and trying to swallow the boy.”可知,这条大蛇正缠着这个小男孩,试图想把这个男孩吞下去,可知这个孩子生命危急。A项讲的是蛇正在吞下这个男孩,与事实不符。

(2)

细节题。根据“With the hatchet, Lisa hit the snake again and again, but she felt as if she were striking a mass of solid rubber.”可知蛇皮太硬,斧头无济于事。

(3)

推断题。从文中可知,这个妇女是在斧头都不起作用的情况下,才想到用牙齿咬蛇的。

(4)

细节题。根据“It was a fearless mother’s love that made Lisa forget what she faced.”可知答案。


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  It was a simple letter asking for a place to study at Scotland's oldest university which helped start a revolution in higher education.A 140-year-old letter written by a lady calling for her to be allowed to study medicine at St Andrews University has been discovered by researchers.Written by Sophia Jex-Blake in 1873, the seven-page document, which urged the university to allow women to study medicine at the institution, was released yesterday on International Women's Day.

  The document was discovered buried in the university archives(档案)by part-time history student Lis Smith, who is completing her PhD at St Andrews Institute of Scottish Historical Research.She said:“We knew that Sophia Jex-Blake and her supporters, in their effort to open up university medical education for women, had written to the Senatus Academicus(校评议委员会)at St Andrews in an attempt to gain permission to attend classes there, but we didn't know documentary evidence existed.While searching the archives for information about the university's higher certificate for women, I was astonished to come across what must be the very letter Jex-Blake wrote.”

  In the letter, Sophia and her supporters offered to hire teachers or build suitable buildings for a medical school and to arrange for lectures to be delivered in the subjects not already covered at St Andrews.Although her letter was not successful, it eventually led to the establishment of the Ladies Literate in Arts at St Andrews, a distance-learning degree for women.The qualification, which ran from 1877 until the 1930s, gave women access to university education in the days before they were admitted as students.It was so popular that it survived long after women were admitted as full students to St Andrews in 1892.

  Ms Jex-Blake went on to help establish the London School of Medicine for Women in 1874.She was accepted by the University of Berne, where she was awarded a medical degree in January 1877.Eventually, she moved back to Edinburgh and opened her own practice.

(1)

Sophia wrote a letter to St Andrews University because she wanted ________.

[  ]

A.

to carry out a research project there

B.

to set up a medical institute there

C.

to study medicine there

D.

to deliver lectures there

(2)

Lis Smith found Sophia's letter to St Andrews University ________.

[  ]

A.

by pure chance

B.

in the school office

C.

with her supporters'help

D.

while reading history books

(3)

Sophia's letter resulted in the establishment of ________.

[  ]

A.

the London School of Medicine for Women

B.

a degree programme for women

C.

a system of medical education

D.

the University of Berne

(4)

When did St Andrews University begin to take full-time women students?

[  ]

A.

In 1873.

B.

In 1874.

C.

In 1877.

D.

In 1892.

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