高考英语阅读2--人物传记类.doc

阅读理解训练1----人物传记类
【考点定位】人物传纪类文章常考题型有:
1.细节题 ：这类题通常以what，who，which，when，where，how或why等词引
导，就文中某句、某段或某一具体细节进行提问并要求考生回答。 1). Terence is______.
2) Which of the following is the right order of the events?
3) Which of the following is TRUE of Spaceship One?
4) All of the following statements may be true EXCEPT______.

2.推断题：这类题中通常含有infer，conclude，suggest等词。
1)According to the passage, ______.
2)It can be inferred from the passage that______.
3)It can be concluded from the passage that______.

【规律技巧】在解读人物传纪类文章时，应特别注意找出主要人物、事件发生的时间、地点、主要情节以及最后结局。注意主人公的主要特征，主人公与其他重要人物之间的关系。注意一些关键性的人名、 地点、定义和数字(不同的人名、地点可用铅笔在试卷上分别打上不同的记号，以便查找)。考生必须在十分有限的时间内运用略读、扫读、跳读等技巧快速阅读，搜寻关键词、主题句，捕捉时空、顺序、情节、人物、观点，并且理清文章脉络，把握语篇实质。
E.X.（1）
She was born to wealth and power in an era when money and politics were left to the men. Later, as The Washington Post’s publisher, Katharine Graham became one of America’s most powerful women.
Despite a privileged background, Katharine had to deal, while growing up, with the high demands her mother placed on her. Katharine’s love of journalism, which she shared with her father, led to her career after college at The Washington Post, the newspaper her father bought in 1933. At the Post, Katharine met Phil Graham, a young, charming lawyer who became her husband. When, in 1945, Katharine’s father chose Phil over her to take over his struggling paper, Katharine didn’t object and stayed at home as a wife and mother of four.
     While Phil’s successful efforts to restore the Post to prominence made the Grahams popular members of the Washington social scene, Katharine privately suffered tremendous pain from her husband’s increasingly abusive behavior and wild mood swings caused by severe depression. When Phil committed suicide(自杀), the 46-year-old Katharine found herself thrown into a new job, that of newspaper publisher. But determined to save the family paper for her children, Katharine rose to the challenge of running the Post, attending meetings in every department, working endlessly to prove herself to her critics, and becoming the toast of Washington.
     In 1971, Katharine ordered the Post to print a copy of The Pentagon Papers, the top-secret documents revealing the truth about the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. What’s more, her courageous decision and support for her journalists prepared the Post to break the most important political story in modern history: Watergate (水门事件), one of the greatest scandals(丑闻) in American political history. Katharine managed to keep control over the most chaotic situations when it was reported, all the time insisting the news stories be accurate and fair. Watergate made The Washington Post an internationally known paper and Katharine was considered as the most powerful woman in America.
1. Katharine Graham was born in a time when_______.
A. women were not given the chance to receive education
B. women were not considered as intelligent as men
C. women were not permitted to achieve their goals
D. women were not allowed to enter every field
2. When her husband was chosen to take charge of the newspaper, Katharine Graham _______.
A. was strongly against the idea
B. was not happy to be rejected
C. was willing to take her share of responsibility
D. didn’t believe her husband would do a good job
3. Which can be considered the most important event in the history of The Washington Post?
A. Reporting Watergate scandal. B. Printing The Pentagon Papers.
C. Reporting the Vietnam War. D. Phil restoring the Post.[来源:
4. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. It was Katharine Graham’s husband who made the greatest contributions to the Post.
B. When Katharine Graham first took over the Post, her critics doubted her ability.
C. Katharine Graham was successful in her career but suffered severe depression.
D. Katharine Graham was free to do whatever she liked in her early life.
5. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Ups and downs of The Washington Post
B. Katharine Graham’s family life and career
C. Katharine Graham: from housewife to successful publisher
D. Katharine Graham: a woman who shaped American journalism

E.X.（2）
My dad is very unique because of his personality and lifestyle. For instance, put his watch on his left hand, even though he’s a lefty, and parking his car only in the garage is just his thing and doesn’t change.
    My father only wears suits during the week because it’s something very professional and formal. He loves to teach what he knows, from teaching my mother, aunt, and sisters driving skills to teaching his kids vocabulary. Also, whenever he is asked to do something at work, whatever it is, he will always complete the task on time.
    My mother buys most of his clothes, as he hates big crowds. In his house, children watch TV only after finishing all homework, which he believes is the best, because the child does his homework and still stays happy.
    One of my father’s main focuses in life is making sure his children grow up the right way, like he did. He grew up with one sister in Chicago. As he got older, he got married to my mother who is three years younger than him.
    My dad is an individual with numerous qualities. His personality is just very wonderful to live with. The manners he shows are so refined and probably much better than most people. I admire my father and want to be just like him when I grow up.
1．The author used examples in the first paragraph to show his father ______.
A. is a stubborn man                             B. has only one garage
C. is a unique person                             D. doesn’t want any change
2．Which of the following is NOT true about the author’s father? ______.
A. He is keen on shopping very much       B. He wants to look professional and formal
C. He takes good care of his children          D. He is always punctual for the work
3. According to the passage, the author’s father ______.
A. first met his wife in Chicago                   B. has a sister three years younger
C. got married at a very old age                D. gets along well with his family
4. We can infer from the text that ______.
A. parent could have great influence on their kids
B. father is always the strictest person in a family
C. children want to grow up just as their fathers
D. good personalities make a person extraordinary
E.X.（3）
Isabella Stewart was born in New York City in 1840．Her father made a great deal of money in the trade．During school，her parents took her to Italy to explore the country’s many cultural treasures．   
    One of the private art collections Isabella visited in Milan had a deep influence on her．She wrote to her friends about her dream of owning a house one day with an art collection like the one she had seen in Italy．
    In Paris, Isabella became close friends with one of her classmates, Julia Gardner, whose family was from Boston．Julia would later introduce Isabella to her brother，Jack．In 1860，Isabella Stewart married Jack Gardner．
    The couple had too much art to fit inside their home. So they decided to start planning a museum．Mrs．Gardner didn’t like the cold and empty spaces of many museums during her time．She wanted a warm museum filled with light. She once said that she decided years ago that the greatest need in her country was art. America was a young country developing quickly in other areas. But the country needed more chances for people to see beautiful examples of art．
    After her husband’s death in 1898, Isabella knew she had no time to lose in building her museum．She bought land，hired a building designer，and supervised(监督)every detail of her museum’s construction．
    Mrs. Gardner opened her museum on January 1, 1903, which was then called Fenway Court. She invited her friends that night for a special musical performance. The next month, she opened the museum to the public. At first, visits were limited to twenty days out of the year. Visitors paid one dollar to enter．
    Isabella Stewart Gardner died in 1924 in Boston. In her will, she left the museum a million dollars and a series of requirements about how it should be managed, one that the permanent collection cannot be changed．[来源:
1.The text is mainly about ________．
A．how Isabella Gardner realized her dream of being an artist
B．how Mr. and Mrs. Gardner added to their collections of art
C．how Isabella’s museum was opened D．Isabella Stewart Gardner and her museum
2. By saying “the greatest need in her country was art” in Paragraph 4.Mrs．Gardner meant that  ______．
A．America was still a young developing country
B．there were no museums in America at that time
C．art fell far behind other fields of the American society
D．Americans had no chance to enjoy the beautiful art
3．In order to achieve her dream of owning an arts museum, Mrs Gardner ________．
A．raised money from her friends and relatives
B．sold out all her land and houses
C．held special musical performances for money
D．watched over the process of building the museum
4. Which statement is NOT true according to the text?      
A．Isabella-and Jack were classmates when studying in Paris．
B．The museums at that time was not comfortable。
C．Isabella opened the museum about five years after Jack’s death．
D．Great as the museum was，visitors had to wait and pay to enter．
5. From the passage，we can learn that the museum ________．
A．helps earn much money for its collections of art
B．is called Fenway Court by the visitors
C．was opened to the public on January 1st, 1903
D．is still affected by Isabella Gardner in management now
人物传记类练习（1）
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Roger Colmer is a modem-day Horatio Alger hero．Roger started out as an unpaid worker in a small flower shop．He has become the owner of a florist company whose sales are well over $l00 000 a year．
    One day when Roger was only twelve，he stopped at a local flower shop．He asked the owner if he could work for him，without pay, in order to learn the business．Roger started working every day after school and on weekends. After two years on the job，he finally asked for a small salary. The owners told him he “wasn’t good enough to be paid.” So he quit, and found a paying job at another local flower shop. He worked hard there, but after six months they laid him off because business was slow．[来源:
Not discouraged, Roger decided to do it alone and started his own flower store in a basement．He started his business with only sixty-five dollars．He bought old refrigerators at garage sales and knocked the shelves out then turned them into coolers fur his fresh-cut flowers．His business grew rapidly as he built up a reputation for top quality and fine service．
In l977，Roger bought out the flower store where he had worked without pay for two years．The people who said he “wasn’t good enough” were astonished to find that they were being taken over by a teenager He had plans to renovate the whole store．
One of the reasons the owners sold out to Roger was that the store wasn’t doing well．But after Roger took over ownership and redid the store. Business started booming．In fact, business was so good that after one year, he celebrated by buying out the other store where he had worked．Roger then combined both Stores and moved to a location in the center of his town．
The new store has 2，000 square feet and seven employees．And he did it all before he reached the age of twenty．
1. The author is most eager to show that people who want to get ahead in business should   ___  .
A.Work without pay    B. own a flower shop C.work hard and be persistent    D.work as teenagers
2. Which of the following does NOT describe Roger Comer’s history in business?
A. He worked for two years without pay B. He needed luck to be successful
C. He opened his first flower business in a basement
D. He opened a store in the middle of his town
3. The style of the passage is mostly like a          
A. newspaper article   B. humorous story C. television play   D. magazine interview
4. Which of the following statements about Roger Conner is NOT true?
A. He gave customers better service than the other shops he had worked for
B. He was a very brave and heroic young man
C. He worked hard without pay in a flower shop in order to get to know the business
D. He was free to make decisions on the location of his shop
5. From what you know about Roger Conner, you can conclude that a “Horatio Alger hero’ is the kind of person who         
A. works hard in the flower business B. is born into a rich family
C. starts out poor and becomes rich D. becomes famous
B
Experts say probably no one in the history of the American theater influenced it more than George Abbott. He lived to be one hundred and seven years old. He remained active until he died，January 31,1995.
    George Francis Abbott was born in 1887 in New York State. His family moved to the western state of Wyoming when he was eleven years old.
    George worked as a cowboy during summers before the family moved back to New York State，near the city of Buffalo. He attended the University of Rochester，where he played football and took part in the acting club. He then studied play writing at Harvard University. In 1912，he won one hundred dollars for a play he wrote called “The Man in the Manhole”．
    George Abbott moved to New York City in 1913．But he had a slow start in the theater. He did not get many acting jobs. Two years later，he became an assistant to a theater producer. Soon he was deeply involved with rewriting plays and producing them. He had his first hit show in 1926．It was called “Broadway”．
    You can tell the history of the Broadway theater area in New York City by telling the story of George Abbott's life. He wrote plays. He directed them. He produced plays. And he acted in them. He was involved in more than one hundred and twenty productions. Some of his most popular shows were musicals. They include “Jumbo”，“Pal Joey”，“Call Me Madam”，“Pajama Game”，“Fiorello！”and “Damn Yankees”．In some years，he had three hit shows at the same time.
6. From the passage，we can see that the writer________.
A．thinks highly of George Abbott in the development of America
B．thinks well of George Abbott who created the history of play
C．admires George Abbott greatly for his varieties of inventions
D．sings high praise for George Abbott's role in the history of the American play
7. When did his family move to the western state of Wyoming?
A．1898.     B．1887.      C．1897.     D．1798.
8. Which of the statements about George Abbott is not right?
A．He lived a bit older than ordinary persons.
B．He played football and took part in the acting club in the University of Rochester.
C. He won one hundred dollars fo