_______ herself to listening to music, the girl cared little about any other things.

A. Devoting      B. Devoted          C. Having devoted      D. To devote

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 ---You are devoted herself_____ to her research and it earned her a good reputation in her field.
    A. strongly         B.extremely    C. entirely       D. freely

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科目：高中英語 來源：2010年天津市天津一中高三下學(xué)期第五次月考英語 題型：閱讀理解

I stood outside New York’s Madison Square Garden and just stared, almost speechless. I was a farm boy from County Kilkenny, a child who some thought would never walk, let alone go as far as I had in the world.
From the day I was born, there was a problem. The doctors at the Dublin hospital told my parents I had phocomelia, a deformity that affected both legs below the knee, which were outward and shorter than normal and each foot had just three toes.
Life was tough. I couldn’t stand, much less walk. I rarely left the farmhouse—and then only in someone’s arms. Mom bundled me up whenever she took me to town, no matter the season.
“The world will see him when he can walk,” she told Dad. “And he will walk.”
Mom devoted herself to helping me. She tried everything to get me on my feet. When I was three, she and Dad took me to a clinic in Dublin.
A few weeks later we returned to Dublin with my artificial limbs (肢). Back home I practiced walking with my new limbs.
“There’s nothing anyone can do but you can’t,” Mom said. “You and I are going to walk through town.”
The next day Mom dressed me in my finest clothes. She wore a summer dress and fixed her hair and makeup. Dad drove us to the church. We stepped out of the car. Mom took my hand. “Hold your head up high, now, Ronan,” she said.
We walked 300 meters to the post office. It was the farthest I’d walked, and I was sweating from the effort. Then we left the post office and continued down the street, Mom's eyes shining with a mother's pride.
That night, back on our farm, I lay exhausted on my bed. It meant nothing, though, compared to what I’d done on my walk.
Then I began to pursue my dream of singing. And at every step Mom's words came back to me—Ronan, you can do anything anyone else can do—and the faith she had in God, who would help me do it.
I’ve sung from the grandest stages in Europe, to music played by the world’s finest musicians. That night, I stood at the Madison Square Garden, with Mom’s words chiming in my ears. Then I began singing. I couldn't feel the pulse of the music in my feet, but I felt it deep in my heart, the same place where Mom’s promise lived. 
【小題1】What was the problem with the author as a baby?

A．He was expected unable to walk.
B．He was born outward in character.
C．He had a problem with listening.
D．He was shorter than a normal baby.
【小題2】The underlined word “deformity” in the second paragraph most probably means _________.
A．shortcomingB．disadvantage
C．disabilityD．delay
【小題3】Why did Mom dress him and herself in finest clothes?
A．To hide their depressed feeling.
B．To indicate it an unusual day.
C．To show off their clothes.
D．To celebrate his successful operation.
【小題4】From the story we may conclude that his mother was __________.
A．determinedB．stubbornC．generousD．distinguished
【小題5】According to the writer, what mattered most in his success?
A．His consistent effort.B．His talent for music.
C．His countless failures.D．His mother’s promise.

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科目：高中英語 來源：2011屆陜西省寶雞中學(xué)高三第一次月考英語卷 題型：閱讀理解

Many of us have heard of the saying: everything is possible if you can just believe. But few of us really know the power of faith and perseverance(堅定).  South African swimmer Natalie du Tiot embodies(體現(xiàn))those virtues.
Du Tiot, 24, became the first swimmer to compete in both the Olympic Games and the Paralympics (殘奧會)in Beijing. Although she finished 16th in the tough 10km marathon in the able-bodied Games, she has collected three golds in the Paralympics so far.
One of the most successful disabled athletes of all time, Natalie du Tiot was already a promising swimmer when she lost her leg in a motorcycle accident in 2001, at just 17.
“There are a lot of dark moments,” she said, “There are some days when I cry. But I try to remember that better days are ahead. You just go on.”
Within a few months, she was back in the swimming pool.
She still completes and still succeeds. The only difference is she has switched to longer events—from 200m and 400m individual medley to 800m and 1,500m freestyle—to make up for her loss of speed with only one leg. But she made no adjustment to her mental look(精神面貌).
“Going out in the water, it feels as if there’s nothing wrong with me. It doesn’t matter if you look different. You’re still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.”
She is the owner of many world records, and she also won gold when competing against able-bodied swimmers in the 1,500m freestyle at the All African Games in 2007.
But there is no magic recipe(秘訣) for success. It all comes down to hard work and determination. “She is stubborn, which is good and bad,” said her coach Karoly Von Toros. “Good for the swimming, but bad for the coach.”
There is a poem that hangs on her wall that reads:
The tragedy (悲劇)of life does not lie in not reaching your goals;
The tragedy of life lies in not having goals to reach for.
【小題1】 Natalie du Tiot is a vivid example that____________________.

A．you are what you believe
B．your biggest enemy is yourself
C．results are not so important as the process
D．you must set reasonable goals or you will fail
【小題2】According to the text , Natalie du Tiot became________________.
A．the first athlete to compete with able-bodied swimmers in the world
B．the youngest disabled swimmer to break the world record in the 1,500m freestyle
C．the youngese disabled swimmer to collect three golds in a single Paralympics
D．the first swimmer to compete in both the Olympic Games and the Paralympics
【小題3】Which of the following is the correct order of the events that happened to Natalie du Tiot？
a. She won gold at the All Africa Games.
b. She finished 16th in the tough 10km marathon in the Olympics
c. She adjusted herself to long events.
d. A motorcycle accident disabled her.
A．cdabB．dcbaC．dcabD．dacb
【小題4】In dark moments it was_______________ that pushed her on.
A．her coachB．her familyC．hope and faithD．her love of swimming

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科目：高中英語 來源：2011-2012學(xué)年福建省三明一中高二下學(xué)期第二次月考英語試卷（帶解析） 題型：閱讀理解

People fell in love with Elizabeth Taylor in 1944, when she starred in National Velvet-the story of Velvet Brown, a young girl who wins first place in a famous horse race, At first, the producers of the movie told Taylor that she was too small to play the part of Velvet. However, they waited for her for a few months as she exercised and trained—and added three inches to her height in four months! Her acting in National Velvet is still considered the best by a child actress.
Elizabeth Taylor was born in London in 1932. Her parents, both Americans, had moved there for business reasons. When World War II started, the Taylor moved to Beverly Hills, California, and there Elizabeth started acting in movies. After her success as a child star, Taylor had no trouble moving into adult(成人)roles and won twice for Best Actress: Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? (1966)
Taylor’s fame(名聲)and popularity gave her a lot of power with the movie industry, so she was able to demand very high pay for her movies. In 1963, she received $1 million for her part in Cleopatra—the highest pay received by any star up to that time.
Elizabeth Taylor is a legend (傳奇人物) of our time. Like Velvet Brown in National Velvet, she has been lucky, she has beauty, fame and wealth. But she is also a hard worker. Taylor seldom acts in movies any more. Instead, she puts her time and efforts into her businesses, and into helping others—several years ago, she founded an organization that has raised more than $40 million for research and education.
【小題1】The producers didn’t let Taylor play the part of Velvet at first because they thought she ____.

A．was small in size
B．was too young
C．did not play well enough
D．did not show much interest
【小題2】What Elizabeth Taylor and Velvet Brown had in common was that they were both _____.
A．popular all their lives B．famous actresses
C．successful when very youngD．rich and kind-hearted
【小題3】Taylor became Best Actress at the age of          .
A．12B．28C．31D．34
【小題4】In her later life, Elizabeth Taylor devoted herself to             .
A．doing business and helping others
B．turning herself into a legend
C．collecting money for the poor
D．going about research and education work

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She decided to resign from the party rather than ____herself to the new rules.

A．reduce

B．a(chǎn)dd

C．fail

D．submit

 

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