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【題目】On the day of college graduation, I told my friends and family the news:I was leaving the country I had lived in since childhood. “I just need a change,”I told them, but there was more. I was running from heartbreak. My relationship with the United States is the toughest one I have ever had, as a country I loved and believed in did not love me back.

Back in the 90’s, my mother brought me from our home in the Caribbean islands to the U.S.when I was 4 years old. She worked as a live-in nanny(保姆)for two years, playing mommy for white kids whose parents had better things to do. She didn’t believe that nanny meant maid, and did whatever was asked of her. She was thirsty to embrace her American dream, hoping that her children would be educated and she might have nannies of her own.

Those were our path to get a “good education.”When the neighborhoods with quality schools became too expensive for my mom to afford as a single parent, we went across the United States with Great Schools. net as our compass: New Jersey, elementary school; Texas, middle school; Florida, high school; New York City, private university

For a long time I survived by covering myself in all kinds of labels so that people would ignore the color of my skin, yet I existed on the edge of ugly, ignorant and uncultured. “Black people don’t really know how to swim, “a white lady told me when I worked as a swim instructor at my neighborhood’s pool. “The black children don’t like to read very much, “I overheard one librarian discussing with another while l sat down reading a book a couple feet away.

I was never able to make America my home. When I stripped myself of the labels painfully one by one, beneath them there is a wounded colored woman who refuses to be faceless anymore. My face may be disgusting to some since it bears proof that race continues to be a problem. My hope is that it will force Americans to re-examine their “post-racial” beliefs.

【1】What was the real reason that made the author leave the United States?

A. It couldn’t provide her with good education.

B. She just needed a challenge in her way of life.

C. The way she was treated there broke her heart.

D. She was tired of living in a strange country.

【2】What can we infer about the author’s mother from Paragraphs 2 and 3 ?

A. She sacrificed a lot to live a better life in America.

B. She was quite content to work as a live-in nanny.

C. She was particular about the schools her daughter attended.

D. She liked visiting all kinds of schools with the author.

【3】The author gives two examples in Paragraph 4 to show that_____ .

A. how ignorant and uncultured many people are in US

B. she needed to cover herself in all kinds of labels

C. the race problem is still serious in the United States

D. black children often have no interest in reading books

【4】The author’s attitude towards the United States on race problem is_____ .

A. supportive

B. positive

C. neutral

D. negative

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】A

【3】C

【4】D

【解析】文章是一位黑人女孩介紹自己在美國(guó)生活，受到種族歧視的經(jīng)歷。希望引起人們對(duì)美國(guó)種族問(wèn)題的關(guān)注。

【1】推理判斷題。結(jié)合文章第一段的句子I was running from heartbreak.(我是因?yàn)樾乃榱瞬乓��?，以及下文自己在美國(guó)受到種族歧視的生活，可推斷作者離開(kāi)美國(guó)的真正原因是她在美國(guó)被對(duì)待的方式讓她心碎。故選C。

【2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第二和第三段的介紹，作者的母親在美國(guó)做女仆，盡可能多的做事，希望以后自己擁有女仆，盡力的讓孩子受到好的教育�？芍�作者的母親為了在美國(guó)過(guò)上更好的生活付出了很多。故選A。

【3】推理判斷題。第四段作者介紹自己的兩次經(jīng)歷，引出白人的話“Black people don’t really know how to swim(黑人不知道怎么游泳)”“The black children don’t like to read very much（黑人孩子不是很喜歡讀書(shū)）”，是為了顯示美國(guó)的種族歧視非常嚴(yán)重，即種族問(wèn)題嚴(yán)重。故選C。

【4】推理判斷題。文章作者介紹自己作為黑人在美國(guó)的生活經(jīng)歷，她因?yàn)樾乃橄腚x開(kāi)美國(guó)，結(jié)合最后一句My hope is that it will force Americans to re-examine their “post-racial” beliefs.（我希望這能迫使美國(guó)人重新檢查他們的“種族信仰”），可知作者對(duì)美國(guó)種族問(wèn)題持否定態(tài)度。故選D。