Question

I wished I had known earlier the fact that I was a low achiever because there was a reason beyond my control. Then I needn’t have worked so hard in my late twenties and early thirties. But I just didn’t know that. I was writing and writing. I was working for no other reason than to hear people praise me.

Most people who go through university read at least twice as fast as I do. I can never tell my left from my right. I avoid dialing a telephone if I can help it, because I sometimes have to try three times before getting the number right. I hear that recording “The number you have reached is not in service” more than any man on earth.

Despite my weaknesses I view my dyslexia(difficulty in reading) as a gift, not a curse(詛咒). Many dyslexics are good at right brain, namely abstract thought, and that is what my king of creative writing is. I’m starting with nothing and coming up with something that didn’t exist before. That’s my strong point. I owe my career to Ralph, Salisbury, my writing instructor at the University of Oregon, who looked past my misspellings and gave me encouragement and hope. I just carried on and never looked back. I’m also very “visual”. This means nothing in school, but when I write books or scripts, I’m seeing everything in my imagination. I write quickly. I go like the wind and can get up to 15 pages a day. Writing is not the problem. I have no problem downloading; it is inputting where things get messed up.

The real fear I have for dyslexics is not that they have to struggle with messy input, but that they will quit on themselves before they finish school. Parents have to create victories whenever they can, whether it is music, sports or the arts. You want your dyslexic child to be able to say, “Yeah, reading is hard. But I have these other things I can do.”

1.According to the passage we know that________.

A. The author had known he was a low achiever since he was a little child

B. The author didn’t work very hard on writing in his late twenties

C. The author owed his dyslexia to his laziness in the childhood

D. The author worked hard for people’s praise

2.From Paragraph 3 we can know that ______

A. The author was grateful to his writing instructor

B. The author often complained about his dyslexia

C. The author had trouble with both inputting and outputting.

D. Having problem in inputting, the author wrote slowly.

3.For dyslexics, the author thinks that_________.

A. they should work as hard as himself

B. they had better choose to drop out of school

C. they should be constantly encouraged

D. they should put their hearts into reading

4.Which of the following proverbs can best summarize the main idea of the passage?

A. He who laughs last laughs best.

B. Where there is a will, there is a way.

C. Reading enriches the mind.

D. When God closes a door, somewhere he opens a window.

5.What kind of man is the writer?

A. Open-minded and optimistic

B. diligent and generous

C. clever but selfish

D. kind but useless

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.A

3.C

4.D

5.A

【解析】

試題分析：本文是一篇記敘文。描寫了一個有閱讀障礙的人在寫作上取得了極大的成功，本文告訴我們上帝為我們關(guān)上一扇門，就會給我們打開一扇窗。

1. 考查細節(jié)理解與推理判斷。根據(jù)文章我們可以得只什么。 I was working for no other reason than to hear people praise me.我之所以努力不為其他只為聽到別人對我的贊揚。由此可以推斷出D是正確的。

2. 考查細節(jié)理解與推理判斷。從文章的第三段我們可以知道什么。I owe my career to Ralph, Salisbury, my writing instructor at the University of Oregon, who looked past my misspellings and gave me encouragement and hope.我把我的事業(yè)歸功于透過我的拼寫錯誤并給予我鼓勵與希望的導(dǎo)師Ralph, Salisbury.故選A.

3. 考查細節(jié)理解。對于有閱讀困難的人，作者認為？ The real fear I have for dyslexics is not that they have to struggle with messy input, but that they will quit on themselves before they finish school. Parents have to create victories whenever they can, whether it is music, sports or the arts. You want your dyslexic child to be able to say, “Yeah, reading is hard. But I have these other things I can do.”不管是在音樂，體育或藝術(shù)上只要他們可以，家長就得給他們創(chuàng)造成功。

4. 考查推理判斷。以下諺語最能概述本文中心思想的是？D. When God closes a door, somewhere he opens a window.上帝為你關(guān)上一扇門，他同時也會為你打開一扇窗。

5. 考查推理判斷。本文作者是什么類型的人？A. Open-minded and optimistic思想開明和樂觀的。 B. diligent and generous勤奮慷慨的。C. clever but selfish聰明但自私的。 D. kind but useless善良但無用的。文章主要描寫了一個有閱讀障礙的人在寫作上取得了極大的成功。故選A.

考點：人生百味類短文閱讀。