Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of the most private women in the world, yet when she went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed (展現(xiàn)) herself as she did nowhere else. 
After the death of her second husband, Greek shipping magnate (巨頭) Aristotle Onassis, Jacqueline's close friend and former White House social secretary Letitia Baldrige made a suggestion that she consider a career in publishing . After consideration, Jacqueline accepted it. Perhaps she hoped to find there some ideas about how to live her own life .She became not less but more interested in reading. For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publisher's editor, first at Viking,then at Doubleday, pursuing a late-life career longer than her two marriages combined. During her time in publishing, she was responsible for managing and editing more than 100 successfully marketed books. Among the first books were In the Russian Style and Inventive Paris Clothes. She also succeeded in persuading TV hosts Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell to transform their popular television conversation into a book, The Power of Myth. The book went on to become an international best-seller. She dealt too, with Michael Jackson as he prepared his autobiography(自傳), Moonwalk.      
Jacqueline may have been hired for her name and for her social relations, but she soon proved her worth. Her choices, suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publishing firms and to Jacqueline herself. In the books she selected for publication, she built on a lifetime of spending time by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind. Her books are the autobiography she never wrote. Her role as First Lady, in the end, was overshadowed by her performance as an editor. However, few knew that she had achieved so much

  1. 1.

    We can learn from the passage that Jacqueline______.

    1. A.
      became fond of reading after working as an editor
    2. B.
      gained a lot from her career as an editor
    3. C.
      promoted(促進(jìn)) her books through social relations
    4. D.
      was in charge of publishing 100 books
  2. 2.

    The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means that______.

    1. A.
      Jacqueline's ended up as an editor rather than as First Lady
    2. B.
      Jacqueline's life as First Lady was more colorful than as an editor
    3. C.
      Jacqueline's role as First Lady was more brilliant than as an editor
    4. D.
      Jacqueline was more successful as an editor than as First Lady
  3. 3.

    What can be inferred from the passage?

    1. A.
      Jacqueline's two marriages lasted more than 20 years
    2. B.
      Jacqueline's own publishing firm was set up eventually
    3. C.
      Jacqueline's achievements were widely known
    4. D.
      Jacqueline's views and beliefs were reflected(反映) in the books she edited
  4. 4.

    The passage is mainly______.

    1. A.
      a brief account(敘述) of Jacqueline's career as an editor in her last 20 years
    2. B.
      a brief description of Jacqueline's lifelong experiences
    3. C.
      an introduction of Jacqueline's life both as First Lady and as editor
    4. D.
      an analysis of Jacqueline's social relations in publishing
BDDA
1.描寫Jacqueline在20年晚年時間里作編輯的故事。指她從20年編輯的生涯中學(xué)習(xí)了很多。
2.B 推理判斷題,本文是一篇記敘文,描寫Jacqueline在20年晚年時間里作編輯的故事。指她從20年編輯的生涯中學(xué)習(xí)了很多,故B正確;
3.D 猜測詞義題。根據(jù)本句中的句意猜測題。根據(jù)”overshadowed ”不難得出答案是C。說明她作為一個編輯非常成功。
4.D推理判斷題。根據(jù)“For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publisher’s editor, first at Viking, then at Doubleday, pursuing(追求)a late-life career longer than her two marriages combined.”可以排除A;B項 “own publishing firm was set up”表達(dá)錯誤,C項的widely known.表達(dá)錯誤。
5.A主旨大意題,根據(jù)60題解析可以得出答案。
考點:考查人物傳記類閱讀。
點評:對于人物傳記類閱讀要分析清楚文章中所發(fā)生事情的時間,地點,及人物。要抓住文章的主旨大意。
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