Question

Mary Brown from East county in Scotland, she had the accident that had scarred（留下創(chuàng)傷） her for life when she was only one and a half years old. The curious child reached up to grab the wire of a hot kettle in the family kitchen and poured boiling water over her tiny infant frame.

Her mother Ruby turned round and, seeing Mary horribly burnt, called an ambulance which rushed her daughter to a nearby hospital. Twenty percent of Mary’s body had been burned and all of her burns were third-degree. There, using tissue taken from unburned areas of Mary’s body, doctors performed complex skin transplants to close her wounds and control her injuries, an operation that took about six hours. Over the next 16 years, Mary underwent 12 more operations to repair her body.

When she started school at Maxwelton Primary at age 4, other pupils made cruel comments or simply wouldn’t play with her. “I was the only burned child in the street, the class and the school,” she recalled, “some children refused to become friends because of that.”

Today, aged 17, Mary can only ever remember being a burned person with scars; pain is a permanent part of her body. She still has to have two further skin transplants. Yet she is a confident, outgoing teenager who offers inspiration and hope to other young burns victims.

She is a member of the Scottish Burned Children’s Club, a charity set up last year. This month, Mary will be joining the younger children at the Graffham Water Center in Cambridgeshire for the charity’s first summer camp. “I’ll show them how to get rid of unkind stares from others,” she says. Mary loves wearing fashionable sleeveless tops, and she plans to show the youngsters at the summer camp that they can too. “I do not go to great lengths to hide my burns scars,” she says, “I gave up wondering how other people would react years ago.”

1.What did other children do when Mary first went to school?

A. They were friendly to her.

B. They showed sympathy to her.

C. They looked down upon her.

D. They were afraid of her.

2.Which of the following words can’t properly describe Mary?

A. Courageous B. sensitive C. Confident D. Outgoing

3.What can be the best title of the passage?

A. A seriously burned angel of Hope

B. Ways to Get Rid of Unkind Stares

C. Permanent Scars And Pain For a Girl

D. A Seriously Burned Girl Survives

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.B

3.A

【解析】

試題分析: 本文介紹了來自蘇格蘭東部鄉(xiāng)村的一位名叫Mary Brown的女孩。她在一歲半的時候被開水燙傷，以至于身體的百分之二十都是三度燙傷，但是盡管經歷了一次次痛苦的手術，經歷了別人無數的嘲笑與歧視，她依然像天使一樣自信樂觀，給那些燒燙傷的人們帶去希望。

1.other pupils made cruel comments or simply wouldn’t play with her……. she recalled, “some children refused to become friends because of that.”可知瑪麗在上學時受到同學們的歧視，故答案選C。

2.Yet she is a confident, outgoing teenager who offers inspiration and hope to other young burns victims.可知敏感不是瑪麗的性格，故答案選B。

3.的故事和她所遭遇的經歷，在面對有些人好奇的、不友善目光時，她依然自信樂觀并且勇敢地面對一次次的治療，而且還積極地去幫助其他燒傷兒童，由此判斷A選項內容能夠體現文章中心，答案選A。

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