【英语】2019届二轮复习阅读理解专题记叙文类型模拟试题10篇训练之五（16页word版）

【英语】2019届二轮复习阅读理解专题记叙文类型模拟试题10篇训练之五（16页word版）

‎2019届二轮复习阅读理解专题记叙文类型模拟试题10篇训练之五 ‎[一]‎ April 2018, Manchester My dearest daughter,‎ As I looked across at you sitting on the sofa watching The X Factor, I noticed that you are no longer a child, and that having just celebrated your 14th birthday, you are now a young woman starting a journey into becoming an adult woman. As I looked at you, I remembered myself at 14, and the vastly different places we are beginning this journey from. ‎ Your identity as a mixed-race young woman, with an English father and a Pakistani mother, has already influenced how you place yourself in this world. Until now, you are unaware of the personal struggles that I took at the age of 25 to marry. How it felt when my mother refused to come to my wedding. The sharp criticisms of the Asian community that such marriages do not work out and always end in divorce. The confidence I had to grow, as we chose to live in a multicultural community, as I refused to be shamed into living in the leafier white suburbs.‎ Then, at the age of 30, I became your mum with all the joys and struggles this brought, as I refused the Asian traditions for a new baby's arrival. From your birth, your life could not have been more different from mine. I was brought up on a council estate, within a tight-knit extended Muslim family, through which poverty, racism and neglect were woven. I was never given the freedoms or the opportunity to experience new things. Now, as I hear you play your piano, I am grateful that you have these opportunities.‎ So many doors were closed to me as a young person, and as I fought for small steps of freedom, I soon learned that it was better to do what I wanted without the knowledge of my parents, and so deceit and deception(欺骗) became woven into my life too. The pressures to obey, to be a "good Muslim" girl and to keep the family honour were choking. Behind closed doors at home, the neglect and abuse took place. It was hidden; I felt the shame, lived with the fear and suffered alongside my sister and two younger brothers. Oh, the power we thought our parents had over us! I was convinced that one day my father would indeed beat us so hard that leaving us for dead, he would, as his threats said, bury us in the large back garden and tell the school he had taken us back to Pakistan for good. My sister and I longed for a different blue sky to live under.‎ As a daughter of immigrant parents, I carried their hopes of a better education for their children—my own veins(血管) pulsing with the hard-work ethic(道德) and need to be grateful for the opportunity of a free education. And it was education that provided me with the strength to find my own blue sky. I fought to leave home to go to university at the age of 18, and never returned to live with my parents again.‎ Now as you explore your mixed-race heritage, which I hope we have supported you to do with visits to Pakistan and ensuring you go to multi-cultural schools, I want you to take the very best of all that is Asian with you as you become a woman.‎ The struggles of identity and belonging will come but I hope that we have given you a strong foundation from which to explore these struggles. All the opportunities and freedoms that I only dreamed of as a young woman, I have offered you. I have chosen a different path of loving you as my daughter, with an unconditional love that many consider "western".‎ I want you to know that although your journey has been vastly different. I am excited as I watch you standing on the threshold of becoming a woman for all the adventures and possibilities the future holds for you.‎ May you fly your blue sky with grace, confidence and hope as you find your place in this beautiful and crazy world.‎ Loving you now and always. Mommy ‎ ‎31. Mommy's mother refused to attend her wedding probably because _____.‎ A. she married against the wishes of her family B. she refused traditional Asian wedding ceremony ‎ C. she would leave the family to settle in the white suburbs D. she would bring shame to the multicultural community ‎32. By "your life could not have been more different from mine." Mommy means ______.‎ A. her childhood was no different from her daughter's B. her parents treated her the way she does her daughter C. her daughter experienced the same traditions at birth with her D. her daughter can enjoy the opportunities which she didn’t ‎33. What can be inferred from Mommy's Muslim family life?‎ A. She behaved like a good Muslim girl. B. She fought against her Muslim identity.‎ C. She suffered much abuse in the family. D. She was forced to drop out of school.‎ ‎34. Mommy sends her daughter to multi-cultural schools to _____.‎ A. provide her daughter with more opportunities and freedoms B. increase her daughter's exposure to different cultures ‎ C. encourage her daughter to grow up to be a better woman D. ensure her daughter more opportunities to visit Pakistan ‎35. Mommy writes the letter mainly to _____.‎ A. uncover the sufferings she had as a teenage girl B. criticize the social prejudice in her community C. emphasize the importance of family support D. encourage her daughter to try to achieve her dream 参考答案：‎ ‎31-35 ADCBD ‎[二]‎ As years went by, I realized that one of the biggest problems of adults was worry. A large majority of my students were businessmen, executives, salesmen, engineers, accountants: a cross section of all the trades and professions—and most of them had problems! There were women in the classes—business women and housewives. They too had problems. Clearly, what I needed was a textbook on how to conquer worry. So again, I tried to find one.‎ I went to the New York great public library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street and discovered to my astonishment that this library had only twenty-two books listed under the title WORRY. I also noticed, to my amusement, that it had one hundred and eighty-nine books listed under WORMS. Almost nine times as many books about worms as about worry! Surprising, isn't it? Since worry is one of the biggest problems facing mankind, you would think, wouldn't you, that every high school and college in the land would give a course on “How to Stop Worrying”?‎ Yet, if there is even one course on that subject in any college in the land, I have never heard of it. No wonder David Seabury said in his book How to Worry Successfully: “We come to maturity with as little preparation for the pressures of experience as a bookworm asked to do a ballet.”‎ The result? More than half of our hospital beds are all occupied by people with nervous and emotional troubles.‎ ‎ I looked over those twenty-two books on worry on the shelves of the New York Public Library. In addition, I purchased all the books on worry I could find; yet I couldn't discover even one that I could use as a text ‎ in my course for adults. So I decided to write one by myself.‎ ‎24. What made the writer realize one of the adults’ biggest problems?‎ A. His wide reading. B. His practical survey.‎ C. His students’ real situation. D. His scientific research.‎ ‎25. The writer went to New York's great public library with the purpose of________.‎ A. getting a book for his teaching B. finding some material for his new book C. obtaining some information for his research D. borrowing some books on worms for his students ‎26. What do David Seabury’s words in paragraph 3 show?‎ A. Worry is extremely common. B. We lack knowledge of worry.‎ C. We show no interest in worry. D. Worry can hardly be controlled.‎ 27. What's the writer’s purpose of writing the passage?‎ A. To warn us of the possible danger of worry.‎ B. To persuade us to get rid of worry.‎ C. To explain why he wanted to write a book on worry.‎ D. To tell us how to conquer worry.‎ 参考答案：‎ ‎24-27 CABC ‎[三]‎ Dr. Amanda Harris was ready for sleep since it was already 11 pm. The phone rang. On the other end of the line was a woman about to break a promise. The woman was her mother’s neighbor. Flora Harris had made the neighbor swear she wouldn’t tell her daughter she’d had a heart attack and was in hospital. The neighbor wisely decided to disobey orders.‎ ‎ Amanda desperately wanted to get to the hospital immediately, but she couldn’t. She lives in Washington D. C., and her mother lives in California. For the past year and a half, Amanda has gone to Los Angeles every other month to take care of her mother. Flora Harris takes care of her husband, James, who’s 91 and has Alzheimer’s disease. They live in their own home, and a caregiver comes to help them a few hours a day.‎ Amanda is one of many Americans facing the heartache of how to take care of aging parents from afar. She’s often worried and guilty, not to mention busy with a demanding job, two teenage daughters and the frequent trips to California.‎ In some ways, Amanda is lucky. She has the resources to make the trips to Los Angeles. Plus, she is a doctor who treats the elderly. She’s treated countless patients whose children live far away.‎ ‎ “But it’s still tough,” she says. “I can foresee what the next few years are going to look like, and it’s not a pretty picture. There will come a time when my father won’t recognize me and I worry he’s going to be violent and hurt my mother.”‎ ‎ So what do you do when you live a continent away from your aging, sick parents? You can hire someone to help, but you can’t count on it completely.‎ ‎24. Why is Amanda worried and guilty?‎ ‎ A. She is tired of taking care of her husband.‎ ‎ B. She cannot afford to go to California often.‎ ‎ C. She cannot take good care of her aging parents.‎ ‎ D. She has heart disease and cannot do a demanding job.‎ ‎25. The author considers Amanda lucky because ________.‎ ‎ A. her parents are well cared by a caregiver ‎ B. she has experience of treating the elderly ‎ C. her parents are not very old ‎ D. she has a lot of free time ‎26. What’s one of the symptoms of a person with Alzheimer’s disease?‎ ‎ A. Having no sense of pain.‎ ‎ B. Having heart attacks often.‎ ‎ C. Always feeling worried and guilty.‎ ‎ D. Being unable to recognize relatives.‎ ‎27. The writer writes this passage in order to _________.‎ ‎ A. stress the importance of tending aging parents ‎ B. give some advice on tending aging parents from afar ‎ C. introduce the current situation of aging parents in the USA ‎ D. show the difficulty of tending aging parents living far away 参考答案：‎ ‎ 24-27 CBDD ‎[四]‎ Emmoni Lopez used to take dance lessons while her older brothers wrestled – but it turned out that she liked wrestling better.‎ Her mom wasn’t surprised when Lopez told her she liked wrestling more than dance, and three years after Lopez took up the sport, she enjoys watching her daughter wrestle. Still, when a coach first asked Lopez to join his program, her mom hesitated– she never thought her daughter would want to be a wrestler.‎ Lopez is among a growing number of girls who are taking up wrestling. Officials with youth organizations in Chicago and the Illinois Kids Wrestling Federation (IKWF) said they’ve seen the number of girls participating in the sport take off in recent years.‎ In Lopez’s program, about half of the students participating in the organization’s free youth wrestling camp this summer are girls, coach Frankie Zepeda said.‎ Many of the girls Zepeda sees become interested in wrestling through their brothers, he said.‎ ‎“They probably just learn to … fight back,” he said.‎ One of those was Yamilet Aguirre. She took up wrestling because she was bored just watching her brother wrestle, she said.‎ ‎“I can have fun doing it,” she said. “And I can prove girls are just as strong as boys are.”‎ Though girls have competed on high school wrestling teams in Illinois for years, coaches and female wrestlers said there weren’t many participating a decade ago.‎ ‎“It’s really picked up over the last few years,” said Jim Considine, president of the IKWF.‎ Between the 2015-16 and 2017-18 seasons, the number of girls registered with IKWF grew from 363 to 503, and more of the organization’s events are featuring a girls-only division. Girls and boys wrestle together during the season through IKWF, but there’s a girls-only championship at the end of the year.‎ And by adding female wrestling programs, colleges are giving girls and young women another option.‎ ‎“Female wrestling isn’t something unacceptable anymore,” Considine said. “Things have happened so quickly. Ten years ago, you’d never have dreamed of doing this.”‎ ‎24. What has helped her take up wrestling, in Yamilet Aguirre’s case?‎ A. Her wish to be stronger than boys.‎ B. Her awareness to protect girls.‎ C. Her parents’ expectations.‎ D. The experience of watching wrestling competitions.‎ ‎25. The underlined word “option” is closest in meaning to ______.‎ A. challenge B. chance C. choice D. change ‎26. What can we learn about female wrestling in the US from the article?‎ A. Its popularity in college is declining.‎ B. It’s still unacceptable in many people’s eyes.‎ C. It has been accepted by colleges.‎ D. College girls like it less than dancing.‎ ‎27. Which of the following would be the best title for the text ?‎ A. A Female Sport Event B. Not Just for Boys C. The Great Sports Personality D. Make Way for Male Wrestlers ‎24-27: ACCB ‎ ‎[五]‎ Almost since Sophia Spencer started walking, the seven-year-old girl would catch insects(昆虫), study them, let them crawl all over her, and even sing to them before letting them go back into the wild.‎ But while Nicole, Sophia's mother, saw this hobby as excellent and educational, Sophia was called a 'weirdo'（古怪的人）by children at her school. Kids would refuse to play with her and one boy even killed one of Sophia's insect friends after asking to have a closer look. Sophia was even hit and dragged through the mud by bullies over her hobby. But the teachers did nothing about the names and teasing(捉弄).‎ It was this heartbreaking treatment that eventually led Nicole to write an E-mail to the Entomological Society of Canada (ESOC) looking for a professional entomologist (昆虫学家)to help her little girl understand that she should not let the teasing stop her from being herself.‎ The email ended up in the box of Morgan Jackson, a social media volunteer for the organization. Touched by the story, he posted the letter on the official account and asked for help.‎ ‎"A young girl who loves insects is being bullied & needs our support, " he wrote.‎ The letter suddenly took off. Female entomologists from around the world shared photos and videos of themselves at work with all kinds of insects and wrote to Sophia telling her not to give up on her dreams.‎ In just one day, Nicole had received dozens of messages from scientists all over the world. And not only were they happy to chat to Sophia, but also offered to send her supplies and books to help her in her studies. ‎ When she heard about the outpouring of support and offers, Nicole said Sophia was jumping up and down on the bed, so excited that there are female entomologists, scientists and biologists all over the world.‎ ‎24. What is the passage mainly about?‎ A. Social media is powerful.‎ B. Sophia was crazy about insects.‎ C. Sophia was bullied and teased at school over her hobby.‎ D. Bullied young entomologist received support from scientists. ‎ ‎25. What is true about Sophia?‎ A. She is a weird and strange girl. ‎ B. She was bullied and teased over her hobby. ‎ C. She was strongly supported by her teachers.‎ D. She caught and kept a large collection of insects.‎ ‎26. Why did Nicole write to the ESOC?‎ A. Sophia had troubling learning about insects. ‎ B. She wanted Sophia to become a member of the ESOC.‎ C. She wished scientists to protect Sophia’s interest in insects. ‎ D. She wanted to report the school bullies to the public.‎ ‎27. What can we learn from the last three paragraphs?‎ A. Many entomologists offered to visit Sophia in person. ‎ B. Sophia was greatly encouraged by entomologists.‎ C. Sophia made up her mind to be an entomologist. ‎ D. Sophia was surprised at the support of entomologists.‎ 参考答案：24—27 DBCB ‎[六]‎ Dr. Amanda Harris was ready for sleep since it was already 11 pm. The phone rang. On the other end of the line was a woman about to break a promise. The woman was her mother’s neighbor. Flora Harris had made the neighbor swear she wouldn’t tell her daughter she’d had a heart attack and was in hospital. The neighbor wisely decided to disobey orders.‎ ‎ Amanda desperately wanted to get to the hospital immediately, but she couldn’t. She lives in Washington D. C., and her mother lives in California. For the past year and a half, Amanda has gone to Los Angeles every other month to take care of her mother. Flora Harris takes care of her husband, James, who’s 91 and has Alzheimer’s disease. They live in their own home, and a caregiver comes to help them a few hours a day.‎ Amanda is one of many Americans facing the heartache of how to take care of aging parents from afar. She’s often worried and guilty, not to mention busy with a demanding job, two teenage daughters and the frequent trips to California.‎ In some ways, Amanda is lucky. She has the resources to make the trips to Los Angeles. Plus, she is a doctor who treats the elderly. She’s treated countless patients whose children live far away.‎ ‎ “But it’s still tough,” she says. “I can foresee what the next few years are going to look like, and it’s not a pretty picture. There will come a time when my father won’t recognize me and I worry he’s going to be violent and hurt my mother.”‎ ‎ So what do you do when you live a continent away from your aging, sick parents? You can hire someone to help, but you can’t count on it completely.‎ ‎24. Why is Amanda worried and guilty?‎ ‎ A. She is tired of taking care of her husband.‎ ‎ B. She cannot afford to go to California often.‎ ‎ C. She cannot take good care of her aging parents.‎ ‎ D. She has heart disease and cannot do a demanding job.‎ ‎25. The author considers Amanda lucky because ________.‎ ‎ A. her parents are well cared by a caregiver ‎ B. she has experience of treating the elderly ‎ C. her parents are not very old ‎ D. she has a lot of free time ‎26. What’s one of the symptoms of a person with Alzheimer’s disease?‎ ‎ A. Having no sense of pain.‎ ‎ B. Having heart attacks often.‎ ‎ C. Always feeling worried and guilty.‎ ‎ D. Being unable to recognize relatives.‎ ‎27. The writer writes this passage in order to _________.‎ ‎ A. stress the importance of tending aging parents ‎ B. give some advice on tending aging parents from afar ‎ C. introduce the current situation of aging parents in the USA ‎ D. show the difficulty of tending aging parents living far away 24-27 CBDD 参考答案：24-27 CBDD ‎ ‎[七]‎ When school started on that warm August day, I threw myself into everything I did, including playing volleyball. I decided to become beautiful, or at the very least, skinny. I stopped eating completely. Soon I began losing weight, which thrilled me, and I even grew to love the tiredness and lightheadedness (头晕) that came with my poor diet, for those feelings meant that I was winning. ‎ As the season progressed, things had become tense (紧张) between my head volleyball coach, Coach Smith, and me. She felt that something was wrong with my health. She talked with me about my eating and was angry that I wouldn’t listen to her when she tried to make me eat. She tried to stop me in a determined way and so we fought frequently. Then my hunger started to affect my performance. I was so tired that practice and games were becoming a struggle. One afternoon, with hurt in her eyes, Coach Smith asked me what I had eaten and I told her nothing yet. She looked at me, disappointment in her eyes, knowing she couldn’t make me stop, and walked away. ‎ A couple of weeks later I attended a formal dinner for our volleyball team. I stood there as my coach managed to say something nice about me. I realized then that I had ruined my senior year by being disrespectful, ‎ and I had probably ruined hers as well. So that evening I wrote her a letter apologizing and thanking her. ‎ Then one Saturday, as I was reading in the library, I felt someone gently take my arm and say softly, “Lynn Jones, how are you doing?” I looked up and saw the familiar face. “Thanks for the letter,” she said. “It meant a lot.”‎ When I think of a coach, I think of someone above me, someone who gives instruction – not a friend. But Coach Smith is different, and, like any other good friend, she dealt with my problem in a determined way even when I hated her for it at that time. I didn’t deserve (值得) her kindness, but she gave it anyway. I will forever be grateful for her help, and now for her friendship.‎ ‎24. How did the author feel when she ate a poor diet and had a sense of tiredness?‎ A. Ashamed. B. Proud. C. Funny. D. Nervous.‎ ‎25. The author fought with Coach Smith because ________.‎ ‎ A. she refused to go on B. she caused failure of a diet ‎ C. she changed the training course D. she kept her idea of losing weight ‎26. Why did the author write a letter to Coach Smith?‎ ‎ A. She felt sorry for eating too little food.‎ ‎ B. She decided to improve her performance. ‎ ‎ C. She was thankful for Smith’s care for her health.‎ ‎ D. She wanted to build a close relationship with Smith. ‎ ‎27. What is the best little for the text？‎ ‎ A. Unexpected Friendship B. A Fight with My Coach ‎ C. A Strict Volleyball Coach D. My Way of Losing Weight 参考答案：24-27BDCA ‎[八]‎ In one of the old buildings near our school，one could see an old man sitting by a large window on the first floor．His name was James．During ‎ the three years at school, I had hardly ever found him missing from his usual position．‎ He was a high-ranking government official and lived happily with his wife．Once there was a bus accident，in which a number of passengers were seriously injured and were taken to the hospital for treatment．James was responsible for the rescue operation．It was a big hospital，but James was shocked to notice how ill-equipped it was．There were no enough life-saving drugs and life—supporting equipment． The injured and their companions had to struggle there．James attempted to help．However，though he emptied his pockets，many of them died that day．‎ That was a turning point in his life．He made a decision to devote his life to helping others，particularly the poor and needy patients and their companions．He began spending much of his income on these people．Since this required a lot of time and energy，he found it difficult to fulfill(履行) his official duties and therefore chose to retire，which，in turn，reduced his income considerably．‎ His wife was deeply worried. Most of the time，James was out and paid least attention to home affairs．Meanwhile，as he was spending a lot helping others，she had to struggle even to meet the household expenses．Though she was not opposed to his helping the poor，she urged him not to overlook his own life and home，but it had no effect on him．One day they had a heated argument and in the end she left him，never to return．Though he continued with his work，this was a great blow and did serious harm to his health and enthusiasm and was soon forced to stay indoors．That was when he took his position by the window，spending his time looking outside．‎ A few weeks after my graduation，I returned to school，only to find the buildings gone．I heard that they were torn down．All the people left except James．He refused to go and the next morning，he was found ‎ at his usual place by the window，dead．‎ ‎54．What changed James’ view towards life?‎ A． The difficulties in his career．‎ B． The deaths in the bus accident．‎ C． The bad conditions in the hospital．‎ D． The responsibilities in the operation．‎ ‎55．James chose to retire in order to____________________.‎ A． spare more time and energy to help others B． find a better job to increase his income C． take care of the injured passengers D． stay away from the difficult official duties ‎56．James’ wife left because_________________________．‎ A． she was strongly against his deeds B． James paid too little attention to his work C． her work to support their daily life was too tiring D． James failed to keep a balance between charity and home ‎57．What is possibly the reason why James sat by the window every day?‎ A． He expected his wife to return.‎ B． He looked forward to going out.‎ C． He desired to watch the students.‎ D． He attempted to know the outside life.‎ 参考答案：‎ ‎54-57.CADA ‎[九]‎ As years went by, I realized that one of the biggest problems of adults was worry. A large majority of my students were businessmen, executives, salesmen, engineers, accountants: a cross section of all the trades and professions—and most of them had problems! There were women in the classes—business women and housewives. They too had problems. Clearly, what I needed was a textbook on how to conquer worry. So again, I tried ‎ to find one.‎ I went to the New York great public library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street and discovered to my astonishment that this library had only twenty-two books listed under the title WORRY. I also noticed, to my amusement, that it had one hundred and eighty-nine books listed under WORMS. Almost nine times as many books about worms as about worry! Surprising, isn't it? Since worry is one of the biggest problems facing mankind, you would think, wouldn't you, that every high school and college in the land would give a course on “How to Stop Worrying”?‎ Yet, if there is even one course on that subject in any college in the land, I have never heard of it. No wonder David Seabury said in his book How to Worry Successfully: “We come to maturity with as little preparation for the pressures of experience as a bookworm asked to do a ballet.”‎ The result? More than half of our hospital beds are all occupied by people with nervous and emotional troubles.‎ ‎ I looked over those twenty-two books on worry on the shelves of the New York Public Library. In addition, I purchased all the books on worry I could find; yet I couldn't discover even one that I could use as a text in my course for adults. So I decided to write one by myself.‎ ‎24. What made the writer realize one of the adults’ biggest problems?‎ A. His wide reading. B. His practical survey.‎ C. His students’ real situation. D. His scientific research.‎ ‎25. The writer went to New York's great public library with the purpose of________.‎ A. getting a book for his teaching B. finding some material for his new book C. obtaining some information for his research D. borrowing some books on worms for his students ‎26. What do David Seabury’s words in paragraph 3 show?‎ A. Worry is extremely common. B. We lack knowledge of worry.‎ C. We show no interest in worry. D. Worry can hardly be controlled.‎ 27. What's the writer’s purpose of writing the passage?‎ A. To warn us of the possible danger of worry.‎ B. To persuade us to get rid of worry.‎ C. To explain why he wanted to write a book on worry.‎ D. To tell us how to conquer worry.‎ 参考答案：24-27 CABC ‎[十]‎ April 2018, Manchester My dearest daughter,‎ As I looked across at you sitting on the sofa watching The X Factor, I noticed that you are no longer a child, and that having just celebrated your 14th birthday, you are now a young woman starting a journey into becoming an adult woman. As I looked at you, I remembered myself at 14, and the vastly different places we are beginning this journey from. ‎ Your identity as a mixed-race young woman, with an English father and a Pakistani mother, has already influenced how you place yourself in this world. Until now, you are unaware of the personal struggles that I took at the age of 25 to marry. How it felt when my mother refused to come to my wedding. The sharp criticisms of the Asian community that such marriages do not work out and always end in divorce. The confidence I had to grow, as we chose to live in a multicultural community, as I refused to be shamed into living in the leafier white suburbs.‎ Then, at the age of 30, I became your mum with all the joys and struggles this brought, as I refused the Asian traditions for a new baby's arrival. From your birth, your life could not have been more different from mine. I was brought up on a council estate, within a tight-knit extended Muslim family, through which poverty, racism and neglect were woven. I was never given the freedoms or the opportunity to experience new things. Now, as I hear you play your piano, I am grateful that you have these opportunities.‎ So many doors were closed to me as a young person, and as I fought for small steps of freedom, I soon learned that it was better to do what I wanted without the knowledge of my parents, and so deceit and deception(欺骗) became woven into my life too. The pressures to obey, to be a "good Muslim" girl and to keep the family honour were choking. Behind closed doors at home, the neglect and abuse took place. It was hidden; I felt the shame, lived with the fear and suffered alongside my sister and two younger brothers. Oh, the power we thought our parents had over us! I was convinced that one day my father would indeed beat us so hard that leaving us for dead, he would, as his threats said, bury us in the large back garden and tell the school he had taken us back to Pakistan ‎ for good. My sister and I longed for a different blue sky to live under.‎ As a daughter of immigrant parents, I carried their hopes of a better education for their children—my own veins(血管) pulsing with the hard-work ethic(道德) and need to be grateful for the opportunity of a free education. And it was education that provided me with the strength to find my own blue sky. I fought to leave home to go to university at the age of 18, and never returned to live with my parents again.‎ Now as you explore your mixed-race heritage, which I hope we have supported you to do with visits to Pakistan and ensuring you go to multi-cultural schools, I want you to take the very best of all that is Asian with you as you become a woman.‎ The struggles of identity and belonging will come but I hope that we have given you a strong foundation from which to explore these struggles. All the opportunities and freedoms that I only dreamed of as a young woman, I have offered you. I have chosen a different path of loving you as my daughter, with an unconditional love that many consider "western".‎ I want you to know that although your journey has been vastly different. I am excited as I watch you standing on the threshold of becoming a woman for all the adventures and possibilities the future holds for you.‎ May you fly your blue sky with grace, confidence and hope as you find your place in this beautiful and crazy world.‎ Loving you now and always. Mommy ‎ ‎31. Mommy's mother refused to attend her wedding probably because _____.‎ A. she married against the wishes of her family B. she refused traditional Asian wedding ceremony ‎ C. she would leave the family to settle in the white suburbs D. she would bring shame to the multicultural community ‎32. By "your life could not have been more different from mine." Mommy means ______.‎ A. her childhood was no different from her daughter's B. her parents treated her the way she does her daughter C. her daughter experienced the same traditions at birth with her D. her daughter can enjoy the opportunities which she didn’t ‎33. What can be inferred from Mommy's Muslim family life?‎ A. She behaved like a good Muslim girl. B. She fought against her Muslim identity.‎ C. She suffered much abuse in the family. D. She was forced to drop out of school.‎ ‎34. Mommy sends her daughter to multi-cultural schools to _____.‎ A. provide her daughter with more opportunities and freedoms B. increase her daughter's exposure to different cultures ‎ C. encourage her daughter to grow up to be a better woman D. ensure her daughter more opportunities to visit Pakistan ‎35. Mommy writes the letter mainly to _____.‎ A. uncover the sufferings she had as a teenage girl B. criticize the social prejudice in her community C. emphasize the importance of family support D. encourage her daughter to try to achieve her dream 参考答案：‎ ‎31-35 ADCBD