2020-2021学年高中英语人教版必修4语篇提能-3.docx

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About twenty years ago I had the pleasure of teaching a disabled young woman. Not only was she good at math and science, but she was also extremely talented in art. She could draw and paint beautifully. When Audrey graduated from university she got two degrees, one in fine arts and one in chemistry. Not too many people do well in two such different areas of study.
Just before her high school graduation, Audrey gave me a wonderful gift. It was a watercolor painting of a mother and her baby. A tear fell from the mother's eye as she looked lovingly at her child. Beneath the painting Audrey had written these words. “The deep love from Mother, through me, touches another.” What a beautiful gift! I had the piece of art framed (给……做框) and hung in my office.
Years passed with many moves from one office to another and I lost the painting. Last year, after about eight years of not knowing where it was, I received a phone from a former colleague who said she had something of mine. It was the picture Audrey had painted for me 18 years earlier. When cleaning out a storage room she had discovered my gift.
I was struck that the precious gift came back. I knew Audrey very well. When she was four years old Audrey had a serious disease. What's worse, her father left the house. It was her mother who brought her up with much trouble. She survived the disease but was disabled.
To any other it is just a painting, but to me it shows how a mother's love has helped develop a talent and how its power pushes me ahead.
1．What made Audrey different from others was that she ________.
A. could draw and paint beautifully
B. was good at math and chemistry
C. got two degrees in two different fields
D. was a student in a key university
答案与解析　C　推理推断题。依据第一段最终一句话“Not too many people do well in two such different areas of study.”可以推断C项正确。
2．How did the author regain the painting?
A. She found it from one office.
B. One of her former colleagues found it.
C. She found it in a storage room.
D. Audrey found it for her.
答案与解析　B　细节理解题。依据文章第三段可以得知答案为B项。
3．What is Paragraph 4 mainly talking about?
A. The author's feeling.
B. Audrey's family.
C. Audrey's experience.
D. The author's experience.
答案与解析　C　段落大意题。全段主要讲的是Audrey的经受，故C项正确。
4．Why does the author value the painting so much?
A. It was painted by her most talented student.
B. The painting can be worth a lot of money.
C. The art value of the painting is immeasurable (无法估量的)．
D. The painting encourages her to advance (前进)．
答案与解析　D　推理推断题。依据文章最终一段最终一句话可以推出作者格外珍惜这幅画是由于它表现了母亲之爱能培育出天才，并能鼓舞我连续前进。
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The child of today owes much of its pleasant school life to the work of Maria Montessori and others who felt as she did.
Maria Montessori was born in 1870 in northern Italy. Both her parents were well educated.
While Maria was a student, she took great interest in the study of the particular nature of the chilD s mind. It came to her that small children should have freedom to learn.
Maria became a doctor and a professor at Rome University. In 1907, after working with backward students, she was given a chance to try out her ideas on children. There were sixty children, aged three to six, in the Children's House. The rooms were bright and colorful. Maria let the children make their own choice of what they wanted to do and work with their own speed. They became busy, peaceful and happy.
Maria Montessori was one of the worlD s greatest teachers. She traveled in Europe, America and Far East. She thought that true education, providing (供应) for the real needs of the child, would produce wise and happy grown­ups and therefore a peaceful world. Her original way of education has changed our whole idea of what childhood is.
Maria Montessori died in Holland at the age of eighty­two.
语篇解读　本文是一篇人物介绍，介绍了训练家Maria Montessori的生平和经受，特殊是她的训练理念至今给人以深刻的思考。
5．The short passage is mainly about ________.
A. the education of backward students
B. a new idea of education
C. the importance of proper education
D. the life of Maria Montessori
答案与解析　D　主旨大意题。通读全文后可知文章是围绕Maria的一生进行描写的，故选D项。
6．Maria traveled a lot in the world to ________.
A. teach the backward students
B. enjoy her life in real nature
C. spread her ideas of teaching
D. study the situation of education
答案与解析　C　细节理解题。文章第五段中的“Her original way of education has changed our whole idea of what childhood is.”表明：她独特的训练方法转变了我们全部的对童年的看法，故选C项。
7．In what way did Maria teach the children in the Children's House?
A. She taught them the best way of learning well.
B. She let them learn in a very pleasant way.
C. She taught them by showing them how to do things.
D. She just let them choose the most interesting subjects.
答案与解析　B　细节理解题。从文章第四段中“Maria let the children make their own choice of what they wanted to do and work with their own speed. They became busy, peaceful and happy.”可知答案为B项。
8．We learn from the passage that ________.
A. Maria left her homeland in order to study abroad
B. Maria didn't get married
C. MariA s own parents were her teachers
D. Maria fully understood the chilD s mind
答案与解析　D　细节理解题。文章中没提及选项A、B、C，故选D项。