20xx年高考英语天津卷(精校)(编辑修改稿)

20xx年高考英语天津卷(精校)(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

and cold meat. do some people choose selfcatering acmodation? A. To experience a warmer family atmosphere. B. To enrich their knowledge of English\ C. To entertain friends as they like. D. To enjoy much more freedom. B In the fall of 1985. I was a brighteyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twentyone years later I am later I am still a brighteyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell. My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college an the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait. Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a bination of adopt and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantasticand very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3. In 20xx, I gave birth to another boy. You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 81. Our home was a plete zooa joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college fulltime. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant talking as few as one class each semester. The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit, But I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives. In 20xx, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree。 I am not special, just singleminded. It always struck me that when you’re looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you’re in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won’t arrive in your life on one day. It’s a process. Remember； little steps add up to big dreams. 41. When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be ________. A. a writer B. a teacher C. a judge D. a doctor 42. Why did the author quit school in her second year of college? A. She wanted to study by herself. B. She fell in love and got married. C. She suffered from a serious illness. D. She decided to look after her grandma. 43. What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5? A. She was busy yet happy with her family life. B. She ignored her guilty feeling for her sons. wanted to remain a fulltime housewife. was too confused to make a correct choice. 44. What does the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph? is the mother of success. B. Little by little ,one goes far. coin has two sides. begun, half done. 45. Which of the following can best describe the author? and determine. B. Honest and responsible. C. Ambitious and sensitive. D. Innocent and singleminded. C An idea that started in Seattle39。 s public library has spread throughout America and beyond. The concept is simple: help to build a sense of munity in a city by getting everyone to read the same book at the same time. 第 5 页 In addition to encouraging reading as a pursuit (追求 ) to be enjoyed by all, the program allows strangers to municate by discussing the book on the bus, as well as promoting reading as an experience to be shared in families and schools. The idea came from Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl who launched (发起） the If All of Seattle Read the Same Book project in 1998. Her original program used author visits, study guides and book discussion groups to bring people together with a book, but the idea has since expanded to many other American cities, and even to Hong Kong. In Chicago, the mayor(市长） appeared on television to announce the choice of To Kill a Mockingbird as the first book in the One Book, One Chicago program. As a result, reading clubs and neighborhood groups sprang up around the city. Across the US, stories emerged of parents and children reading to each other at night and strangers chatting away。