2021年成人高考专升本英语每日一练练习试题（七）

    Ann Curry is a famous news presenter of the NBC News “ Today" show. When she was 15 she happened to walk into a bookstore in her hometown and began looking at the books on the shelves.The man behind the counter, Mac McCarley, asked if she'd like a job. She needed to start saving for college, so she said yes.

    Ann worked after school and during summer vacations , and the job helped pay for her first year of college.During college she would do many other jobs :she served coffee in the student’ union,was a hotel maid and even made maps for the US Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most satisfying jobs.

    One day a woman came into the bookstore and asked Ann for books on cancer(癌症). The woman seemed anxious. Ann showed her practically everything they had and found other books they could order. The woman left the store less worried, and Ann has always remembered the pride she felt in having helped her customer.

    Years later, as a television reporter in Los Angeles, Ann heard about a child who was born with problems with his fingers and his hand. His family could not afford a surgical(外科的) operation, and the boy lived in shame, hiding his hand in his pocket all the time.

    Ann persuaded her boss to let her do the story. After the story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called. offering to perform the surgical operation for free.

Ann visited the boy in the recovery room after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his repaired hand and say,”Thank you. " What a sweet sense of satisfaction Ann Curry felt !

    At McCarley's bookstore , Ann always sensed she was working for the customers , not the store. Today it's the same. NBC News pays her, but she feels as if she works for the people who watch the programs, helping them make sense of the world.

1. Ann Curry got her first job          .

A. from her friend in a bookstore 

B. a couple of years before college

C. at the NBC News "Today" show 

D. when she was studying at university

2. At which part-time job did Ann Curry feel the happiest?

A. The hotel. 

B. The bookstore.

C. The students' union. 

D. The LTS Forest Service.

3. What particularly gives her the feeling of pride?

A. Helping people through her work. 

B. Reporting interesting stories.

C. Being able to do different jobs well. 

D. Paying through her college education.

4. How did Ann help the child get the operation he needed?

A. Ann persuaded the boy to speak on TV. 

B. Ann paid for the operation herself.

C. Ann's boss a~treed to raise money. 

D. Ann ' s news report moved some doctors.

    Lawn tennis is a good sport , being based on the ancient game of court tennis , which probably came up in Egypt or Persia some 2,500 years ago. Major Walter Wingfield thought that something like court tennis could be played outdoors on lawns , and in December 1873 , he introduced his new game, which he called Sphairistike, at a lawn party in Wales. The sport became popular very rapidly, but the strange, difficult name disappeared almost at once, being replaced by the very simple and logical term "lawn tennis " .

    By 1874 the game was being played by British soldiers in Bermuda, and in the early months of that year a young lady named Mary Outerbridge returned from Bermuda to New York, bringing with her the equipment necessary to play the new game. With the help of one of her brothers, she laid out a court on the grounds of the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club, and there, in the spring of 1874, Miss Outerbridge and some of her friends played the first game of lawn tennis in the United States.

    And just two years later, in 1876 , the first United States lawn tennis tournament(锦标赛) was held-at Nahant near Boston.

5. Mary Outerbridge is important in the history of lawn tennis because .

A. she invented it 

B. she gave it its name

C. she introduced it to Bermuda 

D. she brought it to America

6. The new game called Sphairistike appeared in in 1873.

A. America 

B. Europe 

C. Bermuda 

D. Egypt

7. The first United States lawn tennis game was played .

A.at Nahant 

B. on the Staten Island

C. in Boston 

D. in New York

8. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Lawn tennis became popular very rapidly in the United States.

B. It was Major Walter Wingfield who invented court tennis.

C. The sport was called "lawn tennis" shortly after it was invented.

D. Miss Outerbridge set up a lawn tennis court with the help of her brother.

【参考答案】

1.【答案】B

【考情点拨】推理判断题。

【应试指导】文章第一段描述了故事主人公找到第一份工作的过程。由第一段最后一句“She needed to start saving for college, so she said yes.(她需要开始为上大学攒钱，因此就答应了。)”可以推知，她在接受这份工作时尚未上大学。故选B。

2.【答案】B

【考情点拨】事实细节题。

【应试指导】由文章第二段最后一句“But selling books was one of the most satisfying jobs.(然而卖书是最让她感到满足的工作之一。)”可知，B项为正确答案。

3.【答案】A

【考情点拨】事实细节题。

【应试指导】由第三段最后一句“…and Ann has always remembered the pride she felt in having helped her customer.……她一直记得帮助顾客之后感到的骄傲。)”可知，A项为正确答案。

4.【答案】D

【考情点拨】推埋判断题。

【应试指导】文章最后四段描述了主人公帮助一个天生残疾的小孩的故事。她是说服老板让她做关于这个小孩的节目并播出，随后引起社会关注而使小孩得以手术的，而且在倒数第三段中明确指出医生是在看完节目后打电话表示愿意提供免费手术的。D项为正确答案。

5.【答案】D

【考情点拨】推理判断题。

【应试指导】文章第二段指出，玛丽·奥特布莱吉将草地网球带回美国并举办了美国首次草地网球比赛，所以她在历史上的重要性就是因为她把草地网球引进了美国。

6.【答案】B

【考情点拨】事实细节题。

【应试指导】文章第一段讲到，1873年在威尔士的草地聚会上进行首次草地网球比赛。威尔士属于欧洲。

7.【答案】D

【考情点拨】事实细节题。

【应试指导】文章第二段讲述到，玛丽·奥特布莱吉将草地网球带到了纽约，并在那里进行了首次比赛。

8.【答案】B

【考情点拨】事实细节题。

【应试指导】从文章第一段可知，沃特·威费尔德发明的是草地网球而不是场地网球。

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