Mary became ______ homesick, so she fled from her home in L.A. to her hometown in Austria.
A.completely
B.sincerely
C.absolutely
D.increasingly
A.completely
B.sincerely
C.absolutely
D.increasingly
____________ (不到两年的光景), Mary matured and became a beautiful young lady.
He tried many ways of earning, and ______ he became a farm laborer.
Mary will not be able to come to the birthday party as she is ______ with a cold.
A.laid aside
B.laid by
C.laid up
D.laid down
A.completely
B.sincerely
C.absolutely
D.increasingly
A.blank
B.empty
C.vacant
D.hollow
W: I know. And she has been doing nothing else ever since.
Q: What is Mary's occupation now?
(15)
A.Secretary.
B.Reporter.
C.Teacher.
D.Shop assistant.
A.completely
B.sincerely
C.absolutely
D.increasingly
At the age of thirteen Phyllis wrote her first poem. She became a Boston sensation after she wrote a poem on the death of the evangelical preacher George Whitfield in 1770. It became common practice in Boston to have "Mrs. Wheatley's Phyllis" read poetry in polite society. Mary married in 1771, and Phyllis later moved to the country because of poor health, as a teacher and caretaker to a farmer's three children. Mary had tried to interest publishers in Phyllis's poems but once they heard she was a Negro they weren't interested.
Then in 1773 Phyllis went with Nathaniel, who was now a businessman, to London. It was thought that a sea voyage might improve her health. Thirty-nine of her poems were published in London as Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. It was the first book published by a black American. In 1775 Phyllis wrote a poem extolling the accomplishments of George Washington and sent it to him. He responded by praising her talents and inviting her to visit his headquarters. After both of her benefactors died in 1777, and Mary died in 1778, Phyllis was freed as a slave. She married in 1778, moved away from Boston, and had three children. But after the unhappy marriage, she moved back to Boston, and died in poverty at the age of thirty.
What does the passage mainly discuss?
A.Slavery and the treatment of the black people in America.
B.The Wheatley family, including their slaves.
C.The life of America's first black poet.
D.The achievements of Phyllis Wheatley.
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
Mary Church Terrell was born in 1863, the year in which Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves. Ms. Terrell was the daughter of an exslave who had gone on to achieve wealth, and she spent her life in the fight for equality. She became an author, speaker, and an activist, living in segregated Washington, D. C.
In 1895, Mary Terrell became a Washington, D. C. School Board member. In 1896, she was a charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Women. In 1890 she joined the ony-year-old National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She organized and led Washington campaigns for women's rights and fight to integrate Washington restaurants and organized Delta Sigma Theta Sorority in 1913.
She was often sent .as the U. S. delegate to international conferences. At the international Council of Women at Berlin, she astounded her audience by giving her speech in German, English and French. In 1953 at the age of eighty-nine, Mary Terrell lost a court case that found that segregation was valid. In 1954 she died in Annapolis, but not until a few months after the Supreme Court's decision making discrimination by race illegal.
Ralph Bunche was born in Detroit and educated at UCLA and Harvard. He taught government at Howard University until World War IT. Bunche is remembered now for his part in the civil fights struggle, having marched in Selma and Nontgomery. But he, too, live Mary Church Terrell, served his government at very high levels.
Bunche worked first for the War Department as an African and Far Eastern specialist, and later he worked as head of the colonial affairs division at the State Department. In 1945 he helped form. plans for the United Nations, and in 1947 he became a director of the United Nations Trusteeship division. In 1950 he received the Noble Peace Prize for his part in the armistice talks, and he also received our highest civilian award, the Medal of Freedom. Just before his death in 1971, Bunche retired from the United Nations after twenty five years of service. Having also been a board member of tile NAACP for over twenty years, he had a long career of an admirable service to both his country and his race.
The main idea of this passage is that ______.
A.Mary Terrell and Ralph Bunche were two important Americans
B.Mary Terrell and Ralph Bunche were influential only in international affairs
C.Mary Terrell and Ralph Bunche helped found the NAACP
D.Mary' Terrell and Ralph Bunche both served in the U.S. government
Mary and Xiaoyan ()a housewarming party from 1pm-5pm on Saturday.
A. are having
B. is having
C. have
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