Question

John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching the high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.

Fortunately he had a strong-willed caring mother. John remembered that his mother told him many times, “Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe.” She told him not to depend on others, including his mother. “You have to earn success,” she said. “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”

These words came from a woman with less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and hard work don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son, who was then 15, to Chicago. Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land that black southerners were looking for. John’s mother and stepfather could not find work. But here John could go to school, and here he learned the power of words---as an editor of the newspaper and yearbook at Du Sable High School. His wish was to publish a magazine for blacks.

While others discouraged him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by: “Nothing beats a failure but a try. ” She also let him pawn(典當(dāng))her furniture to get the $500 he needed to start the Negro magazine for blacks.

It is natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always keeps his mother’s words in mind.: “Son, failure is not in your vocabulary!”

Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America---worth $150 million.

1.John’s mother decided to move to Chicago because_______.

A．his father died when John was very young.

B．life was too hard for them to stay on in their hometown

C．John needed more education badly

D．there were no school for Negroes in their hometown

2.John’s mother________.

A．didn’t believe in or depend on others

B．thought one could be whatever one wanted to be

C．believed one would succeed without working hard

D．thought no one could succeed without working hard.

3.The sentence “Nothing beats a failure but a try” means _______.

A．if you try, you would succeed

B．a(chǎn) failure is difficult to beat, even if you try

C．a(chǎn) try is always followed by a failure

D．no failure can be beaten unless you try

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

2.D

3.D

【解析】

試題分析：

1.C 推理題。根據(jù)第三段4,5行But here John could go to school, and here he learned the power of words說明他們來芝加哥主要就是讓John來讀書的，故C正確。

2.D 推理題。根據(jù)第二段最后一句All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.不是所有努力的人都會(huì)成功，但是成功的人卻一定是那些努力的人。說明她認(rèn)為努力是成功的最重要的因素，故D正確。

3.D 推理題。根據(jù)本段內(nèi)容說明她的媽媽讓他去嘗試，因?yàn)橹挥心闳�嘗試了，你才能成功。故D正確。

考點(diǎn)：考查教育類短文閱讀

點(diǎn)評(píng)：文章介紹了John H. Johnson的母親對(duì)他的激勵(lì)和教育成就了John H. Johnson的成功。集中考查推理題，解推斷題最主要的方法是根據(jù)詞義關(guān)系推斷具體細(xì)節(jié)。?