Question

【題目】 I’m a 34-year-old man, married, lived in a nice house, and have a successful career. But my life was not always so great. I had a learning disability from an early age. I went to a special school where I got plenty of extra（額外的）help. Still, I suffered（遭受）the rest of my school days in public schools.

My life improved greatly when I discovered art. The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words. I went to a workshop and gradually became good at making things with clay. Here I learned my first important lesson: disabled as I was in language, I could still be smart and well express myself with clay. And my confidence（自信）came along.

I got my next lesson from rock climbing. It was a fun thing but I was scared from the start. I soon noticed it wasn’t an easy thing: it needed lots of practice. So I did it more. After about five years of climbing, I found myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall. I learned that if you fall in love with something and do it all the time, you will get better at it.

Later I decided to learn how to read and write. I practiced reading and writing, which I used to avoid as much as possible. After two years, I was literate（有文化的）.

Through the long process with art, climbing, and reading and writing, now I’ve got to a point in my life: I am smart enough to dive into（潛入）an area that is totally unknown, hard, but interesting.

【1】The writer’s _____________________________________ made his school days difficult.

【2】The writer got confidence from art because it gave him ___________________________.

【3】What else did the writer learn besides art and climbing?

【4】找出并寫下第二段主題句。

_______________________________________________________________________________________.

【5】將文中畫線句子譯成漢語。

_______________________________________________________________________________________.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】learning disability

【2】a chance to express himself without words

【3】reading and writing

【4】My life improved greatly when I discovered art.

【5】我很快察覺到這不是一件容易的事，它需要大量練習(xí)。

【解析】

本文是一篇記敘文，講述了作者小時候有學(xué)習(xí)障礙，所以學(xué)生時代學(xué)習(xí)很困難，但是他不放棄。當(dāng)他發(fā)現(xiàn)藝術(shù)時，他的生活有了明顯的改善，藝術(shù)幫助他不用語言也可以很好地表達(dá)自己。

【1】根據(jù)“I had a learning disability from an early age”，可知是他的學(xué)習(xí)障礙使得他學(xué)習(xí)困難，故答案為learning disability。

【2】根據(jù)“The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words”，可知藝術(shù)給他機(jī)會不用語言也可以很好地表達(dá)自己，故答案為a chance to express himself without words。

【3】根據(jù)“Later I decided to learn how to read and write”，可知他還學(xué)了讀和寫，故答案為reading and writing。

【4】通讀整段，可知該段主要圍繞“My life improved greatly when I discovered art”展開，講述了作者發(fā)現(xiàn)藝術(shù)后生活是如何改善的，故答案為My life improved greatly when I discovered art.

【5】soon意為“很快”，noticed意為“察覺到”，其后跟一個省略引導(dǎo)詞that的賓語從句；it是賓從的主語，easy thing意為“容易的事”；needed意為“需要”，lots of意為“大量的”，修飾其后名詞practice，意為“練習(xí)”，故答案為“我很快察覺到這不是一件容易的事，它需要大量練習(xí)”。