The World Trade Organization (WTO) finally opened its door to China on November 10, ______ our Chinese 15-year wait. A. to end B. ended C. ending D. ends 答案:C 解析: 本题考查非谓语动词的区别与用法。v-ing形式在句中表示结果时,多指“顺理成章的”或“意料之内的”结果。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 (意志坚强的) caring mother. John remembered that his mother told
him many times, “Son, you can be anything you want really 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(典当)her furniture to get the $ 500 he needed
to start the Negro magazine.
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
schools 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 underlined sentence“Nothing beats a failure but
a try. ”means _____.
A.if you try,
you would succeed
B.a failure is
difficult to beat, even if you try
C.a try is
always followed by a failure
D.no failure
can be beaten unless you try
4.The story mainly tells us _____.
A.how John H.
Johnson became successful
B.about the
mental (心理的) support John’s mother gave him
C.about the
importance of a good education
D.about the key
to success for blacks