Question

Mary Brown from East county in Scotland, she had the accident that had scarred（留下创伤） her for life when she was only one and a half years old. The curious child reached up to grab the wire of a hot kettle in the family kitchen and poured boiling water over her tiny infant frame.

Her mother Ruby turned round and, seeing Mary horribly burnt, called an ambulance which rushed her daughter to a nearby hospital. Twenty percent of Mary’s body had been burned and all of her burns were third-degree. There, using tissue taken from unburned areas of Mary’s body, doctors performed complex skin transplants to close her wounds and control her injuries, an operation that took about six hours. Over the next 16 years, Mary underwent 12 more operations to repair her body.

When she started school at Maxwelton Primary at age 4, other pupils made cruel comments or simply wouldn’t play with her. “I was the only burned child in the street, the class and the school,” she recalled, “some children refused to become friends because of that.”

Today, aged 17, Mary can only ever remember being a burned person with scars; pain is a permanent part of her body. She still has to have two further skin transplants. Yet she is a confident, outgoing teenager who offers inspiration and hope to other young burns victims.

She is a member of the Scottish Burned Children’s Club, a charity set up last year. This month, Mary will be joining the younger children at the Graffham Water Center in Cambridgeshire for the charity’s first summer camp. “I’ll show them how to get rid of unkind stares from others,” she says. Mary loves wearing fashionable sleeveless tops, and she plans to show the youngsters at the summer camp that they can too. “I do not go to great lengths to hide my burns scars,” she says, “I gave up wondering how other people would react years ago.”

1.What did other children do when Mary first went to school?

A. They were friendly to her.         

B. They showed sympathy to her.

C. They looked down upon her.       

D. They were afraid of her.

2.Which of the following words can’t properly describe Mary?

A. Courageous       B. sensitive     C. Confident       D. Outgoing

3.What can be the best title of the passage?

A. A seriously burned angel of Hope     

B. Ways to Get Rid of Unkind Stares

C. Permanent Scars And Pain For a Girl 

D. A Seriously Burned Girl Survives

Answer

1.C

2.B

3.A

【解析】

试题分析: 本文介绍了来自苏格兰东部乡村的一位名叫Mary Brown的女孩。她在一岁半的时候被开水烫伤，以至于身体的百分之二十都是三度烫伤，但是尽管经历了一次次痛苦的手术，经历了别人无数的嘲笑与歧视，她依然像天使一样自信乐观，给那些烧烫伤的人们带去希望。

1.other pupils made cruel comments or simply wouldn’t play with her……. she recalled, “some children refused to become friends because of that.”可知玛丽在上学时受到同学们的歧视，故答案选C。

2.Yet she is a confident, outgoing teenager who offers inspiration and hope to other young burns victims.可知敏感不是玛丽的性格，故答案选B。

3.的故事和她所遭遇的经历，在面对有些人好奇的、不友善目光时，她依然自信乐观并且勇敢地面对一次次的治疗，而且还积极地去帮助其他烧伤儿童，由此判断A选项内容能够体现文章中心，答案选A。

考点：考查故事类短文阅读。