Question

I wished I had known earlier the fact that I was a low achiever because there was a reason beyond my control. Then I needn’t have worked so hard in my late twenties and early thirties. But I just didn’t know that. I was writing and writing. I was working for no other reason than to hear people praise me.

Most people who go through university read at least twice as fast as I do. I can never tell my left from my right. I avoid dialing a telephone if I can help it, because I sometimes have to try three times before getting the number right. I hear that recording “The number you have reached is not in service” more than any man on earth.

Despite my weaknesses I view my dyslexia (difficulty in reading) as a gift, not a curse(诅咒). Many dyslexics are good at right brain, namely abstract thought, and that is what my key of creative writing is. I’m starting with nothing and coming up with something that didn’t exist before. That’s my strong point. I owe my career to Ralph Salisbury, my writing instructor at the University of Oregon, who looked past my misspellings and gave me encouragement and hope. I just carried on and never looked back. I’m also very “visual”. This means nothing in school, but when I write books or scripts, I’m seeing everything in my imagination. I write quickly. I go like the wind and can get up to 15 pages a day. Writing is not the problem. I have no problem downloading; it is inputting where things get messed up.

The real fear I have for dyslexics is not that they have to struggle with messy input, but that they will quit on themselves before they finish school. Parents have to create victories whenever they can, whether it is music, sports or the arts. You want your dyslexic child to be able to say, “Yeah, reading is hard. But I have these other things I can do.”

1.From Paragraph 3 we can know that ______

A. The author was grateful to his writing instructor

B. The author often complained about his dyslexia

C. The author had trouble with both inputting and outputting.

D. Having problem in inputting, the author wrote slowly.

2.For dyslexics, the author thinks that_________.

A. they should work as hard as himself

B. they had better choose to drop out of school

C. they should be constantly encouraged

D. they should put their hearts into reading

3.Which of the following proverbs can best summarize the main idea of the passage?

A. He who laughs last laughs best.

B. Where there is a will, there is a way.

C. Reading enriches the mind.

D. When God closes a door, somewhere he opens a window.

4.What kind of man is the writer?

A. Open-minded and optimistic    B. diligent and generous

C. clever but selfish    D. kind but useless

Answer

1.A

2.C

3.D

4.A

【解析】

本文属于记叙文，描写了一个有阅读障碍的人在写作.上取得了极大的成功，本文告诉我们上帝为我们关上一扇门，就会给我们打开一扇窗。

1.推理判断题。从文章的第三段I owe my career to Ralph Salisbury, my writing instructor at the University of Oregon, who looked past my misspellings and gave me encouragement and hope.可知我把我的事业归功于通过我的拼写错误并给予我鼓励与希望的导师Ralph, Salisbury，故选A。

2.考查细节理解。根据最后一段The real fear I have for dyslexics is not that they have to struggle with messy input, but that they will quit on themselves before they finish school. Parents have to create victories whenever they can, whether it is music, sports or the arts. You want your dyslexic child to be able to say, “Yeah, reading is hard. But I have these other things I can do.”可知，不管是在音乐，体育或艺术上只要他们可以，家长就得给他们创造成功，故选C。

3.推理判断题。文章描写了一个有阅读障碍的人在写作上取得了极大的成功，告诉我们上帝为我们关上一扇门，就会给我们打开一扇窗，故选D。

4.推理判断题。A. Open- minded and optimistic思想开明和乐观的。B. diligent. And generous勤奋慷慨的。C. clever but selfish聪明但自私的。 D. kind, but useless善良但无用的。文章主要描写了一个有阅读障碍的人在写作上取得了极大的成功，故选A。