The morning after my teacher came, she led me into her room and gave me a doll. When I had played with it a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word “d-o-l-l.“ I was at once interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it. When I finally succeeded in making the letters correctly, I was flushed with childish pleasure and pride. Running downstairs to my mother, I held up my hand and made the letters for doll. I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed; I was simply making my fingers go in monkey-like imitation. But my teacher had been with me several weeks before I understood that everything had a name. One day, while I was playing with my new doll, Miss Sullivan also put my big rag doll into my lap, spelled “d-o-l-l“ and tried to make me understand that “d-o-l-l“ applied to both. Earlier in the day we had had a tussle over the words “m-u-g“ and “w-a-t-e-r.“ Miss Sullivan had tried to impress it upon me that “m-u-g“ is mug and “w-a-t-e-r“ is water, but I persisted in confounding the two. In despair, she had dropped the subject for the time, only to renew it at the first opportunity. I became impatient at her repeated attempts and, seizing the new doll, I dashed it upon the floor. I was keenly delighted when I felt the fragments of the broken doll at my feet. Neither sorrow nor regret followed my passionate outburst. I had not loved the doll. In the still, dark world in which I lived, there was no strong sentiment or tenderness. We walked down the path to the well-house, attracted by the fragrance of the honeysuckle with which it was covered. Someone was drawing water, and my teacher placed my hand under the spout. As the cool stream gushed over one hand, she spelled into the other the word water, first slowly, then rapidly. I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers. Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten — a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that “w-a-t-e-r“ meant the wonderful cool, something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! There were barriers still, it is true, but barriers that could in time be swept away. I left the well-house, eager to learn. Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought. As we returned to the house, every object which I touched seemed to quiver with life. That was because I saw everything with the strange, new sight that had come to me. On entering the door, I remembered the doll I had broken. I felt my way to the hearth and picked up the pieces. I tried vainly to put them together. Then my eyes filled with tears; for I realized what I had done, and for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow.

Which of the following statements would the author agree with?

A．Children need learning to help shape their life.

B．Learning can free a person from the barriers they encounter.

C．Without language, humans tend to feel angry and bitter.

D．People who want to overcome their flaws must be open to learning.

On returning to the hearth, which of the following did the author fail to do?

A．She picked up the pieces of the broken doll.

B．She put the broken pieces together.

C．She realized what she had done wrong.

D．She felt repentance and sorrow.

The passage may be taken from______.

A．an autobiography of a deaf and blind girl

B．an experience of a kind and patient teacher

C．an illustration of learning language by hand spelling

D．an example of good relationship between teacher and student

The author dashed the doll to______.

A．see if her teacher would get angry at her behavior

B．express her impatience at her teacher’s repeated attempts

C．hope that her mother would come to help her

D．show a strong dislike of the new doll

Which of the following statements can tell us that the author was then a deaf, blind girl?

A．The world she lived in was still and dark.

B．In the world in which she lived, there was no tenderness.

C．She was like a ship at sea in a dense fog.

D．The word “light“ was the wordless cry of her soul.

In the passage, the author views language as______.

A．a barrier to understanding her own thoughts

B．an essential part of her life

C．the key to her appreciating of the world around her

D．the only way to express her feelings

When the author says “finger play“, she means to emphasize her______.

A．initial inability to know that she was spelling a word

B．girlish need to learn by playing games with dolls

C．teacher’s technique for teaching her games with hands

D．ideas that learning language was as easy as playing games

When the teacher spelled the word “doll“ into the girl’s hand, she followed suit EXCEPT that______.

A．she was interested in the finger play

B．her fingers went in monkey-like imitation

C．she was eager to show her success to her mother

D．she understood at once that everything had a name

Large herds of grazing mammals are most likely to be found in a______. grassland terrace desert forest

The politician’s speech was______of nothing but a bitter railing. made formed composed included

When the first Europeans arrived in Australia, they found the continent already______by other people. abandoned populated migrated explored

University professors are frequently______to use multimedia materials in their classroom presentations. inspired trusted forced encouraged

To the younger generation, hunger was an______concept, having never missed a meal themselves. absurd abnormal abstract abusive

She was determined to______her reputation in the foreign service by learning to speak Chinese. enhance increase forge accelerate

The fireworks display created so much light that the night sky was completely______. decorated exploded illuminated polluted

The researcher found that only a handful of troops of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys remain, each______dozens of families, like a nomadic tribe. comprising formulating modifying dividing

Dolphins, though usually friendly, can become offensive when threatened. violent aggressive fearless noisy

One possibility of supplying the world with clean, renewable energy is energy harvesting from ocean waves, which has been proposed as a means of offsetting a large portion of the world’s electrical energy demand. canceling exploring satisfying tackling

To the surprise of Democrats, many Republican-controlled states optednot to expand Medicaid healthcare coverage for the poor. preferred supported refused offered

There had been dictionaries in the past, the first of these is a little book of some 120 pages, compiled by a certain Robert Cawdray. were being to have been having been

Each virus strain is grown separately inside the eggs over the course of several days, which it is harvested, inactivated, and purified. from which by which after which before which

As Wardell notes, once managerial decisions are known, they then become the basis those groups lower down the hierarchy and organize their resistance and responses. which groups that groups on which groups on that groups

Neither Lorillard nor the researchers who studied the workers in the east part of the country has been aware of any research on smokers of the Kent cigarettes. are aware of were aware of be aware of was aware of

We had some links with the Socialist Workers and other Left-wing groups, and there were many intellectuals who were funding the Panthers — as well as actors and actresses and so like. like it the like like them to like

According to international news, the skinny guy traced by the police for the past few months was accused of conspiring with a manager, misleading the bank’s auditor. misled had misled to mislead to have misled

Driving to Lithfield, the freezing rain made the road slippery and hazardous. When we are driving to Lithfield To drive to Lithfield We drove to Lithfield and When we drove to Lithfield

When buying clothes, consumers usually consider how much the item costs, how good it looks, and its wears. the ability to last how long it is how well it wears how’s the durability

Although he is fond of the music of both composers, Amy prefers the compositions of Mozart to Beethoven. the compositions of Mozart to Beethoven’s compositions compositions by Mozart to compositions by Beethoven Mozart’s compositions to Beethoven’s Mozart’s compositions to Beethoven