阅读试题

During the 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton observed, "Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balancc is...For me, that balance is family, work, and service."

As an undergraduate at Wellesley College. Hillary mixed academic excellence with school government. Speaking at graduation. she said, "The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."

After graduation, Hillary advised the Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge and joined the impeachment inquiry staff advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. After completing those responsibilitics. she "followed her heart to Arkansas." where Bill had begun his political career.

They married in 1975. She joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas Law School in 1975 and the RoseLaw Firm in 1976. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the board of the Legal Services Corporation and Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas. Their daughter, Chelsea, was born in 1980.

Hillary served as Arkansas's First Lady for 12 years, balancing family, law,and public service. She chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee.co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, and served on the boards of the Arkansas Children's Hospital, Legal Services, and the Children's DefenseFund.

As the nation's First Lady, Hillary continued to balance public service with private life. Her active rolebegan in 1993 when the President asked her to chair the Task Force on National Health Care Reform. She continued to be a leading advocate for expanding health insurance coverage, ensuring children are properly immunized, and raising public awareness of health issues. She wrote a weekly newspaper column entitled "Talking It Over," which Focused on her experiences as First Lady and her observations of women, children, andfamilies she has met around the world.Her 1996 book It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Uswas a best seller,and she received a Grammy Award for her recording of it.

参考译文

在1992年的总统大选中，[1]希拉里·罗德姆·克林顿曾经说过：“我们的生命是不同角色的混合体。我们大多数人都在尽力寻找最佳的平衡……对我来说．这种平衡就是家庭、工作和服务。”

[2]还是在韦尔斯利学院读本科的时候，希拉里就不仅成绩优异。而且还参与学校的管理。她在毕业典礼上说：“如今的挑战就是把政治当作一门让看起来不可能的事情变得可能的艺术来操作。”

毕业后，希拉里在坎布里奇的儿童保护基金会任顾问，并加入了对众议院的司法委员会提出建议的弹劾质询组。在完成这些职责后，她“跟随内心的指引来到阿肯色州”，在这里，克林顿已经开始了自己的从政之路。

他们于1975年结婚。这一年她开始在阿肯色州州立大学法学院任教，并于1976年进入罗斯律师事务所。1978年，吉求·卡特总统任命她为法律服务公司的董事，而比尔·克林顿则成了阿肯色州的州长。他们的女儿切尔西于l980年出生。

希拉里做了12年的阿肯色州第一夫人，兼顾着家庭、法律事务和公共服务等各个方面。[3]她出任过阿肯色州教育标准委员会主席，与他人共同创建了阿肯色州儿童、家庭促进会，还是阿肯色州儿童医院、法律服务委员会以用儿童保护基金委员会的董事。

作为国家的第一夫人，希拉里继续在公共服务和私人生活之间保持着平衡。1993年，[4]克林顿总统请她负责管理国家医疗服务改革特别工作组的事务，她开始积极履行职责。她继续作为主要的倡导者主张扩大健康保险的范围，确保儿童得到适当的免疫，并提高公众对健康问题的关注。她执笔一个周报专栏“详谈”，主要谈她作为第一夫人的经历以及她对在世界各地遇到的妇女、儿童和家庭的观察。[5]1996出版了她的《建造孩子快乐的家园》，该书成了畅销书，他还因为给该书录音而获得了格莱美奖。

测试题

1.Hillary Rodham clinton once said that the balance in life she tried io seek was____________________________.

2.When Hillary was at Wellesley College, she not only did exceedingly well in her studies butalso______________________.

3.As Arkansas's First Lady, Hillary became______________________of the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee.

4.When Hillary was asked to be in charge of the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, she began playing________________in public service.

5.What did Hillary get for her recording of It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us?

答案详解

1.[family,work,and service]
[定位]根据Hillary Rodham Clinton和the balance查找到文章首段。

解析：首段中希拉里的话表明她尽力寻找的生活中的平衡就是家庭、工作和服务。对比该句与题目可以知道，本题答案为family，work, and service。

2.[took part in/participated in school government]
[定位]根据Wellesley College查找到第2段首句。

解析：题目中的not only... but also对应原文中的mixed... with，本题空白处应填入谓语，所必在原文school government前加上相应的动词（短语）即可，故本题答案为took part in/participated in school government。

3.[the chairwoman]
[定位]根据the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee查找到第5段第2句。

解析：原文该句中说到她出任过阿肯色州教育标准委员会主席，但用的是动词chaired，题目空白处应填入名词，且应注意希拉里是女性，因此答案为chaired的名词形式the chairwoman。

4.[an active role]
[定位]根据the Task Force on National Health Care Reform查找到第6段第2句.

解析：原文该句提到，克林顿总统请她负责管理国家医疗服务改革特别工作组的事务，她开始积极履行职责。题目中的incharge of对应原文中的chair，因此本题答案为an active role。

5.[A Grammy Award.]
[定位]根据It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us查找到原文末句。

解析：原文末尾的it指1996年出版的那本书，同时get是received的同义替换，所以received的宾语a Grammy Award为本题答案。