2013届高三英语三轮专题强化精练：阅读理解40.docVIP

2013届高三英语三轮专题强化精练：阅读理解 1.阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all． It was, of course, a miserable childhood． The happy childhood is hardly worth your while． Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood． And worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood． That was Frank McCourt reading the opening lines of his book Angelas Ashes, released in nineteen ninety-six． This Irish American author best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Angelas Ashes that recorded his poor upbringing, died of cancer on Sunday, The New York Times reported． He was 78． Born in New York City, he was the eldest of seven children born to Irish immigrant parents． Angelas Ashes was a memoir that captured an irresponsible, drunkard father with a gift for story-telling． When not drunk, his father was absent, turning his back on a family so poor, McCourt wrote, that they were reduced to burning the furniture in their rented hut to keep warm． His mother struggled to raise her many children after his father left the family． Already struggling when the Great Depression hit, the family moved back to Limerick, where they slipped ever deeper into poverty in the 1930s． Three of McCourts siblings died of diseases worsened by hunger and the wretchedness of their surroundings． McCourt himself almost died of typhoid（伤寒的） fever as a child． In Angelas Ashes, he wrote of hunger, a home flooded with rainwater and the unbearable humiliation of seeking handouts from charities in the Irish city． But he told the story in a way that is expressive, warm and light-hearted． Frank McCourt left Ireland at the age of nineteen to return to New York City where he was born． He earned a degree in- English education and taught creative writing for nearly thirty years． After retiring in nineteen eighty-seven, he decided to write about his childhood． Angelas Ashes became a huge success and brought McCourt a 1997 Pulit