2016年高三英语二轮复习 专题限时检测（十六）阅读理解细节理解类之正误判断题 牛津版.docVIP

专题限时检测(十六)　阅读理解细节理解类之正误判断题 (加★的为正误判断题，本卷限时24分钟) A (2015·镇江市高三教学情况调研)“I decided that my education was the most important thing that I could ever have, because without your education, you cant do much in this world. Some people find out the hard way. I did not want to be one of those people.” Seventeen-year-old high school senior Diamond May is devoted to her education. She takes all college-level classes in her school?s demanding International Baccalaureate program, where her grade-point average last year was above a 4.0. Her favorite subjects are math, biology, psychology, and “Theory of Knowledge”， and she’s considering forensic science, mechanical engineering, and architecture as possible careers. Diamond also lives in southeast Washington, D．C., one of the most poverty and violence-stricken neighborhoods in our nations capital — and was homeless for part of her sophomore year and nearly all of her junior year. When the temperature dropped dramatically, Diamond’s family was assigned to move to the D．C. General Homeless Shelter, a former abandoned hospital. The squalor (肮脏) and desperation in the shelter made national headlines after 8-year-old Relisha Rudd went missing just days before Diamonds family moved in. In the wake of that tragedy, newly-enforced rules said that parents and children had to arrive at and leave the shelter together. One of Diamond?s biggest challenges was rearranging her own academic and after-school activities every day in order to coordinate with her mother and brother. Yet through it all, Diamond actually increased her academic performance — while many of her peers never had any idea what her family was going through. On November 18 Diamond and four other extraordinary D．C.-area high school seniors will be honored with the Children’s Defense Fund’s Beat the Odds award and a scholarship for college, given each year to students who have overcome great odds stacked against them to give back to their communities. Diamond’s phenomenal high sc