2014广东中职英语模考试题阅读理解集中练（四）.docVIP

广东中职英语模考试题：阅读理解 阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分） 第一节阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A.B.C和D）中，选出最佳选项， 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A There is a man who Id like to tell you about. His name is Sandy Greenberg. In his youth,Sandy was a very good student, but he came from a poor family. And so he went to ColumbiaUniversity on a scholarship and there he met his roommate who also was receiving financial aid. Now while he was a sophomore（大学二年级学生）at Columbia University,Sandycontracted an eye disease that eventually proved to be glaucoma. But the trouble was, it wasnt detected（检查）early enough, and as a result he became legally blind.I ask you all to imagine for a moment having been sighted all your life and then all of a sudden being faced, in a very competitive school, with losing so much sight you could nO longer read. This is what happened to Sandy Greenberg. But something else happened to Sandy that may surprise you. Sandy said that when he losthis sight, his roommate would-read his textbooks to him, every night. So Im going to put you in that position, in a competitive school like Columbia, or Johns Hopkins. If your roommate had a serious disability, would you take the time to read textbooks to him every night,knowing the more you spend time reading textbooks to your roommate,perhaps the less well you might do with your other activities? Thats not as easy a question as it first appears. But luckily for Sandy, his roommate did. And as a result, Sandy went on to graduate with honors. He got a Fulbright Scholarship, and he went off to study at Oxford. He was still quite poor, but he said he had managed t o save about five hundred dollars as he went along. His roommate, meanwhile, also went on to graduate school. One day, Sandy got a call fromhim at Oxford. And his former roommate said,“Sandy Im really unhappy. I really dont like being in graduate school, and I dont want to do this. 36. What is glaucoma? A. A problem in study. B. A trouble in money. C. An eye diseas