单选题 After losing her job and home in 1984, Lynn Carr was living on the streets of St. Charles, Montana, with her five-year-old son. "We slept in our car for about a week," she said, "but then it was sold."
As she moved from one friend"s house to another, Carr began working toward a high-school-equivalence-diploma, listening to self-help tapes and making cheesecakes. After developing some new methods which she thought were pretty good, she offered her cakes to a restaurant. They sold out in a matter of hours.
The following year, she met a man at a church service and before long, they married. Carr began selling the cheesecakes out of their home. Later she opened a cheesecake company. As business became better and better, Cart didn"t forget where she came from.
All the women she hires are mothers or high school dropouts (辍学者)—workers most other employers wouldn"t like to hire. Her dozen workers make 100 to 150 cakes a week and Carr owes her success to her employees. She says, "We are going to have a learning center and a day-care center in the company. Part of the workday will be spent studying for high-school-equivalence diplomas."
Recently, a 33-year-old woman with three children to raise was referred to Carr. She hired her at once. "It has been a real blessing (恩赐)," the woman said.
单选题 The text suggests that Lynn Carr ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题为推理判断题。文章描述了Lynn Carr这位女性自强不息、成功后帮助与自己有相同遭遇的人的故事。由文章第二段提到的她攻读高中国等学历汪书、第四段第一句说她雇佣的都是母亲或高中的辍学生等几处可以推知她本人也是高中辍学者,故选C。
单选题 Which of the following can be learned from the text?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题为推理判断题。由文章第二段最后一句:They sold out in a matter of hours(几小时就卖完了)及第三段最后一句所说的她的生意越来越好可以推知人们喜欢她做的奶酪蛋糕,故选A。
单选题 "Carr didn"t forget where she came from"(line 3, paragraph 3) means that Carr ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题为句意推测题。come from表示“来自于”,这句话指的是她没有忘记自己的过去。
单选题 According to the last two paragraphs, Lynn Carr is trying ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题为推理判断题。文章最后两段说明了她雇佣一些母亲和高中辍学者,就是为了说明第三段最后一句中说“她并未忘记自己的出身”这一句,结合文章前面几段对她经历的描述可知这些人应当都是与她有相似的经历,故答案为D。