Mary Brown from East county in Scotland, s

题目内容：

Mary Brown from East county in Scotland, she had the accident that had scarred（留下创伤） her for life when she was only one and a half years old. The curious child reached up to grab the wire of a hot kettle in the family kitchen and poured boiling water over her tiny infant frame.

Her mother Ruby turned round and, seeing Mary horribly burnt, called an ambulance which rushed her daughter to a nearby hospital. Twenty percent of Mary’s body had been burned and all of her burns were third-degree. There, using tissue taken from unburned areas of Mary’s body, doctors performed complex skin transplants to close her wounds and control her injuries, an operation that took about six hours. Over the next 16 years, Mary underwent 12 more operations to repair her body.

When she started school at Maxwelton Primary at age 4, other pupils made cruel comments or simply wouldn’t play with her. “I was the only burned child in the street, the class and the school,” she recalled, “some children refused to become friends because of that.”

Today, aged 17, Mary can only ever remember being a burned person with scars; pain is a permanent part of her body. She still has to have two further skin transplants. Yet she is a confident, outgoing teenager who offers inspiration and hope to other young burns victims.

She is a member of the Scottish Burned Children’s Club, a charity set up last year. This month, Mary will be joining the younger children at the Graffham Water Center in Cambridgeshire for the charity’s first summer camp. “I’ll show them how to get rid of unkind stares from others,” she says. Mary loves wearing fashionable sleeveless tops, and she plans to show the youngsters at the summer camp that they can too. “I do not go to great lengths to hide my burns scars,” she says, “I gave up wondering how other people would react years ago.”

小题1:What did other children do when Mary first went to school?

A．They were friendly to her.

B．They showed sympathy to her.

C．They looked down upon her.

D．They were afraid of her.小题2:Which of the following words can’t properly describe Mary?

A．Courageous

B．sensitive

C．Confident

D．Outgoing小题3:What can be the best title of the passage?

A．A seriously burned angel of Hope

B．Ways to Get Rid of Unkind Stares

C．Permanent Scars And Pain For a Girl

D．A Seriously Burned Girl Survives

最佳答案：

小题1:C

小题2:B

小题3:A

答案解析：

试题分析: 本文介绍了来自苏格兰东部乡村的一位名叫Mary Brown的女孩。她在一岁半的时候被开水烫伤，以至于身体的百分之二十都是三度烫伤，但是尽管经历了一次次痛苦的手术，经历了别人无数的嘲笑与歧视，她依然像天使一样自信乐观，给那些烧烫伤的人们带去希望。

小题1:C细节理解题。根据文章第三段other pupils made cruel comments or simply wouldn’t play with her……. she recalled, “some children refused to become friends because of that.”可知玛丽在上学时受到同学们的歧视，故答案选C。

小题2:B细节理解题。从文章第四段对玛丽的描述Yet she is a confident, outgoing teenager who offers inspiration and hope to other young burns victims.可知敏感不是玛丽的性格，故答案选B。

小题3:A主旨大意题。本文介绍了Mary Brown的故事和她所遭遇的经历，在面对有些人好奇的、不友善目光时，她依然自信乐观并且勇敢地面对一次次的治疗，而且还积极地去帮助其他烧伤儿童，由此判断A选项内容能够体现文章中心，答案选A。

考点核心：

人物传记类文章的文体特征：

人物传记是记叙文体的一种，主要描写某人的生平事迹、趣闻轶事、生活背景、个性特征、成长奋斗历程等，包含记叙文的时间、地点、人物、事件等要素。其特点是以时间的先后或事件的发展为主线，空间或逻辑线索贯穿文章始终，脉络清楚，可读性较强。