soon he was at or near the bottom of his class.

Although he did not like school, Bernard was a good, bright, curious student. His lifelong interest in everything from music and art to machines and medicine began from school life. The interests of this tireless schoolboy were literature and music. He often entertained(使快乐)his classmates with stories he read.

Early at the age of fifteen, he went to work in an office. He did well as an office clerk, but after five years he decided that he wanted to be a writer. He left Ireland and went to London, where he began to write seriously.

In 1898, Shaw married a wealthy, independent woman named Charlotte Payne Townshend. They lived happily together until her death in 1943. By 1915, Shaw's international fame was firmly established and his plays were put on in many countries all over the world, from Britain to Japan. Shaw won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. He came to China in 1932 and became a friend of Lu Xun when he was 76 years old.

He died on November 2, 1950. It was reported that the night of his death, theatres around the world were darkened in his honor.

【语篇概述】本文介绍了乔治•萧伯纳的出生、家庭、学业、创作以及一生的成就。

1. What's the main idea of the passage?

A. Bernard Shaw's biography

B. Bernard Shaw's work

C. Bernard Shaw's childhood

D. Bernard Shaw's family

【解析】选A。主旨大意题。本文主要介绍了萧伯纳的出生、家庭、学业、创作成就等, 所以属于人物传记, 故选A。

2. What does the underlined word"selfish"mean in paragraph one?

A. remarkable　　　　　 B. reasonable

C. irresponsible D. impossible

【解析】选C。词义猜测题。根据第一段中His father was a selfish man who drank too much and could not support his family properly. 可知萧伯纳的父亲是个不负责任的人, 由此可推测selfish一词和C项irresponsible同义。

3. Bernard Shaw grew up_______.

A. without his parents' love

B. in the school

C. with his sisters' help

D. in a hungry family

【解析】选A。细节理解题。根据第一段中的第三句、第五句可知萧伯纳从小很少得到父母的爱, 故选A。

4. Which of the following statement is TRUE about George Bernard Shaw?

A. Shaw's wife was a wealthy, dependent woman.

B. Shaw didn't do well in his study and was at the bottom of his class.

C. Shaw won the Nobel Prize for literature when he was 69 years old.

D. At the night of his death, the electricity was cut off all the world.

【解析】选C。细节理解题。根据课文第一段可知, 萧伯纳出生于1856年, 根据倒数第二段可知他1925年获得诺贝尔文学奖, 由此可计算出他获得诺贝尔文学奖时69岁, 故选C。根据第四段第一句可知A不正确; 根据第一段最后一句可知B项叙述不准确; 根据最后一段