解析：推理判断题。根据第二段内容可知作者从出生后就长时间住院，这种状况很少有孩子能忍受，由此判断，童年对她来说是艰难的，故选B。

答案：B

3．What does the underlined word "that" in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．The author's born disability.

B．The author's childhood memory.

C．The author's great determination.

D．The author's ability to deal with others.

解析：推理判断题。根据第三段首句I've grown up with great determination可知作者认为她的决心与生俱来，然后在她的成长过程中，又得到父母的进一步培养，故选C。

答案：C

4．According to the passage，we can infer that________.

A．the writer has a positive attitude towards life

B．the writer does little exercise

C．the writer receives little education

D．the writer doesn't like to show her true feelings

解析：推理判断题。根据文章最后一段I think having TAR syndrome has made me a strong person physically and emotionally及作者之后取得的成就，可知作者对生活的态度是积极向上的，故选A。

答案：A

Ⅴ.任务型阅读

If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time，they become weak；when you start using again，they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows this，and nobody would think of questioning the fact.1.________When someone says that he has a good memory，he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by exercising it regularly，either consciously or unconsciously. When someone else says that his memory is poor，he really means that he does not give it enough opportunity to become strong.2.________One of them exercises his arms and legs by playing tennis，while the other sits in a chair or a motor car all day.

If a friend complains that his arms are weak，we know that it is his own fault.3.________，many of us think that his parents are to blame，or that he is just unlucky，and few of us realize that it is just as much his own fault as if it was his arms or legs that were weak.Not all of us can become extremely strong or extremely clever；but all of us can，if we have ordinary bodies and brains，improve our strength and our memory by the same means-practice.

Have you ever noticed that people who cannot read or write usually have better memories than those who can？4.________Of course，because those who cannot read or write have to remember things：they cannot write them down in a little notebook. They have to remember dates，time and prices，names，songs and stories；so their memory is the whole time being exercised.

5．________，learn from the poor：practice remembering.

A．What do you think of it?

B．Yet many people do not seem to know that the memory works in the same way.