专题升级训练十三 阅读理解(二)
第一节 阅读理解
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(2012济南二模，B)
After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program，her mother recalled，Marie Colvin returned home to find that her classmates had narrowed down their college choices.“Everyone else was already admitted to college，”her mother，Rosemarie Colvin，said from the family home.“So she took our car and drove up to Yale and said，‘You have to let me in.’”
Impressed—she was a National Merit(全国英才)finalist who had picked up Portuguese in Brazil—Yale did，admitting her to the class of 1978，where she started writing for The Yale Daily News “and decided to be a journalist”，her mother said.
On Wednesday，Marie Colvin,56，an experienced journalist for The Sunday Times of London，was killed as Syrian forces shelled the city of Homs.She was working in a temporary media center that was destroyed in the attack.
