2016届高考英语二轮阅读理解九十天强化训练：17_高考复习指南

2016届高考英语二轮阅读理解九十天强化训练：17

　　第三部分: 阅读理解 (共20小题; 每小题2分, 满分40分)

　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在

　　答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。

　　A straight-A student got a C in cooking class and didn’t like it. She didn’t like it so much that her dad filed a complaint in the court about it. He says that the teacher, who is white, discriminated(歧视) against his daughter, who is black. He seeks to have her grade changed from a C to an A and asks for uncertain financial damages.

　　Virginia Brown is in the ninth grade at Ashley High School. Since her first year in school, she has had perfect attendance and all her grades have been A’s. Virginia’s father said her heart was broken when she got the C.

　　“She cried the whole weekend,” he said. “She wouldn’t come out of her room. Her eyes were red and puffy. My little girl hasn’t been this upset since her cat got run over by a car when she was 6 years old.”

　　Virginia is a model student. She’s the class president. She’s on the swim team, the volleyball team, and the track team. She belongs to the chess club. She is a member of the Girl Scouts and sings in her church choir.

　　The home economics teacher is 28-year-old Jessica Smith. This is her first year teaching. Ms. Smith said that discrimination was absolutely not the problem. “Some of my best friends are African-Americans,” she said. “This isn’t a black and white problem. Everybody in America wants to charge everybody else. I’m going to charge them with defamation of character and whatever else my lawyer comes up with.”