专四专八考试

【单选题】Edward PatrickEagan was born onApril 26, 1897, inDenver,Colorado, and his father died in a railroad accident whenEagan was only a year olD、He and his four brothers were raised by his mother, who earned a small income from teaching foreign languages.
Inspired by Frank Merriwell, the hero of a series of popular novels for boys,Eagan pursued an education for himself as well as an interest in boxing. He attended the University ofDenver for a year before serving in the U. S.Army as an artillery lieutenant during World War I.After the war, he entered Yale University and, while studying there, won the U. S. national amateur heavyweight boxing title. He graduated from Yale in 1921, attended Harvard Law School, and received a Rhodes scholarship to the University of Oxford where he received his
A、M. in 1928.
While studying at Oxford,Eagan became the firstAmerican to win theBritish amateur boxing championship.Eagan won his first Olympic gold medal as a light heavyweight boxer at the 1920 Olympic Games inAntwerp,Belgium.Eagan also fought at the 1924 Olympics in Paris as a heavyweight but failed to get a medal. Though he had taken up the sport just three weeks before the competition, he managed to win a second gold medal as a member of the four-man bobsled team at the 1932 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Thus he became the only athlete to win gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
Eagan was a member of the first group of athletes inducted into the U. S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983.Eagan became a respected attorney, serving as an assistant district attorney for southern New York and as chairman of the New York StateAthleticCommission (1945-1951). He married soap heiress MargaretColgate and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel during World War Ⅱ.
According to the passage, how didEagan’s mother earn a living
A、Renting rooms to immigrants.
B．Teaching foreign languages.
C．Doing laundry and cleaning.
D．Writing fiction for women’s magazines.

网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
这是一道细节题。根据第一段最后一句话可知，他母亲通过教外语获得微薄的收入。所以正确答案为B。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>