专题07 2021年中考英语阅读精选真题模拟题精讲练

Passage 7 Not only kids of Tiger Moms go to Harvard A Intensive Reading Dawn Loggins of Lawndale, N.C.is on her way to Harvard, one of the eight world-famous universities in the eastern US. Nobody encouraged her to study or paid for her special classes. This girl created her own future. The teen was abandoned by her family last summer, when her parents and two sisters moved to Tennessee. She found herself homeless and had to spend the night on friends' sofas. The school bus driver learned about Dawn's situation and invited Dawn to move in with her family. Soon, Dawn had a job at Burns High School. She worked from 6 a.m.to 7:40 a.m. before the first school bell rang. She swept floors and picked up trash again in the afternoons, before diving into her studies in the evenings. Dawn's hard work paid off. She finished school with a 3.9 GPA and scored 2, 110 on the SAT. "There were times when I felt like it would be easiest if I gave up, "the 18-year-old said." B