选择性必修第三册 -【导与练】2024高考英语一轮复习高中总复习第1轮能力提升题组训练（新教材，外研版）

选择性必修　第三册 Unit 1　Face values 题组训练1 Ⅰ.阅读 A During my first year in college, I didn’t speak even though I was in a programme called the Great Conversation.I was too afraid of saying something wrong. I took a class from Barbara as a second year student.My mind was split open by the quality of Barbara’s questions.I finally had something to say and the energy to say it.I was a frequent visitor during Barbara’s office hours. In my junior year, Barbara announced the birth of her daughter, Maggie.That time I still knew little about her life.During my senior year, when Barbara was my essay adviser, I became Maggie’s babysitter.She had to leave to teach her class.I sang Maggie lullabies (摇篮曲), fed her tiny cheese cubes, and gave her hot milk.And also in the same year, with Barbara’s help, I finished my essay successfully and graduated as an outstanding student. During the six years after graduation, I visited Barbara and her husband often.Our relationship gradually deepened, but I was always conscious of a teacher-student relationship. It was another two years later that this changed fundamentally when I became a parent and had my son in 2010, and Barbara was one of the first to congratulate me.When, nine months later, my child was diagnosed with a serious and rare illness, she sent me a letter handwritten on a white legal pad (信笺薄).For the next two and a half years, Barbara wrote to me regularly, sometimes weekly remarkable letters that are revealing, loving, and kind. When I began writing about my son in a very public blog format, Barbara responded to each post. Through our back-and-forths, I began to realise that I hadn’t really known her at all—not until now, as she revealed more about herself than she ever had.A little over a year ago, she wrote, “I’m sending you lots of love and positive thoughts.Hope you feel it.” I did, and I do.Yes, we had decades of shared history behind us, but now we had gotten to know and love each other as women, mothers and equals. 1.When did