Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of the most private women in the world, yet when she went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed (展现) herself as she did nowhere else.
After the death of her second husband, Greek shipping magnate (巨头) Aristotle Onassis, Jacqueline's close friend and former White House social secretary Letitis Baldrige made a suggestion that she consider a career in publishing. After consideration, Jacqueline accepted it. Perhaps she hoped to find there some ideas about how to live her own life. She became not less but more interested in reading. For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publisher's editor, first at Viking, then at Doubleday, pursuing(追求)a latelife career longer than her two marriages combined. During her time in publishing, she was responsible for managing and editing more than 100 successfully marketed books. Among the first books were In the Russian Style and Inventive Paris Clothes. She also succeeded in persuading TV hosts Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell to transform their popular television conversation into a book, The Power of Myth. The book went on to become an international bestseller. She dealt, too, with Michael Jackson as he prepared his autobiography(自传), Moonwalk.
Jacqueline may have been hired for her name and for her social relations, but she soon proved her worth. Her choices, suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publishing firms and to Jacqueline herself. In the books she selected for publication, she built on a lifetime of spending time by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind. Her books are the autobiography she never wrote. Her role as First Lady, in the end, was overshadowed by her performance as an editor. However, few knew that she had achieved so much.
63. Why did Jacqueline accept to consider publishing as her career?
A. She wanted to comfort her close friend.
B. She hoped to find her own way of life
C. She was interested in reading.
D. She missed her dead husband.
64. What can be inferred from the second passage?
A. Moonwalk is Jacqueline’s autobiography.
B. The Power of Myth was an adaptation from a TV program.
C. Jacqueline's two marriages lasted more than 20 years.
D. Jacqueline wrote over 100 books in her life.
65. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means that______.
A. Jacqueline ended up as an editor rather than as First Lady
B. Jacqueline's life as First Lady was more colorful than as an editor
C. Jacqueline was more successful as an editor than as First Lady
D. Jacqueline's role as First Lady was more brilliant than as an editor
66. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Jacqueline's lifelong experiences
B. Jacqueline's social relations in publishing
C. Jacqueline's life both as First Lady and as an editor
D. Jacqueline's career as an editor in her last 20 years
BBCD
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