John Brown, an office worker, lives in Washington. He inherited (继承) a million dollars when he was 23, but he wasn"t happy at all. When his college friends were looking for their first jobs, he didn"t have to. John decided (1)______ living a simple life like everyone else. He gave $100,000 of his money to a charity to help poor children to live better lives. Today he is 36. he still wears cheap shoes and clothes and drives a small car only, but he is very (2)______. Up to now John (3)______ 15 children from poor countries all over the world, by sending them each $200 a month. The children do not receive the money in cash (现金). The money pays for the children"s school expenses, food, medical care and clothing. John receives a report each year on the children"s progress. They can write to each other, but usually the children do not speak English. When John first heard about these children, he wanted to help them. "It was not (4) special." He said. "Until I had the chance go to these countries and meet the children I was helping, I did not know anything about the type of life they had." Once John (5) _____ to meet a little girl in Africa. He said that the meeting was very exciting. "When I met her, I felt very, very happy." He said. "I saw that the money was used for a very good cause. It brought me closer to the child in a way that giving money alone could not. I want to do everything I can. I will go on helping those children in need." He added. |
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help, happy, something, go, keep | 阅读理解。 | Quick Work Ted Robinson has been worried all the week. Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police. In the letter he was asked to call at the station. Ted wanted to know why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station yesterday and he is not worried any more. At the station, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found. Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away. It is now being sent to his home by train. Ted was the most surprised when he heard the news. He was amused (感到有趣), too, because he never expected (指望) the bicycle to be found. It was stolen twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of fifteen. | 根据短文内容回答下列问题: 1. What happened last Tuesday? __________________________________________ 2. What was he told at the station? __________________________________________ 3. What are the police doing with the bicycle? __________________________________________ 4. Why was he surprised and amused? __________________________________________ 5. How old was Ted when his bicycle was stolen? __________________________________________ | 完形填空。 | When Roy was four years old, his father 1 in an accident, leaving his mother and him. After Roy left high school, he wanted 2 to a good college in his hometown. But his mother would pay 3 money for his college education. "I"ll try to do something for you as soon as you pass the entrance exam," said his mother. Roy took the exam. As a result, he could enter the college 4 he didn"t get very high scores. His mother was very excited, but she knew quite a lot of money would be needed. The next day, she sold her car and asked her boss 5 another four hours" work every day. She even had two jobs, one during the day and 6 at night. She had to walk to work and work twelve hours a day, seven days a week, but she didn"t 7 . She thought her son"s education was worth (值) so much. A term passed. Roy took his first exam after entering the college. When the results were told, Roy ran home to 8 his mother the news. "Mum," he said. "I"ve got my exam results. You must be very 9 ." "You mean you"ve passed?" she asked happily. "No, I haven"t. You can get your car back and stop 10 like that from now on." | ( )1. A. fell ( )2. A. to go ( )3. A. some ( )4. A. and ( )5. A. to ( )6. A. the others ( )7. A. complain ( )8. A. talk ( )9. A. worried ( )10. A. to work | B. died B. to come B. no B. so B. for B. others B. refuse B. speak B. shy B. working | C. was hurt C. going C. much C. although C. with C. another C. quarrel C. say C. pleased C. work | D. was hit D. coming D. little D. because D. of D. the other D. laugh D. tell D. free D. not working | 看图填词:仔细观察下列各图并通读短文,掌握大意,然后根据各图中的情景补全短文。 每空一词。 | Lin Tao"s parents live in the country. They have a ______(1). Its name is Cabby. On a______(2) day his parents went to work in the fields ______(3) his little sister and Cabby. While they were ______(4), his sister walked to a river. Cabby followed her there. She was trying to pick a ______(5). Suddenly she ______(6) into the river. Cabby barked and jumped into the water at ______(7). When his parents______ (8) Cabby barking, they ran to the river. They saw Cabby carrying his sister with its ______(9) towards the side of the river. His sister was saved at last! Both his parents were very______(10). His father touched the dog on the head and said. "Thank you, dear Cabby." | 判断正(T)误(F)。 | One afternoon some boys made a lot of noise in class. The teacher got angry. He kept them in the classroom after school. He told them to add all the numbers from 1 to 100 together. The boys took out their exercise-books. All of them began to write the numbers down except one boy. He was new in the school. He looked out of the window for a few minutes. Then he wrote a number in his exercise-book and put up his hand. "May I go home, sir?" he asked. "I know the answer now." The teacher and the other boys were very surprised. "Bring it here." said the teacher. The next morning, the teacher asked the boy. "How did you find the answer so quickly?" "Well,sir." He said, "I did not want to stay here so long. So I did my best to find the answer quickly. Soon I found it. You see, if you add 100 to 1, you get 101, and 99 and 2 is 101, 98 and 3 is 101 too, and when you reach 51 and 50, you have 101 fifty times, that is 5050". After this, when the teacher gave the class exercises to do, he gave this boy different exercise. The boy"s name was Karl F.Gauss. When he grew up, he became a great scientist. | ( )1. Little Gauss was a new student in that school. ( )2. Little Gauss and his classmates always listened to their teachers very carefully in class. ( )3. All the boys wrote the numbers from 1 to 100 down and added them up. ( )4. Little Gauss left the classroom much earlier than the other boys. ( )5. Little Gauss told the teacher how he found the answers so quickly the next day. |
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