When fashion designer Mindy Scheier’s middle child, Oliver, came home one day and told her he wanted to wear jeans to school rather than sweatpants (宽松运动服), she was faced with difficulty. Oliver has a rare disease, which causes him to struggle with everyday tasks, such as dressing himself. Would she tell her 8-year-old son that he couldn’t wear what everyone else got to wear, or could she figure out a way in which he could? She chose the latter, change a pair of jeans for him. And with that, the Runway of Dreams Foundations was born.
Scheier started the foundation in 2014 to make adaptive clothing more accessible and fashionable for people with disabilities (残疾). As part of its purposes, Runway of Dreams Foundation partners with brands to make stylish suitable clothing lines available to the disabled, creates scholarships for students focusing on suitable clothing and helps with employment opportunities for people in the disability community.
“It is truly unbelievable how one pair of jeans has changed the world,” Scheier said. “Creating adaptive clothing for people with disabilities and trying to make change happen in the fashion industry felt so much bigger than just Oliver or just me. It felt like something that had to happen. The future of fashion is inclusion (具有包容性). We’ve been dressing different body shapes, and now it’s time to dress different abilities. I am so excited that Runway of Dreams Foundations really started a movement to make change happen.”
“They told my mother that I wasn’t going to be able to do anything for myself, but I proved them wrong. What people like me can do with a disability is the same as someone who doesn’t have one. It might look a little bit different, or a little bit strange, but it can be done. I never opened up a magazine and saw someone that looked like me. So it’s good now for disabled young kids to see a model in an ad with a disability, ” said Oliver.
1. How did Scheier react to Oliver’s request?A.She turned it down. |
B.She cared little about it. |
C.She designed special clothes for him. |
D.She asked him to turn to Runway of Dreams Foundation for help. |
A.The goals of Runway of Dreams Foundation. |
B.The popularity of Runway of Dreams Foundation. |
C.How Runway of Dreams Foundation was founded. |
D.How Runway of Dreams Foundation raises money. |
A.It should focus on normal people. |
B.It will lead to changes in the fashion industry. |
C.It has little influences on disabled people’s life. |
D.It fails to take fashion designing into consideration. |
A.He never reads magazines. | B.He feels ashamed of himself. |
C.He dreams to become a model. | D.He appreciates suitable clothing. |
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【推荐1】Crossroads International
How does crossroads work?
Crosswords is a resource network. We take goods Hong Kong doesn’t want and give them to people who badly need them. We collect those goods and give them out in the welfare agencies in Hong Kong, Mainland China, elsewhere in Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa.
Who do we help?
Crossroads itself also operates on a low budget. We do not buy the goods we send. They are donated. Similarly, rather than raising funds for freight (货运), we ask transport companies to donate their services.
What can you do?
A.What do we need? |
B.How do we operate? |
C.So Crossroads is just that: a Crossroads between need and resource. |
D.Nobody in our organization receives a salary. |
E.One resource that we are always in need of is people. |
F.welfare agencies we help do not run on large budgets. |
G.All volunteer work is done at our warehouse. |
【推荐2】The Psychology of Giving: Why do People Give to Charity?
Every day, leaders in the nonprofit sector invest valuable time, energy, and money into educating and spreading awareness of their mission in the hopes that this will increase support for their nonprofit. They assume that if only more people knew about a school’s budget cuts, for example, then they would surely donate! So, they bombard (连续轰炸) potential supporters with depressing statistics or complex arguments.
Why do people donate to charity? While it’s true that donors and volunteers are motivated to make the world a better place because it’s the right thing to do, that’s not the entire—or even the primary—reason for their generosity.
Since we give in part because it solidifies our connections to others, make sure that your communication with your donors is personal and specific (i.e. begin correspondence with “Dear Anna,” not “Dear Donor”). Prioritize community by finding ways to connect with your supporters on a personal level and give them the opportunity to interact with each other, whether it’s through a monthly video call or a donor appreciation night.
Remember that, at base, all philanthropic work is fundamentally a social act, so aim to make your donors feel like they’re a part of a broader community in which they are included, valued, and seen.
A.Research shows that the number one motivator for charitable giving is the all-too-human quest for reward and social attachment. |
B.But this begs the question: how do statistics influence people’s decision to donate? |
C.The more human ties your donors have with your organization and with each other, the more committed they’ll be to your mission. |
D.While statistics and figures are important, make sure that your messages to your donors are upbeat and optimistic. |
E.In this way, you are more likely to build long-lasting connection with both contributors and receivers. |
F.However, that’s not how the human mind works. |
【推荐3】For Damen Fletcher, chess is much more than a game. This inspiring California man uses chess to coach young people from some of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in Southern California and beyond to develop self-confidence, and find purpose in their lives.
Why does Fletcher choose chess to help kids and teens make the right moves in life? The answer lies in his own life story. Fletcher, who learned to play this game of strategic skill at the age of 13, grew up in Compton, California. After heading farther to college, he returned home to find his friends struggling. As he explains: “Some of them had fallen into prison. Homeless and unemployed... and I just wondered, ‘Why did I have such a different outcome?’ And it was chess.”
So he set about building his own organization “Train of Thought” to help inner city kids find their own king or queen and life goals by learning problem solving, teamwork, and forward planning skills at an early age through chess, while enjoying themselves.
Fletcher highlights in an interview with Fox News that every game of chess is 75 to 100 moves, and every single move that your opponent makes presents a new problem for you to solve, so chess is a game in which the weak can turn out stronger. As Paige Stevenson, a 7th grader and already a keen chess player thanks to Fletcher’s enthusiasm, tells the channel, “He has taught me not to give up because you can move and find a way out instead of losing.”
His organization has partnered with more than 100 schools to date and has taught more than 50,000 students the game of Kings in California, with plans to expand in the US. It is an old proverb that children learn from play, and this is something that Fletcher is keen to stress. And as his website also explains: “If you think chess is just a game, you’re not playing it right.”
1. What do we know about Damen Fletcher?A.He had a rough childhood. | B.He likes nothing but chess. |
C.He is a positive chess master. | D.He is a famous social activist. |
A.The value of chess. | B.The college education. |
C.His pursuit for success. | D.His friends’ requirement. |
A.To compare different ideas. | B.To show Paige’s enthusiasm. |
C.To provide other information. | D.To support Fletcher’s opinion. |
A.It can help kids grow up happily. | B.It may get kids addicted to chess. |
C.It will become a required course. | D.It is active in schools in the world. |
Unable to find work anywhere else, Henson took a job in a hat shop in Washington, D.C. One day in 1887, a man came in to buy a hat. The man, Robert Peary, asked the owner if he knew anyone with experience at sea. Peary would soon travel to South America for the U.S. government. He needed experienced men to accompany him. The shop owner knew about his young employee’s skills and experience on ocean journeys, so he introduced Peary to Henson.
Using his map-reading and sailing skills, Henson proved himself to be a worthy and smart seaman. Peary soon made Henson his assistant (助理), and they became close friends. One day Peary told Henson about his real dream: to be the first man to stand on “the top of the world” at the North Pole. He asked Henson to help him make his dream come true. Over the next five years, the two explorers made two trips together to the Arctic. However, they were not able to reach the pole either time. The cold, wind, and ice were worse than either of them had ever imagined.
In 1908, Peary and Henson were ready to make their final attempt at reaching the North Pole. Both men were over forty years old. The years of hardship in the arctic cold had made them suffer a lot. This would be their last chance. With four Inuit (因纽特) guides, they made a mad rush straight across the ice toward the pole. Peary’s feet were injured and he had to be pulled on a dogsled. In April 1909, Henson’s instruments showed they were standing at the North Pole. Together Henson and Peary planted the American flag in the snow.
In later years, Robert Peary and Henson were greatly honored for their achievements. Today, the two friends and fellow explorers lie in heroes’ graves not far apart in the Arlington National Cemetery.
1. In paragraph1, the author shows how Henson became ________.
A.a wonderful seaman |
B.an educated captain |
C.a good shop assistant |
D.a successful learner |
A.why Matthew Henson went to the hat shop |
B.how Matthew Henson met Robert Peary |
C.why Matthew Henson stopped working on the Katie Hinds |
D.how Robert Peary knew Matthew Henson had sea experience |
A.Henson proved himself a better seaman than Peary |
B.Peary wanted Henson to help him realize his dream |
C.Before their final attempt, they made two trips together |
D.After they died, they were highly respected by people |
A.treasure hunters looking for fortunes |
B.sailors seeking power over others |
C.soldiers fighting for their freedom |
D.fighters exploring an unknown land |
【推荐2】Of all my girls, I always felt the closest to Yo. My wife says it is because we are much alike, knocking her head with her knuckles as she says so. But that is not why I feel closest to Yo, no.
She looks at me, and I know that she can see all the way back to when I was a boy in half trousers raising my hand in that palm-wood schoolhouse. What color is the hair of God? When you reduce a sum by its shadow and multiply it by its reflection, what will you get? Our teacher, who called himself Professor Cristiano lluminado, spouted his wild questions. Soon after I passed on to the higher school, the professor was taken away to an asylum to contemplate the mathematics of the stars. But, and this is the point of my anecdote, I was the only child in that classroom raising my hand to answer those impossible questions.
And Yo sees that one hand waving when she looks into my eyes. So that I am blessed — and sometimes cursed — with a child who understands my secret heart. I should not say child anymore, for she is a grown woman who is already preparing herself. When she looks at me these days, she can see that fresh-dug hole in the mountain cemetery near the town where I was born, the flash of the river between the trees.
She writes me one, two letters a week. Sometimes she includes an old black-and-white photo with those scalloped edges as if all memories deserve a little lace doily to lay on. A young handsome man sits with a young lady in a crowded booth in a bar sixty years ago. With those pasting papers which were invented for her because she always has to put her two cents (发表意见) on everything, she writes, Where was this taken? Who is the girl beside you? Were you really in love? She strikes right for the secret heart of that young man!
Most of the things she asks I tell her. I run the past through a sieve (筛子) of judgment in my head, and if there is no harm, I give her the full cup of my life to drink from. Some little things catch in that fine net, and I leave them out or I make a broad statement. But then the next letter arrives full of questioning: Papi, you say you had to escape the island because you were in a revolution in 1939 and I can’t find any mention of it in the book. You say that you were in a log-cabin hospital at Lac Abitibi near the Laurentians and look on the map and Lac Abitibi is nowhere near the Laurentians. Are these just lapses of memory or did you make the whole thing up and if so why?
And then I have to explain, sieving everything over again. Until the next letter arrives, and I explain some more, and after a while, I lose that quality control. Before I know it, I’ve told her the whole story I did not want her and the others to know.
Is that really so? I ask myself. Don’t I want to be known before I go? And perhaps Yo sees that secret desire, stronger than all the other secrets in my heart, and that is why she keeps asking.
1. The term “secret heart” in paragraph 4 is used in the passage to stand for ________.A.the narrator’s unrevealed self | B.the narrator’s unexpressed love for Yo |
C.a romance during the narrator’s youth | D.a mystery from the narrator’s childhood |
A.Memories that the narrator recalls only partially. | B.Accusations that the narrator cannot easily deny. |
C.Information that the narrator is willing to share. | D.Excuses to rationalize the narrator’s shortcomings. |
A.raise his daughters as he believes they should be raised |
B.correct the many misconceptions he finds in Yo’s letters |
C.exclude certain details from the personal experiences he relates |
D.provide information only to Yo about his relationship with his wife |
A.He is suspicious of her motives and wishes she would cut the letters short. |
B.He is moved by her attention but somewhat uncertain about the potential exposure. |
C.He is angry at her accusation but nevertheless wants to comfort her. |
D.He appreciates her dedication and takes fatherly pride in her success in life. |
【推荐3】Three Boys and a Dad
Brad closed the door slowly as Sue left home to visit her mother. Expecting a whole day to relax, he was thinking whether to read the newspaper or watch his favourite TV talk show on his first day off in months. “This will be like a walk in the park.” he’d told his wife. “I’ll look after the kids, and you can go visit your mom.”
Things started well, but just after eight o'clock, his three little “good kids”---Mike, Randy, and Alex --- came down the stairs in their night clothes and shouted “breakfast, daddy.” When food had not appeared on within thirty seconds, Randy began using his spoon on Alex’s head as if it were a drum. Alex started to shout loudly in time to the beat(节拍) . Mike chanted “Where’s my toast, where’s my toast” in the background. Brad realized his newspaper would have to wait for a few seconds.
Life became worse after breakfast. Mike wore Randy’s underwear on his head. Randy locked himself in the bathroom, while Alex shouted again because he was going to wet his pants. Nobody could find clean socks, although they were before their eyes. Someone named “Not me” had spilled a whole glass of orange juice into the basket of clean clothes. Brad knew the talk show had already started.
By ten o'clock, things were out of control. Alex was wondering why the fish in the fish bowl refused his bread and butter. Mike was trying to show off his talent by decorating kitchen wall with his color pencils. Randy, thankfully, appeared to be reading quietly in the sitting room, but closer examination showed that he was eating apple jam straight from the bottle with his hands. Brad realized that the talk show was over and reading would be impossible.
At exactly 11:17, Brad called the daycare center(日托所).“I suddenly have to go into work and my wife is away. Can I bring the boys over in a few minutes?” The answer was obviously “yes” because Brad was smiling.
1. When his wife left home, Brad expected___________.A.go out for a walk in the park |
B.watch TV talk show with his children |
C.enjoy his first day off the work. |
D.read the newspaper to his children |
A.Drawing on the wall | B.Eating apple jam |
C.Feeding the fish | D.Reading in a room |
A.Because he wanted to clean his house. |
B.Because he suddenly had to go to his office |
C.Because he found it hard to manage his boys |
D.Because he had to take his wife back home. |
A.by space | B.by comparison |
C.by process | D.by time |