Babur is a sixteen-year-old boy from India. He lives in
Babur’s days are
Now Babur’s school has 650 students and 10 teachers. Babur says he
Although he is only 13 years old, Campbell from Australia has been making teddy bears for sick children for four years.
The story began in 2013 when Campbell was nine years old.
Campbell made his first teddy bear with his mother’s sewing machine in his bedroom. It was hard for him at first. He looked for the information from the Internet and learned how to make a teddy bear by watching videos online.
Young Campbell uses his pocket money to buy cloth (布) for making teddy bears. To make more pocket money, he helps his parents with housework whenever he is free. He also sells his teddy bears online to raise money for sick children. Many people are touched by his story and they give away free cloth and other useful materials to him.
| A．He decided to make gifts by himself. |
| B．It took him five hours to finish his first teddy bear. |
| C．So far Campbell has given out about 1,300 teddy bears. |
| D．He told his parents that he wanted to give Christmas gifts to children in hospitals. |
3 . Once there was a famine (饥荒) in the town. A rich and kind baker (面包师) sent some bread to twenty of the poorest children. He said to them, “In this basket, there is some bread for you. Take it and come back to me every day at this hour for more.”
In a hurry, the hungry children got together around the basket and fought for the bread because each wanted the largest piece. At last they went away without even thanking the good gentleman. But Shirley, a poorly-dressed little girl, did not join them. Instead, she stood quietly in distance. When the other children left, she took the smallest piece of bread in the basket, kissed the gentleman’s hand and went home.
The next day, the children were as rude (粗鲁的) as before. Poor shy Shirley still took the smallest piece. When she got home, her mother cut the bread open. Many new shining pieces of silver (银) fell out of it. Her mother was very surprised and said, “Take the money back to the good gentleman at once, for it must have got into the dough (面团) by accident. Be quick, Shirley! Be quick!”
But when the little girl gave the rich man her mother’s message, he said, “No, no, my child. It was no mistake. I put silver into the smallest piece to reward (奖赏) you. Go home, and the money is yours now.”
1. From the story, we know the twenty children lived a ________ life.| A．happy | B．poor | C．rich | D．comfortable |
| A．stood quietly in distance | B．shouted at them |
| C．joined them | D．laughed at them |
| A．She left quietly without a word. | B．She kissed the man’s hand. |
| C．She gave money to the man. | D．She behaved as badly as the other children. |
| A．She was rich and generous. | B．She was selfish and mean. |
| C．She was foolish but kind. | D．She was honest and truthful. |
| A．Some pieces of bread. | B．A famine in town. | C．A good girl. | D．A rich baker. |
Our local Community Youth Club is a very popular organization with young people in my town. I have been a member for four years now and I’ve taken part in a lot of interesting projects. These include fun activities such as holiday camps and discos. We have even made a video.
But it isn’t all just enjoyment. We have also started doing social work to help people in our neighborhood. We have organized activities for small children during the holidays. We have also formed a special support group to help young people stop smoking.
We are especially proud of the most recent group we have created. It organizes regular visits to the local home for the elderly. This idea came from a school visit to a home for the elderly. My class spent an afternoon at the home and everyone found the visit very rewarding.
The old people at the home were excited by our visit. They were very talkative and they told us their personal stories. During our visit, the home was full of the sound of laughter. We sang songs and played games with the old people and had tea together. But we realized that life wasn’t always easy. Some of them were in poor health and were very unhappy. They couldn’t go outside and the visits by children brought some sunshine into their lives.
Many young people like me have very little contact with elderly people. As a result, we have a lot of wrong ideas about them. We have little or no idea of the kind of life they lead in the homes. After this visit, my friends and I decided we should do something to help improve the quality of their life.
Since the creation of our visiting group, over twenty volunteers have joined us. Up to now, we have organized three group evening parties and a concert. But I think the individual visits are the most important. Club members regularly visit old people and everyone finds the experience rich and rewarding.
1. The Community Youth Club isn’t a very popular organization with young people in my town, is it?2. Why do they form a special support group?
3. How did the old people in the home feel when the young people visited them?
4. What did the writer and his friends decide to do after the visit to the home for the elderly?
5. How many volunteers have joined them?
6. What can you learn from the passage after reading it?
5 . Adam Braun set up the organization Pencils of Promise in 2008. Its goal is to make sure all children have a chance for education. Twelve years later, the non-profit organization is building a new school somewhere every 90 hours. It has helped more than 22,000 children in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
It all started when Adam Braun was a college student. He was visiting India when a boy stopped him and asked for money on the street. Mr Braun asked the boy what he would want if he could have anything in the world.
“I thought the answer was going to be ‘a house’ or ‘a car’ or ‘a boat’. His answer was ‘a pencil’. So I gave him my pencil and he was just happy and excited. I realized he had never been to school before, and that was the ①reality for over 57 million children around the world.” Braun said.
Adam Braun started working in finance (金融) after he graduated from college. But he never forgot the boy and ②the problem he realized.
③“We live in a world in which every child can have a chance to get a good education, because we have everything necessary already. We are able to educate every child, So I promised to help change that world,” Braun said.
Mr Braun raised money for his project. He paid for building the first Pencils of Promise School in Laos, five years ago. Since then, his organization has helped pay for more than 200 schools in the countryside of Laos, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Ghana.
1. 请根据短文内容，列举三条Pencils of Promise做出的贡献。（1）
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2. 写出文中画线单词①reality的汉语意思。
3. 请根据短文内容，用英语表达文中画线词组②the problem所指代的内容。
4. 请把文中画线句子③We live in a world in which every child can have a chance to get a good education, because we have everything necessary already. 翻译成汉语。
5. 回答问题。
How many countries are mentioned in the passage?
6. 用英语概括本文的主旨大意，不超过10个单词。
The passage is about
6 . The next time you are tired of running a mile or two at school, be sure to think of 91-year-old Harriet Thompson, who not only finished the San Diego Rock N’ Roll marathon on May 31st, this year, 2014, but also broke SDRNR marathon’s records. She was the oldest runner in this marathon as well as the fastest in the 90-to-94 year-old group.
She finished the 26.2-mile-race in 7 hours, 7 minutes, 42 seconds, breaking the earlier record of 8 hrs, 53 mins, 8 secs set by Mavis Lindgren in 1997. While these are her first records, Harriet, who ran at the speed of 16 mins and 20 seconds a mile, is no stranger to this competition. She has taken part in 15 of the last 16 San Diego Rock N’ Roll marathons and only missed last year, because she had a cancer, which she successfully beat.
What’s even more amazing is that the grandmother who ran the marathon alongside her 55-year-old son Brenny, took up the sport in 1999, at the age of 76! Harriet says that she normally trains with a group. However, this year she decided to run alone because she had a hard time keeping up and most of them are about 60-70 years younger.
Harriet says she runs to keep healthy and raise money for a hospital, which is close to her heart, thanks to her family’s cancer history. Over the years, she has raised over $90,000 for the hospital. And she is not done yet! Harriet says she plans to train harder and come back even stronger, next year!
1. Harriet broke SDRNR marathon’s ________ records at the age of 91.| A．five | B．two | C．three | D．four |
| A．one hour and a half | B．one hour and three quarters | C．two hours and a half | D．two hours and three quarters |
| A．Because she had a bad illness. | B．Because she was too old to run. |
| C．Because nobody would like to run with her. | D．Because her son didn’t let her run. |
| A．In 2014. | B．In 2015. | C．In 1997. | D．In 1999. |
| A．Harriet’s father or mother hasn’t had a cancer. | B．Harriet decided to train with a group this year. |
| C．Harriet will no longer raise money for the hospital. | D．Harriet will take part in the marathon in 2015. |
Once there was a man named Clarke. He lived alone and owned a small shop in town. He was very kind-hearted and was always ready to help people in trouble. He often gave away what he had to the poor. As a result, he was quite poor himself.
3.In order to help the poor, he learned medicine by himself and tried to help treat the sick people. So the thankful people called him Doctor Clarke even though he wasn’t a real doctor at all.
One day a poor woman asked Doctor Clarke to go and see her husband. He was very ill and felt terribly weak. Doctor Clarke went there and found the family was very poor. 4.The husband couldn’t find a job for a long time and the wife could hardly make any money, either. Doctor Clarke looked him over carefully and to his surprise, the husband was not ill. Instead, he was hungry because there was no food in the house.
“Come over to my house this evening and I will give you some medicine for your husband. Doctor Clarke said to the woman.
When the woman got to his house in the evening, Clarke gave her a paper bag, with something inside and said, “Here is the medicine and it will be good, for your husband. Don’t open it until you get home. ”
“What are the instructions for taking it?” the woman asked.
“You will find them inside the bag.” answered Clarke.
After the woman got home, she opened the paper bag and found there was some money in it!
1题和2题，根据短文内容回答问题；3题和4题，将短文中划线的两个句子译成汉语；5题，请给短文拟一个适当的标题。
1. What did Clarke own in town?
2. Why did Clarke learn medicine?
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8 . A stoop（门廊） might seem like a simple set of stairs leading up to a door. But in many US cities, stoops were the lifeblood（命脉）of the community in years past. People would sit outside on their stoops, chatting with their neighbors and passers-by. They’d get to know each other. This strong sense of neighborliness has seen a revival（复兴）during the coronavirus pandemic（新冠流行期间）.
In Bernal Heights, a small neighborhood in San Francisco, people have been in lockdown since mid-March. But that hasn’t stopped people there from getting creative and socializing.
Natalie Mead, for example, has a large garden right in front of her house. She’s using the garden to set up scavenger hunts（拾荒搜索游戏）for children who’ve been stuck at home. Mead says about 10 to 20 families visit her garden each day to hunt for the small toys she hides in her garden.
Colleen Irwin, a nurse, has brought her neighborhood together by setting up an outdoor food pantry（食品储藏柜）in front of her home. She filled a bookshelf with food and offered the goods for free. Soon, neighbors were giving away their own food. In this way, people who haven’t been able to shop at the supermarket can still have food to eat.
Activities like these have brought neighbors together and even helped them make new friends. “Many of us didn’t know each other though we’re living within 50 yards,” Sarah Gordon told The New York Times.
1. What did the nurse do to help her neighbors during the lockdown?| A．She made full use of her garden to help kids have fun there. |
| B．She sat outside on the stoops and chatted with her neighbors. |
| C．She gave away food to the people in need in her neighborhood. |
| A．Stoops have great meaning to communities in many UK cities. |
| B．People used to like sitting inside the door, chatting with their neighbors. |
| C．Stoops in many American cities were important to the people’s strong sense of neighborliness in the past. |
| A．好处 | B．货物 | C．善良 |
| A．Stoops became less popular during the coronavirus pandemic. |
| B．Sarah Gordon has made a lot of friends with people in her community during the 50 years. |
| C．Different activities in Bernal Heights during the coronavirus pandemic helped people socialize with their neighbors. |
| A．US City Life |
| B．Bringing Us Together |
| C．The Coronavirus Lockdown |
9 . 阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容回答问题。
Mother Teresa once said, “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person.” However, a recent survey showed that 25% of Chinese never smiled or smiled less than five times a day. It also found that 2% of Chinese were willing to smile at strangers.
To make a change, forty students from Shanghai Normal University started a team of “Smiling Volunteers”. Their first smiling task was to smile at all the visitors in the Shanghai Film Art Centre and asked if they needed their help. Not all students found it easy to smile all the time. “When volunteers help other people, smiling is the best way to make them understand that volunteers are ready and sincere (真诚的).” One team leader said.
A teacher in charge of the team thought the team’s work was not all fun and games. “Most of our students will be teachers after they leave the university. Smiling is necessary for good teachers. We hope they can learn how to smile at each other,” she said.
Everyone smiles in the same language. So it’s not important whether you are a teacher or not. After all, sincere smiling and helping hearts are the most important. If today you don’t start a day with a smile, it won’t be too late to start practising for tomorrow. Remember “The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.”
1. How many Chinese never smiled or smiled less than five times a day?2. Who were the members of the team of “Smiling Volunteers”?
3. Where did the university students do their first task?
4. All students found it easy to smile all the time, didn’t they?
5. Why smiling is necessary in your life?
10 . Singer Han Hong took action to help Wuhan, the city at the center of the coronavirus outbreak (新冠病毒爆发). Han Hong had planned to hold the first concert of her 2020 national tour in Wuhan on February 29th. But she called off the show and called on people to donate (捐赠) to the city. Soon over 2 billion yuan was donated through Han Hong Love Charity Foundation which she founded in 2012.
“When you’re going through a situation like this, you want to do anything you can to help. There are so many kind people out there,” wrote a fan, who donated through Han’s foundation. “It’s good to know that there are trucks with medical things going straight to the hospital. They are badly needed.” In 2008, Han held a charity performance for Wenchuan, Sichuan Province, after an earthquake. That inspired her to found her foundation. Over the years, she had donated to people in different disasters, including an earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai Province, in 2010, a huge mudslide (泥石流) in Gansu Province and an earthquake in Yunnan Province in 2013.
“I almost spent all my savings. That’s what I want to do and what I can do.” Han said in an interview on the online show, in 2015. “Many people don’t trust charity organizations to use their donations properly. Charities are held at a higher standard and need to win people’s trust.” The show also reported that Han had helped over 200 orphans (孤儿) since 1999.
1. What can we learn about Han Hong from Paragraph 1?| A．She held a concert in Wuhan before the coronavirus outbreak. |
| B．She donated over 2 billion yuan to Wuhan herself. |
| C．She founded a charity foundation ten years ago. |
| D．She has a great influence on the public. |
| A．medical things | B．people in Wuhan | C．hospitals | D．trucks |
| A．an earthquake happened in Qinghai | B．an earthquake happened in Yunnan |
| C．a huge mudslide happened in Gansu. | D．an earthquake happened in Sichuan. |
| A．provide a new standard | B．make good use of donations |
| C．pay more attention to orphans | D．make themselves publicly know |
| A．Han’s foundation. | B．The donations to Wuhan. |
| C．Han’s efforts to help people. | D．The importance of charities. |
