1 . A group of young adults are building wooden boats, serving as workers in a boat building program sponsored by the Alexandria Seaport Foundation to be taught skills, self-confidence and discipline to change their lives for the better.

The young workers learn their craft at the foundation's seaport center, a floating wooden house on the banks of the Potomac River in Alexandria, once a busy seaport town in America. The yearlong program teaches small groups of young adults from 18 to 22 years old how to build small wooden sailboats. The program pays them a small wage.

A number of the young adults have not finished high school, and the foundation works to help them pass their GED, a high school equivalency. Those who do not have adequate math skills receive tutoring from a volunteer. One of the young workers, Chris, said he was a good student but had to drop out of high school to work due to his family situation. The program manager, once a role model of the group, remarked: “They know I'm living proof of what hard work and dedication gets you to. ^” Now more than halfway through his apprenticeship, Chris said he feels better about himself.

When the wooden boats are finished, they will be sold. Chris said he will be sad to see them go₅ but knows that, like life, they are meant to sail forward. "There is so much creativity that gets into making them. They're beautiful on the water. I'm delighted they're going to be a good home."

1. What is the boat building program intended to do?

A．Offer boats to companies that need them.

B．Donate boats to the poor community nearby.

C．Help more people learn about the history of boats.

D．Make a better life for those young adults in trouble.

2. What can those young workers learn in this program?

A．They learn how to manage a program.

B．They learn how to build up confidence.

C．They learn how to build boats and sell them.

D．They learn how to teach others math problems.

3. What can we infer from the text?

A．The boats built are meant for tourism.

B．Chris dropped out of school for poor marks.

C．The young workers are all taught by volunteers.

D．Participants of the program are not all teenagers.

4. What is this article mainly about?

A．Hard work is what leads to success.

B．The art of building boats is hard to learn.

C．The future of the youth lies in themselves.

D．Building boats improves the young's lives.