1 . Approaching 96, at an age when most are lonely and in poor health, Olga Murray, full of energy, has been eagerly planning a trip to Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, while keeping in contact with hundreds of friends around the world. How can she be in such good shape? Is it her good genes? (Her mother lived to 98.) Her daily salads and three-times-a-week workouts? Or might it have something to do with the retired lawyer’s second career as founder of a nonprofit organization?
Scientists increasingly are finding that the answer—call it living with purpose, finding meaning in life or just engaging with something larger than yourself—can be a particularly healthy pursuit. Living with a sense of purpose can improve the quality of those final years. Murray offers a vivid example of how to create a sense of meaning.
Murray’s story began in 1984, after she had worked 37 years as a lawyer and was starting to think about retirement(退休). At 59, while traveling in Nepal, Murray found herself amazed by the children there. “They were poor beyond anything I had ever experienced,” she recalled in a self-published memoir(自传)years later. “Yet they were the most joyful little kids anywhere on earth.” She wanted to put the rest of her life into helping educate Nepalese children.
Returning to Nepal the next year, she met Allan Aistrope, then a volunteer English teacher at the country’s only orphanage(孤儿院). The two combined forces, beginning with organizing college scholarships for four of the orphans. After another five years, they had launched the Nepal Youth Foundation(NYF), which by then was supporting several hundred scholarship students and raising 60 homeless children. In 1994, the two hired Som Paneru, a former scholarship student, as executive director. Murray has taken several steps to make sure the NYF will survive after the unavoidable loss of her presence. She handed over the presidency to Paneru in 2012. Now, she is busy as usual, leading lots of fundraising campaigns.
1. How did Nepalese children impress Murray when she traveled in Nepal at 59?| A．They were eager to receive education. |
| B．They lived a very poor but happy life. |
| C．They liked to communicate with foreigners. |
| D．They were terribly interested in her memoir |
| A．She helped four orphans go to college. |
| B．She started the Nepal Youth Foundation. |
| C．She volunteered to act as an English teacher. |
| D．She sent 60 homeless children to the orphanage. |
| A．Confident and helpful. | B．Energetic and selfless. |
| C．Creative and professional. | D．Kind-hearted and flexible. |
| A．To encourage people to exercise regularly. |
| B．To advise people to change their jobs. |
| C．To attract more tourists to Nepal. |
| D．To inspire people to live a purposeful life. |
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2. 介绍京剧；
3. 询问他五一是否有空，以便提前购票。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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