On the first day of college, our teacher asked us to get to know someone who we didn't know.

I stood up to look around when a hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find an old lady. She smiled at me and said, "Hello, my name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old." I was surprised and asked, "Why are you in college?"

"I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me. After class we walked together and shared what we had. We became good friends.

Rose became a campus icon. In our school, almost everyone loved her and studied from her. She easily made friends wherever she went. At the end of the term, we invited Rose to make a speech. I'll never forget what she taught us. She said, "There are some secrets to staying young, being happy and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it! There is a great difference between growing older and growing up. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change.”

One week after graduation Rose died peacefully. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral. They came to honor the wonderful woman who taught that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.

1.Rose became a campus icon, because ________.

A.she was the oldest student in the college

B.she was friendly and hard-working

C.she was good at her lessons

D.she got along well with her classmates

2.________ wasn't mentioned in Roses speech.

A.Keeping young B.Achieving success

C.Staying away from sadness D.Giving up dream

3.Rose thinks growing up means _________.

A.getting good education and a good job

B.everyone never worries about her/ his age

C.using talent and ability to change oneself

D.anybody can grow older and older

4.The underlined word "funeral" means ________ in English.

A.show B.burial C.contest D.dream

Smile Train is a charity that helps the children around the world, who suffer from a facial defect (缺陷) .The defect h1. when a baby's top lip or mouth doesn't form properly before birth. Eating and drinking is very difficult for these babies. The charity p2. free operations, which give these children a new smile, and with it, new hope and a new beginning.

Children with the defect need all the help. A3. many of them are accepted by their families, sadly, others are not. In some countries, children with this defect are often abandoned (遗弃) at birth because their parents feel ashamed (羞愧的) of them or cannot a4. the operations. The good news is that the operation is not difficult. It takes less than an hour and c5. the family nothing. The charity raises money and finds the right medical volunteers to perform the operations.

A Smile Train doctor from the UK said, “Each child who has the operation is given a second c6. at life. After years of staying at home, the children can finally go to school and be happy. Every year I do hundreds of operations free of cost through Smile Train. Some of the stories I have heard are quite s7. . One newborn baby girl was found abandoned on a train. L8. for her, she was found and adopted (收养) by a passenger. This lady then heard about Smile Train and brought the baby to our hospital. I did the operation and brought h9. to the family. Experienced doctors like me share our s10. with local doctors. In this way we make sure that these operations will always be available.

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