Can you imagine an 11-year-old child spends her day in washing clothes,taking care of her mother and struggling with heavy farm work?
This girl knows there will not be enough food for dinner.She can't fill her stomach with water because it's polluted.She has to take care of her mother.Her little brother and sister dies of disease one after another because the family could not afford a doctor.
Hard to believe? For Maria Pastora,these are the facts of life.
Maria would gladly walk miles to school,but her mother,now alone,needs her badly at home.Chances(可能性) are Maria will grow up illiterate ndline.Her future? In many ways,unlucky.
But for just 52 pennies a day,you can sponsor a child like Mafia.Show her that in somewhere,someone cares about her plight(苦境). Through“Save the Children”programme,you can help Maria's mother get the tools and guidance(指导) to turn their poor half-acre into a source of good food；earn the money she needs to buy clothing and school things for Maria.So hard-working people can help themselves.
To help Maria most,the money from sponsors can be used to build a school or a hospital,to reclaim(开垦) land and bring in clean water.This is what “Save the Children”has been about since 1932.
Give a hand to a child who needs help.That is how “Save the Children” works.But without you.it can't work.Please take a moment now to fill out and post the receipt(回单) below to help a child like Maria and her village.
It can make such a difference...in her life and yours.
(1)
The above is most probably______.
A.an instruction B.a news report
C.a notice D.a magazine advertisement
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(2)
From the passage we can infer that______.
A.Maria is in danger of falling ill
B.Maria's mother needs her help very much
C.Maria's life is familiar to us
D.Maria's home isn't far from the school
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(3)
What do you guess the underlined word“illiterate”means?
A.unlucky B.uneducated C.happy D.cultured
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(4)
Which of the following isn't the main objective(目的)of“Save the Children”?
A.To improve the living conditions of the children in plight.
B.To let the children in plight live on the money from sponsors.
C.To help children like Maria escape from sufferings.
D.To help the people in plight make a better living by themselves.
Most American children eat potatoes．But many children don't know what of the potato is the best for food．Take a knife and cut from the middle of the potato a piece as thin as paper．Hold the piece between your eyes and light．You will see that the potato has skin(皮)，an outside rim(边缘) and an inside part．The outside rim which is right under the skin of the potato，is the most valuable part of all．But this is often thrown away with the skin．Even the skin itself is better for food than the inside．When eating a cooked potato，if you choose the inside and leave the outside，you are throwing the best part of it．If you can't eat the whole potato，eating the outside rim and leaving the inside will do．
(1)
How many parts does the potato have?
A．It has only one part，outside rim．
B．It has two parts，skin and outside rim．
C．It has three parts，skin，outside rim and an inside part．
D．It has four parts，middle，skin，outside rim and an inside part．
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(2)
What is the best part of a potato?
A．Outside rim． B．Inside part． C．Middle． D．Skin．
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(3)
What should you eat first if you can't eat the whole potato?
A．Skin only． B．Inside． C．Outside rim． D．Part of it．
How much sleep do we need? The answers are different. Some people need only three hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most Amexicans sleep for an average of seven to eight hours a night. After age fifty, the average sleep hours go down to 6.5 hours a night.
Most people will have a bad night when they can't fall asleep. About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people cannot fall asleep. The name of this problem is called insomnia(失眠症).
This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia .Some of these people had their own ways to sleep well. Benjamin Franklin(本杰明·富兰克林), the famous inventor, had four beds.He moved from one to another to fall asleep. King Louis XIV (国王路易十四) of France had 413 beds and hoped to fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous writer, had a different way: he hy on his side(侧卧) across the end of the bed!
(1)
Most Americans usually sleep for about _________ hours a night.
A. 3 B. 5～6 C. 10 D. 7～8
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(2)
As people grow older,they need __________ at night.
A. less sleeping time
B. more sleeping time
C. the same amount of sleeping time
D. a fixed time to sleep
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(3)
If there are 100 million people in the US hav-ing a problem with sleep,what's the popula-tion of it? About _______.
A. 200 million B. 300 million C. 600 million D. 900 million
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(4)
Franklin tried to go to sleep by __________.
A. moving from one to another of his 413 beds B. moving from one to another of his 4 beds
C. inventing a bed for himself D. lying on his side across the end of the bed
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(5)
It's not mentioned in the passage,but we know that Mark Twain was ___________.
