【题目】

Some people believe that a Robin Hood is at work, others that a wealthy person simply wants to distribute his or her fortune before dying. But the donator who started sending envelopes with cash to deserving causes,accompanied by an article from the local paper, has made a northern German city believe in fairytales (童话

The first envelope was sent to a victim support group. It contained 10,000 with a cutting from the Braunschtveiger Zeitung about how the group supported a woman who was robbed of her handbag; similar plain white anonymous (匿名)envelopes, each containing 10,000, then arrived at a kindergarten and a church.

The envelopes keep coming, and so far at least 190,000 has been distributed. Last month, one of them was sent to the newspaper s own office. It came after a story it published about Tom, a 14-year-old boy who was severely disabled in a swimming accident. The receptionist at the Braunschweiger Zeitung opened an anonymous white envelope to find 20 notes of 500 inside , with a copy of the article. The name of the family was underlined.

"I was driving when I heard the news, Claudia Neumann, the boy s mother, told DerSpiegel magazine. I had to park on the side of the road; I was speechless.

The money will be used to make the entrance to their house wheelchair-accessible .and for a course of treatment that their insurance company refused to pay for.

For someone to act so selflessly, for this to happen in such a society in which everyone thinks of himself, was astonishing," Mrs. Neumann said. Her family wonder whether the donator is a Robin Hood character, taking from banks to give to the needy.

Henning Noske, the editor of the Braunschweiger Zeitung, said: Maybe it is an old person who is about to die. We just do not know. However, he has told his reporters not to look for the citys hero, for fear that discovery may stop the donations.

【1】The Braunschweiger Zeitung is the name of .

A. a church

B. a bank

C. a newspaper

D. a magazine

【2】 Which of the following is TRUE about the donation to Tom?

A. The donation amounted to 190,000.

B. The donation was sent directly to his house.

C. The money will be used for his education.

D. His mother felt astonished at the donation.

【3】It can be inferred from the passage that .

A. the donator is a rich old man

B. the donation will continue to come

C. the donation comes from the newspaper

D. the donator will soon be found out

【4】What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Money Is Raised by the Newspaper

B. Newspaper Distributes Money to

C. Unknown Hero Spreads Love in Envelopes

D. Robin Hood Returns to the City

【题目】Ed Viesturs grew up in Rockford, Illinois, where the tallest thing on the horizon was the water tower. But on Thursday, Viesturs became the only American to climb to the top of the world's 14 highest mountains.

His last hike was up Mount Annapurna, in Asia's snowcapped Himalayas. At 26, 545 feet, its peak is the 10th highest in the world. It is the mountain that inspired him to start climbing.

"It tends to be the trickiest, the most dangerous, said Viesturs." There's no simple way to climb it. There are threatening avalanches (雪崩) and ice falls that protect the mountain."

In high school, Viesturs read French climber Maurice Herzog's tale of climbing the icy Annapurna. Herzog's story was of frostbite (冻伤) and difficulty and near-death experiences. Viesturs was hooked right away.

Viesturs got his start on Washington's Mount Rainier in 1977, guiding hikes in the summer. Fifteen years ago, he set out to walk up to the world's highest peaks. Finally, he's done.

The pioneering climber talks about mountains as if they were living creatures that should be treated with respect. "You have to use all of your senses, all of your abilities to see if the mountain will let you climb it," said Viesturs. "If we have the patience and the respect, and if we're here at the right time, under the right circumstances, they allow us to go up, and allow us to come down."

What's next for a man who can't stop climbing? "I'm going to hug my wife and kids and kind of kick back and enjoy the summer," says Viesturs. But for a man who's climbed the world's 14 tallest mountains, he will probably soon set off on yet another adventure.

【1】 What record has Ed Viesturs set?

A. He has succeeded in climbing to the world's 14th highest mountain.

B. He has been to the top of the world's 14 highest mountains.

C. He has become the first to climb to the height of 26, 545 feet.

D. He has become the first man to climb to the top of 14th highest mountains in the world.

【2】 The underlined word "hooked" in Paragraph 4 can be replaced by "__________".

A. frightened

B. discouraged

C. interested

D. upset

【3】 The author used Viestures' words in Paragraph 6 to support a view that __________.

A. mountain climbing is a dangerous sport

B. mountains should be regarded as living creatures

C. mountain climbing needs more skills than physical energy

D. those who like mountain climbing won't stop climbing

【4】 What's the next probable plan of Viestures?

A. Stopping climbing and staying with his family.

B. Climbing to the top of the world's 14 tallest mountains again.

C. Climbing another one of the highest mountains.

D. Writing down the experiences about his adventure.

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