【题目】When a tornado hit the small town of Otwell, Indiana years ago, Kathryn Martin, 32, who lived 60 miles away in Evansville, couldn’t get the news out of her mind. “I kept thinking, ‘Those poor people. Somebody’s got to help them,’” she says. She knew firsthand what they were going through.

Six months earlier, a tornado had struck her town, taking the lives of her 2-year-old son, C.J. and her mother-in-law. “It was the most terrible experience of my life,” she says. “That____will never go away, and it broke my heart to think about what these families were going through in Otwell.”

So Kathryn loaded her car with juice boxes, snacks and toys and drove to Otwell. She gave the items to the Red Cross, and as she was leaving, she saw a couple sorting through the ruins of their home while their children were watching. So Kathryn stopped and gave a few toys to the kids and played with them for a while. “The parents couldn’t thank me enough for what I did for their children,” she says.

On the drive back to Evansville, Kathryn came up with an idea to help more kids. She talked her family, friends and neighbors into joining her and spent the next few months organizing fundraisers. Finally, in August 2007, she showed C.J.’s Bus, a 35-foot school bus that was turned into a mobile playroom.

In the following years, stocked with video games and DVDs, toys, crafts, books and more, the bus traveled to disaster-torn towns, giving the children there a safe place to play. So far, C.J.’s bus has traveled to three states affected by tornadoes or floods, cheering up more than 756 children, aged 3-13.

1When she heard that Otwell was hit by a tornado, Kathryn Martin__________.

A. felt it was the most terrible experience of her life

B. wanted to do something for the people there

C. was afraid that a tornado would strike her home

D. was extremely worried about her family members

2What does the underlined word “grief” in paragraph 2 probably mean?

A. Sadness B. Worry

C. Disaster D. Influence

3What do we know about C.J.’s Bus?

A. It is a school bus that can take children to travel.

B. It is a bus giving homeless children a safe place

C. It travels to a place to offer help when a disaster hits it.

D. It is aimed at raising money for places affected by disasters.

【题目】Two American scientists told the people in industrial nations that they would be much healthier if they ate more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago.

The scientists say that the human body has changed very little since human first appeared on earth, but the way we live has changed greatly. Our body has not been able to deal with these changes in life style and this has led to new kinds of sicknesses. These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times. So they are called “diseases of civilization”. Many cancers and diseases of the blood system, including heart attacks and strokes ( 中风 ) are examples of such diseases.

Scientists noted that early stone-age people used very little alcohol ( 酒精 ) or tobacco, probably none. Ancient people also got a great deal of physical exercise, but a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and life today.

Stone Age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than farm animals. They also ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables, and fruits. They did not use milk and other dairy products, and they made a very little use of grains. But today, we eat a large amount of dairy products and grain foods. We eat six times more salt than stone-age people. We eat more sugar. We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein and much less Vitamin C.

People today probably do not want to live as people thousands of years ago did, but scientists say that we would be much healthier if we ate as those ancient people did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet foods.

【1The people in industrial nations would be much healthier if they ate _____.

A. more food as humans living 10,000 years ago did

B. as humans living 10,000 years ago

C. more kinds of food eaten by people living 10,000 years ago

D. more of the same kind of food eaten by people over 10,000 years ago

【2New kinds of sicknesses have been found because _____.

A. the human body has changed compared with human first appearing on earth

B. the way we live has changed a little

C. our body can’t deal with the changes in life style

D. the way we live today is proper for the human body

【3What is the main cause mentioned in the article why people suffer from a lot of new sicknesses?

A. Ancient people did a great deal of physical exercise.

B. People today have a lot of alcohol.

C. People today have more tobacco.

D. Food is quite different between life today and life in ancient times.

【4Stone-age people were much healthier than people today because they ate a lot of _____.

A. milk and other dairy products

B. grain foods and farm animals

C. salt and sugar

D. wild animals, fresh wild vegetables and fruits

【5From this article, we know that the following choices are good to our health except _____.

A. protein and Vitamin C

B. milk and grain foods

C. wild animals, vegetables and fruits

D. a huge amount of fatty, salty and sweet foods

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