题目内容
In many African countries, the care of orphans has been mainly led by foreign donor organizations. However, Sister Florence has changed all that. Using her own resources, Sister Florence is leading the work of raising orphans from different backgrounds. Sister Florence Wanjala’s biggest motivation to start the orphan program was when she saw a little boy whose parents had died. The boy was living with a cruel grandparent and he would visit the grave of his mother, crying for support. Sister Wanjala wanted to give a helping hand and give him hope. From that time, she started feeling the call to help a larger number of orphans.
She opened an office with a few friends and coordinated (协调)a program to help the orphans. All the registrations were done in the office and the program so far has 8000 children. Sister Wanjala said, “My dream is to help the orphan to live a holistic (完整)life and be a good Kenyan citizen to help this country. Many people think that the way to support orphans is to put them in an institution. Others support them up to the age of eighteen, but here, we do it very differently.” For Sister Wanjala, putting a child in an institution is normally her last choice. She prefers the orphans to live in a foster home.
She said, “I’m so encouraged and happy to see the orphans succeeding. When they come first or second in class, it shows how the program has helped them, and that’s encouraging to me as I continue to coordinate the program.” Through her charity work, more than 1000 orphans have been able to find a home. Sister Wanjala, as a mother, takes care of her own family
- 1.
What inspired Sister Wanjala to start the orphan program?
- A.Her preference for kids
- B.Her own similar experience
- C.A sad story about an orphan
- D.Her successful charity work
- A.
- 2.
Sister Wanjala opened an office mainly to ______
- A.set up as many institutions as possible for orphans
- B.start a program to offer orphans a foster family
- C.provide school education for those orphans
- D.raise more money for the homeless kids
- A.
- 3.
What does the underlined sentence probably mean?
- A.She didn’t want orphans to live in an institution
- B.She preferred to put orphans into an institution
- C.She had no choice but to put orphans in institutions
- D.She sent orphans into an institution in the end
- A.
- 4.
What can we learn from the text?
- A.Sister Wanjala finally adopted the little boy
- B.Sister Wanjala found foster homes for 8000 orphans
- C.Sister Wanjala was too busy to care for her own family
- D.Sister Wanjala was not alone in helping orphans
- A.
试题分析:文章讲述了咖啡这种饮品的发现,传播的经过。同时也讲述了咖啡这种饮品的功能。
1.C细节理解题。Sister Florence Wanjala’s biggest motivation to start the orphan program was when she saw a little boy whose parents had died. 句意为:Sister Florence Wanjala’s 开展孤儿项目的最大动机是当她看到了一个父母双亡的可怜小孩儿的时候,所以答案应为C,是一个有关孤儿的可怜的故事激发了她去创办这个项目。
2.B段落大意题。She opened an office with a few friends and coordinated (协调)a program to help the orphans. All the registrations were done in the office and the program so far has 8000 children.和 She prefers the orphans to live in a foster home.句意为:她和几个朋友创办了工作室协调这个项目去帮助孤儿,到目前为止这个项目已经有了8000个儿童。她更愿意让这些孤儿生活在一个寄养的家庭里。由此可知答案B是最恰当的。
3.A细节理解题。For Sister Wanjala, putting a child in an institution is normally her last choice. She prefers the orphans to live in a foster home.由后一句的意思可知,她不想把小孩儿放在公共机构里养,她更喜欢小孩儿住在寄养家庭里。
4.D大意理解题。文中提到项目中已经有了8000个儿童还有很多的朋友来帮助,由此可知她在帮助儿童的过程中是不孤独的。
考点:考查对社会现象类文章的理解。
Bill Javis took over our village’s news-agency at a time of life when most of us only wanted to relax. He just thought he would like something but not too much to do, and the news-agency was ready-made. The business produced little enough for him, but Bill was a man who only wanted the simplicity and order and regularity of the job. He had been a long-serving sailor, and all his life had done everything by the clock.
Every day he opened his shop at 6:00 a. m. to catch the early trade; the papers arrived on his doorstep before that. Many of Bill’s customers were city workers, and the shop was convenient for the station. Business was tailing off by 10 o’clock, so at eleven sharp Bill closed for lunch. It was hard luck on anybody who wanted a paper or magazine in the afternoon, for most likely Bill would be down on the river bank, fishing, and his nearest competitor was five kilometers away. Sometimes in the afternoon, the evening paper landed on the doorway, and at 4 o’clock Bill reopened his shop. The evening rush lasted till seven, and it was worthwhile.
He lived in a flat above the shop, alone. Except in the very bad weather, you always knew where to find him in the afternoon, as I have said. Once, on a sunny afternoon, I walked home along the river bank from a shopping trip to the village. By my watch it was three minutes past four, so I was astonished to see Bill sitting there on his little chair with a line in the water. He had no luck, I could see, but he was making no effort to move.
“What’s wrong, Bill?” I called out from the path.
For answer, he put a hand in his jacket and took out a big, golden object. For a moment I had no idea what it could be, and then it suddenly went off with a noise like a fire engine. Stopping the bell, Bill held the thing up and called back, “Ten to four, you see, and this is dead right.”
I had never known anyone carrying a brass alarm clock round with him before.
1.Bill Javis became a news-agent when _______.
A. he needed the money
B. he was quite an old man
C. he decided to take up fishing
D. he gave up clock-repairing
2.Bill opened the shop so early in the day because _______.
A. he liked to do as much as possible before he went to work
B. the shop had to be open when the morning papers came
C. he was never sure of time
D. it was then that he did a lot of business
3.From the information given in the passage, who or what do you think was wrong?
A. The bell was-it must have gone off at the wrong time.
B. Bill was-he had dropped off to sleep.
C. The writer’s watch was-it was fast.
D. Bill’s clock was-it was old.