A senior United Nations Children’s Fund(UNICEF) official on May 29 praised China for its remarkable achievements in children’s welfare.

A. H. M. Farook, UNICEF’s operations area officer for China and Mongolia said that China “can be very satisfied to tell the whole world what can be done with limited resources to help its children to grow healthily and happily.”

  China’s child population makes up one-fifth of the world’s total. “The reason behind the tremendous(巨大的) achievement is China’s long tradition of caring for children both at home and in society,” he said.

  “What’s more is that Chinese people have always given special attention to children who are in special need.” The UN official made the remarks when addressing a group of 50 children and staff from the Beijing Children’s Welfare Home at the Shangri-la Hotel, Beijing.

  The hotel invited the orphans to share snacks, sing, dance and play games at a park inside the hotel for a “Share the Sunshine” party, as a prelude(前奏) to celebrations to mark the Children’s Day.

  The Beijing children’s Welfare Home, set up soon after New China was founded in 1949, has at present more than 400 children.

  A leading official of the welfare institution said that the children live a happy life and that the agency spends 400—500 yuan a month for an average orphan. An average Chinese workers earned 440 yuan a month during the first quarter this year.

  Gu Xiaojin, deputy secretary-general of the China Youth Development Foundation(CYDF), said people from all walks of life have contributed to the welfare of the Chinese children.

  She said that CYDF set up the Project Hope in 1989, which calls on people across the country to donate money to help poor children to continue their schooling.

  By the end of last year, she said, CYDF had collected nearly 700 million yuan in donations, which has helped the establishment of 2, 074 Hope primary schools and enabled more than 1. 25 million dropouts to return to school classrooms.

  Three “Hope Stars” also attended the party. They were model teenagers chosen among students who are economically supported by the Project Hope to further their nine-year compulsory studies in the poverty-stricken regions. They will be torchbearers for the Chinese Team for the up coming Atlanta Olympic Games this year.

1.Children can grow healthily and happily as long as _______.

A. parents take good care of them both at home and in society

B. the whole society care for children as well as their parents

C. Schools and teachers pay much attention to the growth of children

D. Chinese people always give special attention to children who are in special need

2.Every year the Beijing Children’s Welfare Home spends _______ on the orphans

A. 1, 920, 000 yuan                    B. 2, 160, 000 yuan

C. Over 2, 400, 000 yuan                  D. 2, 200, 000 yuan or so

3.CYDF collected 700 million yuan with the purpose of _______.

A. reducing dropouts                                          

B. helping homeless orphans

C. supporting the Chinese Team for the coming Atlanta Olympic Games

D. establishing 2, 074 Hope primary schools all over the country

4.We can infer from the text that _______.

A. Every Chinese child has its own special need, so we should pay special attention to each.

B. All the children in the poverty-stricken regions of China are too poor to go to school.

C. Ever since liberation. the Chinese Communist Party has been concerned about the growth of the younger generation.

D. With the help of UNICEF officials, there are no more dropouts in China.

5.It is possible that this passage was written in _______.

A. 1992       B. 1996       C. 1998        D. 2000

 

There is a brown female(母的) Canadian duck that weighs only four hundred fifty grams. The duck had flown to the southern state of Florida for the winter.A hunter shot it on January fifteenth and  took it to his home in the city of Tallahassee.He put it in the refrigerator(冰箱).Two days later the man’s wife opened the refrigerator door.The duck lifted its head and looked at her.It was alive!

The family took the duck to a doctor who treats animals.The doctor gave the duck to the Goose Creek Animal Sanctuary(动物保护区).Animal sanctuaries provide homes for animals and teach people about their care.

The doctor said it was easy to understand why people thought the duck was dead. He said ducks generally do not move a 1ot,especially after being shot.And he said its low body temperature helped it survive in the refrigerator.

That was enough to make the duck famous around the world.The Tallahassee newspaper published the story that was re-printed in many different countries.But that was not the end of the story.

Workers at the wildlife sanctuary named the duck Perky.And they got the doctor to give an operation to repair the duck’s damaged wing.During the operation,Perky stopped breathing--not just once but two times.The doctor tried to save Perky by giving her oxygen.But he finally said the duck had died.A few seconds later, however, Perky began to move.Reports say the people in the operating room were so happy that they cried.

Workers at the wildlife sanctuary say Perky will not have any more operations. It seems the drugs that were used had side-effects on her.Perky is expected to live at the sanctuary.And a local company has begun to sell T-shirts showing a picture of the lucky duck. Money from the sale of the shirts will help pay for Perky’s care.

1.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.Animal sanctuaries are homes specially for wounded animals.

B.The hunter shot the duck in the wing.

C.Ducks do not move at all for the whole winter.

D.The hunter’s wife intended to free the duck in the refrigerator.

2.The underlined Word “That” in the fourth paragraph refers to the fact that______.

A.the duck survived the shot and the cold in the refrigerator

B.the hunter had saved the duck by freezing it

C.the hunter shot the duck from Canada

D.the Tallahassee newspaper published the story

3.The duck in the story______.

A.was big and strong

B.flew to Florida for food

C.stayed in the refrigerator to keep its body temperature low

D.was considered dead before being put in the refrigerator

4.What is the best title for the passage?

A.Save the Duck

B.The Lucky Duck

C.Stop Killing Ducks

D.The Poor Duck

5.It can be inferred from the passage that_______.

A.the local company will get large profits by selling the T-shirts

B.it was illegal for me hunter to shoot the duck

C.the duck is likely to be well cared for in the sanctuary

D.Perky likes Florida better than Canada

 

单词拼写(共20小题, 每小题1分,满分20分)

76. You can’t turn your dream into r__________ if you just sit there and watch TV all day.

77. A good command (运用能力;掌握) of English e__________ you to communicate with foreign businessmen freely.

78. He missed the bus as a r__________ of getting up too late this morning.

79. It is time for us to take m__________ to stop air pollution in our city now.

80. Cycling is highly b__________ to health and the environment.

81. He seems to have __________ (忽视,忽略) one important fact.

82. I believe the house was __________ (故意地) set fire to, not accidentally.

83. She is so __________ (固执的) that she never listens to other people’s advice.

84. Her tears __________ (流动) freely down her cheeks the moment she heard the sad news.

85. They entered the country __________ (非法地).

86. On this __________, however, it had slowed down considerably.

87. “At the time the murder was __________, I was traveling on the 8 o’clock train to London,” said the man.

88. Six men have been __________ in a mine for seventeen hours.

89. They have been told that rescue operations are __________ smoothly.

90. A pilot noticed a __________ which seemed to be making for a Royal Air Force Station nearby.

91. We had to __________ for hours to get in and there must have been several hundred people present just before the show began.

92. He was obviously very nervous and for some minutes stood __________ before the microphone.

93. Oil rigs have to be repaired frequently and divers, who often have to work in darkness a hundred feet under water, have been frightened out of their __________ by giant fish bumping into them as they work.

94. He said that someone might be spying on the station and the pilot was ordered to keep __________ of the strange object.

95. “So do I,” answered the policeman in the same __________.

 

A cheap drug that can stop bleeding in people recently injured in an accident could potentially save the lives of tens of thousands worldwide, a new study says.

Researchers studied the effects of tranexamic acid (凝血酸), or TXA, in more than 10,000 injured people in 40 countries who received the drug within 8 hours of being injured. The study was published in the medical journal Lancet. Doctors found that patients who got TXA had a 15percent lower chance of dying from hemorrhage than those who didn’t get it . They also had a 10 percent lower chance of dying from any other cause, including organ failure and a head injury. The study was paid for by the British government.

The drug is commonly used in wealthy countries during elective surgeries(外科手术) to stop bleeding , but isn’t used for accident victims. TXA is off-patent and made by many companies. It costs about $4.5 per gram, and a typical dose is two grams. It is usually given via an injection(注射) and would be relatively easy to introduce, even in poor countries, experts said.

Previous tests of the drug regarded its use in elective surgeries, such as heart operations, but this was the first study to test the drug on accident victims. Doctors were worried it might increase side effects such as blood clots (凝块)in the heart and lungs, strokes, or heart attacks. There was no evidence of that in the Lancet study, though the authors said it was possible they might have missed some of these incidents.

For people between 5 and 45, accidents are the second leading cause of death worldwide after AIDS, and about 600,000 injured patients bleed to death every year. Experts estimated that if TXA were readily available, between 70,000 and 100,000 lives a year could be saved. Though the drug wasn’t tested on children , experts said it would almost certainly work with them as well.

1.The underlined word” hemorrhage” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________

A.serious illness

B.heart disease

C.heavy bleeding

D.lack of drug

2.What can we learn about TXA from the passage?

A.It can only be made in England

B.It was only used in operations before

C.It is a patented drug

D.It is mainly used in poor countries

3.Doctors were worried about using TXA because ________

A.a lot of patients died unexpectedly after using it

B.it has no treatment effect on patients

C.it can cause blood clots or stroke

D.they hadn’t used it on accident victims before

4. What do we know from the last paragraph?

A.It is a pity that TXA wasn’t widely used on injured patients before

B.Tests have proved that TXA can be used on children

C.People between 5 and 45 should be injected with TXA every year

D.Accidents are the first leading cause of death worldwide.

 

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