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Want to know more about how World Food Programme helps women all over the world? Here is a quick look at the valuable things it has done.

Investing(投资) In Bulls, Woman Begins To Escape From Poverty

In Shahinoor’s household there were days when she struggled to put even one meal on the family table. She and her husband are among Bangladesh’s poorest: those with no land, no wealth and little hope of breaking out of hunger and poverty. But a new programme to unlock the entrepreneurial(创业的) spirit of Bangladeshi women has transformed her life.

Food Aid Brings Fresh Water To Nepalese Village

Kanukura, 33, says that carrying water up the mountain slopes to her village used to be the hardest part of her day. It’s a job that mainly fell to women in this part of Nepal, who faced a difficult and tiring climb when they needed water. But that’s changed now, thanks to a new village tap, from which women like Kanukura can get clean drinking water whenever they need it.

In Colombia, Food Assistance Is Part Of Response To Violence Against Women

In Colombia, WFP assists many victims of sexual and gender-based violence, providing them with food assistance as they recover. As part of her work for WFP, Mariangela Bizzarri recently visited a town on Colombia’s Pacific coast to meet some of these women and to assess the effect of the violence they have experienced. She sent us this personal account of one day of meetings.

Afghanistan Diary - Day Six

On the final day of Silke’s trip to central Afghanistan, she meets three women, each of whom impresses her with their determination to improve their own lives, and those of their families and their community. One of them is thrilled at simply having a job in a government office. As a child the idea of working outside her home had seemed impossible.

60. Who lives in a place where water used to be difficult to get according to the passage?

  A. Silke   B. Kanukura   C. Shahinoor  D. Mariangela

61. We learn from the passage that women in Colombia ________.

  A. may give birth to 5 children

  B. can’t go to school all their life

  C. have to work in a government office

  D. are more likely to get harmed than men

62. Women in Bangladesh now become not so poor as they used to be by ________. 

  A. raising bulls with the help of WFP

  B. working more hours in the fields

  C. doing part-time jobs in the evening

  D. receiving money from the government

63. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

  A. There are many victims of sexual violence in Nepal.

  B. Getting clean drinking water is easier in Bangladesh.

C. The social position of women in Afghanistan has greatly changed.

D. Children in Colombia sometimes have only one meal a day.

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Use your American Express Card to enjoy one-day visit at four of America’s greatest museums. Note the participating museums, and their exciting special exhibitions that you will not want to miss, listed below.

Boston

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Chairs

February 11-May 8, 2012

Italian furniture expert Fausto Calderai and Indian photographer Dayanita Singh present an exhibition of chairs from the museum’s collection and “chair photographs” from around the world presented in a Venetian-style hall housing world-famous masterpieces.

For more information:www. gardnermuseum. org

New York

The Noguchi Museum

Noguehi and Graham

December 1, 2011-May 1, 2012

Noguchi’s long-term collaboration(协作) with dancer Martha Graham is regarded by many as a high point in the history of both modern dance and art. The exhibition highlights nine of the sets created through this collaboration.

For more information:www. noguchi. org

Philadelphia

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

In Full View:American Painting(1720—2012)

January 11--April 10, 2012

Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy has been home to America’s artists for more than 200 years. The Academy collects and exhibits the works of famous American artists, and is well-known for training fine artists. 2012 at the Academy begins with the largest exhibition of Academy’s distinguished American collection in the institution’s history.

For more information:www. pafa. org

Seattle

Seattle Museum of Glass

Murano:Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection

Through November 7, 2011

This exhibition includes over 200 pieces of beautiful glass from Murano, the island of glassblowers near Venice, Italy. Watch live glass-blowing shows in the Hot Shop and see other modern glass exhibitions.

For more information:www. museumofglass. org

1.Which of the following websites offers information about the furniture show?

A.www. pafa. org                         B.www. museumofglass. org

C.www. noguchi. org                       D.www. gardnermuseum. Org

2.We learn from the text that Martha Graham is ___________.

A.a dancer          B.a glassblower       C.a painter          D.a photographer

3.If you want to know the history of American painting, you may visit ___________.

A.the Noguchi Museum                    B.Seattle Museum of Glass

C.Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum           D.Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

 

Mini Book Excerpts(节选)

 Biography

    When Salinger learned that a car park was to be built on the land, the middle-aged writer was shocked and quickly bought the neighboring area to protect it… The townspeople never forgot the rescue and came to help their most famous neighbor.

                         J. D. Salinger:A Life by Kenneth Slawenski(Random House,$27)Mystery(疑案小说)

    “You’re a smart boy. Benny’s death was no accident, and you’re the only who saw it happen. Do you think the murderer should get away with it?”The boy was starting stubbornly at his lap again.

     A thought suddenly occurred to Annika,“Did you …You recognized the man in the car, didn’t you?”

     The boy hesitated, twisting his fingers,“Maybe,”he said quietly.

                                      Red Wolf by Liza Marklund(Atria Books, $25. 99)

Short stories

     She wants to say to him what she has learned, none of it in class. Some women are born stupid, and some women are too smart for their own good. Some women are born to give, and some women only know how to take. Some women learn who they want to be from their mothers, some who they don’t want to be. Some mothers suffer so their daughters won’t. Some mothers love so their daughters won’t.

You Are Free by DAnzy Senna (Riverhead Books, $15)

Humor

    Do your kids like to have fun? Come to Fun Times! Do you like to watch your kids having fun? Bring them to Fun Times! Fun Times! “amusement cycling”is the most fun you can have, legally, in the United States right now. Why spend thousands of dollars flying to Disney World when you can spend less than half to that within a day’s drive lf most cities?

                           Happy and Other Bad Thoughts by Larry Doyle(Ecco,$14. 99)

1.If the readers want to know about the title of Salinger, they should buy the book published by

                    .

A. Ecco                                   B. Atria Books

   C. Riverhead Books                         D. Random House

2.The book Happy and Other Bad Thoughts is intended for                .

   A. young children                             B. Disney World workers

   C. middle school teachers                    D. parents with young children

3.Which book describes women with characters of their own?

A. Happy And Other Bad Thoughts

   B. J. D. Salinger: A Life

   C. You Are Free

   D. Red Wolf

4.After finishing the book Red Wolf, the readers would learn that               .

A. the boy helped arrest the murderer

   B. Benny died of an accident

   C. the murderer got away with the crime

   D. Annika carried out the crime

 

Don’t you think your schoolbag is too heavy to bear? The e-schoolbag will free you from the weight.

It is said that e-schoolbags are going to be brought into use in Chinese middle schools soon. An experiment with several hundred e-schoolbags will begin in seven cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Dalian, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Taiyuan and Shijiazhuang. And the e-schoolbags are going to cover all over China if the experiment proves to be successful. In fact, the e-schoolbag should perhaps be called an e-notebook. It is a small hand-held computer for school students.

Heavy schoolbags have long been a serious problem for school students. The average schoolbag of middle school students weighs up to 5 kilos. But the e-schoolbag will change everything. It is much lighter than a usual schoolbag, weighing under 1 kilo.

Also, it is no bigger than a usual book, but it can still hold all the things for study, such as a textbook, a notebook and exercise book. They could be made into chips that are as small as a stamp. The students can read the text page by page on the screen. They can still take notes using a special electronic pen. If they want to know the meaning or the pronunciation of a new word, or even e-mail their teachers, it’s just a press of a button.

In some foreign countries, it is becoming common. But it is hard to tell when people will receive this new form of study. Some say that e-textbooks can be easily broken, some say that it is not good to students’ eyesight to look at the screen for long.  But only time will tell.

1.The e-schoolbag has many functions EXCEPT ________.

A.It can pronounce the words.

B.It can send e-mail.

C.It can be used as a dictionary.

D.It can phone somebody.

2.According to the passage, the e-schoolbag ­­­________.

A.is not heavy as before but still large

B.is used as an experiment in Tianjin

C.is made of metal

D.is going to cover China if it proves to be successful

3.Which of the following statement is TRUE?

A.All the students in China will be required to use this new schoolbag soon.

B.All the people think highly of e-textbooks.

C.E-notebooks are very convenient to students.

D.We will not make notes because the e-notebook can make all by itself.

4.The best title for the passage should be ________.

A.An Experiment In China

B.Please Change Your Schoolbag

C.A New Invention, A New Schoolbag

D.Chips

 

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