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SAN FRANCISCO—The “Reading Wizard”, an 11 – year – old – boy, whose offer to read to children without being paid at a local library was refused by libraries, will get to read to younger kids after all.
Mayor Willie Brown last Wednesday ordered San Francisco Public Library officials to allow John O’Connor to read to preschool children to get them interested in books and stop them from watching television and video games.
“I didn’t expect this kind of attention. ” John said, “It’s just shocking.”
John has chosen his first book, “The King’s Giraffe”, and made up fliers inviting neighborhood children, aged from three to six, to the Presidio Branch every Wednesday afternoon. He planned to call himself the “Reading Wizard” and wear a special hat, fake glasses and a black coat.
But his idea was refused – on the phone, in person and finally with a letter from Toni Bernardi, the chief of the library’s children and youth services. Using terms like “age appropriate material”（适龄读物）,she wrote that only library workers are allowed to read to children.
John then went to a member of the city board of supervisors（督导董事会）, who advised him to write letters to the library officials.
“Our libraries are supposed to turn kids on, not to turn them off.” Brown said he enjoyed “the creative idea, the sense of civic duty and the caring for others that John clearly showed us.”
1．Who is the “Reading Wizard”?
A．Presidio Branch. B．The King’s Giraffe.
C．John O’Connor. D．Toni Bernardi.
2．The 11 – year – old boy asked librarians at the local library for permission to .
A．play video games B．wear something strange
C．design fliers for new books D．read stories to young children
3．By dressing up as a wizard, the boy probably hoped to .
A．put up a performance
B．frighten the three – year – old boys
C．get the officials shocked
D．attract the children’s attention
4．We can infer that Mayor Willie Brown .
A．praised the boy for his new idea
B．received a call from the library for children
C．informed the boy to stop reading to children
D．held a party for John and his friends at the library
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导学全程练创优训练系列答案Though ________ in San Francisco, Dave Mitchell had always preferred to record the plain facts of small-town life.
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A．raised |
B．grown |
C．developed |
D．cultivated |
Many people say pennies are not worth saving. After all, a penny is only worth a cent. But one unusual penny turned out to be worth a lot more when a coin collector paid $1.7 million for it earlier this month.
The coin is one of a kind. It is the only penny that the Denver mint(铸币厂) made out of copper, instead of steel, in 1943. Because it is unique, it is also very valuable. No penny has ever sold for so much money.
The Changing Penny
The Lincoln penny first appeared in 1909. For 34 years, the one-cent coin was made out of copper. Then, in 1943, the penny changed. World War II was going on, and copper was needed for equipment. So for one year, pennies were made out of steel instead. At least most of them were.
Only a few coins were made out of unused copper. There are three main mints, or places where coins are made, in the United States. Of the known copper pennies from 1943, twelve were made in the Philadephia mint, and five were made in the San Francisco mint. Only one was made in the Denver mint.
Nobody knows for sure why a copper penny was made at the Denver mint in 1943, coin dealers Andy Skrabalak told Time for Kids. “There is a rumor that a mint employee made the coin in the middle of the night.”
A Special Set
The coin collector who bought the $1.7 million penny wants to remain unknown. But the reason for the trade is known. He already had two copper pennies from 1943 – one from the San Francisco mint and one from the Philadephia mint. To complete the set, he needed the Denver penny. The three coins will go on display at a coin exhibition in Tampa, Florida.
The collector who sold the penny is also keeping his name a secret. It took four years to convince him to give up the rare coin. Now that he has finally donating all of the money to charity.
1.Why is the Lincoln penny worth over one million dollars?
A. Because it has a history of thirty-four years.
B. Because it was made out of a rare material.
C. Because it was made on one night of 1943 by the Denver mint.
D, Because it was the only coin Denver mint made out of copper in 1943.
2.Before the Lincoln penny was sold, people thought one-cent coins __________.
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A．were worth collecting for selling later |
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B．were surely valuable if not made out of steel |
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C．wouldn’t be sold for large amounts of money |
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D．were only useful for some coin museums |
3.At least how many copper coins were made in 1943?
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A．Five |
B．Twelve |
C．Seventeen |
D．Eighteen |
4.What can we learn about the collector who sold the penny?
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A．He already had two copper pennies from 1943. |
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B．He wanted to complete the set of copper pennies. |
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C．He didn’t want to sell his penny in the beginning. |
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D．He was a well-known coin dealer in Tampa, Horida. |