Dear Reader,

Think about an 11-year-old child spending her days washing clothes, looking after a baby brother, and doing hard work on the farm.

Think about a little girl. She knows there will not be enough food for dinner, and has no water to drink because it is not clean. She has watched her father, brother and sister lose their lives as the family has no money to send for a doctor.

Hard to believe? For Maria Pastora, these are the facts of life.

Maria would gladly walk to school, but her mother, now alone, really needs her at home. Maria had to leave school to work for her poor family.

But for five dollars a week, you can help out a child like Maria. Show her that somewhere, some­one will help her. Through Save the Children, you can help Maria's mother get better crops (收成) from their farm, and earn the money to buy clothes and things for school.

To help Maria most, your money is to put to­gether with other helpers, so hardworking people can help themselves. Build a school or a hospital, make their farm better, bring in clean water... This is what Save the Children has been about since 1932.

For you there are many returns. You can write letters to each other, get photos, or study reports. Know you are helping and saving another person in the same world as you. That's how Save the Chil­dren works. But without you, it can't work. Please take a moment to fill in this form to help a child like Maria and her village.

It can make such a difference in her life and yours.

Save the Children

David L. Guyer

Chairman

(    ) 7. Maria's father, brother and sister died because they_________.

      A. were too poor to see a doctor   B. didn't know where to find a doctor

      C. didn't have enough food to eat  D. were too busy to see a doctor

(    ) 8. This letter mainly tells you to_________.

      A. know about poor people   B. earn some money for poor children

      C. show pity to poor people   D. donate money to help poor children

(    ) 9. If you try to help a child like Maria, which of the following can't you get from her?

      A. You can often get some pictures from her.

      B. You can get more money from her when she grows up.

      C. You can often get her letters.

      D. You can often be told how she is getting on.

(    ) 10. This letter most probably appears_________.

 A. on TV     B. in a magazine     C. in a dictionary    D. on the radio

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We were going to play a game with a country school. They didn’t come until the game began. They looked   1  than we had thought. They were wearing dirty blue jeans and looked like farm boys. We even thought that they had never seen a basketball before.

We all sat down. We felt that we didn’t   2  any practice against a team like that. It was already so late that no   3  could be given to them for a warm-up(准备动作).

The game began. One of our boys   4  the ball and he shot(投) a long pass to our forward(前锋). From out of nowhere a boy in a dirty T-shirt   5  the pass and with a beautiful form(姿势) he shot and got two points. They   6 us. Then they got another two points in a minute.

Soon it was all   7 . The country team  8  us. We certainly learned that even though a team is good, there is usually another   9  a little better. But the important lesson learned was: One can’t tell a man, or a team, by the   10 .

Word box: publish    出版           achievement 成就

Newbery Medal 纽伯瑞文学奖        Guinness 吉尼斯

根据表格所提供的信息选择最佳答案。

1.        of the books in the form were written by American writers.

A. Two                  B. Three          C. Four

2.The book that came out in 1957 was written by         .

A. Gary D. Schmidt        B. Paulo Coelho     C. Theodore Geisel

3. If you want to know how a boy’s mind developed, you should choose        according to the form above.

A. The Wednesday Wars

B. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

C. The Alchemist

4.The book that broke the Guinness record came out        .

A. in 1947                B. in 1988            C. in 1903

5.Which of the following is NOT true according to the information above?

A. The theme of the book The Cat in the Hat is a natural and easy attitude to life.

B. Only one of the four books won the Newbery Medal.

C. The book with the theme of a positive attitude to difficulty came out when the writer was 41 years old.