TALLAHASSEE, November 27 — Zach Bonner showed no sign of tiredness on Monday morning, as he spoke on the steps of the old State Capitol（州议会大厦）, the end point of his 280-mile march from Tampa. The fourth-grader started walking to Tallahassee on Nov. 3rd to raise awareness about homeless children.

       At 8:30 am yesterday, Zach and his mother walked the final mile down Apalachee Parkway to the steps of the old Capitol with Zach’s 20-year-old sister, Kelley, and a group of volunteers. 

       “The hardest part was whenever it was pouring down rain,” said Zach, who turned 10 during his walk on Nov. 17th. “I just put on my rain suit and kept walking through it.”

       Zach got the idea for his walk about a year ago after watching a TV program about Mildred Norman Ryder, the “Peace Pilgrim（朝圣者）” who walked more than 25,000 miles for nearly three decades. But it was a law that Congress passed in August, declaring November as National Homeless Youth Awareness Month, that persuaded Zach to undertake his project.

       When he first announced his plans to his family, “I thought he was crazy,” said his mother, who walked nearly the entire way with her son. “That’s a long way to go ... He said, ‘I’ve got to do something big.’ Originally, he said he was going to go from Fort Lauderdale to Tallahassee. I said, ‘Well, maybe Tampa to Tallahassee might be a little easier.’”

       Zach’s project raised not only awareness of youth homelessness, but also about $25,000 in donations (捐款) and supplies. Corporate sponsors（社团赞助者）provided meals and other resources for Zach and his family, who spent nights in a donated RV (recreational vehicle). 

64. It can be inferred that Zach finished his 280-mile journey in ________. 

A. fourteen days       B. twenty-four days              C. twenty-eight days     D. thirty-two days 

65. According to the passage, Zach started his long walk from ________.

A. Tampa                B. Tallahassee            C. Fort Lauderdale       D. Orlando     

66. When did Zach determine to make the long journey? 

A. After he watched a program about Mildred Norman Ryder. 

B. After he finished a walk from Fort Lauderdale to Tallahassee.

C. After a law on awareness of homeless youths was passed. 

D. After his mother suggested he should do something big.

67. How did Zach’s mother probably feel when hearing Zach’s plans at first?

A. Excited and interested.                        B. Satisfied and pleased.

C. Disappointed and angry.                      D. Surprised and worried.  

TALLAHASSEE, November 27 — Zach Bonner showed no sign of tiredness on Monday morning, as he spoke on the steps of the old State Capitol（州议会大厦）, the end point of his 280-mile march from Tampa. The fourth-grader started walking to Tallahassee on Nov. 3rd to raise awareness about homeless children.

       At 8:30 am yesterday, Zach and his mother walked the final mile down Apalachee Parkway to the steps of the old Capitol with Zach’s 20-year-old sister, Kelley, and a group of volunteers. 

       “The hardest part was whenever it was pouring down rain,” said Zach, who turned 10 during his walk on Nov. 17th. “I just put on my rain suit and kept walking through it.”

       Zach got the idea for his walk about a year ago after watching a TV program about Mildred Norman Ryder, the “Peace Pilgrim（朝圣者）” who walked more than 25,000 miles for nearly three decades. But it was a law that Congress passed in August, declaring November as National Homeless Youth Awareness Month, that persuaded Zach to undertake his project.

       When he first announced his plans to his family, “I thought he was crazy,” said his mother, who walked nearly the entire way with her son. “That’s a long way to go ... He said, ‘I’ve got to do something big.’ Originally, he said he was going to go from Fort Lauderdale to Tallahassee. I said, ‘Well, maybe Tampa to Tallahassee might be a little easier.’”

       Zach’s project raised not only awareness of youth homelessness, but also about $25,000 in donations (捐款) and supplies. Corporate sponsors（社团赞助者）provided meals and other resources for Zach and his family, who spent nights in a donated RV (recreational vehicle). 

64. It can be inferred that Zach finished his 280-mile journey in ________. 

A. fourteen days       B. twenty-four days              C. twenty-eight days     D. thirty-two days 

65. According to the passage, Zach started his long walk from ________.

A. Tampa                B. Tallahassee            C. Fort Lauderdale       D. Orlando     

66. When did Zach determine to make the long journey? 

A. After he watched a program about Mildred Norman Ryder. 

B. After he finished a walk from Fort Lauderdale to Tallahassee.

C. After a law on awareness of homeless youths was passed. 

D. After his mother suggested he should do something big.

67. How did Zach’s mother probably feel when hearing Zach’s plans at first?

A. Excited and interested.                        B. Satisfied and pleased.

C. Disappointed and angry.                      D. Surprised and worried.  

There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage turned me into an old man.

I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.

After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the azalea (杜鹃花) bushes strewn around the orphanage.

I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after the other, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings, pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet.

How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes, all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head, face and hands so I could look at them up close.

Every year when the butterflies would return to the orphanage and try to land on me I would try and shoo (用"嘘"声赶走,吓走)them away because they did not know that the orphanage was a bad place to live and a very bad place to die.

68. How did the people go to their meals?

A. By car.              B. On foot.            C. Queuing in two ways.              D. Any way they wanted.

69. What can we infer from the first two paragraphs?

A. I love beauty when I was about six or seven years old.

B. I became old very soon in the orphanage.

C. I had a very pleasant time in the orphanage.

D. I was tired with the life way I lived in the orphanage.

70. Which of the following statements is TRUE, according to the passage?

A. I love everything of beauty when I was old.

B. The people in the orphanage stand in line doing everything.

C. The house parent was kind and lovable.

D. I shooed the butterflies away because I didn’t want them to be killed.

There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage turned me into an old man.

I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.

After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the azalea (杜鹃花) bushes strewn around the orphanage.

I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after the other, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings, pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet.

How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes, all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head, face and hands so I could look at them up close.

Every year when the butterflies would return to the orphanage and try to land on me I would try and shoo (用"嘘"声赶走,吓走)them away because they did not know that the orphanage was a bad place to live and a very bad place to die.

68. How did the people go to their meals?

A. By car.              B. On foot.            C. Queuing in two ways.              D. Any way they wanted.

69. What can we infer from the first two paragraphs?

A. I love beauty when I was about six or seven years old.

B. I became old very soon in the orphanage.

C. I had a very pleasant time in the orphanage.

D. I was tired with the life way I lived in the orphanage.

70. Which of the following statements is TRUE, according to the passage?

A. I love everything of beauty when I was old.

B. The people in the orphanage stand in line doing everything.

C. The house parent was kind and lovable.

D. I shooed the butterflies away because I didn’t want them to be killed.