Liao Xiaoyi is a pioneer environmental protection (环保事业倡导者) in china. She is regarded as a daughter of the earth. Why?

Liao Xiaoyi is the founder of the Global Village of Beijing. This organization has been working to help Chinese people know more about environmental issues (议题) since 1996.

20 years ago, Liao Xiao yi got interested in and began working on environmental issues. “In China, there is lots of water and air pollution. Many animals and plants are disappearing. But lots of people didn’t ①care about these problems,” she said.

After that, she began making TV programs, writing articles to let people        ②__________ environmental issues. The society appreciated (认可) Liao’s hard work. In 2006, she was chosen as one of the year’s eight Green Chinese Figures (绿色中国年度人物). Last year she became an environmental adviser (顾问) for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

“I’m a daughter of the earth. ③I am just doing what I should do,” Liao said.

What should we learn from her?

1. 根据文章意思，完成下列句子：

The Global Village of Beijing is an organization that can               

2. 文中①画线的词组的意思是：________________________

3. 从文章中找出一个恰当的词组填在文章的②空白处，使句子完整。

After that, she began making TV programs, writing articles to let people ______         ___ environmental issues.

4. 将文中③画线的句子译成汉语。

___________                                  _     __

5. Why is Liao Xiaoyi regarded as a daughter of the earth?

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本篇是介绍大科学家本·富兰克林从小最爱提问的故事，其中心思想是启迪学生：善于思索，开拓发散性思维，富于创造性，是一篇有利于进行素质教育的文章．

　　When Ben Franklin was only a boy, he always wanted to know about things. He was always asking his father and brothers “What?” and “How?” and “Why?”

　　They couldn't always tell him what he wanted to know.

　　When they couldn't tell him, Ben tried to find out for himself.

　　Many times Ben did find out things that no one knew before. The other boys would say, “That Ben Franklin! He's always finding out something new!”

　　Ben lived close to the water. He liked to go there to see the boats. He saw how the wind blew them across the water.

　　One day Ben said to himself, “Why can't the wind help me float(漂浮) across the water?” And I'm going to try. “Ben got his big kite. He took hold of the kite string(线) and ran with it. The wind took the kite up into the air. Then Ben jumped into the water.”

　　The wind blew the kite high into the air. Ben began to float across the water. Soon he was on the other side, and he had not worked at all.

　　One boy shouted, “Look at Ben floating across the water! His kite takes him to the other side without any work!”

　　“Yes,” said another. “He's always finding new ways to do things.”

1．When he was only a child, Ben ________.

[　　]

A．liked to fly a kite by himself

B．always asked easy questions

C．always liked to play with water

D．always liked to find out how things worked

2．His father and brothers ________.

[　　]

A．couldn't answer all his questions

B．could answer all his questions

C．tried hard to find out something new for him

D．were too busy to answer his questions

3．How did Ben Franklin float across the water?

[　　]

A．The other boy took him across it.

B．The water carried him across it.

C．The flying kite took him across it.

D．A boat took him across it.

4．He found out many things that ________.

[　　]

A．children didn't know

B．his father and brothers knew

C．people didn't know

D．most people knew

5．In the passage, the sentence “and he had not worked at all.” means ________.

[　　]

A．he worked hard to cross the water

B．he didn't go to work that day

C．he didn't cross the water at a11

D．he crossed the water in an easy way