________ you have got a precious chance, you might as well make full us of it．

1. A.
   In case
2. B.
   Now that
3. C.
   Even though
4. D.
   The moment

短语：从方框中选择适当的短语，并用其适当的形式填空，有两个多余项。
（每题1分，共5分）

1. ________________ you’ve got a chance, you had better make full use of it.
2. I think the photos can ________ us ________ the days we spent together in the country.
3. When they crossed the Rocky Mountains, they managed to _____________ some mountain goats.
4. He wrote a long moving poem ________________ those who died in the war.
5. It is not polite to ____________ other people.

“A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right,”says Mollie Hunter. Born and brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly believes that there is and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is. In Mollie’s opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which is what every writer should be doing, “If you aren’t telling a story, you’re a very dead writer indeed.”she says. With the chief function of a writer being to entertain, Mollie is indeed an entertainer. “I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language,”she says. “This love goes back to early childhood. I’ve told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them. I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said‘Nonsense, Mollie; dear, you’ll be a writer.’So finally I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer.”

   This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical (自传体的)and gives a picture both of Mollie’s ambition and her struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably(不可避免的)brought thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows and strawberry fields-sadly now covered with modern houses. “I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood. I’ll never go back,”she said.“Never.”“When I set one of my books in Scotland,”she said,“I can recall my romantic feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at work. And that’s important, because children now know so much so early that romance can’t exist for them, as it did for us.”

1. What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book?

A. It should not aim at a narrow audience.

B. It should be attractive to young readers.

C. It should be based on original ideas.

D. It should not include too much conversation.

2. In Mollie Hunter’s opinion, which of the following is one sign of poor writer?

A. Being poor in life experience

B. Being short of writing skill.

C. The weakness of description

D. The absence of a story.

3.What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child？

A. She didn’t expect to become a writer.

B. She didn’t enjoy writing stories.

C. She didn’t have any particular ambition.

D. She didn’t respect her teacher’s view.

4.In comparison with children of earlier years, Mollie feels that children now are _____.

A. more intelligent

B. better informed

C. less eager to learn

D. less interested in reality

5. What’s the writer’s purpose in this text?

A. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter’s book.

B. To introduce Mollie Hunter’s work to a wider audience.

C. To provide information for Mollie Hunter’s existing readers.

D. To describe Mollie Hunter’s most successful books.

For ??12 you can equip an entire classroom in Burkina Faso, for ??31 you can equip a school football team in Sierra Leone and for ??68 you can support the whole education of a Haitian schoolgirl.

The educational presents are the latest way on the trend of charitable（慈善的）giving for Christmas. Plan UK, an international children's charity, has made its gift list focusing on helping the world's poorest countries to improve their education conditions.

"Every year we rack our brains for the perfect present and too often end up with yet another pair of socks or a useless ornament," said Marie Staunton, Plan UK's chief executive.

"This year we are offering people in the UK the chance to give twice. Buying an alternative gift for a loved one could likely save the life of some of the world's poorest children."

Plan UK is working on projects in specific countries, such as Burkina Faso, which is one of the poorest countries in the world and has a primary school enrolment rate（入学率）of just 36%. A present of ??12 will help equip a classroom in Burkina Faso with chairs, desks, books and pencils.

The educational presents are the latest addition to a list of other charitable presents, including vaccinations（接种）and clean water systems.

Football strips for schoolchildren in Sierra Leone are designed to help the children have fun while continuing with the psychological healing process following the country's civil war. The ??31 gift will supply the team strip, a football and a whistle to a school in Sierra Leone.

Oxfam offers similar gifts. Its Back to School kits for five pupils is a bestseller in a catalogue（目录）which includes the ??24 Christmas goat, the ??30 lavatory and ??12 for school dinners for up to 200 children.

The first paragraph is written to tell us________.

   A. the great differences between the rich and the poor.

   B. the general conditions of education in poor countries.

   C. the difficulty in getting good education in poor countries.

   D. the great meaning of a little money to children in poor countries.

The underlined phrase “rack our brains” means _____in the third paragraph.

A. cause physical or mental hurt

B. think very hard

C. improve our intelligence

D. make full use of

Which of the following is Right according to the passage?

   A. Plan UK is working on educational projects all over the world.

   B. The sufferings brought by war still have side effects on the children in Sierra Leone.

   C. The educational Christmas presents have been given to the children for many years.

   D. Its Back to School kits for five pupils is a bestselling book.

The title for the passage would probably be ______.

   A. A new way of Christmas shopping   

B. Give a helping hand to poor children

C. Buy a child an education this Christmas

D. Plan UK, an international children's charity