Sometimes doing something for yourself - even shopping--can give others a lift. That's the case at charity shops and non-profit stores such as Ten Thousand Villages which helps provide skilled workmen with money in developing countries.
Their handicrafts(手工艺品) are sold throughout North America in 180 stores, 95 of them operated by Ten Thousand Villages.
"People come into the store because we have a lot of interesting things, but then they're drawn to us by the mission(慈善的行动) ," says organization spokeswoman Juanita Fox.
"It just feels good to be making a difference when you're buying something."
In the Alexandria, Virginia shop, generals display windows draw you in. They are filled with practical, attractive home furnishings in blue and white, all international in mood.
Once inside though, it's clear that this isn't just another import store. On the wall behind the cash register is the following note:
"Ten Thousand Villagers provides necessary, fair income to Third World people by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America. Your Buying Makes a Difference. "
The store was opened in 1994 as part of a network of shops across the USA run by the Mennonite Church, which is based in Akron, Pennsylvania.
Currently, 60,000 skilled workmen from 32 countries provide goods to the stores, with all proceeds (收益) re-invested in the organization.
Management of the Alexandria shop is overseen by an all-volunteer board of directors. More than 40 additional volunteers help doing everything from working the register to unpacking stock.
Maria Yannopoulos got involved after visiting a store and getting to know another volunteer. "Since we are non-profit, we are really looking for value because the more we sell, the more jobs we can create. Giving someone job rather than charity helps in so many ways. "
【小题1】The underlined part "give others a lift" in the first paragraph means ______.

Sometimes doing something for yourself - even shopping--can give others a lift. That's the case at charity shops and non-profit stores such as Ten Thousand Villages which helps provide skilled workmen with money in developing countries.
Their handicrafts(手工艺品) are sold throughout North America in 180 stores, 95 of them operated by Ten Thousand Villages.
"People come into the store because we have a lot of interesting things, but then they're drawn to us by the mission(慈善的行动) ," says organization spokeswoman Juanita Fox.
"It just feels good to be making a difference when you're buying something."
In the Alexandria, Virginia shop, generals display windows draw you in. They are filled with practical, attractive home furnishings in blue and white, all international in mood.
Once inside though, it's clear that this isn't just another import store. On the wall behind the cash register is the following note:
"Ten Thousand Villagers provides necessary, fair income to Third World people by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America. Your Buying Makes a Difference. "
The store was opened in 1994 as part of a network of shops across the USA run by the Mennonite Church, which is based in Akron, Pennsylvania.
Currently, 60,000 skilled workmen from 32 countries provide goods to the stores, with all proceeds (收益) re-invested in the organization.
Management of the Alexandria shop is overseen by an all-volunteer board of directors. More than 40 additional volunteers help doing everything from working the register to unpacking stock.
Maria Yannopoulos got involved after visiting a store and getting to know another volunteer. "Since we are non-profit, we are really looking for value because the more we sell, the more jobs we can create. Giving someone job rather than charity helps in so many ways. "

1. 1.

   The underlined part "give others a lift" in the first paragraph means ______.

   1. A.
      offer other a ride in a car
   2. B.
      take others up and down in another floor
   3. C.
      make others think of plans
   4. D.
      make others more pleased
2. 2.

   A large number of people visit Ten Thousand Villagers because _______.

   1. A.
      they are fond of traveling around
   2. B.
      they can find something interesting
   3. C.
      they can enjoy the wonderful foods
   4. D.
      they want to learn how to farm in the fields
3. 3.

   What can we learn from the note mentioned in this passage?
   

   1. A.
      Goods sold at Ten Thousand Villages are expensive.
   2. B.
      Stories about Ten Thousand Villages are interesting.
   3. C.
      What the purpose of the shop is.
   4. D.
      Goods from the Third World are better than those from the US
4. 4.

   From the last paragraph we can learn that ________.

   1. A.
      American volunteers like to run shops
   2. B.
      American shops are mostly operated by volunteers
   3. C.
      Volunteers often offer goods to their friends as presents
   4. D.
      Shopping can also be a kind of charity

I was doing a big clean-up and my kids were helping. One of my sons came across a handkerchief of mine with a coin inside. I took one look and was immediately    to another time．

    In 1991，I had spent five months in Viger(尼日尔)，a hot African country. There were many things I found       about this place—the climate and beggars who       shouted “Cadeau! Cadeau!” It means gift．

One      was a lot worse．One day，a friend and I headed for neighboring Burkina Faso to work in a health clinic．However，a motorbike with two men      slowly．Without warning，one of the men     my backpack as the motorbike swept close by．The bag had my passport，money，an airline ticket and other things precious to me．I was in deep      ．In the weeks that followed I looked at all   with suspicion.

   All I wanted was to leave this place．One day，I was stopped by an old woman “Cadeau!” she cried. I’d had enough! I was sick and tired of the country．I told her firmly，“A thief stole all my money and now I can’t get off your country.” The beggar woman listened carefully and     my words．

  “Then I will give you a cadeau,” she announced．Kindly，she placed an old brown coin in my palm. I looked at it   ．Living in poverty，she gave me something priceless! I saw then the     beauty of the people of Burkina Faso and    deeply the quiet dignity of the small coin；she turned my perceptions upside down．

1.A. welcomed       B. transported              C．exchanged          D. expected

2.A. difficult           B. easy        C. curious            D. adequate

3.A. annoyingly        B. carefully       C. politely                     D. calmly

4.A. clinic               B. present                 C. opportunity      D. incident

5.A. continued       B. failed                     C. approached             D. dropped

6.A. grabbed          B. broke                    C. borrowed               D. fixed

7.A. debt              B. snow            C. trouble                  D. thought

8.A. plats              B. friends                   C. men           D. locals

9.A. denied             B. used                      C. considered              D. changed

10.A. in horror       B. in shock         C. in return                D. in addition

11.A. uncertain                B. unfortunate             C. unnecessary               D. unexpected

12.A. thanked                  B. regretted                C. appreciated             D. pitied

I was doing a year of voluntary service abroad for people with learning disabilities. It was set in an English      36     , quite different from my home in Sweden.

One of my fellow     37     , a girl from Tanzania, seemed a bit    38    , so I asked what the problem was. She told me she had a     39    back home who was really    40    with her university studies. It seemed that      41    difficulties would make it impossible for her to complete her course. So this friend of      42     had done something unbelievable: she had sent all her pocket money for the month to Tanzania to     43     her friend! This meant that she didn't have much food to eat and had no money to go anywhere outside the village.

I was so      44      that she did this for her friend and I felt I had to do something.     45     , during my next trip to one of the ear by towns I walked into a shop to buy some food for her. I started    46    to the woman working in the shop and     47    told her about my friend. The woman looked at me,    48    .“Does she eat pasta(意大利面)?”she asked.“Yes,”I replied. She immediately     49    loading a bag with pasta, cookies, sweets and other things until the bag was full.“Give this to her for me. It's my     50     !”I couldn't believe it but cried with     51     .

Imagine my friend's face when I     52     the gifts on my kitchen table and     53    her from her room to see! I have     54     seen her so happy! She told me that due to the generous help, she could definitely      55     the month.

36. A. university B. village              C. town                D. city

37. A. teachers          B. students                     C. volunteers               D. workers

38. A. excited            B. angry                      C. desperate               D. disappointed

39. A. sister             B. cousin                      C. relative                D. friend

40. A. dealing           B. helping            C. struggling           D. improving

41. A. terminal            B. cultural                      C. casual              D. financial

42. A. mine              B. hers                       C. ours                     D. theirs

43. A. connect                 B. support                    C. adore                    D. inform

44. A. curious           B. generous                          C. influenced               D. touched

45. A. So               B. Instead                      C. However                 D. Otherwise

46. A. talking            B. calling                       C. showing                  D. walking

47. A. thankfully          B. constantly        C. generously            D. eventually

48. A. annoyed          B. amazed                    C. confused                D. embarrassed

49. A. started            B. continued                  C. allowed                  D. stopped

50. A. duty              B. offer                         C. treat                     D. turn

51. A. regret            B. sorrow                     C. fortune                  D. happiness

52. A. ate               B. arranged                          C. consumed               D. finished

53. A. fetched           B. removed                     C. wished                   D. ordered

54. A. always             B. recently                    C. never                   D. frequently

55. A. go over            B. get through                        C. make up                 D. turn around

Bobby Moresco grew up in New York's Hell's Kitchen, a tough working-class neighborhood on Manhattan's West Side. But Hell's Kitchen lies right next door to Broadway, and the bright lights attracted Bobby from the time he was a teen. Being stage-struck was hardly what a street kid could admit to his partners. Fearing their ridicule, he told no one, not even his girlfriend, when he started taking acting lessons at age 17. If you were a kid from the neighborhood, you became a cop, construction worker, longshoreman or criminal. Not an actor.

   Moresco struggled to make that long walk a few blocks east. He studied acting, turned out for all the cattle calls -- and during the decade of the 1970s made a total of $2,000. "I wasn't a good actor, but I had a driving need to do something different with my life," he says.

He moved to Hollywood, where he drove a cab and worked as a bartender. "My father said, 'Stop this craziness and get a job; you have a wife and daughter.' “But Moresco kept working at his chosen craft.

   Then in 1983 his younger brother Thomas was murdered in a mob-linked killing. Moresco moved back to his old neighborhood and started writing as a way to explore the pain and the patrimony of Hell's Kitchen. Half-Deserted Streets, based on his brother's killing, opened at a small Off-Broadway theater in 1988. A Hollywood producer saw it and asked him to work on a screenplay.

    His reputation grew, and he got enough assignments to move back to Hollywood. By 2003, he was again out of work and out of cash when he got a call from Paul Haggis, a director who had befriended him. Haggis wanted help writing a film about the country after September 11. The two worked on the writing, but every studio in town turned it down. They kept pitching it. Studio executives, however, thought no one wanted to see a severe, honest vision of race and fear and lives in collision in modern America.

Moresco believed so strongly in the script that he borrowed money, sold his house. He and Haggis kept pushing. At last the writers found an independent film producer who would take a chance, but the upfront money was too little, Moresco delayed his salary.

Crash slipped into the theaters in May 2005, and quietly became both a hit and a critical success. It was nominated for six Academy Awards and won three -- Best Picture, Best Film Editing and Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Paul Haggis and the kid from Hell's Kitchen.

   At age 54, Bobby Moresco became an overnight success. "If you have something you want to do in life, don't think about the problems," he says, "think about other ways to get it done."

Rearrange the following statements in term of time order:

a. His work Half-Deserted Streets drew attention as it opened at a small Off-Broadway theater

b. Unexpectedly Crash became both a hit and a huge success.

c. He moved to Hollywood to be a taxi driver and a waiter.

d. He started learn acting in spite of hardness with the belief of doing something diiferent.

e. His younger brother Thomas was killed in conflict among bullies.

A. d; c; e; a; b      B. d; e; c; b; a    C. c; d; e; a; b    D. c; e; d; b; a 

Why Bobby Moresco did not tell anyone that he started taking lessons at age 17?

A. He wnted to give his girlfriend a surprise.

B. His girlfriend did not allow him to do this.

C. He was afraid of being laughed at.

D. He had no talent for acting.

Which of the following sentences is NOT true?

A. His father did not support his work as a bartender.

B. Before he became an overnight success, his life experienced ups and downs.

C. His brother’s death inspired his writing Half-Deserted Streets.

D. Moresco grew up in New York's Hell's Kitchen which is a few blocks east of Broadway.

The Studio executives turned the script Crash down because ______________.

A. they thought the script would not be popular.

B. the script was not well written.

C. they had no money to make the film based on the script.

D. they thought Moresco was not famous.

What’s the best title of the article?

A. The Road to Success              B. Try It a Different Way

C. A Talented man—Moresco          D. Moresco’s Perseverance

Which of the following can best describe Bobby Moresco?

A. initiative and persistent             B. shy but hardworking  

C. caring and brave                  D. aggressive and modest