题目内容
Choose the best answer and complete the passage(选择最恰当的选项完成短文)
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Birthday party is on the way!
Thirty minutes ______ the party, volunteers arrive and get to work. They make delicious food, prepare exciting games and arrange colorfully wrapped boxes on a table. Soon it's time to play the music and welcome the eager guests. They rush in, ready to celebrate.
Every month, parties like this take place at homeless shelters across the country. They're hosted by a group called the Birthday Party Project. This non-profit ______ throws birthday parties for groups of kids who don't have a home. For many of them, it's the first birthday party they've ever had.
Paige Chenault is the founder of the Birthday Party Project. "Everyone wants a chance to feel known and seen, and a birthday is a ______ time to make it true. "says Chenault. She and her family threw the Birthday Party Project's first event in January 2012. "We realized our own community was a great place to start, "she says. Since then, the project has ______. Now it hosts about 50 monthly parties in 15 cities. More than 10,000 Children have celebrated their birthday at these events.
Eight-year-old Dipson is one of them. At the party held there in March 2019. Dipson unwrapped his gift: a new bicycle. "It was very fun,"he says. But Dipson also says he has learned a ______ from his party: "You can get a bit sick when you have too much chocolate cake. ,"he warns future party-goers.
Jamie Gates is the education supporter at the housing community where Dipson lives. The Birthday Party Project holds parties there each month. According to Gates, if she doesn't remember to tell the children the date of the next event, they'll ______ asking her until they get the answer. "Parents will come to the party, too," she says. "Everyone in the community loves it."
1.A.over B.after C.before D.during
2.A.school B.organization C.conference D.station
3.A.sudden B.private C.perfect D.safe
4.A.grown B.begun C.frozen D.gone
5.A.saying B.subject C.skill D.lesson
6.A.dislike B.keep C.miss D.finish
My mother was angry me because I opened her computer but couldn’t put it back.
A.for B.to C.with D.by
Have you collected anything since you were young? These people have!
| Tony from Germany has collected more than 290,000 pens from 140 countries. He has collected pens for more than 10 years. The most expensive pen in his collection is made of gold! He also started a pen collecting club. |
| Angelika from the UK has collected Barbie dolls since she was a child. She has collected 1,125 dolls. She changes the dolls' clothes once a month and often brushes their hair! She also collects dolls of Barbie's boyfriend. |
| Ron from the US likes collecting key rings(钥匙扣). He has collected twenty-four thousand key rings since he was young. His key rings are all different-that means no two key rings are the same! He has been a world record holder for 13 years. |
| Zhu Yue from China has collected erasers for 20 years. At the age of 11, she visited Shenzhen with her parents. For the first time Zhu Yue was fascinated(使着迷)by erasers after she saw them in a shop. Ever since then she has collected every new kind of erasers. Now she has collected 100,000 erasers. |
1.What does Tony collect?
A.Dolls. B.Key rings. C.Pens. D.Erasers.
2.Who collects Barbie dolls?
A.Tony. B.Angelika. C.Ron. D.Zhu Yue.
3.How many key rings has Ron collected?
A.290,000. B.100,000. C.24,000. D.1,125.