Twelve-year-old Leonardo was born in a poor family in Bambamarca in Peru. He knew how to read but he had never seen a book in his life. So he asked the new priest(牧师)in his village to give him one. But there was no electricity. So Leonardo borrowed candles from the church and sat up all night reading it. The next morning, he was at the door of the priest asking for another book to read.

John Medcalf, the priest,was moved. He also realised that people would love to read if given a chance. But he knew how difficult it was for Leonardo and those in his village to get books. And yet, no one can be taught to read and write without books. To make people in a poor, faraway area grow to love books,they have to be with them. So he thought the only way was to bring books to people.

But how could this be done? Mobile libraries or car libraries would be too expensive and difficult to continue in the rocky, hilly land of Peru. So what other method could be used?

M-call got a new idea from the barefoot(赤脚)doctors of China. And that was how the barefoot librarians first appeared in the villages of northern Peru,almost thirty years ago.

The librarians began by going from village to village, lending books to villagers. They helped start The 12ura1 Library Network of Peru.

At first,they were teachers of the village schools which these faraway libraries belonged to. But the teachers were not very interested in the job because it meant a lot of hat work. So, village elders took on the job themselves.

Today, there are 600 village libraries across Peru. The barefoot librarians who walk up to 15 hours a day with bags of books are their lifeline.

1.The first paragraph tells us that Leonardo

A. had a lot of books B. bought candles from others

C. stayed in the church D. enjoyed reading books

2.The underlined word "this" in Paragraph 3 probably refers to .

A. to grow to love books B. to bring books to people

C. to read and write D. to build a new library

3.The passage doesn't mention

A. when the barefoot librarians appeared B. who worked as village librarians at first

C. where Medcalf met Chinese doctors D. how many village libraries Peru has today

4.It can be inferred(推断)from the passage that

A. the first church in Peru was set up by John Medcalf

B. car libraries used to be popular in Leonardo's village

C. teachers were interested in bringing books to villagers

D. the barefoot librarians are important to village libraries

We have always been interested in the moon.2000 years ago people already knew it moved around the earth and where it would be in the sky at different times of the year.At that time, everything about the moon was learned by watching it carefully in the sky.

When scientists could use telescopes to study the moon more closely, their ideas began to change.They could see the moon was made of rocks.Most scientists thought moon rocks would be different from those on Earth.This was because they believed the moon had once been a planet that had been caught in the earth's gravity (引力) millions of years earlier.

In 1969 moon rocks were finally brought to the earth and studied.Much to their surprise, scientists found that, except for water, the moon and the earth were made of the same things.Once again new ideas were needed for this new information.

After years of study, most scientists now think that the moon was once part of Earth.They believe very early in its history, maybe 4 million years ago, something about the size of Mars hit Earth.This sent billions of rocks into space around our planet.These rocks slowly joined together and after many years became the moon.

In the future, even though our ideas about the moon may change again, we will still be interested in it.

1.Now, we’re sure ________________

A.Moon rocks are quite different from those on Earth.

B.Moon was once a part of Earth.

C.Moon moves around Earth and it’s the only satellite of Earth.

D.Moon was once a planet caught in Earth’s gravity.

2.In 1969 there is a big event, that is __________.

A.humans Found no water in Moon rocks

B.scientists made out a modern spaceship

C.scientists invented an advanced telescope

D.humans left their footprints on Moon

3.What does the writer want to tell us in the passage?

A.Why people are interested in the moon.

B.How ideas about the moon have changed over time.

C.Where the moon came from in the past.

D.That people have finally learned the truth about the moon.

4.Before 1969 most scientists thought the moon was ________.

A.part of the earth billions of years earlier

B.older than the earth

C.a planet caught by the earth's gravity

D.made of the same things as the earth

5.From this passage we can learn that ________.

A.scientists in the past were not clever

B.the earth was once part of the moon

C.new information brings new ideas

D.we now know everything about the moon

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