This is a picture of something I did at my school last year. I wrote out 1,986 notes. Each said, “You’re beautiful,” and I stuck one to every locker in my school.

It was almost unbearable (难以忍受的) to listen to people put themselves down every day. They would say things like, “I’m ugly” or “No one likes me”. To me, that wasn’t the . For at least one day, I wanted everyone to know that someone _____ they were beautiful.

It took me over 6 hours to write all of the notes, and an hour to stick them with the help of one other friend. It wasn’t my original (最初的) to tell people that I had done it, but words got out after I had been called to the Dean’s office. They found me through the school’s video surveillance system.

After I everything that had happened, there was talk of a possible 3-day suspension from school (暂时停学). When I went back to my classroom, my teacher me what they said, and I told her. This is how the rest of the students found out. Throughout the whole day, words of the possible suspension circulated (流传), and a group of students came together and formed a petition (请愿书). They passed the petition school.

In the end, it had over 600 signatures (签名), from both students and faculty.

It amazed me that people would do that for me. For one day, I truly felt . And for one day, I managed to make every other kid in my school feel beautiful as well.

A few days later, after the incident (事件) was not , a complete stranger approached me. What she said to me was shocking.

“That day, I was planning on killing myself. I had given up completely on society, but because of you, I didn’t. You gave me . Thank you.”

What’s more than that is the fact that today she has become one of my best friends.

1.A. task B. testC. truthD. treat

2.A. agreed B. complained C. reportedD. thought

3.A. advice B. plan C. problem D. worry

4.A. accepted B. believedC. explained D. changed

5.A. asked B. encouraged C. introduced D. promised

6.A. from B. aroundC. throughD. during

7.A. awfulB. beautiful C. terribleD. ugly

8.A. new B. tiny C. true D. usual

9.A. hopeB. luck C. progressD. success

10.A. friendly B. dangerous C. amazing D. useful

Ray Tomlinson was born in New York State. He sent the world’s f 1. email and let us have the use of the @ symbol in electronic communications. Tomlinson wrote a program in 1971 that a 2. messages to be exchanged between different computers. Before that time, electronic messages had only been exchanged between people using the s 3. main unit.

At the time of his invention, Tomlinson was researching possible uses for the ArpaNet—the US military (军方) network that formed the base of the Internet, and showed an i 4. in improving the use of ArpaNet’s “mailbox(邮箱)”, which made users send messages to the mailboxes possible. In the past, people had to print out the message and p 5. it in the mailbox. This achievement made a great difference in people’s life.

Tomlinson also came up with the i 6. of using the “@” symbol to separate the name of the receiver from the name of the host, creating the standard still used today. Although it had a history of o 7. forty years, Tomlinson said email had not changed much since its invention.

Tomlinson studied electrical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic and t 8. got his masters (硕士学位) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined a company called Bolt, Beranek, and Newman in 1967, and stayed there the r 9. of his life. He died at the age of 74. The company was later acquired (收购) by Raytheon.

“A true technology pioneer and his work changed the w 10. the world communicates.” Ratheon said. “It is with great sadness we know the passing of our friend.”

There are millions of charities in the UK. In fact, you can hardly think of any good business that doesn’t have a charity linked (联系的) to it.

The British people are so generous with charities. A lot of people are quite prepared to donate money to charities, even when they are short of money themselves. There are many reasons why people give money to charities. Sometimes it’s a personal reason, say their parents died of cancer so they give money to cancer research, or of a religious reason. Many religions (宗教) encourage their followers to donate a part of their income (收入) to the poor. Many religious people feel it is their duty to help others as part of their faith (信仰). Still, other people just give donations because they have some spare money and they think it is a good thing to do.

Many people think it is necessary to give donations to charities because they wish to make the lives and situations of those in need better.

The British government has made it quite easy for people to give money to charity as you can pay through your payroll (工资单). So when you get your salary, you automatically (自动地) get some money taken out and give it to charity. Some people have some money taken out to give to charities, such as Save the Children Fund, thinking it is a good way to save children around the world.

1.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 1 mean?

A. The UK. B. The religion. C. A business. D. A charity.

2.According to Paragraph 2, the number of reasons why the British people are generous with charities is _______.

A. two B. three C. four D. five

3. The passage is mainly about ______.

A. charities in the UK

B. the history of the charities in the UK

C. the generous and kind people in the UK

D. the relationship between the British government and charities

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