【题目】 On June 25, hundreds of people came together outside the Library of Congress in Washington D.C, and they were celebrating public libraries. For more than 100 years, libraries have played an important role in keeping American educated. But how are these book- filled buildings changing with the times? You may be surprised to find out.

Benjamin Franklin founded America’s first lending library in Philadelphia in 1731. And the number of public libraries greatly increased in the late 1900s. Andrew Carnegie, a businessman, gave away millions of dollars to help build free public libraries across the country. Between 1886 and 1919, Carnegie helped build 1,679 new libraries!

Carnegie believed that libraries could offer Americans many opportunities. He knew that the more libraries there were, the more people would have opportunities to read books and news. There are more public libraries in America than McDonald’s restaurants now.

The United States is home to 9,225 public libraries. Today , the number of libraries continues to grow. Seven out of ten public libraries offer free Internet use. This can help many community members who can’t go online at home. It can also help them to have the opportunity to find jobs online.

Benjamin Franklin once said, “The doors of wisdom are never shut.” As long as the doors of public libraries are open, his statement is most certainly true!

根据短文内容,回答下列问题。

1Why did hundreds of people come together outside the Library of Congress on June 25?

2Where is America’s first lending library?

3Why did Andrew Carnegie give away lots of money to help build libraries?

4Are there more public libraries in America than McDonald’s restaurants?

5How many public libraries in which people can go online for free in America?

【题目】 A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep hole. When the other frogs saw how deep the hole was, they told the two frogs that they were hopeless to be alive. But the two frogs didn’t believe it. 1 The other frogs kept telling them to stop and wait for their death.2 Soon he died.

The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs shouted at him and told him to stop and just wait to die3

When he got out, the other frogs said, Didn’t you hear us? The frog explained to them that he was deaf.4

The story teaches us two lessons.5 An encouraging word to someone who is down can cheer him up and help him make it through difficulties. Secondly, a destructive (消极的) word to someone who is down can make him give up and die. So be careful of what you say.

Speak life to those who cross your path. It is sometimes hard to understand that an encouraging word can go such a long way. It is great for a person to take the time to encourage another.

阅读文章并根据上下文用下面方框内的适当选项补全短文。其中有一项是多余的。

A. Finally, one of the two frogs gave up and fell down.

B. But he jumped even harder and finally he made it.

C. Firstly, there is power of life and death in the tongue.

D. So he thought they were encouraging him at that time.

E. They tried to jump up out of the hole with their efforts.

F. Then the two frogs began to stop jumping.

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