题目内容
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I was very_______ to find that the cinema was not accessible to the elderly or people in wheelchairs.
A. annoyed B. annoying C. annoy D. annoyance
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Singing had always been an important part of Gloria Estefan’s life. “Since I was three years old, I sang. I sang everything,” Gloria said. “Cubans,” she added, “are a musical people”.
Gloria was born in Cuba in 1957. Her family left the country just before Fidel Castro came to power. In Miami, where the family settled, many people did not accept Cuban immigrants. In first grade, she spoke little English, but she worked hard to learn the language. Six months after she entered school, she won an award for reading in English!
When Gloria was ten, her father returned from the Vietnam War. Soon, the family realized he wasn’t well. They soon found out that he was badly ill. Her mother went back to teaching at school to support the family. Gloria cared for her father and her younger sister.
She still made the honor roll, and she still had her music, but Gloria was lonely. However, when the band leader Emilio Estefan came to speak at her high school, Gloria sang for him. He asked her to join his band. It was the beginning of the Miami Sound Machine.
Within a few months, the Miami Sound Machine was the top band in Miami. In 1978 Gloria and Emilio married.
At first, the Miami Sound Machine was known only in Miami. Then the band signed with CBS Records. Estefan and his band became stars.
Since then, the Miami Sound Machine has sold millions of records. Gloria has done more than just singing when Hurricane Andrew hit central Florida in 1992. She used only two weeks to organize an all-star concert that raised $2 million for the people who suffered in the hurricane. “We needed a party after that disaster,” she said.
Gloria said, “You have to stay true to the music you really love to do. There will always be people who will tell you, ‘that won’t work.’ You’ve got to be firm in spite of difficulties. Stick to it—that’s the main thing.”
【小题1】Gloria’s father was ill_________.
| A.when they settled down in Miami. |
| B.before they left their home country |
| C.after he returned from Vietnam War |
| D.as soon as she finished high school |
| A.organizing an all-star concert for Hurricane victims |
| B.winning an award for reading in English |
| C.teaching at school to support the family |
| D.taking care of her father and sister |
| A.the concert | B.the celebration | C.the victims | D.the hurricane |
12-year-old John Thomas Robertson is a born train fan. "I’ve liked trains probably from the day I was born," he told Good Morning America. "When I was very little," he said, "my grandpa got me a train model. I would just watch it go round for hours and hours."
When Robertson finally had the opportunity to ride on a train, he felt great. His journey was so mind-blowing that he couldn’t keep it to himself: he decided to take all his classmates to go on a ride with him. When he found that some of his classmates couldn’t pay the fare, he collected cans (罐子) and bottles and raised more than $1,000 for them.
That trip was such a happy one that he made it a yearly action. "It never gets boring for some reason; it’s just fun," he said. "It really lets people get away from their busy life and have fun.
Every October, Robertson takes a new group of children to ride on the train —but now, he has a problem. Several disabled children were refused because the train was not accessible (可用的) to disabled people. "He was angry to think that children of his own age couldn’t ride a train," his mother said.
But he wouldn’t say no: he recently sent a letter to the train office for help. To his surprise, the leader, Ty Pennington, accepted the letter in person. He said that he and his workers would work on making a train accessible to disabled people.
【小题1】The first time John Thomas Robertson took a train, ________.
| A.he was frightened by it |
| B.he acted as a driver |
| C.he watched it for hours |
| D.he fell in love with it |
| A.was greatly attracted to trains since early childhood |
| B.said so in Good Morning America |
| C.took a group of disabled children to travel by train |
| D.was taken to a train the day he was born |
| A.important | B.terrible | C.amazing | D.disappointing |
| A.the trains then weren’t accessible to the disabled |
| B.Robertson had not saved enough money for the tickets |
| C.they couldn’t afford the train tickets |
| D.the driver would not allow them to do so |
| A.helpful and crazy | B.kind and clever |
| C.kind but boring | D.lazy but kind |
When we think about giving help to developing countries, we often think about giving money so that these countries can build schools and hospitals, buy food and medicine, or find clean water supplies. These seem to be the most important basic needs of the people we are trying to help. However, it's far from enough. Ladies and gentlemen, we've got to come up with some better ideas to help them.
I was very surprised, then, when I read about a plan to make cheap laptop computers for children in developing countries. A man called Nicholas Negroponte invented a cheap laptop computer and he planed to produce a lot and sell them to the children in developing countries at a low price after he visited a school in Cambodia. The laptop will be covered in rubber so that it is very strong and won't be damaged easily. The idea is that these computers will help the children's education as they will be able to surf the Internet. By improving children's education they should help people to find their own solutions to their problems in the long term.
Another idea to help children in developing countries is to recycle old mobile phones so that they can be used again. In the UK, and probably in many other countries too, millions of mobile phones are thrown away every year. The waste created by throwing away these old phones is very bad for the environment, so it seems to be an excellent idea to recycle them. In this way we will be able to achieve two important goals at the same time. We will reduce the waste we produce and help others. In other words, we will be able to 'kill two birds with one stone’, and that is always a good thing.
【小题1】It's an excellent idea to recycle old mobile phones because .
| A.it reduces waste and can help others |
| B.it prevents waste and can earn lots of money |
| C.it can send the waste produced by developed countries to other countries |
| D.it is good for the environment and very educative for phone users |
| A.to show what high technology can bring us |
| B.to show the kindness of people in the developed countries |
| C.to show how to find business opportunities in developing countries |
| D.to give an example of how to help developing countries |
| A.A newspaper. | B.A magazine. |
| C.A lecture. | D.An advertisement. |