Question

As many as 4 out of every 1,000 infants born today have permanent hearing loss. When parents learn that their child has hearing loss, they are faced with many difficult decisions. These decisions can include choosing therapies and schools, as well as finding financial help for hearing aids or cochlear implants (人工耳蜗).

Help Me Hear Foundation is a public charity that gives the gift of hearing to deaf children from families existing on very low incomes around the world.

Help Me Hear Foundation believes that a child’s first years of development are critical. Being able to hear is vital to human, and Help Me Hear Foundation seeks to provide a positive lasting impression on society through its programs.

Recipients of Help Me Hear Foundation’s benefits receive state-of-the-art hearing devices that otherwise would cost thousands of dollars per child over the course of their lifetime. The Foundation raises money through donations for hearing aids and cochlear implants, which saves recipients and their families on average over $50,000 on related expenses.

The Foundation tries to be a transparent charity, and wants to be a catalyst for allowing deaf and hearing-impaired children to develop in a typical fashion alongside their peers.

Needy families can obtain information on specific services, and find out about deafness education by visiting the Help Me Hear Foundation’s website. The website offers helpful information on how hearing aids work, and how hearing aids ease many of the learning and language challenges that hearing-impaired children deal with on a daily basis.

1. Help Me Hear Foundation was probably set up to _____.

A. build schools for deaf children

B. research deaf children’s behavior

C. protect deaf children from being ignored

D. offer real help to poor deaf children

2. We learn from the text that _____.

A. the local government is in charge of the foundation

B. the work of the foundation depends on donations

C. even blind children can turn to the foundation

D. poor deaf African children cannot get help from the foundation

3. For whom is the text most probably written?

A. Poor parents who have deaf children.

B. Doctors who want to improve skills.

C. Students who cannot see the blackboard clearly.

D. Teachers who have deaf children in their class.

4.. The author writes the text mainly to _____.

A. tell how to avoid permanent hearing loss

B. explain how hard a life deaf children live

C. introduce Help Me Hear Foundation

D. advise people to give money to Help Me Hear Foundation

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.B

3.A

4.C

【解析】

试题分析:本文主要介绍了Help Me Hear Foundation这一专门为世界上贫困家庭的耳聋儿童提供帮助的慈善机构，介绍内容包括该组织的宗旨，捐助对象，以及捐款的来源等等。

1. 细节理解题。根据文章第二段Help Me Hear Foundation is a public charity that gives the gift of hearing to deaf children from families existing on very low incomes around the world. 可知Help Me Hear Foundation是一个帮助贫困家庭的耳聋儿童的一个机构，选D。

2.细节理解题。从文章第四段 The Foundation raises money through donations for hearing aids可知Help Me Hear Foundation是通过募捐集资来帮助这些耳聋儿童的，选B。

3. 细节理解题。根据文章对Help Me Hear Foundation的介绍可知这是一个帮助贫困家庭儿童的机构，再从文章末段首句Needy families can obtain information on specific services, and find out about deafness education by visiting the Help Me Hear Foundation’s website.可知这篇文章是写给家里有耳聋儿童的贫困家庭的家长们的，选A、

4.主旨大意题。文章通篇内容都是对Help Me Hear Foundation这一机构的介绍，包括组织的宗旨，捐助对象，捐款的来源等等，由此判断答案选C。

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