At the age of sixteen, I joined a volunteer group with my dad. I went on my first volunteer project in West Virginia. On the night we arrived, we discovered that “our family” was living in a trailer(拖车) that was in poor condition. A crew had been working on it for two weeks, but every time they finished one problem, another surfaced.

We decided the only reasonable solution was to build a new house – something unusual but necessary under these circumstances. The family was overjoyed with their new house that was twenty by thirty feet with three bedrooms, a bath and a kitchen.

On Tuesday of that week, while we ate lunch together, I asked the family’s three boys, Josh, Eric and Ryan, "What do you want for your new room?" Expecting toys and other gadgets that children usually ask for, we were surprised when Josh responded, "I just want a bed."

The boys had never slept in a bed! They were accustomed to plastic mats. That night we had a meeting and decided that beds would be the perfect gift. On Thursday night, a few adults in our group drove to the nearest city and bought beds and new bedding.

When we saw the delivery truck coming, we told the family about the surprise. We could hardly contain ourselves. It was like watching excited children on Christmas morning.

That afternoon, as we fitted the frames of the beds tog tether, Eric ran into the house to watch us. Too dirty to enter his room, he observed with wide-eyed enthusiasm from the doorway.

As my father slipped a pillowcase onto one of the pillows, Eric asked, "What is that?"

    "A pillow," she replied.

    "What do you do with it?" Eric continued to ask.

    "When you go to sleep, you put your head on it,” I answered softly. Tears came to our eyes as she handed Eric the pillow.

    "Oh . . . that's soft," he said, hugging it tightly.

Now, when my sister or I start to ask for something that seems urgent, my Dad gently asks, "Do you have a pillow?"

We know exactly what he means.

The writer’s first volunteer project was         .

      A.working on a poor trailer       B.helping a poor family

       C.donating beds and bedding      D.dealing with a housing problem

On bearing Josh’s answer, the writer was shocked because         .

       A.the family lived in a trailer     B.he expected to get some toys

       C.he didn’t know what a bed was      D.the boys had no bed to sleep in

From the passage, we can learn that Eric had never seen       before.

       A.a trailer    B.a truck      C.a pillow    D.a house

By saying “Do you have a pillow?”, the writer’s father means that        .

      A.what they want to get may be unnecessary

       B.they should not waste money on small things

       C.they should do more volunteer work for the poor

       D.what he will buy is not what they want but a pillow

Generations of Americans have been brought up to believe that a good breakfast is one of life essentials. Eating breakfast at the start of the day, we have all been told, and told again, is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car before starting a trip.

    But for many people the thought of food first in the morning is by no means a pleasure. So despite all the efforts, they still take no breakfast. During the past ten years the number of people who didn’t have breakfast, have increased by 33 percent.

   For those who feel pain of guilt about not eating breakfast, however, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years indicate that, for adults especially, there may be nothing wrong with omitting breakfast. “Going without breakfast does not affect performance,” said Arrold E. Bender, former professor of the nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, “nor does giving people breakfast improve performance.”

Scientific evidence linking breakfast to better health or better performance is surprisingly not enough, and most of the recent works are about adults, not children, “The literature”, says one researcher, Dr. Erresto at the University of Texas, “is poor”.

68. For those who do not take breakfast, the good news is that _______.

A. several studies have been done in the past few years

B. not having breakfast does no harm to one’performance

C. studies have been specially on adults

D. eating little in the morning is good for health

69.“…nor does giving people breakfast improve performance” means ______.

A. anyone without breakfast does improve his performance

B. not giving people breakfast improve performance

C. having breakfast does not improve performance, either

D. people having breakfast do improve their performance

70. The word “literature” in the last sentence refers to _______.

 A. poems, plays, etc.                       B. written works on a particular subject

 C. the famous works in history                 D. the modern stories of America

71. What is implied but NOT stated by the author is that _______.

A. breakfast does not affect performance

B. Dr. Erresto is engaged in research work at the University of Texas

C. not eating breakfast might affect the health of children

D. Professor Bender once taught nutrition in London

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