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It’s something familiar to all parents of young children: you’re in a busy shopping street and your child wants to pee (小便) and he just can’t hold it any longer. But two parents’ decision to let their child relieve (释放) himself has caused much attention in China.
By now, it seems, the whole Chinese Internet is familiar with what happened on a crowded Hong Kong shopping street. A mother holds a nappy (尿布) while her two-year-old pees. A passerby took pictures which then were put online. The woman explained that they had found a public toilet (厕所) but saw there was a long queue, so she had no other choice but to let their child to relieve himself on the street instead.
Why has this one child’s act caused so much upset? Allowing a child under 12 to “answer the call of nature in any public street” is against the law in Hong Kong and the parents will face a 2,000 Hong Kong Dollar ($250) fine (罚款). But the on-line chatter has put all the attention on the fact that this family were tourists from mainland China, rather than being locals. “For Hong Kongers, people might think from time to time that mainlanders are not so polite and often break the public rules,” says Martin Yip of BBC. Charmaine Chui, who was born in Hong Kong, told BBC she feels angry to have seen mainland tourists peeing in shopping centers and restaurants. “Hong Kong is a beautiful, modern city. What do these people think of it?” she says.
In mainland China, there has also been criticism of the parents’ behavior. But most of the people say they find the parents’ behavior understandable as they had tried to find a toilet for their child and the mother used a paper nappy rather than simply allowing the baby to pee on the ground.
小题1:The child peed ________ in HK.

A．on a crowded shopping street	B．in a public toilet
C．at home	D．in a restaurant

小题2:The underlined phrase “answer the call of nature” means _________.

A．回归自然	B．接自然打来的电话
C．上厕所	D．接电话

小题3:Charmaine Chui feels _________ to have seen mainland tourists peeing in shopping centers and restaurants.

A．understandable	B．sorry
C．angry	D．happy

小题4:Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．A policeman took photos of the 2-year-old child and put them online.

B．It’s OK for children under 12 to pee wherever they like in Hong Kong.

C．All the Chinese feel very angry about the parents’ behavior.

D．In mainland China, most of the people find the parents’ behavior understandable.

No one knows exactly how many disabled people there are in the world, but the number may be over 450 million. The number of disabled people in India alone is probably more than double the total population of Canada.
In the United Kingdom, about one in ten people have some disability. Disability is not just something that happens to other people. As we get older, many of us will become less mobile (可动的) , hard of hearing or have failing eyesight.
Disablement can take many forms and happen at any time of life. Some people are born with disabilities. Many others become disabled as they get older. There are many progressive disabling diseases. The longer time goes on, the worse they become. Some people are disabled in accidents. Many others may have disability in the form of a mental illness. All are affected by people’s attitude(态度) towards them.
　　Disabled people face many physical barriers(障碍). Next time you go shopping or to work or visit friends, imagine what would you do if you could not get up steps, or on to buses and trains. What would you do if you could not see where you were going or could not hear the traffic? But there are other barriers: prejudice(偏见)can be even harder to break down and ignorance (无知) represents by far the greatest barrier of all. It is almost impossible for the able-bodied to fully understand what the disabled go through, so it is important to draw attention to these barriers and show that it is the individual person(个人) and their ability, not their disability, which counts.
小题1:The first paragraph points out that ___________.

A．it is possible to get an exact number of the world’s disabled people

B．there are many disabled people in the world

C．the number of disabled people in India is the greatest

D．India has not much more disabled people than Canada

小题2:The key word in Paragraph 4 is ___________.

A．barriers

B．disabled

C．disability

D．prejudice

小题3: Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A．There are about 10 percent disabled persons in the UK.

B．The whole society should pay more attention to the barriers faced by the disabled people.

C．Even the able-bodied may lose some of their body functions when they get older.

D．There is still prejudice against the disabled which results mainly from ignorance.

小题4:It can be concluded（推断）from the passage that ___________.

A．we should try our best to prevent disablement

B．we must take a proper attitude towards the disabled

C．the able-bodied people will never fully understand the disabled

D．both physical and mental barriers are hard to break down