Thomas Barnardo was born in Ireland in 1845. He was not very successful at school, but he wanted to help people. He moved to London and started to study medicine. London was full of poor children. Barnardo decided to help and opened schools for these children. The schools were popular. Later, he opened homes for the children without parents.　　

In 40 years he raised ?3,250,000. Barnardo made friends with rich and important people, he wrote letters and made speeches（演说）. He started a club for Young Helpers with 34,000 members who raised money for the poor children. He also sold photos of children before and after they got help. These pictures made his work famous and showed people the poor children had better lives because of their money.

Barnardo was so busy that he did not become a doctor until 1876. His next idea was to pay people to take care of homeless children and made the children have families. He helped many children go to Canada and Australia to live with their “new” parents (but not everyone thought this was a good idea). When Barnardo died in 1905, he had helped thousands and thousands of people and made their lives happier.

(　 )21. Which of the following is right?

A. Barnardo was a good student.

B. Barnardo moved to London to help the poor children.

C. Barnardo opened only schools for the poor children.

D. Barnardo thought it was better for the children to be in ordinary(普通) people's houses than to be in his homes.

(　 )23. Barnardo made friends with rich and important people because he ___________.

A. liked rich and important people.

B. could raise more money for the poor children.

C. needed their help himself.

D. wanted to write letters to them and make speeches for them

(　 )24. Barnardo sold photos of the children because ____________.

　　 A. they could only show something about the children before they got help.

　　 B. they could only show something about the children after they got help.　

　　 C. they could show something about the children before and after they got help.

　　 D. they could show something about the helpers.

(　 )25. What can you learn from Barnardo?

A. We can learn some ways of making money.

　　 B. We should open some schools for the poor children.

　　 C. We should open homes for the poor children. 新课标第一网

　　 D. We should be kind and try our best to help others.

Please help!

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming to this concert. I hope you have enjoyed the music.

The purpose of this concert is to (1) money for children in Africa. Every day (2) children in Africa die because they have diseases or have not enough (3) . There are two main reasons. First, there are no jobs for the children's parents, so they have no money to buy food or (4) . Second, the governments in many African countries do not have the money to take care of poor people.

Most African countries are poor. The land is not good for (5) food and the weather is also bad for farming. The organization we are trying to help, the Feed Africa Fund, _(6) a lot of money every year on food for poor people in Africa. The money comes (7) people like you kind, generous people who do not want to see children die form hunger. Just one dollar can buy enough rice or corn to (8) a family of four for three days.

How much do you spend on food every day? Ten dollars? Twenty dollars? I am sure you can spend a little (9) on your own food so that you have a few dollars for The Feed Africa Fund.

Ladies and gentlemen, we will now take a (10) . Please be generous. Thank you.