根据短文内容，简要回答下列问题。

China has the world’s largest population and there are also a lot of poor people. So the government uses a different way from the UN to tell how many of her people live in poverty(贫困). Chinese living on less than 637 yuan a year are in terrible poverty. Those who live on less than 882 yuan are in the low income (低收入) group.

In 1978, 250 million Chinese lived in extreme(极端) poverty. Today, 29 million, or 3 percent of the population, are still very poor. Most are farmers from Central (中部的)  and Western China.

Since 1980, the government has spent more than 102 billion yuan building roads and giving clean water to poor people.

To make life better for them, the government also plans to put 12 billion yuan into helping the poor this year.

The government also plans to help farmers find jobs in cities by teaching them new skills (技能).

They hope that one day no one will have to worry about where to work or where the next meal will come from.

1.Which country has the largest population in the world?

2.How many Chinese lived in extreme poverty in 1978?

3.How much has the government spent in building roads and giving clean water to poor people?

4.How does the government plan to help farmers find jobs in cities?

5.What’s the main idea of this passage?

 

词语填空（共10小题，计10分）
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯（每个单词限用一次）。

	million         be         luck        hard       dog quiet           ski        even        she         design

 

 
Song Huiqiao was born on  February 26th, 1982 in Korea. She looks smart.
She has a pretty face. Her skin（皮肤） is wonderful . She works 【小题1】  and acts well. So   【小题2】    of people all over the world like her. Many of her series were very popular in China, for example, Full House. Almost every young person in China has watched the TV series. Some girls   【小题3】   have watched it for two for three times. Even now , we can watch the TV series in China. It’s the work that makes people remember Song Huiqiao well.
Song Huiqiao is good at swimming ,playing the piano and skating. When
she studied in a senior high school , she used to   【小题4】 crazy about sports, such as skating,【小题5】and swimming, but she could also play the piano【小题6】 like a fairlady. Song Huiqiao wanted to be a dress   【小题7】  when she was young, and she would like to wear all kinds of clothes designed by  【小题8】  .
Song Huiqiao is successful . We can say that she is a   【小题9】  girl , but
we should also see her hard work . So , friends , work hard. Maybe you are the
next lucky     【小题10】   .

How do you feel when you stay in hospital alone? Jenny, 13, a US student, feels bored. She knows the feeling because she has been in hospital many times herself. One day, she thought of an idea—if patients could get some books to read, they would feel better. So, from May, she and many of her friends began to collect books for hospital patients.

In six months the students collected 1,250 books at school. They decided to donate the books to the North Shore Medical Centre, a children’s hospital next door to their school. “There are books for kids of all ages, from babies up to high school level.” said Jenny.

The students put the books into “early readers”, “middle readers” and “advanced readers”. Then they wrote their best wishes to patients on bookmarks (书签) and letters, put the books in big boxes and donated them to the hospital.

“We wrote things like, “Keep on reading!’ and ‘Hope you feel better!’,” siad John, 14, Jenny’s brother. “And we also wrote some funny things to make them laugh.”

Frank, 12, and Steven, 14, helped carry 16 large boxes of books into a car. “I think these books will make me a lot of patients feel happy.” said Frank. Steven shared his opinion. “It is really the most meaningful thing that I have ever done in my life.”

1.Who first thought of the idea of helping those bored patients in hospital?

   A. John.         B. Frank.           C. Steven.      D. Jenny.

2.From the article, we can learn that _______.

   A. in half a year Jenny and her friends bought 1,250 books

   B. the North Shore Medical Centre is far from Jenny’s school

   C. Jenny and her friends were willing to help bored patients

   D. Steven had a different opinion from Frank and John

3.The best title for the article might be “_______”.

   A. Collecting books for bored patients   B. Writing a letter to a medical centre

   C. Donating books to poor students       D. Reading books for hospital patients

4. Which of the following words can be used to describe those student?

   A. Polite and hard-working           B. Lazy and stubborn

   C. Selfish and proud                 D. Thoughtful and helpful

 

Difficult times often bring out the best in people. Many well-known people come to help those who are in trouble. And this was the case for basketball player Yao Ming. He hosted a television show in Shanghai and raised US $ 300,000 to help researchers (研究员) find a medical cure. Fund-raising, or charity, is an act of goodwill(好意) towards others.
Charities in the West have more ways. Look at a typical day for Ruth, a rich woman in the UK, for example. Ruth wakes up in the morning and collects her post. There’s a letter addressed to her with a picture of a half-dead, beaten(筋疲力尽的) horse. It’s from a charity asking Ruth to donate money to save the animals. She turns on the television, and sees a picture of a wide–eyed child dying of hunger in Africa with a request (请求) for money to help the child. The tickets for the charity shows often cost her a lot of money, but she doesn’t mind because most of the money is going to a charity that fights AIDS. She feels good about going because she’s helping the sick.
Edna, a little old lady, looks after a second-hand shop—a charity shop. Any profit (收益) it has made goes to a cancer(癌症) charity. Now that she doesn’t have to work, she has lots of time to offer her services for free.
For people like Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna, charity is a virtue (美德) that holds the same importance in life as faith and hope. “As you look back on your life, the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others,” said Scottish writer Henry Drummond.
【小题1】Yao Ming hosted a television show to _____.

A．make more money	B．raise money for his basket team
C．make himself more famous	D．raise money for researchers to find a cure for SARS

【小题2】We can infer (推断)from the passage that _____.

A．Edna may not be a rich lady but she is willing to do something for others

B．Ruth is angry because she has been asked to donate too much money

C．Ruth leads a busy life and she feels very tired

D．Yao Ming wants to be a television host

【小题3】Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Only Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna try their best to do things for charity.

B．Ruth has given a lot of support to charity although she is not very rich.

C．The writer hopes that more people can do things for charity.

D．Edna is very rich because she has her own shop.

【小题4】One morning, Ruth received a letter with a picture of a horse in it because _____.

A．she lost her horse

B．a charity wanted her to donate some money

C．she loved horse very much

D．she wanted to keep a horse as a pet

【小题5】The underlined(划线) part in the last paragraph probably means that _____.

A．what impresses people deeply is what they have done for others

B．when you want to do something for others, you need stand out

C．the moment you stand out, you can do something for others

D．when you look back sometimes, you need stand out

1Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each one can only be used once. (将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每次只能填一次)

A. The way    B. from a distance    C. own    D. has studied     E. grew F. recording    G. like             H. do      I. act

 

 

 

Jane Goodall is a famous woman scientist, who __1___ chimpanzees(黑猩猩)in

Africa for many years. Her research helps people understand how much they behave __2___humans. Nobody before has fully understood chimpanzees’ behavior. Jane spent many years observing and ___3___ their daily activities. She did not study at a university but she worked with animals in their __4__ environment. When she arrived at Gombe(贡贝在尼日尼亚) in 1960， it was usually for a woman to live in the forest. Only after her mother came to help her for the first months, was she allowed to begin her project. At first, Jane could not get close to the chimpanzees of Gombe, but little by little she was able to move closer to the chimpanzees and watch them __5__ with binoculars(望远镜). Finally, Jane ___6___  very close to the chimpanzees at Gombe. Jane’s patience and trust won them over, and she enjoyed a degree of acceptance(接受度) that was hardly dreamed possible. She sat among the chimpanzees, and they would greet her as they __7__ each other with a touch or a kiss.

Her work has changed __8__ people think about chimpanzees, and she has been helping the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. Perhaps most significantly, Jane’s work has opened a window into the world of chimpanzees for a public with a strong curiosity(好奇心)， and it has proved more successful than anyone has ever imagined.