ORBIS is a c____________ that works for blind people. Blindness a____________ about 45 million people around the world, m____________ in poor countries. L____________, 80 percent of these cases can be cured or prevented. However, many of the patients are so poor that they can’t a____________ to travel to hospital, and there are still many who do not have the money for m____________ treatment.

ORBIS uses a flying eye hospital to visit poor countries. On the plane volunteer doctors p__________ operations. Dr Ma, a doctor working on the plane, once operated on 150 patients during his last visit.

The plane is also used as teaching centre. Local doctors and nurses can come to the plane to learn new skills and share their k____________. They can also watch operations on video. After they are t____________, they can help more people. ORBIS needs money to carry with its work. We can s____________ it by sending donations to ORBIS.

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely(模糊地) 　1　 the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see things again, 　2　 a disaster can do strange things to people. It happened to me the other day that I might not have come to love 　3　 as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not sure that I would believe in it so 　4　. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I 　5　 mean that the loss of 　6　 made me enjoy more of 　7　 I have now.

Life asks us to keep making 　8　 to reality. If a person is able to get ready for anything changeable his world will 　9　 more meaningful. I became blind, but I was 　10　. My parents and my teachers saw 　11　 in me－a potential(潜力) to live, you might call it－which I didn’t see, and they make me fight it out with blindness.

The hardest 　12　 I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was what I had to do at least. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would become a chair rocker for the 　13　 of my life. When I say I believe in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase 　14　. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: A belief that I could deal with anything alone; that somewhere in the 　15　 there is a special place where I can make myself fit.

1. A. imagine       B. find             C. remember     D. guess

2. A. but           B. though               C. so           D. because

3. A. myself        B. life             C. eyes         D. blindness

4. A. that          B. therefore            C. happily      D. deeply

5. A. seldom        B. just             C. hardly           D. always

6. A. them      B. it                   C. blindness        D. light

7. A. that          B. what             C. which            D. where

8. A. moments       B. encouragements       C. improvements D. changes

9. A. become        B. change               C. look         D. end

10. A. brave        B. lucky                C. sad          D. wise

11. A. something    B. everything           C. nothing      D. anything

12. A. problem      B. experience           C. difficulty       D. lesson

13. A. rest     B. whole                C. need         D. last

14. A. lonely       B. alone                C. self         D. person

15. A. company  B. group                C. society  (社会)   D. family

 

One afternoon I toured an art museum while waiting for my husband to finish a business meeting.I was looking forward to a quiet view of the art works.
A young couple viewing the paintings ahead of me chatted nonstop between themselves.I watched them a moment and decided the wife was doing all the talk.I admired the husband’s patience for putting up with her continuous talk.Distracted by their noise,I moved on.
I met with them several times as I moved through the different rooms of art.Each time I heard her constant burst of words,I moved away quickly.
I was standing at the counter of the museum gift shop making a purchase when the couple came near to the exit.Before they left,the man reached into his pocket and pulled out a white object.He extended it into a long stick and then tapped his way into the coatroom to get his wife’s jacket.
“He’s a brave man.”The clerk at the counter said,”Most of us would give up if wewere blinded at such a young age.During his recovery he made a promise that his life wouldn’t change.So ,as before,he and his wife come in whenever there’s a new art show.”
“But what dose he get out of the art?”I asked,“He can’t see.”
“Can’t see?You’re wrong.He sees a lot.More than you or I do.”The clerk said,“His wife describes each painting so he can see it in his head.”
I learned something about patience,courage and love that day.I saw the patience of a young wife describing paintings to a person without sight and the courage of a husband who would not allow blindness to change his life.And I saw the love shared by two people as I watched this couple walk away hand in hand.
【小题1】The young couple were at an art museum ________.

A．to show their love	B．to appreciate art
C．to discuss paintings	D．to describe paintings

【小题2】“…I moved away quickly.”in Paragraph 3 shows that the writer ________.

A．was in the hope of visiting more rooms	B．was in a hurry to buy some gifts
C．was tired of the nonstop talking	D．was not interested in the art show

【小题3】We can infer from the passage that the husband _________.

A．was not born blind	B．couldn’t stand his wife
C．knew nothing about art	D．completely depended on his wife

【小题4】After hearing what the clerk had said about the couple,the writer was ________.

A．encouraged

B．excited

C．touched

D．annoyed

【小题5】The passage is mainly about ___________.

A．the importance of art	B．good manners in public
C．patience of a husband	D．love between a couple

 

1.You love peace and do not like to ___________ (争论) with others.

2.Blindness can be treated with modern ___________（医药）and skills.

3.It is ____________ (不可能) for her to finish the work in half an hour.

4.Orange can bring you ____________ (成功) and cheer you up when you are feeling sad.

5.The teacher asked the students to read as many ____________ (杂志) as they could during the reading week.

6. Blue is a calm and __________ (peace) color. It can make you feel relaxed.

7. I think the clever girl can work out the problem__________ (easy).

8.The two American scientists ___________ (work) in the computer company since they came to Nanjing

9.Look at the sign！We are not ________ to park cars here. (允许)

10.The Chinese _________ cares about the people in the drought-hit areas all the time. (政府)

11. What an _________ (愉快) journey we had yesterday!

12.Our Maths teacher spent 2 hours _________ the tough problems to us like this. (解释)

13. So far, five ________ of the boys in Tom’s class have visited the Slender West lake（twelve）

14.I’m __________ sorry to bring you so much trouble. (True)

15. Many students sent Mrs. Wang lots of beautiful flowers on her _________ birthday. (Forty)

 

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About ten men in every hundred have the trouble of color blindness in some way. Women are luckier, only about one in two hundred is affected（感染）in this matter. Perhaps, after all ,it is safer to be driven by a woman.

There are different kinds of color blindness. For example, a man cannot see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shades (影子) of  green. Sometimes a person can’t tell the difference between blue and green. Only a few unlucky men may see everything in shades of green— a strange world indeed.

Color blindness in human beings is a different thing to explain. In only one eye there are millions of very small things called “cones（锥状细胞）” . These help us to see in the bright light and to tell differences between colors. These are also millions of “rods“（杆状细胞），but these are used for seeing when it is nearly dark. They show us shapes but not colors.

Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes(蚊子) like blue but do not like yellow. A red light will not attract insects, but a blue light will. Human beings also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the help of the cones in our eyes, we can see many beautiful colors by day, and with the help of the rods we can see shapes at night.

1.“Color blindness” means           in Chinese.

A. 盲目        B. 无色      C 色盲    D 讨厌颜色

2. Some people say it’s safer to be driven by women because         .

A. women drive more carefully

B. women are better at driving than men

C. women can see things more clearly

D. there are fewer color — blind women

3.With the help of the “cones”, we can          .

A. tell different shapes        B. kill insets

C. see in the dark            D. tell orange from yellow

4. We can attract and kill mosquitoes by using a           light.

A. red       B. yellow     C. blue     D. green

5. Which of the following sentences about color blindness is TRUE?

A. None of men can see deep red.

B. Not all of men have the same problem in recognizing colors.

C. None of men can tell the difference between blue and green.

D. All of men see everything in shades of green.