Some people believe that a Robin Hood is at work, others that a wealthy person simply wants to distribute（分发）his or her fortune before dying. But the donator who started sending envelopes with cash to deserving causes, accompanied by an article from the local paper, has made a northern German city believe in fairytales（童话）.

The first envelope was sent to a victim support group. It contained ?10,000 with a cutting from the Braunschweiger Zeitung about how the group supported a woman who was robbed of her handbag; similar plain white anonymous（匿名）envelopes, each containing ?10,000, then arrived at a kindergarten and a church.

The envelopes keep coming, and so far at least ?190,000 has been distributed. Last month, one of them was sent to the newspaper’s own office. It came after a story it published about Tom, a 14-year-old boy who was severely disabled in a swimming accident. The receptionist at the Braunschweiger Zeitung opened an anonymous white envelope to find 20 notes of ?500 inside, with a copy of the article. The name of the family was underlined.

“I was driving when I heard the news,” Claudia Neumann, the boy’s mother, told Der Spiegel magazine. “I had to park on the side of the road; I was speechless.”

The money will be used to make the entrance to their house wheelchair-accessible and for a course of treatment that their insurance company refused to pay for.

“For someone to act so selflessly, for this to happen in such a society in which everyone thinks of himself, was astonishing,” Mrs. Neumann said. Her family wonder whether the donator is a Robin Hood character, taking from banks to give to the needy.

Henning Noske, the editor of the Braunschweiger Zeitung, said: “Maybe it is an old person who is about to die. We just do not know.” However, he has told his reporters not to look for the city’s hero, for fear that discovery may stop the donations.

1.The Braunschweiger Zeitung is name of _____.

A. a church       B. a bank  　　　C. a magazine      D. a newspaper

2.Which of the following is TURE about the donation to Tom?

A. The donation amounted to ?190,000.

B. The donation was sent directly to his house.

C. His mother felt greatly surprised at the donation.

D. All the money will be used for his treatment.

3.It can be inferred from the passage that      .

A. the donation will continue to come      

B. the donator is a rich old man

C. the donation comes from the newspaper

D. the donator will soon be found out

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Money Is Raised by the Newspaper.

B. Unknown Hero Spreads Love in Envelopes.

C. Newspaper Distributes Money to the Needy.

D. Robin Hood Returns to the city.

 

Clone Technology Like Driving Cars

　　The recent death of the world's most famous sheep--Dolly the clone--has not dampened（使沮丧）the enthusiasm（热情）of Chinese scientists, who are working hard to make more breakthroughs（突破）in clone technology.

　　“It is hard to say whether Dolly died at a relatively young age or died from defects（缺陷）in reproduction.”Du Miao, a researcher with the Biology and Growth Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told China Daily in Beijing yesterday.“But Dolly's case reminds us that both Chinese and foreign scientists should put more efforts into improving clone technology as well as disease treatment techniques in the field of cloning animals.” He said his institute, in co operation（合作）with Yangzhou University in Eastern China's Jiangsu Province, had cloned more than 10 sheep since 1999 and the oldest is nearly five. They are all still alive.

　　Li Ning, deputy（代表）director of the National Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Biological Technology, who is also a professor with the Beijing Based China Agriculture University, said, “Clone technology is actually progressing well. Dolly is the first cloned sheep after all. Like driving cars, new drivers meet with accidents more easily, but the more you drive, the easier and safer you feel. In the future, the death rate of cloned animals will be reduced with technological developments.”

　　“Official reports show seven locally cloned sheep are still alive. Clone technology in China is gradually approaching（接近）a level of commercialization（商业化）,”Li added. But Wang Yu, deputy（代表）director of the Biological Technology Centre under the Ministry of Science and Technology, said the commercialization of clone technology depends on market demand.

(1) Which of the following statements is ture?

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A．Some Chinese scientists believe Dolly died from defects in reproduction.

B．Some Chinese scientists think Dolly's death has dampened their enthusiasm.

C．Some Chinese scientists are satisfied with their successes in clone.

D．Some Chinese scientists think they should improve not only disease treatment techniques but also clone technology.

(2) What's Li Ning's purpose to take driving cars for example?

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A．To tell the people clone technology was too difficulty in the past.

B．To show clone technology is difficult in the beginning and has a bright future.

C．To show clone technology will be more difficult in the future.

D．To tell people Chinese scientists met too much difficulty in the beginning.

(3) From the passage, we can know _____.

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A．the Chinese clone technology is behind some other countries

B．the Chinese scientists learn lessons from Dolly

C．the Chinese clone technology is Well Developed

D．the Chinese clone technology is actually developing well

(4) The underlined word“case”in the second paragraph means ______.

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