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 (研究員) 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(筋疲力盡的) 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 (請求) 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(癌癥) 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.
小題1:Yao Ming hosted a television show to _____.
A．make more moneyB．raise money for his basket team
C．make himself more famousD．raise money for researchers to find a cure for SARS
小題2:We can infer (推斷)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
小題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.
小題4:One morning, Ruth received a letter with a picture of a horse in it because _____.
A．she lost her horse
B．a(chǎn) charity wanted her to donate some money
C．she loved horse very much
D．she wanted to keep a horse as a pet
小題5:The underlined(劃線) 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

小題2:A
小題3:C
小題4:B
小題5:A

小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題。結(jié)合Yao Ming. He hosted a television show in Shanghai and raised US $ 300,000 to help researchers (研究員) find a medical cure可知答案。
小題2:推斷題。Ruth確實繁忙但并沒有流露出feel tired 之意，尋讀“The ticket cost her a small fortune, but she doesn’t mind…” 和 “She feels good about going because she’s helping the sick.” 等句可看出她并沒有因為很多人讓她捐錢而生氣，因此B項、C項均排除。D項沒有提到。關(guān)于Edna,文中講到她已退休，有足夠的閑暇時間提供免費服務(wù)，因此A項正確。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題。結(jié)合倒數(shù)第二段可知答案。
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)題。結(jié)合It’s from a charity asking Ruth to donate money to save the animals 可知答案
小題5:語義推測題，選D。劃線部分本意是“當(dāng)你回顧你的生活時，往往是你幫助了別人的那些時刻或情景會在你的記憶中清晰地顯現(xiàn)（stand out）�！� 因此選A。
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