Some people believe that a Robin Hood is at work，others that a wealthy person simply wants to distribute (分配) 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 (童話).
The first envelope was sent to a victim support group. It contained ?10, 000 with a cutting from the Braunschiveiger 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 Braunschiveiger 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 Braunschiveiger 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.
小題1:The Braunschiveiger Zeitung is the name of ______.
A．a(chǎn) churchB．a(chǎn) bankC．a(chǎn) newspaperD．a(chǎn) magazine
小題2:Which of the following is TRUE about the donation to Tom?
A．The donation amounted to ?190, 000.
B．The donation was sent directly to his house.
C．The money will be used for his education.
D．His mother felt astonished at the donation.
小題3:It can be inferred from the passage that _____.
A．the donator is a rich old man
B．the donation will continue to come
C．the donation comes from the newspaper
D．the donator will soon be found out
小題4: What would be the best title for the passage?
A．Money Is Raised by the Newspaper.
B．Newspaper Distributes Money to the Needy.
C．Unknown Hero Spreads Love in Envelopes
D．Robin Hood Returns to the City

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:C

試題分析：本文主要講述一個匿名英雄用信封捐錢來默默傳遞愛心的故事，告訴我們愛心無處不在，要學(xué)會用自己的愛來溫暖身邊那些需要幫助的人群，那么這個世界將會變成美好的人間。
小題1:推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段最后一句中的accompanied by an article from the local paper可推知 Braunschweiger Zeitung 是一份報紙的名字，另外在第三段第一句話有一個one of them was sent to the newspaper’s own office有提示。選C。
小題2:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段談到這位受害男孩母親聽到她的孩子被匿名捐贈的消息后表示的一句話“I was speechless”可知她很震驚，很無語。D項表達正確。
小題3:推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段最后一句話“報紙的編輯告訴記者不要找這個城市的英雄，因為擔(dān)心發(fā)現(xiàn)后他就可能不再進行捐贈的活動”也可推知這個匿名捐贈活動還會繼續(xù)下去，B項表達正確。
小題4:標(biāo)題推斷題。本文主要講述用信封匿名捐贈的事情在社會引起很大反響，這個捐贈者還會繼續(xù)把這個善舉進行下去，用C項Unknown Hero Spreads love in Envelopes“匿名英雄用信封傳遞愛”最能概括文章大意。
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D．The American women’s liberation movement did make some changes in women’s lives.
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A．I’m still going to work farther away from home
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C．I’m not satisfied with what I’ve done
D．What I have done is not far from success
小題4:The American women’s liberation movement ________.
A．has still a long way to go
B．is a failure
C．was started by many successful women
D．is a new thing not accepted by the writer

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