阅读试题

When 19-year-old Sophia Giorgi said she was thinking of volunteering to help the Make-A-Wish Foundatin (基金会), nobody understood what she was talking about. But Sophia knew just how important Make – A –Wish could be because this special organization had helped to make a dream come true for one her best friends. We were interested in finding out more, so we went along to meet Sophia listen to what she had to say.

Sophia told us that Make – A –Wish is a worldwide organization that started in the United States in 1980. "It's a charity(慈善机构) that helps children who have got very serious illnesses. Make – A –Wish help children feel happy even though they are sick, by making their wishes and dreams come true," Sophia explained.

We asked Sophia how Make – A –Wish had first started. She said it had all begun with a very sick young boy called Chris, who had been dreaming for a long time of becoming a policeman. Sophia said lots of people had wanted to find a way to make Chris's dream come true - so, with everybody's help, Chris, only seven years old at the time, had been a "policeman" for a day. "When people saw how delighted Chris was when his dream came true, they decided to try and help other sick children too, and that was the beginning of Make – A –Wish," explained Sophia.

Sophia also told us the Foundation tries to give children and their families a special, happy time. A Make – A –Wish volunteer visits the families and asks the children what they would wish for if they could have anything in the world. Sophia said the volunteers were important because they were the ones who helped to make the wishes come true. They do this either by providing things that are necessary, or by raising money or helping out in whatever way they can.

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64. Sophia found out about Make-A-Wish because her best friend had .

A. benefited from it 　　

B. volunteered to help it

C. dreamed about it 　　

D. told the author about it

65. According to Sophia, Make-A-Wish .

A. is an international charity

B. was understood by nobody at first

C. raises money for very poor families

D. started by drawing the interest of the public

66. What is said about Chris in Paragraph3?

A. He has been a policeman since he was seven.

B. He gave people the idea of starting Make-A-Wish

C. He wanted people to help make his dream come true.

D. He was the first child Make-A-Wish helped after it had been set up.

67. Which of the following is true about Make-A-Wish volunteers?

A. They are important for making wishes come true.

B. They try to help children get over their illnesses.

C. They visit sick children to make them feel special.

D. They provide what is necessary to make Make-A-Wish popular.

参考译文

当19岁的索菲亚说她想做志愿者帮助圆梦基金会时，没有人明白她在说什么。但是索菲娅知道圆梦基金会组织是多么重要的组织，因为这种特殊的组织帮助她一个最好的朋友实现了梦想。我们有兴趣去了解更多，所以让我们一起来迎接索菲娅，听听她要说什么。

索菲娅告诉我们，圆梦基金会是一个世界性的组织，它于1980年开始在美国成立。索菲娅解释道：“这是一个慈善机构，旨在帮助有严重疾病的孩子们。即使他们生病，圆梦基金会也能通过实现他们的愿望和梦想的方式来帮助孩子们感受快乐。”

我们问索菲娅，圆梦基金会是怎么开始的。她表示，它的开始源于一个生病的小男孩，他叫克里斯，他曾梦想成为一名警察很长时间。索菲娅说很多人都想找到一种方法来帮助克里斯梦想成真。所以，在大家的帮助下，在那时只有七岁的克里斯当了一天的“警察”。索菲娅解释道：“当他的梦想实现时，人们看到了高兴的克里斯。于是，他们决定尝试帮助其他生病的孩子，这就是圆梦基金会的起源。”

索菲娅还告诉我们基金会试图给孩子们和他们的家人一段特别而快乐的时光。圆梦基金会的志愿者拜访那些家庭，询问孩子们如果他们能够得到世界上的任何东西，那么他们希望得到什么。索菲娅说，志愿者是很重要的，因为他们是帮助孩子们愿望成真的人之一。他们通过提供必要的东西或筹集资金或任何他们可以提供帮助的方式来做到这些。

答案解析

64. A 考查细节理解。根据第一段第二句"But Sophia knew just how important Make-A-Wish could be because this special organization had helped to make a dream come true for one of her best friends. "可知选A。

65. A 考查细节理解。根据第二段"Sophia told us that Make-A-Wish is a world wide organization that started in the United States in 1980. ‘It's a charity (慈善机构) that helps children who have got very serious illnesses...come true,’ Sophia explained."可知答案。

66. B 考查细节理解。根据第三段第二句"She said it had all begun with a very sick young boy called Chris, who had been dreaming for a long time of becoming a policeman."以及下文中的"When people saw how delighted Chris was when his dream came true, they decided to try and help other sick children too, and that was the beginning of Make-A-Wish"可知答案为B。

67. A 考查正误判断和推理判断。根据最后一段第三句"Sophia said the volunteers were important because they were the ones who helped to make the wishes come true."可知A正确。