五、阅读理解(共20分)
本部分有两篇短文，每篇短文后有五个问题，每个问题有四个供选择的答案。请选择一个最佳答案。
Passage 1
In Europe many people died during the Second World War. As a result, at the end of the war there were many orphans there. A man called Hermann Gmeiner wanted to help these children. His idea was simple. He wanted orphans to have a home. And he wanted them to have the care and kindness of parents. Gmeiner asked people to give him some money. With this money he built the first SOS Children's Village at Imst, in Austria. It opened in 1949, This is how the SOS Children's Villages started. The letters SOS stand for ″Save Our Souls″. This means ″Please help us!″ An SOS Children's Village gives help to orphans.
Hermann Gmeiner's idea for helping orphans soon spread all over the world. By 1983 there were 170 SOS Children's Villages in the world. People in many countries give money to help the villages. Today the children from the first villages are grown up. Now some of them work in other SOS Children's Villages.
In SOS villages orphans live in family groups. There are several houses in each village. The biggest villages have 40 or 50 houses! Between seven and ten children live in a house. A woman lives with each group of children and looks after them. She gives the children a lot of love and kindness. She cooks for them and makes a comfortable, happy home for them.
Of course, the children don't spend all their time in the village. They go to school, they go out with their friends and they go into town. But the village gives them a home — sometimes for the first time in their lives.
1. Which of the following came last?
A. People gave Gmeiner some money.
B. There were many orphans at the end of the war.
C. Gmeiner built the first SOS Children's Village with the money people gave him.
D. A man called Hermann Gmeiner wanted to help the orphans.
2. An orphan is a child ______.
A. who has no parents
B. who has no sister
C. who has no brother
D. all of the above
3. We can conclude from the article that the money for helping the SOS Villages mainly comes from ______.
A. people in general
B. special organizations
C. the orphans themselves
D. governments
4. Which of the following can best summarize the work a woman in an SOS Village does for each group of children?
A. She lives with each group of children.
B. She gives the children a lot of love and kindness.
C. She looks after them.
D. She cooks the meals for them.
5. Hermann Gmeiner built the first SOS Children Village ______.
A. because he wanted orphans to have a home
B. because he wanted orphans to have the care and kindness of parents
C. because he wanted to earn some money
D. both A and B |
