No doubt that you know about Charities. Here it is another chance for you to know more. Difficult times often bring out the best in people. And this was the case for basketball star Yao Ming, who hosted a television show in Shanghai that raised US$300,000 to help researchers find a cure for SARS. Fundraising, or charity, is an act of goodwill towards others. Charities in the West have more flexible ways. Look at a typical day for Ruth, a wealthy 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 horse. It’s from a charity asking Ruth to donate money to save the animals. The door bell rings and there, on Ruth’s doorstep, is an old woman asking for money to help the aged. She turns on the television, hears sad music and sees a picture of a wide-eyed child dying of hunger in Africa with an appeal for money to help the child. Ruth then goes shopping for a dress to wear to that evening’s large party for the rich and famous. The ticket cost her a small fortune, 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. Within five minutes of walking down the street, Ruth has passed a charity shop. She doesn’t stop because she doesn’t think she’d find a suitable dress there—it’s full of old, secondhand clothes. But, many other people enter and but all sorts of bargains. Edna, a little old lady, looks after the shop. Any profit it has made goes to a cancer charity. Now that she has retired, she has plenty of spare time to offer her services for free.
For people like Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna, charity is a virtue 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 author Henry Drummond.
【小題1】Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the story as a way of fundraising    ?

A．Charity party B．Charity post 
C．Charity TV program D．Charity for beggars. 
【小題2】What does the word “raise” in the first paragraph mean    ?
A．Collect together B．Donate 
C．Increase D．Bring to someone’s attention. 
【小題3】We can infer from the passage that    .
A．Yao Ming donated US$300,000 to help researchers find a cure for SARS 
B．Edna may not be a rich lady but she is willing to do something for others 
C．Ruth leads a busy life and she feels very tired 
D．Ruth is angry because so many people ask her for money every day 
【小題4】What’s the writer’s attitude towards charity    ?
A．The writer thinks it’s something only people like Ruth can afford to do 
B．The writer just wants to inform us of the different ways to practice charity 
C．The writer thinks it’s a virtue and admires the people who practice it 
D．The writer doesn’t make it clear in the story 
【小題5】The underlined part in the last paragraph probably means that    .
A．when you look back sometimes, you need stand out 
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．what impresses people deeply is what they have done for others 


【小題1】D
【小題2】A
【小題3】B
【小題4】C
【小題5】D

解析試題分析：慈善是一種美德，做慈善事業(yè)的人是令人尊敬的。慈善在西方有著更多更靈活的方式。一個(gè)人只有當(dāng)他為別人著想時(shí)，他的人生才是有意義的。
【小題1】根據(jù)“collects her post ...It’s from a charity asking Ruth to donate money to save the animals. ...She turns on the television, ...with an appeal for money to help the child ...to that evening’s large party for the rich and famous ...most of the money is going to a charity that fights AIDS”可知，Ruth檢查慈善郵件，收看慈善電視節(jié)目，參加慈善晚會(huì)，文章沒(méi)有提到為乞討者捐款，故選D。
【小題2】that raised US$300,000 to help researchers find a cure for SARS籌集了30萬(wàn)美元用于研制治療SARS的藥物，A收集，籌集；B捐贈(zèng)；C增加；D引起注意，故選A。
【小題3】根據(jù)“that raised US$300,000 to help...”可知，姚明籌集了30萬(wàn)美元，而不是他本人捐贈(zèng)了30萬(wàn)美元；根據(jù)“Fundraising, or charity, is an act of goodwill towards others. Charities in the West have more flexible ways.”可知，Ruth只是樂(lè)于做慈善的一個(gè)例子，C、D與Ruth做慈善的意愿相違背；根據(jù)“Ruth has passed a charity shop ...it’s full of old, secondhand clothes ...Edna, a little old lady, looks after the shop. Any profit it has made goes to a cancer charity.”可知，Edna經(jīng)營(yíng)著一家慈善商店，出售二手舊衣服，所得的利潤(rùn)全部捐給做癌癥研究的慈善事業(yè)，故選B。
【小題4】根據(jù)最后一段“For people like Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna, charity is a virtue that holds the same importance in life as faith and hope.”可知，作者認(rèn)為慈善是一種美德，作者佩服那些作慈善事業(yè)的人，故選C。
【小題5】“As you look back on your life, the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others,”當(dāng)你回顧自己的一生時(shí)，你為他人所做的事情顯得尤為突出。也就是說(shuō)，最打動(dòng)人心的是無(wú)私地幫助他人，故選D。
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