23. When Alana is about to faint, Tee will ____________.
A. stare at her and keep sniffing B. jump onto her chest suddenly
C. sit and stare directly into her face D. scream and run back and forth
24. What can we learn about Ryan?
A. He likes swimming in rivers.
B. He has a lovely dog, Zion.
C. Chelsea helped him swim back to the shore.
D. He was in danger when he was found by Chelsea.
25. What happened to Bernice?
A. She was badly hurt in a big fire.
B. She met the brave cat, Joey, in a big fire.
C. A fire broke out when she was napping.
D. She ran out of the burning house with the help of firemen.
B
The number of rural(乡村的) left-behind children under 17 years old has increased to 61.02 million, according to a
report. These children’s parents leave them with their grandparents or other family members in order to make money in cities.
Sichuan Province and Henan Province have the highest percentage of rural left-behind children. Together with
Anhui Province, Guangdong Province and Hunan Province, these five provinces have 43.64% of the country’s rural left-behind children, the report says.
The report finds that left-behind children are mainly in the central and western provinces. But the developed eastern
areas also face similar problems, the report says. Guangdong Province has the most left-behind children, with 4.34 million, followed by Zhejiang Province, Jiangsu Province, Shanghai and Beijing.
“What I’m worried about most is the schooling of my child, as I have no time to help her with her homework.”
Said An Baiyou, a truck driver from Shangdong Province, who has been leaving his 10-year-old daughter with his parents while driving trucks in other provinces. “However, to make money or to take care of the child, you can only choose one side.”
Wang Zhenyao, the president of Beijing Normal University Institue of Public Welfare, says that if the left-behind
children problem can’t be solved, it will affect the nation’s future.
Compared with those who live with their parents, left-behind children need more care and protection. The country
should think about ways to attract the rural workers in cities to return and work in their hometown to improve the development of these places.”
In addition, it is important to set up laws to protect the basic rights of young people, especially those with illnesses
or only one parent.
These children are the future of the nation. People should offer them their love, care and protection.
26. Which of the following is TRUE, according to the passage?
A. Wang Zhenyao has a 10-year-old daughter.
B. An Baiyou chooses to make money in cities instead of taking car of his child in Shandong.
C. Zhejiang Province has about 4.34 million left-behind children.
D. The developed eastern areas don’t have the left-behind children problem.
27. Wang Zhenyao mainly wants to tell us that ____________.
A. it is not easy to solve the left-behind children problem
B. children with illnesses or only one parent are very poor
C. it is important to solve the left-behind children problem
D. rural workers like working in cities rather than their hometowns
28. The best title of the passage is____________.
A. Serious facts about rural children
B. A choice of children or money
C. More care to rural left-behind children
D. A report on parents’ worry about rural left-behind children
C
Is getting a black belt(腰带) on your life’s to-do list? Then this elderly woman in San Francisco just might be your
hero.
Just two years before her 100th birthday, Sensei Keiko Fukuda has become the first woman to achieve a tenth-degree
black belt --- the highest rank in Judo (柔道). Fukuda is now one of only four living people who have earned the tenth-degree black belt. Throughout history, only 16 people have ever achieved this honor.
Fukuda began practicing Judo in 1935 and is the only surviving student of its founder, Kano Jiguro.
At her teacher’s requirement, she learned English to help spread Judo internationally.
During a time when getting married, building a family and becoming a housewife were the norms(行为标准)，
Fukuda broke from tradition, continuing Judo instead of getting married.
“All I did was Judo ... This was my marriage,” Fukuda replied tearfully to the San Francisco Chronicle. “This is
when my destiny (命运) was set. I just imagined how long the road would be.”
She described the Jiguro’s school as “old-fashioned and sexist(性别歧视的) about belts and ranks”. In fact, an
edict(法令) that prevented women from achieving any higher than a fifth-degree black belt kept Fukuda at that level for 30 years. She finally got the sixth degree in 1972 when a women’s division（分部）was created.
Fukuda thinks Judo and her life to be “gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically”.