Question

When 19?year?old Sophia Giorgi said she was thinking of volunteering to help the Make?A?Wish Foundation(基金會), 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 of her best friends. We were interested in finding out more, so we went along to meet Sophia and 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(慈善機構) that helps children who have got very serious illnesses. Make?A?Wish helps 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.

1.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

2.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

3.What is said about Chris in Paragraph 3?

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.

4.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.

 

Answer 1

1.A

2.A

3.B

4.A

【解析】本文為記敘文。文章通過圓夢基金會的一名19歲的志愿者Sophia Giorgi介紹了該基金會的創(chuàng)建原因、宗旨、服務對象和方式等。

1.答案：A　細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)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.”可知選A項。

2.2】答案：A　細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段“Sophia told us that Make?A?Wish is a worldwide organization that started in the United States in 1980.‘It's a charity(慈善機構) that helps children who have got very serious illnesses...come true，’Sophia explained.”可知答案。

3.3】答案：B　細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)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”可知答案為B項。

4.4】答案：A　推理判斷題。根據(jù)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項正確。

疑難詞匯解讀

raise vt.①舉起，抬起

raise your arm舉起你的胳膊

②籌款

Last week our school had a big fair in order to raise money for the disabled.上周我們學校舉行了一場大型義賣會，為殘疾人籌款。

長難句子分析

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.

分析：這是一個主從復合句。But Sophia knew為主句，just how important Make?A?Wish could be為賓語從句，作knew的賓語；because this special organization had helped to make a dream come true for one of her best friends為原因狀語從句，說明原因。

句意：但Sophia知道圓夢基金是多么重要，因為這個特別的組織曾經(jīng)幫助她的一個好朋友實現(xiàn)了一個夢想。