Question

Nearly eight hundred million people in this world cannot read or write, most of them in developing countries. Two-thirds are women and girls.

John Wood who started the Room to Read campaign（运动）, has opened 1,650 schools and 15,000 libraries in some of the world’s poorest communities（社区）. He said that from the beginning, Room to Read’s goal was to reach 10 million children around the world in the poorest countries.

In 1998, on a three-week vacation journey in Nepal, Wood met a local headmaster who invited him to visit his school in a far mountain village. The experience changed Wood’s life.

“This headmaster had 450 students at the school, but he didn’t have any books,” Wood said.” He had a library that was empty.”

Wood promised to fill the library shelves and returned to the village year later with some of his friends with 3,000 books. And that was just the start. Later, Wood used some of his personal money to start Room to Read. He believes that world change begins with educated children. Today, the programme can be found in 10 countries across Asia and Africa.

Wood believes the key to the program’s success is local support .While Room to Read gives away money and provides books, communities offer land and parents help build the school. Agnes, a Room to Read teacher in Zambia who also runs the library, is proud to say the literacy at her school has improved. Room to Read’s biggest challenge is the huge need. Hundreds of communities have asked for literacy programmes. One way of Room to Read’s success is that it will achieve Wood’s goal of reaching 10 million kids by 2015, five years earlier than it is planned.

1.The purpose of the Room to Read campaign is to __________.

A. ask parents to read together with their children

B. help poor children to learn to read and write

C. tell more people the importance of reading

D. help 10 million children to go to college

2.When John Wood travelled in Nepal in 1998, he __________.

A. visited many local schools

B. sent many books to local children

C. started the Room to Read campaign

D. met a man who changed his life

3.The underlined part “the literacy” in the last paragraph refers to（指的是）__________.

A. the teaching conditions

B. the teaching quality

C. students’ ability to read and write

D. the money teachers earn every month

4.John Wood is a person that is ____________.

A. helpful and generous B. honest and brave

C. careless but active   D. strict but friendly

Answer

1.B

2.D

3.C

4.A

【解析】

试题分析：短文大意：在这个世界上近八亿的人不能读或写，他们大多数在发展中国家，他们中的大多数是妇女和女孩。伍德慷慨解囊创办学校以及图书馆帮助贫穷的孩子学习读写。

1.B第二段开头John Wood who started the Room to Read campaign （运动），has opened1650 schools and 15000 libraries in some of the world's poorest communities的描述可知可知约翰伍德已在世界上一些最贫穷的社区创办了学校和图书馆，其目的是要帮助贫穷的孩子学习读写，所以该选B。

2.D第三段中In 1998，on a three-week vacation journey in Nepal，Wood met a local headmaster who invited him to visit his school in a far mountain village．的描述可知1998年伍德在尼泊尔旅行时认识了一个当地的校长，邀请他访问了一所遥远的山村学校的经历改变了伍德的生活。所以该选D。

3.C词义猜测题。根据上文中While Room to Read gives away money and provides books，communities offer land and parents help build the school．可知划线词指的是孩子们的读写能力，所以该选C。

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考点：故事类阅读。