Can one paper bag change the world? Sarah Murphy believes it can and she tries to do something about it.
The seventh grader from Massachusetts, in the United States, decorates（装饰） lunch bags for the homeless.1.. The decorated bags, together with a lunch, will be given to homeless people in the town of Beverly, through a charity program.
To attract the help of more children, she reached out to a local library and made a program. They set up a coloring station in the library. Children may take a bag, draw and write a message of hope and leave it on the front desk.2. . The program began on the first Saturday in August and has taken off（迅速发展） since then. Murphy bought 100 brown lunch bags and put them in the library. 3.. She will happily buy more.
Murphy first heard about the charity program from her friends. She has great interest in charity. She once donated money to charities and made gift bags for seniors at her school.4..
A summer reading program she joined further inspired her with its theme, “5..” After that, Murphy got the idea of coloring lunch bags and feeding the poor to make the world a better place.
根据材料内容,从下面五个选项中选出能填人文中空缺处的最佳选项，使短文意思通顺、内容完整，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A.Build A Better World.
B.She wants to bring hope to those people.
C.They can also take it home and return it after coloring.
D.Children at the library have colored them.
E.So she wanted to do something special.
When was the last time you used a phone booth on the street? With the rise of mobile phones, they have become something out of date. But Shanghai is trying to bring new life to the old phone booths by turning them into mini—libraries.
Shanghai plans to divide 263 phone booths in Xuhui district into six new types. One type will each offer 60 books for people to read or borrow. A second type will— allow users to listen to audiobooks（有声书）and even record their own voices. A third type will become " Celebrity Exhibition Halls（名人亭）",showing old photos and works of famous artists like Ba Jin and Zhang.
Shanghai is not the only city trying to save the old phone booths. The British has cared about them even more, since the red phone booths became a part of the country’s identity（标识）. The world‘s first phone booth was built in the 1880s in Germany. But in the 1930s the UK painted them red and made them a special attraction in cities.
In recent years the country has come up with many ideas to help phone booths stay useful. The UK company British Telecom has added screens and free WiFi to some booths. Users can use them to surf online and search for maps and weather reports.
The company also allows people to rent（租） some booths to change them as they want to. Since 2009, more than 1, 500 phone booths have been turned into flower shops, mini—cafes, art museums and even shower rooms（浴室）, according to the Sina News.
Maybe in the future phone booths will become city attractions once again, but in a more creative way.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
1.How many books will be each library booth in Shanghai offered?
A.263. B.60. C.44. D.1,500.
2.Among the six new types of phone booths in Shanghai, people can NOT ________.
A.read and borrow books B.listen to audiobooks
C.record their own voices D.play video games
3.What is the main idea of the fourth paragraph?
A.British Telecom has new ways to reuse telephone booths.
B.The British can buy flowers from a telephone booth.
C.If you want to take a shower in the UK, just enter a booth.
D.Booths in the UK have been useless for years.
4.What does the underlined word “booth " mean?
A.充电器 B.数据线 C.公用电话亭 D.车库
5.What can we infer from the story?
A.No one wants to use the telephone booths now.
B.Britain’s red phone booths are losing their social identity.
C.Phone booths will attract people " s attention again.
D.Phone booths around the world are becoming popular.
You must have read or heard of the sad love story between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. But can you imagine the two singing opera in English instead of speaking poetic Chinese?
Jia and Lin are two characters from the classic Chinese novel A Dream of Red Mansions（《红楼梦》）, written by Cao Xueqin（1715—1763）. Now the book has been made into an English—language opera. The opera was first performed last September in San Francisco, US. This month it comes to Beijing, Changsha and Wuhan.
Many of the opera’s creators have backgrounds（背景）in both Chinese and American cultures, including the director and playwrights. Their understanding of both cultures helped them to change a Chinese classic into a foreign—language opera.
The book, which covers the rise and fall of the Jia family, has 120 chapters and hundreds of characters. But opera writer David Henry Hwang cut down the number of characters to just seven. Hwang, a Chinese—American, focused on the love story between Jia and Lin and tried to write a heartbroken tragedy（悲剧） that everyone would understand.
The art director Timmy Yip, from Hong Kong, tried to help foreign people understand the characters using costumes（服装） and stage settings（布景）. He compared Lin to water and gave her a light green costume. When Lin shows up on stage, there is usually water around her on the stage.
The creators consider it to be a meaningful job to introduce a Chinese classic to Western audiences. Hwang told China Daily he was happy to “have made a contribution to the land where my parents were born.”
1.Who wrote the opera for the Chinese classic novel A Dreum of Red Mansions?
A.Lin Daiyu. B.Cao Xueqin.
C.Jia Baoyu. D.David Henry Hwang.
2.The opera was________
A.sung in poetic Chinese B.first performed in Beijing
C.performed in China after one year D.performed in many languages
3.Which of the following is NOT a difference between the book and the opera?
A.The language used. B.The sad love story.
C.The number of characters. D.The whole family’s story.
4.Why did the creators make the book into an English—language opera?
A.Because they have backgrounds in Western culture.
B.Because they thought the book was not good enough.
C.Because they hope to help others learn English.
D.Because they wanted Westerners to know about the Chinese novel.
5.The best title of the passage is________.
A.Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu Sing Foreign Opera
B.A Dream of Red Mansions
C.The Sad Love Story between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu
D.David Henry Hwang’s Opera
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A.a website B.a newspaper C.a novel D.a magazine
In ancient China, there was a man called Zhou Yong. Before his father died, he left Zhou Yong a great number of gold ingots（元宝）. Zhou _____ them in a safe place in his home.
One day, Zhou decided to travel far away. He was afraid that ______would steal the gold ingots. But they were too heavy for him to bring______ with him. So he put all the ingots into a jar（坛子） and gave it to his friend Zhang San, telling Zhang that the jar was full of fresh red dates（红枣）.
A year later, Zhou came back home. One day before he came back, Zhang’s wife wondered what was inside the jar. She _____ opened it. She was shocked when she saw so _____ ingots inside. She then told Zhang about the ingots. They took the ingots out and _____ the jar with fresh red dates.
When Zhang ______ the jar to Zhou, Zhou opened it and asked," Where are my gold ingots?" Zhang denied（否认） that he had taken the ingots. After _____ about it for a while, they went to see the county magistrate（县官）.
When the magistrate asked Zhang what had happened, he answered, "Zhou said that there were fresh red dates in it when he gave me the jar a year ago. "
The magistrate ______ the jar and the red dates in it carefully. Then he said, "Bring the ingots back, Zhang San!"
Zhang still denied having taken them. But after the magistrate explained ______ he knew, Zhang finally admitted（承认） that he had taken the ingots.
How did the magistrate know that Zhang was lying?
1.A.threw B.dropped C.hid D.dug
2.A.thieves B.friend C.family D.brothers
3.A.along B.in C.into D.to
4.A.excitedly B.secretly C.happily D.sadly
5.A.much B.many C.more D.most
6.A.filled B.put C.brought D.made
7.A.returned B.took C.gave D.brought
8.A.talking B.arguing C.thinking D.telling
9.A.looked B.found C.examined D.saw
10.A.how B.what C.where D.which
I won't lose heart even though I fail. Because I know ________.
A.practice makes perfect B.if there is a will, there is a way
C.many hands make light work D.the grass is always greener on the other side
