阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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UNICEF reports that 40 million children below the age of 15 suffer from abuse(虐待) and neglect. The USA National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse finds 3 million new reports of child abuse or neglect every year.
According to such information on human rights abuses of children, the United Nations declared 2010 as the International Year of Youth. In answer to the common human rights abuses of young people, Dr. Mary Shuttleworth of Youth for Human Rights International(YHRI) recently completed her seventh annual World Tour to five continents in eighty days. The purpose of the tour is to promote the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights to tens of thousands of children and officials.
According to UNICEF, 1.2 million children are illegally traded all over the world every year.
Sold as goods, these children are forced into inhuman labor, denied basic education and robbed of their childhoods. Youth who do not know their rights are easily cheated by ill-intentioned men. That is why YHRI thinks highly of education.
“When the United Nations declared 2010 as the International Year of Youth, I knew that their human rights had to be greater than ever,” Dr. Shuttleworth said. The tour reached Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Ecuador, Brazil, South Africa, Swaziland, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, Italy, Greece, Taiwan, Japan, Hawaii and Los Angeles.
The YHRI World Tour 2010 has reached tens of thousands of students as well as officials, educators, and religious leaders and thus promotes human rights education to millions more.
【小题１】 2010 was declared as the International Year of Youth because ______.
A. 3 million children reported their information to the UN
B. many children are suffering from ill-treatment and neglect
C. children are illegally traded throughout the whole world
D. human rights abuses of young people have been avoided
【小题１】According to para. 2, Dr. Shuttleworth first started her annual World Tour in _____.
A. 2000 B. 2004 C. 2008 D. 2010
【小题１】Youth for Human Rights International is paying attention to education because _______.
A. education should serve most children
B. too many children are forced to leave school
C. children who know their rights will make more money
D. children who know little about their rights are easily cheated
【小题１】According to the passage, the YHRI World Tour 2010 _______.
A. has almost stopped the child abuse B. has reached different areas and people
C. has found more forced child labor D. was neglected by some political leaders
完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
A beggar, carrying a shabby(破旧的) old wallet, was begging alone from house to house. As he complained about his 36 , he kept wondering that people who lived in 37 houses should always be unsatisfied, 38 rich they might be, and they should go so far as to 39 all they have.
“Here, for example,” he said, the former master of this house succeeded in trading, and made himself very rich. By then, instead of stopping, and handing over his 40 to another, and spending the rest of his years 41 peace, he took to(从事) equipping ships. He expected to get mountains of gold; but the ships were 42 , and his treasures were lost. Now they all lie at the bottom of the sea, and he has found his 43 disappeared like those in dreams. In short, examples of this are 44.
At this moment Fortune suddenly appeared to the beggar and said, “Listen! I have long wished to 45 you. Here are a lot of gold coins I have found. Hold out your wallet, and I will fill it with them; but only on this condition: All shall be gold that falls into the wallet, but if 46 of them falls out of the wallet to the ground, it 47 become dust. Consider this well. I have warned you I shall 48 keep my word. Your wallet is old, don’t fill it 49 its power.” The beggar was almost too overjoyed to breathe. He 50 felt the ground below his feet. A stream of coins were poured 51 it. The wallet soon became rather heavy.
“Is that 52 ?” “Not yet,” “Isn’t it 53 ?” “Never fear.” “Consider, you are a millionaire.” “Just a little more, just 54 a handful,” But at that moment the wallet broke, the gold coins 55 dust and Fortune disappeared. The beggar had nothing but his empty wallet and remained as poor as before.
【小题１】A. plan B. fate C. idea D. dream
【小题１】 A. dark B. poor C. clean D. rich
【小题１】A. how B. so C. however D. whatever
【小题１】A. win B. lose C. throw D. forget
【小题１】A. business B. debt C. money D. chance
【小题１】A. to B. on C. with D. in
【小题１】A. bought B. sold C. missed D. robbed
【小题１】A. luck B. riches C. trade D. future
【小题１】A. countless B. wonderful C. helpless D. funny
【小题１】A. admire B. help C. encourage D. excite
【小题１】A. little B. much C. any D. lots
【小题１】A. must B. may C. shall D. can
【小题１】A. mostly B. simply C. possibly D. strictly
【小题１】A. beyond B. within C. during D. by
【小题１】A. really B. actually C. hardly D. nearly
【小题１】A. for B. into C. on D. from
【小题１】A. so B. enough C. true D. right
【小题１】 A. trembling B. shaking C. breaking D. rolling
【小题１】A. try B. put C. leave D. add
【小题１】 A. cleared up B. brought up C. fell into D. turned into
The lady said she would buy a gift for her daughter with _____.
A. 20 dollars remained B. 20 dollars to remain
C. remained 20 dollars D. remaining 20 dollars
_____ she was sick, I was expected to take his place greatly surprised me, for I didn’t have much work experience.
A. That if B. That C. If that D. If
—Did you have any difficulty catching yesterday’s lecture?
—No. The professor spoke very clearly to make his speech easy _____.
A. understood B. understanding C. to be understood D. to understand
After months of voyage, Columbus arrived in _____ later proved a new continent.
A. where B. which C. what D. that
