Question

    One devoted man is helping to make sure that children with poor living conditions won't go hungry during the school day.

Mary’s Meals, an organization founded in 2002 by Scottish farmer Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow, provides needy kids in 12 countries with free meals at school each weekday. The group's aim is to ensure that students have food in their stomachs so they can better fix their attention on the study in class.

Macfarlane-Barrow, who runs Mary’s Meals on his father's farm, told CNN that the entire operation started with a conversation he had with a teen living in a poor state. He said, ''In 2002, I was in Malawi during a year of terribly short of food, and I met this family — the father had died, and the mother was dying with her six children around her. I began talking to her oldest child, Edward, who was about 14, and asked him, 'What are your hopes? 'And he said, 'I'd like to have enough food to eat, and I'd like to go to school one day. ''' And that was it.

In its first year, the group fed 200 children in need. Since that time, it has made rapid progress. Last month, Mary's Meals fed more than one million children every school day. That was 5 million meals every week. ''The million is amazingly important, but we are far from satisfied. Our work's just beginning. We’ve proved that this works, and now we've just thinking about the next child, '' said Macfarlane-Barrow.

He and the group recently celebrated the achievement in Malawi, where the program began. So far, the program has had very good results. In Malawi, schools that carried out the Mary's Meals program saw a 24 percent increase in the number of new students within the first six months.

1.Why did Macfarlane-Barrow found Mary's Meals?

A.He hoped to provide free food for poor families.

B.He expected to teach children how to help others.

C.He wished to become well-known by helping others.

D.He wanted to make children free of hunger in class.

2.What made Macfarlane-Barrow have the idea to start Mary's Meals?

A.The conversation with a poor child. B.The success of helping a needy kid.

C.The terribly short of food in Malawi. D.The poor living conditions of schools

3.What can we learn from the last two paragraphs?

A.Schools in Malawi are popular.

B.No children suffer from hunger now.

C.Macfarlane-Barrow is satisfied with the result.

D.Mary's Meals program has been very successful.

4.What is the main idea of the text?

A.Edward's dream has come true.

B.A farmer feeds one million kids every school day.

C.Malawi gets away from being short of food.

D.Mary's Meals program has shocked the world.

Answer

1.D

2.A

3.D

4.B

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。作者通过这篇文章主要向我们描述了麦克法兰·巴罗建立了一个组织为贫困儿童免费提供食物，使他们能免于饥饿。

1.细节理解题。根据第二段的Mary's Meals, an organization founded in 2002 by Scottish farmer Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow, provides needy kids in 12 countries with free meals at school each weekday.可知，Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow成立Mary's Meals的原因是为了让学校的孩子们免于饥饿。D. He wanted to make children free of hunger in class. (他想让孩子们不用饿着上课)符合以上说法，故选D项。

2.细节理解题。根据第三段的I began talking to her oldest child, Edward, who was about 14, and asked him, ‘What are your hopes?’ And he said, ‘I’d like to have enough food to eat.’ And that was it.可知，是和一个可怜的孩子交谈让麦克法兰·巴罗有了开始Mary's Meals的想法。A. The conversation with a poor child. (和一个贫困孩子的对话)符合以上说法，故选A项。

3.细节理解题。根据最后一段的He and the group recently celebrated the achievement in Malawi, where the program began. So far, the program has had very good results.可知，他和他的组织最近在Malawi庆祝他们的成功，这是该项目开始的地方。到目前为止该项目已经取得非常好的结果。即该项目现在已经很成功。D. Mary’s Meals program has been very successful. (Mary's Meals项目已经很成功)符合以上说法，故选D项。

4.主旨大意题。根据文章的主要内容，尤其第四段的Since that time, it has made rapid progress. Last month, Mary’s Meals fed more than one million children every school day. (自那时起，它进步很快，上个月，该组织给个学校日给超过100万儿童提供食物)可知，本文主要讲述一个名叫Mary's Meals的组织，每个学校日给超过100万的儿童提供食物。B. A farmer feeds one million kids every school day. (一个农民每个学校日给100万孩子提供食物)符合以上说法，故选B项。