Do you know more and more Chinese artists have made regular donations to charity or put their efforts(努力) in...

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   Do you know more and more Chinese artists have made regular donations to charity or put their efforts(努力) into charity work in China? Here let's know some of them.
   Faye Wong and her husband Li Yapeng started the Yan Ran Angel Foundation(基金会) for harelipped(兔唇的) children three years ago. It was named after their daughter. Its purpose is to help children under 14 to cure their harelips. The couple donated one million yuan (about $ 133,000) to start the organization.
   Cong Fei was born in a poor family. He became a successful singer in Shenzhen. He helped 178 poor students and disabled people for more than 10 years. Before he died of an illness at the age of 37 in 2006, he decided to donate his cornea(角膜) to people with eye problems. He helped six people see the world.
   Guan Mucun has donated money to Project Hope to help poor students finish primary education. Thirty of these poor students have already finished high school with her support. Guan has also helped with charity work for environment protection, HIV/AIDS prevention, blood donation and "Mother Water".
   Guan had an unlucky childhood: her mother died when she was only 10 years old. With the help of the government and her neighbours, she grew up and was successful as a famous singer.
   Action star Jackie Chan is a wholehearted supporter of charities including UNICEF, Operation Smile and his own Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation. In 2007, he used much of his spare time to visit the farthest parts of China on his Dragon's Heart Charity Missions. The Dragon's Heart Foundation aims to meet the needs of poor children and the elderly in the hardest-to-reach areas of the country. Chan has made several trips to these poor villages, bringing warm clothing, wheelchairs and school supplies, and helping to build schools.

（1）、Who can get help from the Yan Ran Angel Foundation?

A、Harelipped children under 14. B、All disabled children. C、All disabled children under 14. D、All harelipped children.

（2）、What can we learn from the passage?

A、Faye Wong and Li Yapeng don't like their daughter. B、More than 7 people's eyes were cured thanks to Cong Fei's Cornea. C、Guan Mucun was once helped by the government and her neighbours. D、Jackie Chan didn't have chance to visit the people he helped.

（3）、What is the passage mainly about?

A、Chinese charity work. B、Charity work of some Chinese artists. C、Some famous Chinese artists, D、Organizations started by Chinese artists.

举一反三

One day when some government officials were rebuilding a barn（谷仓）, they found a mouse hole in a corner and used smoke to force the mice inside the hole to come out. A while later they indeed saw mice running out, one after another. Then, everyone thought that all the mice had escaped. But just as they began to clean up, they saw two mice squeezing（挤）out at the mouth of the hole. With some efforts, the mice finally got out. However, it was strange that after they came out of the hole, they did not run away immediately. Instead, one chased after the other near the mouth of the hole. It seemed that one was trying to bite（咬）the tail of the other.
   Everyone was puzzled, so they stepped nearer to take a look. They realized that one of the mice was blind and could not see anything, and the other was trying to allow the blind mouse to bite on his tail so that he could pull the blind one with him to escape.
After seeing what happened, everyone was speechless and lost in thought. During the meal time, the group of people sat down in a circle and started to chat about what happened to the two mice.
   One serious American official said: “I think the relationship between those two mice was that of king and guard. “The others thought for a while and said: "That was why!”
A smart French said: “I think the relationship between those two mice was that of husband and wife.” Again the others thought for a while, and all felt it made sense.
A Japanese said: “I think the relationship between those two mice was that of mother and son.” Once again the others thought for a while, and felt this was more reasonable. So they expressed agreement another time.
At that moment, one Chinese asked: “Why did those two mice have to have a certain relationship？ “
   Suddenly, the group looked back at the Chinese and remained speechless. The American official, the French and the Japanese who had spoken earlier all lowered their heads in shame, and did not dare to answer.
   In fact, the true love is not built on friendship, loyalty or blood relationship. Instead, it is based on no relationship.

The food in White Rose Restaurant was cheap and good, but nobody seemed to want to eat there. There were very few people going to eat there. The owner was very worried about it.
Then he thought of a good idea. A few weeks later, his restaurant was always full of men and their girlfriends. Whenever a gentleman came with a lady, a kind waiter would give each of them a beautiful menu. The menus looked exactly the same on the outside, but there was an important difference inside. The menu that the waiter handed to the man gave the correct price for each dish and each bottle of wine, while the menu that he handed to the lady gave a much higher price! So when the man calmly ordered dish after dish and wine after wine, the lady thought he was much more generous than he really was! The man could make a good impression on the lady.

Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis Cricket — anything with a round ball, I was useless." he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England's rural Devonshire.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15^th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway's school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man's cold-water exploits (成就). Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future. Journeys to the Pole aren't the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy. "John Ridgway was one of the few who didn't say, 'You are completely crazy,'" Saunders says.
In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter (遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.
Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he's skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.
This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.

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Once there was a famine（饥荒）.A rich cook sent for twenty of the poorest children in the town and said to them, “In this basket there is a piece of bread for each of you. Take it and come back to me every day at this hour for more.”

In a hurry the hungry children got together around the basket, and fought over the bread because each wanted the largest piece.At last they went away without even thanking the good cook. Mary, a poorly-dressed girl, did not fight with the other children,but stood quietly in distance.When the badly-behaved children had left,Mary took the smallest piece,which was all left in the basket.She kissed the cook's hand and went home.

The next day the children were as badly-behaved as before. Mary got a piece of bread almost half the size of the one she got the first day.When she came home,her mother cut the bread open. Many new, shining pieces of silver fell out of it.

Her mother was very worried, and said, “Take the money back to the cook at once.The silver must have fallen into the dough（面团）by accident. Hurry up, Mary” When the little girl gave the rich man her mother's message, he said, “It was no mistake.I had the silver pieces put into the smallest bread for you as a prize. Always be as satisfied, peaceable and thankful as you now are. Go home now, and tell your mother that the money is yours.”

阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项。

Joe was a farmer. He didn't have a good harvest(丰收) for years.

"If God let me control(控制) the weather, everything would get 1 ," he complained(抱怨), "I know better than God does because I am a clever farmer."

God heard his words. "Well, I will give you one year," God replied. "You will be in charge of the weather. Let's see what your crops will grow like."

Joe was so surprised that he couldn't 2 what he heard. But he still wanted to have a try. He shouted, "Sunny!" Suddenly the clouds went away.

He tried again, "Rain!" The sky became cloud y right away and heavy rain poured down. In the following year, he changed the weather between sunny and 3 . Watching his crops growing bigger and bigger, he felt satisfied. When the harvest season came, he carried his basket and sickle(镰刀) to the field, looking forward to a big harvest(收获). But his heart sank(下沉) to the 4 when he found his strong crops had not grow n any grain at all. Puzzled and 5 , he started crying. Once again, God heard him.

"Don't you have your wish to control the weather?" God asked. "Yes, but I just don't understand. I have given them what they 6 . How could it be?" Joe wondered. "That's because you 7 asked for wind, rainstorm, snow or anything that could make the roots(根) stronger. 8 strong roots, of course they won't grow any fruit." After he knew the 9 , he asked God to take back the power.

It turned out that only through life's challenges(挑战) would we harvest the 10 of life.

完形填空

It seems that students have different ways to spend their free time. Let's have a look.

Kate and Julie are good students at school and they spend a lot of time 1 . They spend most of their free time doing their homework and taking lessons. But every weekend, they go to the 2 " I like action movies (动作片). They're so exciting," says Kate."I 3 I will miss something great if I don't see a movie on the weekend," says Julie.

Simon has 5 brothers and 15 cousins. He spends most of his free time with his 4 . They do different things together." There are so many of us coming and going from each other's house all the time. It seems that we're5 having a party. We' re all really close(亲密的) to each other," says Simon.

Judy likes to have some time to herself every day." I see my friends often enough, and I really need to 6 alone(独自地) sometimes," she says. When no one is around, Judy likes to read or listen to music. She finds being alone very 7 and she enjoys it.

Sean and his cousin Roger are 8 lovers and soccer is their favorite. When they're free, they play soccer or9 soccer games on TV." Playing soccer is good for our10 and our mind. We love it a lot," says Sean.

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