题型:阅读选择 题类:模拟题 难易度:普通
安徽省芜湖市2020年初中英语九年级毕业暨升学模拟考试卷(三)(含听力音频)
Moreand more Chinese are having English names, but not everyone is good at findingone. Why not offer them some help? An American girl called Lindsay Jernigan isnow teaching people how to get better English names.
Whileworking in Shanghai, Lindsay met many Chinese people with strange Englishnames. Some of them chose a lucky number of "Seven," a favoritefruit, "Apple," and a cartoon character, "Snow White."Others had names like "July" and "Rabbit."
Afternoticing the problem, Lindsay had an idea. She gave up her job and set up awebsite (bestenglishname.com) to help Chinese people get better English names.
Thewebsite helps people in two ways. After they take an online quiz, people willget five English names based on their personal information, such as age, joband even future plans. This costs 3 yuan. People can also meet with Lindsay totalk about their English names. But that costs more.
Now,about 2,000 people each day visit the website. Most of them are preparing tostudy or work abroad. Lindsay is planning to offer them more help, such ashelping them write resumes(简历).
A. However, his family was very poor. B. He serves people in need door to door. C. Gong is happy to meet his old friends, too. D. Gong made some cards and sent them to the workers. E. When he was young, he learned some skills of haircut. F. In 2004, Gong retired and he found that he had a lot of free time |
Over the past 19 years. Gong Xiuze has used his skills to help others—providing free haircuts for nearly 10, 000 people. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} They are mainly the old the disabled and sanitation workers (环卫工人) .
Gong, 82 years old, used to be a policeman in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} He began to provide free haircuts many years ago. From 1964 to 1968, he stayed in the army. There, he helped others cut their hair. After leaving the army, he became a policeman in Taiyuan and continued (继续) to cut hair for others.
{#blank#}3{#/blank#} When he walked around in the parks in the city, he often found sanitation workers doing cleaning work in the early morning. He thought that they worked really hard, and he wanted to do something for them.
{#blank#}4{#/blank#} With these cards, he told them about his free haircut service. He also gave cards to the disabled. They had difficulty moving, so Gong visited them and helped cut their hair at their homes.
Now, many people look forward to meeting Gong every month. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} "I can feel my value (价值) of life at an old age while helping others, "he said. I will continue the service as long as I can. "
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