题型:阅读选择 题类: 难易度:困难
浙江省台州临海市2023-2024学年九年级上学期英语期末测试卷
①Students at a primary school in California, with the help of their art teacher Jessica Martin created a telephone hotline that people can call to get cheerful advice from kids during difficult times. In just days, the hotline began getting thousands of calls an hour.
②Most people agree that the last couple of years have been stressful. Ms. Martin thought her students just might have the magic words needed to bring calm to people. Along with artist Asherah Weiss and students from kindergarten(幼儿园) to sixth grade, she worked on a project they called"PepToc". The project had two parts— one was the hotline and the other was creating encouraging posters. They had the same basic question for all the students:" What could you say to help or encourage someone else?"
③Students working on the hotline thought of what they would like to say. When they were ready, Ms. Martin recorded each one. Later, she put them into different parts of the telephone hotline. It is available in English and Spanish. For example, pressing I brings up ideas for people who are" feeling mad or nervous." Helpful suggestions include" hit your pillow(枕头)," or" ▲ ". Pressing 2 results in" words of encouragement." This includes messages like" The world is a better place with you in it." Besides, it offers the happy voices of kids sharing positive(积极的) messages and the sounds of children laughing—a sound certain to bring a smile to anyone's face.
④Other students took part in making encouraging posters, which were put up around the town. Many posters had pieces of paper that people passing by could tear off(撕掉) and take with them. For example, one poster said" If you are mad, think of positive thoughts," and had tear- off paper reminding people to" Be happy."
⑤Ms. Martin thought the project would only draw interest from people near the school. But the hotline was soon getting hundreds of calls a day and then, thousands of calls an hour. Word of the hotline spread quickly on Internet. The hotline has become popular with stressed adults, patients in hospitals, older people in homes, and others who just want to hear the happy voices of children.
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