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East Daily January 5, 2022, Wednesday

THEY NEED YOUR HELP

This is the chance for you to help those less lucky members. We suggest you give help to the following organizations.

Orphan（mL）House

Children’s toys, books and clothes are needed here. Also we are looking for friendly families who would like to take our children into their homes for a few hours as guests.

If possible, please phone Mrs. Liu at 88776655.

Street Food

In very cold weather, it is no fun being homeless and hungry. We give hot food to at least one hundred people every night. We need new cookers（炊具）. Please give us a hand.

If possible, please phone 88775566.

Youth Club

Have you got an unwanted chair or a CD player? We need them to work in our meeting room! Please call the secretary. Phone number: 88667755.

We’ll be happy to collect anything you can give us. Thank you!

Night Shelter（庇护所）

We offer a warm bed to anyone who has nowhere to go. Although a bed is not expensive, we do not have enough money to pay for enough beds. If you would like to support us some, please send money to us at 15, Landong Street Office. Phone number: 88557766.

1. The passage appeared in the newspaper in the season of ________.

A．

spring

B．

summer

C．

autumn

D．

winter

2. The people who can offer a kind family to an orphan for a few hours may call ________.

A．

88667755

B．

88776655

C．

88775566

D．

88557766

3. To give hot food to so many homeless and hungry people every night, Street Food would like to have ________.

A．

toys and books

B．

new cookers

C．

beds and chairs

D．

CD players

4. People can send their money to Night Shelter ________.

A．	to buy enough beds	B．	to buy some hot food
C．	to get toys and clothes	D．	to take unwanted things

5. Reading the passage, you might like to help these organizations which work for ________.

A．	Mrs. Liu	B．	Landong Street Office
C．	less lucky members	D．	the secretary of Youth Club

科目英语题型阅读理解难度中等

Returning a father's love
He was a single father, raising a 5-year-old boy by himself. He was often worried about his son growing up without a mother to care for him.
One day, he went away on business, leaving the child alone. He worried about the child all the way, not knowing if he had eaten. But his child always told him not to worry. He went home after he finished his work.
When he got home, the child was deep asleep. He was tired out. He was about to sleep when he was surprised to find an overturned（翻倒） bowl of noodles under the quilt, （被子）He hit his sleeping son angrily ,”Why are you so careless , making the quilt dirty ? Who will wash it ?” It was the first time that he had hit his boy after his wife’s death .
“sorry , but ....” the child explained with tears in his eyes , “This is your supper ,Daddy .” In order to let his father eat dinner the moment he got home , the child prepared two bowls of noddles : one for himself , the other for his father . He was afraid that his father’s noodles would get cold , so he placed them under the quilt .
Hearing this , the father hugged his boy tightly without saying a word .
根据短文内容填空，每空填一词。
The father oftenabout his son because the son's mother was_______ .
The______ cooked the noodles and put them under the quilt to keep them_______ .
When the father _____ an overturned bowl of noodles under the quilt , he got _____ .
Afterwhat his son explained, the father felt__________
The boy was so, but he knew how to__________his father's love.

People can find jobs in many ways. Sometimes you can find a job easily, by walking into a local store and looking at its notice board(布告栏). Local stores often have areas for people to put small signs telling the services that they need or they can provide. Such services include looking after children or cleaning houses.
Another popular tool for finding a job is the Internet. For example, people around the world can use the Craigslist Web site to buy things, meet people or find a job. It is said that the site can receive two million new jobs each month.
Another useful way to find a job is through a university. For example, students at the University
of Texas can go to the job center to get help. Many college students like this way better.
At times, some experts(专业人士)can also help people find a job. Susan Miller has her own company called California Job Services in Los Angeles. She says her company helps people find a job by first helping them understand their strengths, goals and interests. Then she provides them with methods to help them find the right job. So with her help, many people have succeeded in finding a good job.
On the Craigslist Web site, you can't________ .

A．find a job	B．meet people
C．sell your old things	D．do some shopping online

According to the passage, college students prefer to find jobs by _________

A．visiting the Internet

B．asking experts for help

C．looking at the notice board

D．going to a job center in the university

The underlined word "strengths" in the last paragraph means_________ .

Which of the following statements is TRUE.？

A．Local stores have few areas for people to put signs

B．You can only get one service on the notice board

C．The Craigslist Web site can get two million new jobs each week

D．Susan Miller has helped many people find a good job successfully

The main idea of this passage is about________ .

A．how to find experts	B．ways of finding a job
C．how to study and work	D．ways of setting up a job center

Clean water is not only important for people to produce food, but necessary for our life. However, many people in Asia and Africa don’t have enough clean water to use. The World Health Organization reports that almost 4,000 children die each day of dirty water or lack of water.
Farmers use 70%~85% of the world fresh water to produce food. People usually don’t pay much attention to how much water industry (工业) uses, but you may be surprised to know that industry uses 59% of the water in developed countries.
Home use takes up only 8% in the world. But as cities grow, more water will be used. The local government has to try to make people use less water.
In 60% of European cities, people are saving water by using less. They even keep waste water for other use.
In Australia, the government has encouraged people to collect rainwater and recycle water from showers for a second use.
The US Environmental Protection Agency has made a water saving program to encourage families and businesses to check their water use and save more water. Scientists and the UN are looking for good water management as the key to solving the problem. We can all work together to protect our fresh water in our daily life.
The underlined phrase “lack of” in the passage means__________.

In developed countries, most water is used by ______.

According to the passage, people save water by using less in ____.

From the passage, we know that scientists good ways to deal with water problem.

The passage is about__________.

It is easier to go down a hill than to climb up a hill, so it is to fall into bad habit than into good ones.
Bad habits do not come suddenly. They come little by little while people do not notice their danger. Some schoolboys first pick up bad habits in school and on the streets. When they cannot finish their lessons, they copy from their classmates. If they see bigger boys smoking, they also want to learn to smoke. When they are older, the habits become so strong that they can never get rid of them. From copying, they fall behind, then learn to steal, and smoking is bad for their health. At last they become worse and worse.
How necessary it is that we get rid of the bad habits at the very beginning.
Bad habits come _____________.

Some schoolboys first pick up little bad habits _____________ .

A．only in class

B．in schools and on the streets

C．when they were born

D．at home

“ get rid of “ here means ___________.

When they grow, bad habits will ____________ .

A．become too strong to get rid of	B．become smaller
C．run away	D．leave

Smoking is__________.

A．harmful only to young people	B．bad for their health
C．not bad for us	D．bad for their study

Reader’s Digest is a monthly magazine. Before the 1980s, it belonged to a privately held company, which was started in 1922 by Lila Bell Wallace and Dewitt Wallace. This magazine is small and easy to carry, just half the size of most American magazines, which caused a phrase in 2005, “America in your pocket.” It is the best selling magazine in the USA. At present, its circulation(发行量)in the USA has reached 10 million copies and the number of the readers there is 38 million. It also has 40 million overseas readers in more than another 70 countries.
This magazines focus(焦点) is not news but more of cultural views because the editors think people now can get timely news from somewhere else. They hope this magazine can give readers something that is about special personal experiences, something the readers can share with their families. In different countries, this magazine provides a window to the world for the local(当地的) readers. Some parts of the magazine are about the local customs and interests of the local readers. The other parts give the local readers information from all over the world.
How often does Reader’s Digest come out in the USA?

A．Once a year.	B．Once a month.
C．Once a week.	D．Once a day.

How many people all over the world read this magazine?

This magazine’s focus includes the following topics EXCEPT(除了) ___________.

A．something about the timely news

B．some special personal experiences

C．some information from all over the world

D．the local customs and interests of the local readers