Kendall Ciesemier says she’s like any other schoolgirl. She keeps herself busy with school, friends and family. There is one thing, though. Not many other 14-year-olds can say they run a successful charity helping children in Africa. In three years, the eighth-grader from the US has raised $100,000 for African AIDS orphans (孤兒).   

   Kendall knew she had to help the children of Sub-Saharan Africa once their terrible situation was shown on The Oprah Winfrey Show. “I could not imagine how I would go through such a hard time that they would have to go through,” Kendall says. She took $360 of her own savings to help a little girl from Zambia that same night. 

   That was just the start. Kendall sold bread and soft drinks with her classmates at her school to raise more money. She also sold “Bow-Wow Bling Bling” dog necklaces to raise more. The money helps children pay for things like shoes and school uniforms. Kendall says, “A uniform to go to school costs $10. Ten dollars. Here, it’s not a lot of money, but there, that means too much money. I mean, it could change a whole kid’s life.”

   Kendall has had her own health struggles. She was born with a disease called biliary atresia (膽道閉鎖), and had two liver transplants (肝移植) in 2004. “I’m just a girl who wants to help those kids who are in trouble,” said Kendall.

47. How did Kendall feel when she watched The Oprah Winfrey Show?

A. Happy.                 B. Nervous.        C. Worried.         D. Surprised. 

48. What is the second paragraph mainly about?

A. How Kendall started to help African children.

B. How Kendall received money from other people.

C. Why Kendall went through a lot of hard times.

D. Why Kendall was different from other schoolgirls.

49. It can be inferred from the third paragraph that ______.

A. Kendall sells shoes and school uniforms at a low price

B. many African students can’t afford a school uniform

C. Kendall provides the African kids with food and clothes

D. most African kids don’t like to wear school uniforms

50. Which of the following about Kendall is NOT true?

A. She had been seriously ill.      B. She is an American schoolgirl.  

C. She sells uniforms to kids.      D. She runs a successful charity.

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C. No one ever found out exactly what happened to Craig’s family.
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C. people felt sorry for him so he didn't have to work hard.     D. he didn't have a home.
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D．Because the red phone boxes may be useful for some people in emergency.
【小題3】.What is the color of the British post boxes according to the passage ?
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【小題4】.What is John Lumb’s attitude towards pulling down the red phone boxes ?
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A. Driverless vehicles are now legal in the whole USA.

B. Volvo will be the first to sell driverless cars.

C. Driverless cars are pointing us' a faraway future.

D. Google's self-driving cars have covered a long distance.

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B. supports self-driving cars on roads.

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D. improved the self-driving car systems.

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B. They can take the place of drivers now.

C. They can make cars run without fuel.

D. They can help cars run much faster.

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C. They are now too expensive for consumers.

D. They are more dangerous for people on the street.

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B. The biggest challenge of the self-driving cars.

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D．there are celebrations every day

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Britain’s symbolic red phone boxes have become out of date in the age of the mobile, but villages across the country are stepping in to save them, with creative intelligence. Whether as a place to exhibit art, poetry, or even as a tiny library, hundreds of phone boxes have been given a new life by local communities determined to preserve a typical part of British life. In Waterperry, a small village near Oxford, the 120 residents have filled the phone box next to the old house with a pot of flowers, piles of gardening and cooking magazines, and stuck poems on the walls.

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Only three feet by three feet wide, and standing 2.51-meter tall, the phone boxes were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1936 for the 25th anniversary of the reign of King George V.Painted in “Post Office red” to match the post boxes, they were once a typical image of England and the backdrop（背景）to millions of tourist photographs.

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1..Some red phone boxes in Britain have been used for ______ .

  a.selling flowers     b.cooking           c.reading       d.exhibiting art or poetry

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  A.Because millions of people visit Britain to see the red phone boxes.

B.Because the local people could earn a lot of money from the red phone boxes.

C.Because the red phone boxes have already become a symbol of Britain.

D.Because the red phone boxes may be useful for some people in emergency.

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  A.Green.          B.Red.          C.Black.            D.Yellow.

4..What is John Lumb’s attitude towards pulling down the red phone boxes ?

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