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高二英语限时阅读训练(三)A One of my wonderful memories is about a Christmas gift. Unlike other gifts, it came without wrap(包装).On September 11th. 1958. Mum gave birth to Richard. After she brought him home from hospital, she put him in my lap, saying. I promised you a gift, and here it is. What an honor! I turned four a month earlier and none of my friends had such a baby doll of their own. I played with it day and night. I sang to it. I told it stories. 1 told it over and over how much I loved it!One morning, however, I found its bed empty. My doll was gone! I cried for it. Mum wept and told me that the poor little thing had been sent to a hospital. It had a fever. For several days, I heard Mum and Dad whispering such words as hopeless, pitiful, and dying, which sounded ominous.Christmas was coming. Dont expect any presents this year. Dad said, pointing at the socks I hung in the living room. If your baby brother lives, thatll be Christmas enough.” As he spoke, his eyes filled with tears. Id never seen him cry before.The phone rang early on Christmas morning. Dad jumped out of bed to answer it. From my bedroom I heard him say. What? Hes all right? He hung up and shouted upstairs. The hospital said we can bring Richard home!Thank God. I heard Mum cry.From the upstairs window, I watched my parents rush out to the car. I had never seen them happy. And I was also full of joy. What a wonderful day! My baby doll would be home. I downstairs. My sacks still hung there flat. But I knew they were not empty; they were filled with love! 56. What happened to the author on September 11 1958 ?A. He received a doll B. He got a Christmas gift. C. He became four years old. D. He got a baby brother.57.What does the underlined word “ominous” in Paragraph 3 probably mean？A. Fearful. B. Boring. C. Difficult. D. Impossible.58. Which word can best describe the feeling of the father when Christmas was coming?A. Excitement. B. Happiness. C. Disappointment. D.Sadness.59. What is the passage mainly about ? A. A sad Christmas day. B. A special Christmas gift.C. Life with a lovely baby. D. Memories of a happy family.BThis is a time of year when we think about giving and receiving presents. Can you find a little extra to give? On this page we suggest a few organizations you might like to help.Littleton Childrens HomeWe DONT want your money, but childrens toys, books and clothes IN GOOD CONDITION would be very welcome.Also, we are looking for friendly families who would take our children into their homes for a few hours or days as guests. You have so muchwill you share it?Phone Sister Thomas on 55671Childrens HospiceWe look after a small number of very sick children. This important work needs skill and love. We cannot continue without gifts or money to pay for more nursing staff. We also need storybooks and toys suitable for quiet games.Please contact the Secretary, Little Childrens Hospice, Newby Road.Street FoodIn the winter weather, its no fun being homeless. Its even worse if youre hungry. We give hot food to at least fifty people every night. Its hard work, but necessary. Can you come and help? If not, can you offer a little money? We use a very old kitchen, and we need some new saucepans(平底锅). Money for new ones would be most welcome indeed.Contact Street Food, c/o Marys House, Elming Way. Littleton Phone 27713 Littleton Youth ClubHave you got an unwanted chair?a record-player?a pot of paint ? Because we can use them!We want to get to work on our meeting room!Please phone 66231 and well be happy to collect anything you can give us. Thank you!The Night Shelter We offer a warm bed for the night to anyone who has nowhere to go. We rent the former Commercial Hotel on Green Street. Although it is not expensive, we never seem to have quite enough money. Can you let us have a few pounds? Any amount, however small, will be such a help.Send it to us at 15, Green St, Littleton. Please make check payable to Night Shelter.60. What kind of people are these organizations designed for?A. Homeless and sick children B. Less fortunate members of our societyC. Hungry people who have no beds to sleep in D. Friendly members of our society to help others61. If you like children and you could offer a happy family to a homeless child, you may contact _. A. Street Food B. The Night Shelter C. Littleton Childrens Home D. Childrens Hospice62. What can be concluded from the passage?A. There are too many social problems in this society.B. People are very poor during the time of giving.C. To offer help is just an excuse for these organizations to collect money.D. There are many organizations trying to solve social problems.63. What kind of things would Littleton Youth Club like to collect?A. Old furniture and second-hand electrical equipment. B. An apartment and some saucepans.C. Hot food and storybooks. D. A sum of money and childrens toys. CWASHINGTONLaura Straub is a very worried woman. Her job is to find families for foreign teenagers who expect to live with American families in the summer. It is not easy, even desperate. “We have many children left to place40 out of 75,” said Straub, who works for a foreign exchange programme called LEC.When foreign exchange programmes started 50 years ago, more families were accommodating. For one thing, more mothers stayed at home. But now, increasing numbers of women work outside the home. Exchange-student programmes have struggled in recent years to sign up host families for the 30, 000 teenagers who come from abroad every year to spend an academic year in the United States, as well as the thousands more who take part in summer programmes. School systems in many parts of the U.S., unhappy about accepting non-taxpaying students, have also strictly limited the number of exchange students they accept. At the same time, the idea of hosting foreign students is becoming less exotic(有异国情调的). In search for host families, who usually receive no pay, exchange programmes are increasingly broadening their requests to include everyone from young couples to the retired. “We are open to many different types of families,” said Vickie Weiner, eastern regional director for ASSE, a 25-year-old programme that sends about 30,000 teenagers on academic-year exchange programmes worldwide. For elderly people, exchange students “keep us youngthey really do”, said Jen Foster, who is hosting 16-year-old Nina Post from Denmark. 64. According to the text, why was it easier for Laura Straub to find American families for foreign students?A. American school systems were better than now. B. The government was happy because it could gain tax.C. Foreign students paid hosting families a lot of money.D. More mothers didnt work outside and could look after children.65. To deal with the problem in recent years, exchange programmes have to _.A. extend the range of host families B. limit the number of the exchange studentsC. borrow much money to pay for the costs D. make hosting foreign students more exotic66. Which of the following is the best title of this passage?A Exchange Students Keep Old People Young. B. Idea of Hosting Students is Different. C. Foreign-exchange Program Is Going on. D U.S. Struggle to Find host Families. DDont you just love ice skating every winter? I am sure, that since winter is approaching, your skates are set to come out, just waiting to be used. Impress your friends with your new trick on how to ice -skate backwards with the help of these tips. Skating backwards on ice is a bit difficult but once you master the basic, there s nothing like it. Follow the steps given below and you will be able to skate backwards in no time. Stand Straight The first thing that you need to do is, stand straight. If you feel that you are falling backwards, then just put your chin up and slightly bend your knees. Dont worry; this happens to all. Confidence is What You NeedThe most important step while learning how to skate backwards, is having enough confidence in yourself and in what you are doing. How can you achieve this? By practice. Just practice rolling backwards down a gentle slop every single day or just by pushing off from a wall or something of that sort. But before you do that, make sure that the place where you are practicing is free from any kind of debris （碎片） because otherwise, you could end up in the hospital due to some accident. While going backwards, just get used to the feeling of moving backwards. One of the important ice skating tips and techniques is that if you feel that you are losing your balance, then scissor （做剪式运动） your skates. Keep practicing this till you are confident about it. Maintain SpeedConfident now? Great! Now the next step is to maintain your speed. While rolling in a straight line with one skate, with the other try sculling （滑浆）, that is, keep pushing yourself backwards with an outwards stroke （滑动）. Now bring the skate which you were using to scull, and then again, repeat the same process. Make sure that you put most of your weight on the skate which is moving straight and not the one with which you are sculling. Now, try the same thing using the other foot. Again keep doing this till you are confident enough. Increase Your Speed NowOnce you are confident that you can scull with either foot, the next thing that you have to do is increase your speed. Try some of your own tricks now. Scull with either foot or with both at the same time. Scull and Be AwareWhile you keep one foot straight, keep sculling with the other. You can do that simultaneously （同时，一起） with both feet. Concentrate on what you are doing but dont get so invol