Question

When 19-year-old Sophia Giorgi said she was thinking of volunteering to help the Make-A-Wish Foundation (基金會)，nobody understood what she was talking about. But Sophia knew just how important Make – A –Wish could be because this special organization had helped to make a dream come true for one her best friends. We were interested in finding out more, so we went along to meet Sophia listen to what she had to say.
Sophia told us that Make – A –Wish is a worldwide organization that started in the United States in 1980. ” It’s a charity(慈善機構(gòu))that helps children who have got very serious illnesses. Make – A –Wish help children feel happy even though they are sick, by making their wishes and dreams come true, ” Sophia explained.
We asked Sophia how Make – A –Wish had first started. She said it had all begun with a very sick young boy called Chris, who had been dreaming for a long time of becoming a policeman. Sophia said lots of people had wanted to find a way to make Chris’s dream come true ----so, with everybody’s help, Chris, only seven years old at the time, had been a “policeman” for a day. ” when people saw how delighted Chris was when his dream came true, they decided to try and help other sick children too , and that was the beginning of Make – A –Wish, ” explained Sophia.
Sophia also told us the Foundation tries to give children and their families a special, happy time. A Make-A-Wish volunteer visits the families and asks the children what they would wish for if they could have anything in the world. Sophia said the volunteers were important because they were the ones who helped to make the wishes come true. They do this either by providing things that are necessary, or by raising money or helping out in whatever way they can.
【小題1】Sophia found out about Make-A-Wish because her best friend had  .

A．benefited from it	B．volunteered to help it
C．dreamed about it	D．told the author about it

【小題2】According to Sophia, Make-A-Wish       .

A．is an international charity

B．was understood by nobody at first

C．raises money for very poor families

D．started by drawing the interest of the public

【小題3】What is said about Chris in Paragraph3?

A．He has been a policeman since he was seven.

B．He gave people the idea of starting Make-A-Wish

C．He wanted people to help make his dream come true.

D．He was the first child Make-A-Wish helped after it had been set up.

【小題4】Which of the following is true about Make-A-Wish volunteers?

A．They are important for making wishes come true.

B．They try to help children get over their illnesses.

C．They visit sick children to make them feel special.

D．They provide what is necessary to make Make-A-Wish popular.

Answer 1

【小題1】A
【小題2】A
【小題3】B
【小題4】A

解析主旨大意：這篇短文主要通過一個許愿基金會的志愿者——索菲亞之口介紹了許愿基金會的產(chǎn)生歷史及它的社會效果和運行方式。
【小題1】根據(jù)But Sophia knew just how important Make – A –Wish could be because this special organization had helped to make a dream come true for one her best friends. 可知她的一個最好的朋友從中受益匪淺，故選Ａ。
【小題2】根據(jù)Sophia told us that Make – A –Wish is a worldwide organization that started in the United States in 1980. ”It’s a charity(慈善機構(gòu))that helps children who have got very serious illnesses. 描述，可知許愿基金會是一個世界性的慈善機構(gòu)。故選Ａ．
【小題3】根據(jù)when people saw how delighted Chris was when his dream came true, they decided to try and help other sick children too , and that was the beginning of Make – A –Wish, ”可知是莫里斯讓人們產(chǎn)生了創(chuàng)建許愿基金會的想法，故選Ｂ。
【小題4】細(xì)節(jié)題，根據(jù)最后一段Sophia said the volunteers were important because they were the ones who helped to make the wishes come true. 描述，可知選Ａ。
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