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【题目】阅读短文, 根据短文内容回答问题。

Adam Braun set up the organization (组织) Pencils of Promise in 2008. Its goal is to make sure all children can go to school. Now, Pencils of Promise is building a new school somewhere every 90 hours. It has helped more than 22,000 children in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Adam Bruan had this idea of helping poor children go to school when he was a college student. He was visiting India when a boy stopped him and asked for money on the street. Mr. Bruan asked the boy what he would want, if he could have anything in the world.

“I thought the answer was going to be ‘a house’ or ‘a car’ or ‘a boat’. His answer was ‘a pencil’. So I gave him my pencil and he was just happy and excited. His answer made me understand the truth that he had never been to school before, and that was also the real life for 57 million children around the world,” Bruan said.

Adam Bruan started working in finance (金融) after he finished college. But he never forgot the boy and the true life for the poor children.

“We live in a world in which every child should have a chance(机会) to go to school, because we already have everything we need to give them good education. We are able to educate every child. So I decided to help change that world,” Bruan said.

Mr. Bruan collected money for his project. He paid for building the first Pencils of Promise school in Laos five years ago. Since then, his organization has helped pay for more than 200 schools in the countryside of Laos, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Ghana.

【1】What is the goal of Pencils of Promise?

【2】How many children has Pencil of Promise helped?

【3】When did Adam Bruan start to have the idea of helping children?

【4】What truth did the boy’s answer tell him?

【5】What does this passage mainly talk about?

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】Its goal is to make sure all children can go to school.

【2】More than 22,000.

【3】When he was a college student

【4】The boy had never been to school before and that was also the real life for 57 million children around the world.

【5】Pencils of Promise’s goal and how it started. / What Pencils of Promise does and how it started.

【解析】

试题分析：本文是关于许诺铅笔基金组织的介绍。介绍了它的历史由来、创立的目的等等。

【1】Its goal is to make sure all children can go to school.细节理解题。题意：许诺铅笔组织的目标是什么？根据第一段第二句：Its goal is to make sure all children can go to school.可知，其目的是确保所有孩子能够上学。故回答：Its goal is to make sure all children can go to school.

【2】More than 22,000.细节理解题。题意：许诺铅笔帮助了多少孩子了？根据第一段最后一句：It has helped more than 22,000 children in Africa, Asia and Latin America.可知，该组织已经帮助了来自非洲、亚洲及拉丁美洲的22,000多孩子。故回答：More than 22,000

【3】When he was a college student细节理解题。题意：Adam Bruan什么时候有了帮助孩子的想法？根据短文第二自然段第一句：Adam Bruan had this idea of helping poor children go to school when he was a college student.可知，他读大学时，有了这种想法。故回答：When he was a college student

【4】The boy had never been to school before and that was also the real life for 57 million children around the world.细节理解题。题意：男孩的回答告诉他什么事实？根据短文第三段中的：His answer made me understand the truth that he had never been to school before, and that was also the real life for 57 million children around the world可知，男孩的回答告诉他他没有上过学，全世界有五千七百万孩子也过着同样的生活。故回答：The boy had never been to school before and that was also the real life for 57 million children around the world.

【5】Pencils of Promise’s goal and how it started. / What Pencils of Promise does and how it started.主旨大意题。题意：短文主要讲述的是什么？本文主要介绍了许诺铅笔基金组织历史由来、创立的目的等等。故回答：Pencils of Promise’s goal and how it started. / What Pencils of Promise does and how it started.