Donation Proposal

      Caring for disadvantaged school-age children and making donations to build the China Daily Readers Hope School

    Located in a poor remote mountainous area in central Gansu Province，Dongxiang Autonomous County（自治县）has a population of 266，900，of which 83．97 per cent are of Dongxiang ethnic community．Harsh natural conditions and dry weather have left the Dongxiang people living in poverty．To solve all these needs and offer caring and selfless support，China Daily is teaming up with the China Youth Development Foundation to offer the following proposal to China Daily readers：caring for disadvantaged school-age children in a poor mountainous area and make donations to build China Daily Readers Hope School．

    The donations will be managed by the China Youth Development Foundation．The donations will be strictly used for building a Hope School in the area-the China Daily Readers Hope Sch001．According to local situation，about 200，000 yuan（US$26，315） can help enlarge a school and about 300，000 yuan（US$39，500）can help build a new one．

    The names 0f donors whose personal donations are more than 1，000 yuan（US$132） and group donations that are more than 10，000 yuan（US$1，320）will be carved on a monument at the school to mark the contributions．China Daily will also open a special column to follow the development of the China Daily Readers Hope School and give timely reports on the loving and caring stories of the donors．

    Since the start of the China Daily Readers Hope School project in 2002，three schools-the No．1 China Daily Readers Hope Primary School，the Nutuping Hope Primary School and the No．2 China Daily Readers Hope Primary School—have been established and one，Yangling Township Dayang Village Project Hope School，has been expanded thanks to the donations．

    We, on behalf of China Daily，China Youth Development Foundation and the People's Government of Dongxiang County，express our heartfelt thanks and respect to the readers of China Daily，who have been showing care and support for the project．

Donation Address：                          Foreign currency account Numbers：

China Youth Development Foundation              00023608091014（US$）

A一1 Houyuan’ensi Hutong，Jiaodaokou          00023608091013（HK$）

Nandajie，Beijing 100009，China                00038408091027（JPY）

Name of Banking Institution：                    Name on Account：

Agricultural Bank of China，Belling               China Youth Development Foundation

Jiaodaokou Branch（RMB）                     Transaction Context：

RMB Account Number：                        China Daily Readers Hope School

11—191301040003296 Tel：（86—10）84030206，64918366

Name of Banking Institution：                    E-mail：yanshi@cydf．org．cn

Headquarter Office。Bank of China（Foreign Currencies）

1．Anyone can donate money in the following currencies except         ．

      A．US$                    B．JPY                     C．EURO                   D．RMB

2．What’s the main purpose of writing the passage?

      A．To inform readers of the China Daily Readers Hope Sch001．

      B．To call on readers to donate money for the disadvantaged school—age children．

      C．To introduce the condition of Dongxiang Autonomous County．

      D．To express thanks to the donors．

3．What organization is responsible for managing the donations?

      A．China Daily．                                             B．China Youth Development Foundation．

      C．China Daily Readers Hope School．             D．Dongxiang Autonomous County．

4．What can we infer after reading the passage?

      A．Dongxiang ethnic community makes up about half of the population of the county．

      B．China Daily has covered some loving stories about donors．

      C．Donors of a large sum of money will be remembered forever．

      D．About 700，000 yuan has been raised since 2002．

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You may admire both the romantic love story and the mysterious city of Rome in the movie Roman Holiday. If you are planning to visit Rome, here are some cultural dos and don’ts you should know.

Coffee Etiquette: Italian breakfast consists of pastry and a cup of Cappuccino or shot of espresso. Cappuccino is generally a morning drink and is not drunk after noon by real Italians. A post-dinner espresso, however, is a common practice.

Dinner Rules: Guests are expected to arrive for dinner reservations at least fifteen minutes late. In many restaurants, printed menus are for tourists. Regular patrons know to ask for the daily specials, which typically feature the freshest ingredients. Bread, is rarely together with butter or olive oil.

Drink the Water: Rome has plenty of public water fountains, and real Romans and their dogs always drink directly from them. Many people also refill their water bottle from these fountains.

Mind the Traffic: Unless there's a traffic light, or you are in a crosswalk, don't expect cars  to stop for you. Though crosswalks go first, in a car – crazy city, still you’d better keep cautious and walk cautiously.

Money: Always have some euros with you. Most major hotels, restaurants, and shops take credit cards, but many smaller operations either will either be unwilling to accept them for smaller purchases or do not accept credit cards at all. ATMs are available around the city and at the airports.

About Soccer: Most Italian men are passionate about their soccer. Arm yourself with some knowledge of Italy's soccer scene, and you will find ready conversation partners almost everywhere.

The Romans: The people here love to share their thoughts, opinions and emotions. They are creative, passionate, playful, occasionally rude or vain but always entertaining, and almost always good – humored.

Theme	Dos and Don’ts in Rome
Eating	▲Always have your breakfast with a cup of drink, Cappuccino or espresso (76)          . ▲Arrive at least fifteen minutes last if you (77)         for dinner. ▲Bread, when served, is rarely (78)       by butter or olive oil. ▲(79)      some daily specials in restaurants directly, as regular customers do.
Drinking	▲Public water fountains are always (80)          by real Romans and their dogs. ▲Refill your water bottles from the fountains, too.
Traffic rules	▲Never expect cars to stop for you unless in a crosswalk or there is a traffic light. ▲When you are in a crosswalk, you’d better keep (81)       .
(82)	▲Have some euros with you for smaller (83)         , because not all shops take credit cards.
Communicating	▲Start your (84)           with local people by talking about Italian soccer and they will be (85)       to share their opinions with you.

 

 

Directions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from the list A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.?

A．The Decade of Internet Revolution

B．The Era of National Misfortune

C．The Era of Misplaced Anxiety

D．The Decade of Great Feats

E. The Decade of Youth Heroism in Distress

F. The Decade of Great Imbalances

The first decade of the new millennium has come to an end. It’s become a sort of habit to give a representative name to each decade, so, once again, an effort is under way to find a term to fit the years from 2000 to 2009.

80. __________

That shouldn’t be too hard a job for us here in China. First, no country has seen economic growth in the last decade like this. The economy quadrupled, with almost double-digit annual growth, and GDP went from No.6 to No.3. It’s now only slight below that of Japan, and many are saying that it will only be another year or two before we have the world’s second largest economy. In addition, in 2008, China was host to the Olympics, possibly the best organized and hosted Games over, and that impressed the world and boosted Chinese confidence.

81. _________

The economy developed at a breakneck pace, and personal wealth mushroomed--- for many, anyway. Salaries multiplied, stock market investment and real estate were a bubble, then burst, then became a bubble again. China now has one of the largest collections of millionaires and billionaires in the world, and has helped keep the world’s luxury products industry from going under. Meanwhile, the earnings gap has widened in an unprecedented way. Millions are still living near the poverty line and the urban poor has become an obvious problem.

82. _________

Yet, how could we think of the changes without including the Internet? If one thing can be credited with making the most changes in people’s lives, it should be the World Wide Web. We learned to use e-mail, chatrooms, and BBS at the beginning of the decade, and, after witnessing one dotcom burst, it’s time for the second Internet entrepreneurial wave. This time, however, it’s in the form of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Kaixin, as well as video-sites like Youtube and Tudou.

83. __________

Oh, and who could forget the many misfortunes, and the tragedies, that befell China in the last 10 years: mining accidents that killed dozens at a time, a public health crisis like SARS, or the disastrous Wenchuan earthquake that destroyed towns and thousands of family. We seem to have a disproportionate share of tragic things happening here. At the same time, the Chinese, especially  younger ones, have shown an amazing ability to recover from these disasters and be stronger and more unified. Millions of young volunteers poured into Sichuan to offer their help, as they did in other emergencies.

84. ___________

The West has a generally darker view of this past decade. One of The New York Times articles in mid-November said that, in thinking about a name from the American point of view, it seems difficult to find the right expression for so much upheaval, change, and worry: the Y2K millennium bug, which never caused much damage and chaos, the alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which were never found; and so on. The United State launched two wars after 9/11, but never realized that the real threat to American interests lay in its own economy and finances until the sub-prime crisis, erupted in 2007.

Others find it an almost impossible job to name the decade, saying it will take many years to name the 2000s because it will take many years to figure out what we feel that we lost during that period.