Our hero’s origin story started this past Feb...

Our hero’s origin story started this past February in the Perine family living room in Birmingham, Alabama. Austin, a 4-year-old boy, and his father, Tad Perine, were watching a program on Animal Planet about a mother panda leaving her cubs. “I told him that the cubs would be homeless for a while,” Tad says. “Austin didn’t know what homelessness meant, but he was sad and wanted to know more.”

Seeing this as a teachable moment, Tad took Austin to the Firehouse Ministries, a local shelter that provides housing, food, and other services for homeless men. As they drove by the redbrick building, they saw a group of 25 homeless men standing on the street corner. “Dad, they look sad.” Austin said. “Can we take them some food and make them smile?” That day, Austin used his allowance to buy each man a Burger King sandwich and handed the food out himself. Seeing what their presence meant to the men at the ministry, Austin and Tad returned the next week.

After he returned every week for five weeks, word of Austin’s acts of kindness spread through social media and national news outlets. Burger King jumped aboard, agreeing to donate $1,000 a month for an entire year toward the cause. Soon, churches and shelters across the country began inviting Austin to come to distribute food in other areas. Whereas before Austin and Tad could feed 25 to 50 people at a time; now, thanks to corporate and community support, they can feed 800 to 2,000 people at once.

As for Austin, he continues to give out food, smiles, and his inspirational message of love. “It makes me feel like I’m saving the day.”

1.How does Austin feel when seeing the TV program?

A. Surprised B. Joyful

C. Grateful D. Unhappy

2.Why did Tad drive Austin to the local shelter?

A. To donate some money for the homeless.

B. To ask for some help from the homeless.

C. To teach him the meaning of homelessness.

D. To introduce Austin to the staff there.

3.What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 3?

A. To confirm Austin’s influence.

B. To praise Burger King’s donation.

C. To thank the community’s support

D. To convey appreciation of the homeless.

4.What can be a suitable title for the text?

A. A Teachable Moment

B. A Boy Fighting Against Hunger

C. A Kind Family Helping the Poor

D. Tad’s Inspirational Message of Love

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The first snow didn’t fall until February in our province this year, ________ was unexpected.

A. it             B. which           C. that              D. what

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This site contains 100 original short stories about life in America. These stories are written for ESL(English as a second language ) learners who are, at least, high beginners. We want to help ESL students learn English as quickly and effortlessly as possible. Learning should be interesting, not boring. We hope that learners will find that these stories are of some help to improve their English.

The stories have interesting topics and are easy to understand. Each story comes with an audio narrative so that learners can listen as they read. The audio requires downloading the free Real Player. Each story contains a search for pictures, definitions, and pronunciation.“ Following each story are four sets of exercises, and each containing 10 items.

Exercise A is “Yes / No Questions”. The learner is asked questions like, “Does Sara have children?” The learner can then type in, “Yes, she does.” Then the learner can check whether it’s the right answer or not.

Exercise B is “Wh-Questions”. The learner is asked questions like, “Where does Sara live?” The learner can then type in, “She lives in Pasadena.” Then the learner can check his answer.

Exercise C is “Ask Questions”. The learner is given an answer like, “They have two children.” The learner must then type in a question like, “How many children do they have?”The learner can then check to see whether he is correct or not. Exercise D is “Dictation”. The learner listens to a sentence. Most of the sentences duplicate  the sentences in the stories. The learner types the dictation and then checks to see whether he is correct or not.

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1.Where does this passage come from?

2.The main purpose of this passage is to _____.

3.All of the following statements are correct EXCEPT _______.

4.If you want to improve your listening ability, you may mainly do some practice in _____.

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This story starts with my two kids. We were hiking in the Oakland woods when my daughter noticed some plastic litter in a creek. She looked at me and said, "Daddy? That doesn’t go there”.

When she said that, it reminded me of my summer camp. On the morning of that camping day, right before they’d let our anxious parents come through the gates, our camp director would say Quick! Everyone pick up five pieces of litter, "We got one hundred kids each picking up five pieces, and pretty soon, we got a much cleaner camp. So I thought, why not apply that crowdsourced cleanup model to the entire planet? And that was the inspiration for Literati. The goal is to create a litter-free world. Let me show you how it started. I took a picture of a cigarette using Instagram.

Then I took another photo. and another. And at the end of a few days, I had 50 photos on my hone and I had picked up each piece, and I realized that I was keeping a record of the positive impact I was having on the planet. That’s 50 fewer things you might see, or you might step on, or some bird might eat. So I started telling people what I was doing, and they started participating. I realized that Litterati was more than just pretty pictures; we were becoming a community that was collecting data. Each photo tells a story. It tells us who picked up what, a geo-tag tells us where and a time stamp tells us when. Gradually, the community grew.

Litter —it's blending into the back ground of our lives. But what if we brought it to the fore front? What if we understood exactly what was on our streets, our sidewalks and our school yards?

How might we use that data to make a difference?

1.From the text we can tell Litterati is probably_______

A. a hi-tech company　　 B. a reading software

C. a non-profit app　　 D. a well-known magazine

2.What does the author suggest by mentioning the inspiration from the camping director?

A. Many hands make light work.　　 B. A good beginning is half done

C. Birds of a feather flock together.　　 D. A candle lights others and consumes itself.

3.What are the paragraphs following the text likely to deal with?

A. To present the reasons for so much litter

B. To appeal to people to use garbage classification.

C. To tell readers what measures to take to handle litter

D. To show more statistics about what they have done with litter

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The hero’s story ________ differently in the newspapers.

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The hero’s story ________ differently in the newspapers.

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The hero’s story ________ differently in the newspapers .

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The hero's story________differently in the newspapers .

A．was reported   B．was reporting C．reports     D．reported

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When does the rainy season start?

A. In January. B. In February C. In November

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