When 19­year­old Sophia Giorgi said she was thinking of volunteering to

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When 19­year­old Sophia Giorgi said she was thinking of volunteering to help the Make­A­Wish Foundation(基金会), nobody understood what she was talking about. But Sophia knew just how important Make­A­Wish could be becau this special organization had helped to make a dream come true for one of her best friends. We were interested in finding out more, so we went along to meet Sophia and listen to what she had to say.Sophia told us that Make­A­Wish is a worldwide organization that started in the United States in 1980. “It's a charity(慈善机构) that helps children who have got very rious illness. Make­A­Wish helps children feel happy even though they are sick, by making their wishes and dreams come true，” Sophia explained.We asked Sophia how Make­A­Wish 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 ven 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 Make­A­Wish，” explained Sophia.Sophia also told us the Foundation tries to give children and their families a special, happy time. A Make­A­Wish 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 becau 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.小题1:Sophia found out about Make­A­Wish becau her best friend had ________.A．benefited from itB．volunteered to help itC．dreamed about itD．told the author about it小题2:According to Sophia, Make­A­Wish ________.A．is an international charityB．was understood by nobody at firstC．rais money for very poor familiesD．started by drawing the interest of the public小题3:What is said about Chris in Paragraph 3?A．He has been a policeman since he was ven.B．He gave people the idea of starting Make­A­Wish.C．He wanted people to help make his dream come true.D．He was the first child Make­A­Wish helped after it had been t up.小题4:Which of the following is true about Make­A­Wish volunteers?A．They are important for making wishes come true.B．They try to help children get over their illness.C．They visit sick children to make them feel special.D．They provide what is necessary to make Make­A­Wish popular. 题型：未知难度：其他题型

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小题1:A小题2:A小题3:B小题4:A

解析

本文为记叙文。文章通过圆梦基金会的一名19岁的志愿者Sophia Giorgi介绍了该基金会的创建原因、宗旨、服务对象和方式等。小题1:答案：A 细节理解题。根据第一段第二句“But Sophia knew just how important Make­A­Wish could be becau this special organization had helped to make a dream come true for one of her best friends.”可知选A项。小题2:答案：A 细节理解题。根据第二段“Sophia told us that Make­A­Wish is a worldwide organization that started in the United States in 1980.‘It's a charity(慈善机构) that helps children who have got very rious illness...come true，’Sophia explained.”可知答案。小题3:答案：B 细节理解题。根据第三段第二句“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.”以及下文中的“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 Make­A­Wish”可知答案为B项。小题4:答案：A 推理判断题。根据最后一段第三句“Sophia said the volunteers were important becau they were the ones who helped to make the wishes come true.”可知A项正确。疑难词汇解读rai vt.①举起，抬起rai your arm举起你的胳膊②筹款Last week our school had a big fair in order to rai money for the disabled.上周我们学校举行了一场大型义卖会，为残疾人筹款。长难句子分析But Sophia knew just how important Make­A­Wish could be becau this special organization had helped to make a dream come true for one of her best friends.分析：这是一个主从复合句。But Sophia knew为主句，just how important Make­A­Wish could be为宾语从句，作knew的宾语；becau this special organization had helped to make a dream come true for one of her best friends为原因状语从句，说明原因。句意：但Sophia知道圆梦基金是多么重要，因为这个特别的组织曾经帮助她的一个好朋友实现了一个梦想。

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