As many as 4 out of every 1,000 infants born today have permanent hearing loss. When parents learn that their child has hearing loss, they are faced with many difficult decisions. These decisions can include choosing therapies and schools, as well as finding financial help for hearing aids or cochlear implants (人工耳蝸). Help Me Hear Foundation is a public charity that gives the gift of hearing to deaf children from families existing on very low incomes around the world. The foundation offers life-changing services for impoverished families, and provides real help for children with hearing impairment who may otherwise be left behind in schools or society due to their lack of hearing.
Help Me Hear Foundation believes that a child’s first years of development are critical. Being able to hear is vital to human, and Help Me Hear Foundation seeks to provide a positive lasting impression on society through its programs. Help Me Hear Foundation has many goals, including relieving the burden on communities with hearing-impaired infants and children, and strengthening the social structure of families and neighborhoods.
Recipients of Help Me Hear Foundation’s benefits receive state-of-the-art hearing devices that otherwise would cost thousands of dollars per child over the course of their lifetime. The Foundation raises money through donations for hearing aids and cochlear implants, which saves recipients and their families on average over $50,000 on related expenses.
The Foundation tries to be a transparent charity, and wants to be a catalyst for allowing deaf and hearing-impaired children to develop in a typical fashion alongside their peers.
Needy families can obtain information on specific services, and find out about deafness education by visiting the Help Me Hear Foundation’s website. The website offers helpful information on how hearing aids work, and how hearing aids ease many of the learning and language challenges that hearing-impaired children deal with on a daily basis.
小題1:Help Me Hear Foundation was probably set up to _____.
A．build schools for deaf children
B．research deaf children’s behavior
C．protect deaf children from being ignored
D．offer real help to poor deaf children
小題2:We learn from the text that _____.
A．the local government is in charge of the foundation
B．the work of the foundation depends on donations
C．even blind children can turn to the foundation
D．poor deaf African children cannot get help from the foundation
小題3:Visit the foundation’s website, and you will learn about _____.
A．the function of hearing aids
B．the specific services the foundation needs
C．the challenges that children face every day
D．the prices of a variety of hearing aids
小題4:For whom is the text most probably written?
A．Poor parents who have deaf children.
B．Doctors who want to improve skills.
C．Students who cannot see the blackboard clearly.
D．Teachers who have deaf children in their class.
小題5:The author writes the text mainly to _____.
A．tell how to avoid permanent hearing loss
B．explain how hard a life deaf children live
C．introduce Help Me Hear Foundation
D．a(chǎn)dvise people to give money to Help Me Hear Foundation

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:A
小題5:C

試題分析：每年有很多兒童天生的就是聾啞的，Help Me Hear Foundation 的建立是為了給貧窮的聾啞兒童更多的幫助。文章具體介紹了Help Me Hear Foundation的運(yùn)作和網(wǎng)站的內(nèi)容。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第二段的句子：Help Me Hear Foundation is a public charity that gives the gift of hearing to deaf children from families existing on very low incomes around the world.可知Help Me Hear Foundation 的建立是為了給貧窮的聾啞兒童更多的幫助，選D
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第四段的句子：The Foundation raises money through donations for hearing aids and cochlear implants, which saves recipients and their families on average over $50,000 on related expenses.
可知基金會(huì)的工作取決于捐贈(zèng)，選B
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章最后一段的句子：The website offers helpful information on how hearing aids work, and how hearing aids ease many of the learning and language challenges that hearing-impaired children deal with on a daily basis.可知參觀基金會(huì)的網(wǎng)站，你會(huì)了解助聽器的功能，選A
小題4:推理題：從文章最后一段的句子：Needy families can obtain information on specific services, and find out about deafness education by visiting the Help Me Hear Foundation’s website.可知這篇文章是寫給有聾啞兒童的父母的，選A
小題5:寫作意圖題：從文章的內(nèi)容：可知文章主要是介紹Help Me Hear Foundation。選C。
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