Question

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.

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.

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.

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

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

3. 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.

4.. 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. advise people to give money to Help Me Hear Foundation

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.B

3.A

4.C

【解析】

試題分析:本文主要介紹了Help Me Hear Foundation這一專(zhuān)門(mén)為世界上貧困家庭的耳聾兒童提供幫助的慈善機(jī)構(gòu)，介紹內(nèi)容包括該組織的宗旨，捐助對(duì)象，以及捐款的來(lái)源等等。

1. 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二段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是一個(gè)幫助貧困家庭的耳聾兒童的一個(gè)機(jī)構(gòu)，選D。

2.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從文章第四段 The Foundation raises money through donations for hearing aids可知Help Me Hear Foundation是通過(guò)募捐集資來(lái)幫助這些耳聾兒童的，選B。

3. 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章對(duì)Help Me Hear Foundation的介紹可知這是一個(gè)幫助貧困家庭兒童的機(jī)構(gòu)，再?gòu)奈恼履┒问拙銷(xiāo)eedy 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(xiě)給家里有耳聾兒童的貧困家庭的家長(zhǎng)們的，選A、

4.主旨大意題。文章通篇內(nèi)容都是對(duì)Help Me Hear Foundation這一機(jī)構(gòu)的介紹，包括組織的宗旨，捐助對(duì)象，捐款的來(lái)源等等，由此判斷答案選C。

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