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（23-24高二上·黑龙江鸡西·期末）I went to South Africa for the first time as a lone travelling female with
a love for wildlife when I just graduated from high school.
During my six-month stay there, I spent the last 4 weeks at GVI Karongwe. The GVI members were so helpful
and were so kind and lovely too when I was there. It was one of the easiest and best-organised programs I spent my
time on.
Every day we collected information on a variety of animals for research. I have to say it changed my life in so
many ways and actually guided me on my path to the job I am doing now.
The first week was pretty busy with training to prepare us for our job in the bush (灌木) and teach us about
mammals (哺乳动物), birds and other animals, tracks and signs as well as how to use the equipment (设备), take
care of the cars and clean and cook for a house of more than 20 people. The training made a world of difference to
anyone who was nervous about being new to the South African wilderness and wanted to do the job well. I also made
friends with people from all over the world and they were of all ages and backgrounds, united by the common goal
to contribute to wildlife protection in South Africa, which was so amazing!
GVI programs provide a fantastic way to learn and contribute to the community and wildlife in a hands-on
way. It has put me on the path of wildlife research for the rest of my life!
1．Why did the author go to South Africa at first?
A．To do a voluntary job there. B．To visit the wild animals there.
C．To join in the GVI program there. D．To carry out research there.
2．What did the author think of the training provided at the first week?
A．It was necessary and important. B．It was relaxing and creative.
C．It was difficult. D．It was too long.
3．What can we learn about the GVI program in South Africa?
A．It offers free training and accommodation. B．It helped the author choose her career.
C．Its members all have rich knowledge of wildlife. D．Its purpose is to encourage visits to South Africa.
4．What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?
A．To give a positive review of the GVI program. B．To tell us the importance of animal protection.
C．To tell us what she learned in South Africa. D．To share her experiences in South Africa.
学学科科网网（（北北京京））股股份份有有限限公公司司（23-24高二上·黑龙江鸡西·期末）I played on the high school basketball team. I played the ball before the
game started, and then sat on the bench (长凳) cheering for guys who were actually going to play in the game. When
we won, I hugged (拥抱) my teammates.
I enjoyed that. But I didn’t know how my dad felt about my role. I imagined it was hard for him. Dad was a
gifted athlete. And my older brothers were sports stars at college. I was not sure how he felt about going to games to
watch his son SIT. Still, Dad was always there in his suit and tie. After the game, he’d come up to me, smile, shake
my hand and say “Good game!”, even though I did nothing to make the game good. It changed until the last game of
the season.
It was a great day for our team — we were up by about 20 with two minutes left. The coach suddenly looked
towards me and said, “Walker! You’re in!” The next two minutes seemed not real to me. I remember running up and
down the field a few times. When someone started counting down the last seconds, my teammate passed the ball to
me. I heard guys on the bench shouting “Shoot (投篮)!” as I faced the basket and shot. We won. But then I didn’t
know what to do. I was unprepared for a time when I had hit a last second shot. Naturally, I looked for Dad. He was
there, smiling at me as he always did.
Whether good times or bad, Dad was always there to smile, to support and to love. Now I’m in my 50s with a
teenage basketball player in my family. I keep trying to be there, no matter what, because I know what it can mean.
1．What was the author’s role?
A．He was a green hand. B．He gave players suggestions.
C．He was a fan of the basketball team. D．He replaced those who couldn’t play.
2．How did the author feel after he scored?
A．Lost. B．Tired. C．Calm. D．Encouraged.
3．What can be a suitable title for the text?
A．A Sports-Loving Family B．A Successful Basketball Match
C．Dad Always Being There D．Dad Helping Me Succeed
（23-24高二上·江西上饶·期末）My 83-year-old mother came to live with me a year ago last November.
She was very ill and I had to put my life on hold to care for her.
Each morning, I got her up and dressed her and made her breakfast and sat with her. I rushed for a bowl when
she felt sick, and lit fires to keep her warm. I cooked and talked her into eating some. It’s a hard job caring for a
sick or dying parent, whoever you are. But it was especially hard for me, I feel, because I am a doctor myself. I
学学科科网网（（北北京京））股股份份有有限限公公司司couldn’t help looking at her in two different ways. The medical professional saw a body and checked it with the cold
heart that medicine requires. But the daughter saw the woman who had given birth to me, sent me off to college and
had been an important role for a long time in my life for over half a century.
Also, my mother didn’t appreciate how hard it was for me to care for her. I remember an exchange between
her and the nurse who came to see her once a week.
“You could get some more help with care.” “Oh, I don’t think I need that,” Mom said.
Mom didn’t understand that the help would have taken some of the hard work off me. None of the treatments
her doctors gave her worked, and finally her life became about free of pain. She refused painkillers (止痛药) for a
long time, but finally the pain beat her. And when she accepted painkillers she accepted the fact that she would die.
Illness and needs took us across personal boundaries (边界) I’d never considered before. And yet, while living
and being and dying with Mom I saw something valuable coming. We became closer. We shared so many stories
from our past that it was as if our memories had become one.
In the past our relationship had been difficult. We had often argued. But when the end came, both of us simply
accepted that we looked at the world in different ways. We were daughter and mother and we loved each other. That
was all that mattered.
1．Why was taking care of her mom especially hard for the writer?
A．She was too busy living her own life.
B．She and her mom had a difficult relationship.
C．She was too old to look after her mom carefully.
D．She regarded her mom both as a patient and a loved one.
2．When the writer heard the conversation between her mom and the nurse, ______.
A．she felt very upset. B．she was surprised.
C．she showed her thanks to the nurse. D．she thought she needed a more helpful nurse.
3．We can infer from the passage that ______.
A．the writer’s mom was a kind and gentle woman.
B．it was easier for the writer to take care of her mom as a doctor.
C．the writer was getting on better with her mom while taking care of her.
D．the writer’s mom had difficulty understanding what the nurse said.
4．What did the writer learn from the experience of looking after her sick mother?
A．Love was more important than differences. B．Being alive was the most important thing.
C．We should learn to understand other people. D．It was better for family members to live their own.
学学科科网网（（北北京京））股股份份有有限限公公司司（23-24高二上·浙江宁波·期末）Growing up on a mountain farm in Tyrol, Fritz enjoyed watching how cows
and horses interacted with each other more freely, once they’d been led out of the barn and into pasture. It was what
he observed in his boyhood that took root in his pursuit of becoming a biologist. After he finished his study at
university. Fritz landed work at Austria’s Konrad Lorenz Research Center, raising raven chicks by hand and teaching
graylag geese how to open boxes as he pursued his PhD．Working this closely with free-living animals was exactly
what he’d dreamed of as a boy.
In 1997, a zoo gave the research center its first northern bald ibis chicks (隐鹮) Nowhere near as teachable as
geese—and not even close to super intelligent ravens—the ibises frustrated most of the scientists. But Fritz was
fascinated. He devoted himself to taking care of them. After the ibises were first released back into the wild more
than 20 years ago, Fritz learned that spending generations in zoo hadn’t reduced their drive to migrate (迁徙), though
it did leave them geographically uninformed. In their search for “south”, some ended up in Russia. What the ibises
needed, Fritz thought, was a guide.
Fritz decided he would teach the birds a new, safer migration route by guiding them himself in a tiny aircraft.
And he was confident he could succeed in this daring, unconventional plan—because he had done it before. “Around
that time, the movie ‘Fly Away Home’ was a huge hit with us biologists,” Fritz says. When he announced that he’d
do the same with the ibises, he was initially laughed at. But Fritz didn’t give up. He modified an ultralight aircraft so
it would travel at speeds slow enough for his winged students to keep up. He had been his young pupils’ only provider
of food, love and hugs since they were just a few days old, and the ibises eagerly followed their teacher, who just
happened to pilot a fairly noisy machine.
In 2004, three years after some initially bumpy (颠簸的) experiments, Fritz led the first batch of birds from
Austria to Italy, and has since led 15 such migrations. Over that time, he has rewilded 277 young ibises, many of
which then started to pass the route on to their own young.
1．What determined Fritz’s career choice?
A．Fritz’s childhood observation. B．Fritz’s passion for biology.
C．Fritz’s growth environment. D．Fritz’s interaction with animals.
2．What disappointed the scientists about ibis chicks?
A．They are easy to get lost in the migration.
B．They are lacking in the desire to migrate.
C．They are accustomed to the life in the zoo.
学学科科网网（（北北京京））股股份份有有限限公公司司D．They are strikingly far from easy to teach.
3．Why did Fritz decide to teach the ibises a new migration route?
A．The ibises were too awkward to find a new migration route.
B．The ibises needed a guide for lack of geographical knowledge.
C．Fritz wanted to prove that he could succeed in a daring plan.
D．Fritz wanted to recreate a touching scene of a popular movie.
4．What is Fritz like according to the passage?
A．sensitive but courageous. B．innovative but demanding.
C．persistent and insightful. D．enthusiastic and cooperative.
（23-24高二上·山东青岛·期末）An impressive invention made by a 17-year-old teenager, called Anna Du,
is helping to clean up small pieces of plastic from the ocean.
While walking along her local beaches in Massachusetts, the young student began collecting waste plastic bags
and bottles. But what she noticed was a large number of tiny pieces of plastic or microplastics that were impossible
to pick up. At just 12 years old, Du set out to solve the problem. After testing a few prototypes(原型)in her backyard,
she invented a remotely operated vehicle that uses the infrared camera(红外摄像机)to detect microplastics on the
ocean floor. More recently, Du has also created a simulation(模拟)model that uses artificial intelligence to predict
where microplastics are located.
Du’s robot invention has earned her awards at top science fairs in the US, and she’s now a nationally recognized
advocate for microplastic awareness and pollution prevention. “When I first started doing science fairs, I had no idea
that a young girl without lots of money and just a little advanced engineering knowledge could make a difference in
the world. I’ve learned that I truly love working on a problem that’s so much larger than me,” Du said.
Du has also released a new book to help spread the word not only about the dangers of microplastics but also
about the ways to relieve the problem. Titled Microplastics &Me, the book follows Du’s own story of how she
went from worrying about the environment to designing award-winning solutions. Writing for kids her own age, the
young girl alerts her readers to the threat of microplastic pollution and urges them to care about the environment. The
book hopes to encourage young students to get into science, technology, engineering and math(STEM)subjects and
to inspire a new generation of inventors and engineers. What’s more, Du has even raised more than $7,000 to distribute
the book free to kids and libraries in high-need communities.
1．What inspired Du to make the invention?
A．There was too much rubbish along the beaches. B．The plastics were too small to collect by hand.
学学科科网网（（北北京京））股股份份有有限限公公司司C．The sea was polluted seriously. D．She was interested in AI.
2．What can we learn about Du from paragraph 3?
A．She has a spirit of challenge. B．She is too poor to make a difference.
C．She doesn’t study hard in engineering. D．She wins international recognition.
3．In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?
A．Innovation. B．Voice. C．Culture. D．Art.
4．Why does Du write the book Microplastics & Me?
A．To inspire readers to share their stories.
B．To raise the awareness of microplastics pollution.
C．To encourage high schools to offer STEM subjects.
D．To collect money for kids in high-need communities.
（23-24高二上·青海西宁·期末）March 12 was my last typical day in the classroom before COVID-19 changed
everything. When my district closed the following day, I assumed, as many did, that this was a temporary move.
However, the closure did not end as quickly as we expected. As the closure continued, while I was glad that none of
my students was infected with the virus, I began to worry that the growth of reading ability my first-graders and I
worked so hard for would gradually disappear.
It is reported that only one-third of students in the US achieved reading proficiency at grade level in 2019. As
the years go by, the gaps become larger, and students who are reading below grade level seldom catch up with their
peers. These students often encounter significant social and emotional challenges as they become increasingly aware
of their differences from their classmates. And school closures caused by COVID-19 have made the situation even
worse.
So when my district reopened in the fall, we were faced with difficult decisions about how to best deliver
instruction. At our school, all students have to take a series of short screening tests to assess reading ability at the
beginning of the school year. Considering that one size cannot fit all, I adjusted my teaching plans in time throughout
the year. If a student received a low score in a particular area, I’d conduct a follow-up assessment to learn about the
real cause of the difficulty.
I also conducted exercises to help students practice reading skills. Using other online platforms, I created
interactive
lessons with other teachers, in which students practiced reading and writing specific words, reading full sentences
and answering corresponding comprehension questions. The platforms enabled us to see all students’ screens at once
学学科科网网（（北北京京））股股份份有有限限公公司司and gauge which students were on target and needed additional support. They also provided information for planning
subsequent lessons.
As a teacher, I know I cannot make all children reach proficiency in literacy (读写能力) myself, but I believe
what I am doing can really make a difference to their lives, and I will go on with it.
1．What did the author worry about during the closure?
A．The health condition of her students.
B．The decline in her enthusiasm for work.
C．The uncertainty about the duration of the closure.
D．The influence of closure on students’ reading ability.
2．What did the author do to help her students improve their reading ability?
A．She motivated students to analyze their own problems.
B．She adapted teaching strategies to suit her students’ needs.
C．She used technology to make reading exercises more interesting.
D．She instructed students to take screening tests before each class.
3．What does the underlined word “gauge” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A．Judge. B．Explain. C．Control. D．Change.
4．Which of the following words can best describe the author?
A．Strict and wise. B．Responsible and flexible.
C．Sensitive and optimistic. D．Humorous and considerate.
（23-24高二上·福建福州·期末）When I was small, my mother and I would walk to our local library in
Franklin Square. As we didn’t always have access to a reliable car, walking hand in hand was the most convenient
way to get anywhere. It was at story time for children that both my mother and I made lasting friendships.
Today, I am fortunate to live around the corner from the Gold Coast Public Library in Glen Head and a short
walk to the Sea Cliff Children’s Library. My 18-month-old son, Colin, and I find ourselves in Sea Cliff several times a
week, meeting and making friends. Well, that is what many people don’t understand — a library is more than books;
it’s a community.
Sure, the library in Franklin Square was the place where I was introduced to Judy Blume novels. But it was also
the place where I got my first e-mail address in 1997. At the library, friends and I learned how to research colleges
and search for scholarships on the Internet. The library was the place where we sometimes giggled (咯咯地笑) too
loudly, and where the librarians knew us by name. Their knowing our names wasn’t a bad thing. When I came home
学学科科网网（（北北京京））股股份份有有限限公公司司from my first term at Binghamton University, Mary LaRosa, the librarian at the Franklin Square library offered me
my first teaching job.
I now teach reading at Nassau Community College. My students are often amazed that they can check out books
via their smartphones and virtually visit a variety of Long Island libraries. The app used by Nassau and Suffolk county
public libraries, as well as the college library, makes their homework easier by helping them find resources. Even
though they can’t always easily visit their local libraries, the library is always with them.
1．Why does the author consider herself lucky today?
A．She has become her mother’s best friend.
B．She has access to a reliable car now.
C．She can meet friends at the library.
D．She lives close to libraries.
2．What did the author do at the library according to the passage?
A．She told stories to her mother. B．She initially read Judy Blume novels.
C．She got her current teaching job. D．She learned how to go online.
3．What is the author’s attitude to her students’ way of visiting libraries?
A．Cautious. B．Ambiguous. C．Favourable. D．Disapproving.
4．Why does the author write the text?
A．To express how libraries change.
B．To introduce her favourite libraries.
C．To express her deep concern for libraries.
D．To discuss why libraries are important.
（23-24高二上·山东枣庄·期末）The walls of our house were supposed to be white. But I never remember
them being white. At first, they were gray, then turning black. My father was a coal worker. He made charcoal (木
炭) in our house. Have you ever seen charcoal being made? The little bags you buy in the store for barbeque come
from somewhere, and honestly, it’s a very dirty business.
I remember one day I was bagging up the charcoal with my dad, and it was really cold and raining. All we had
was the tiny roof over our heads. After a few hours, I got to go to school, where it was warm. My dad stayed out,
working all day. If he didn’t sell that day, maybe we wouldn’t have enough to eat. I thought to myself: At some point,
everything is going to change.
For this, I owe football everything. I started to play football early. I played so much football that every two
学学科科网网（（北北京京））股股份份有有限限公公司司months, my boots would break apart. When I was seven, I must have been pretty good, because I scored 64 goals for
my neighborhood team. That year, my dad got a call from a coach saying they wanted me to play there. My dad
asked, “Oh, it’s too far away. Nine kilometers. How will we get him there?” My mom said, “No, no, no! Don’t worry!
I’ll take him!” And that is when Graciela was born.
Graciela was an old yellow bicycle that my mother would use to drive me to the training ground every day. It
had a little basket in the front. Imagine this: A woman biking through town with a little boy on the back and a bag in
the basket with his boots. Up hills. Down hills. Through the dangerous neighborhoods. In the rain. In the cold. In the
dark. Graciela got us where we needed to go.
Nowadays, people see me on YouTube, watch the World Cup and witness how I won the competition, but they
don’t know the journey. They don’t know about my living room walls turning from white to black. They don’t know
about my father working under a little roof. They don’t know about my mother riding Graciela through the rain and
the cold.
1．Why did the walls of the author’s house turn black?
A．His family wanted to change the look of their old house.
B．The black color could cover up his father’s dirty business.
C．The author often had indoor barbeques using charcoal.
D．There was a lot of coal dust produced from his father’s work.
2．What can we learn about Graciela?
A．Graciela was a yellow bicycle with a basket.
B．Graciela was named after the author’s mother.
C．Graciela was born when the author was nine.
D．Graciela was given to the author.
3．Which of the good qualities do the author and his parents have in common?
A．Determined. B．Confident. C．Ambitious. D．Easy-going.
4．What does the author intend to tell us?
A．Time and tide wait for no man.
B．Happiness is a choice, not a result.
C．One who fears failure limits his activities.
D．There is always an unknown story behind every glory.
学学科科网网（（北北京京））股股份份有有限限公公司司（23-24高二上·陕西汉中·期末）For the creatively minded, snow represents a large blank canvas (空白画
布) for art. But often, it’s limited to snowmen or other snow statues. Simon Beck had a different idea, and over the
course of a decade he has carved a path for himself in the snow art world. He creates large land art by walking across
soccer-field-sized areas covered in untouched snow. Combined with light and shadow, his artistic designs can only
be fully appreciated when viewed from above.
Beck, 59, a former map maker turned into a snow artist, thanks to his decision late in life to pursue his hobby.
“It started just as a joke one day really,” Beck explained. “After skiing one day, I decided to make a drawing on
snow to seek pleasure…”
“I really had no idea how good it would look when I made that first drawing, but it really went beyond my
expectation, he said of his first ever creation that he looked down on from a ski lift.
To create this work, Beck stepped his way through the snow using only snowshoes and a ski pole for measurement
with nothing else but the image of a design idea in his head. It was not challenging at all due to his previous work
experience. But as his designs developed and became more complex, Beck said he began to start drawing them on
paper first.
Beck’s paintings have become a huge hit since his work was first shared.
“Most of the time I had been doing failed careers, and people around me are asking what’s the quickest way of
getting rid of this person,” Beck said. “And for the first time, I felt people actually wanted me. I felt like a more
valued member of society.”
1．Where does Simon Beck create art?
A．On maps. B．On mountains. C．On snowfields. D．On soccer fields.
2．Why did Beck create his first drawing?
A．To prove his talent. B．To have fun.
C．To entertain the skiers. D．To develop a new hobby.
3．What contributed lo Beck’s art creation?
A．His experience of making maps. B．His passion for skiing.
C．His competitive nature. D．His dream to be an artist.
4．In which column of the newspaper can we read the passage?
A．Travel. B．Sports. C．Geography. D．Art.
学学科科网网（（北北京京））股股份份有有限限公公司司（23-24高二上·江苏南通·期末）I was visiting my parents in 2003 when my mom came out of their room
with a puzzled look on her face. She’d been listening to the radio and heard an interview with a best-selling author
of young adult fantasy novels. The woman’s name was Tamora Pierce, the same as a young student my mom had
taught nearly four decades before.
The Internet should be able to tell us. I found the author’s website quickly. She was a popular writer of books. I
clicked on the biography link to scan for references to Burlingame Junior High, where my mom had worked, and my
heart began to excite when I spotted it at the bottom of the first section. Here was confirmation that my mother had
taught a now-famous writer!
But my eyes came to a stop reading the next paragraph, in which Pierce described writing her first fiction as a
sixth grader. “The next year, as I was still scribbling (乱写) my own stories, my English teacher, Mrs. Jacobson,
introduced me to the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien,” the biography read. “I got hooked on fantasy,
and then on science fiction, and both made their way into my stories.” My mother’s name was Mary Jacobson.
Within days, my dad had checked out all the Tamora Pierce books at the local library, and in one we found
another surprise: a 1998 novel, which was dedicated (题献词) to “the teacher who shaped my life”. The teacher was
Mary Jacobson. The dedication concluded, “A great teacher is above all other treasures.”
This story made me see my mom differently. We knew she was a teacher, but we had no idea what kind of
teacher she had been. She was just 24 when she taught Pierce. Until 2011, when she passed away, we did know who
she was.
1．Why did the mother wear a puzzled look in Paragraph 1?
A．The interviewee was a best-selling writer. B．The interviewee may be her former student.
C．The author visited the parents unexpectedly. D．She was listening to the radio when the author arrived.
2．Searching for the information about Pierce, the author knew .
A．the pride the mother took in Pierce.
B．the mother’s preference for fantasy.
C．the mother’s influence on Pierce and her gratitude.
D．the hardship Pierce had suffered to become a writer.
3．Which of the following can best describe Jacobson?
A．Devoted and grateful. B．Caring and demanding.
C．Inspiring and respectable. D．Sympathetic and intelligent.
4．What’s the suitable title of the passage?
A．An Ordinary Teacher Shaping A Famous Writer
学学科科网网（（北北京京））股股份份有有限限公公司司B．A Woman Writer with Gratitude for Her Teacher
C．Pierce: From a Student Writer to a Fantasy Queen
D．To Honor My Mother: A Creator of Famous Writers
（23-24高二上·江西吉安·期末）Over the past 45 years, farmer Fu Benfa has planted countless trees on barren (
不毛的) mountains near Qilita village in Suizhou, Hubei province. The task would have been a challenge for an able-
bodied person, let alone a person with paralysis (瘫痪).
Fu, 65, was paralyzed in an accident in January 1978. News about green development through measures such
as expanding forests in the province caught his attention. He got the idea that he might be able to contribute. Fu’s
parents strongly disagreed because of his poor physical condition. But he insisted. His father finally acquiesced and
made him a special shovel (铁锹) and straw mat (草席).
In the winter of 1978, Fu came to a barren mountain and began the task that would occupy him for decades. He
sat on the straw mat and tried to dig a hole to plant a tree in, but he failed to finish it after working all day. He didn’t
give up, however, and tried various kinds of movements until he became more efficient. Every day he spent more
than 12 hours on the mountain. After a month, he had successfully planted 18 trees, 13 of which survived.
Three months later, he had planted more than 300 trees, most of which survived. Over the next 30 years, Fu
brought green color to five mountains around his village. With the help of local governments, a forest protection
volunteer service team was set up to carefully protect and guard the green mountains.
After years of study and exploration, Fu has gained rich experience and taken advantage of technology. He has
taught more than 200 nearby farmers, free of charge, to increase their incomes by planting trees. Recent health
problems have slowed Fu down. He has been recovering at home since February.
“Now it is difficult for me to continue planting trees in the mountains, but I will always guard this forest,” he
said. “I will never change my dream.”
1．What does the underlined word “acquiesced” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A．Quit. B．Agreed. C．Argued. D．Opposed.
2．What does the author intend to express in Paragraph 3?
A．Fu Benfa was far-sighted. B．Fu Benfa suffered little.
C．Fu Benfa was physically poor. D．Fu Benfa was strong-willed.
3．Why did Fu Benfa teach nearby farmers to plant trees?
A．To better their life. B．To draw their interest.
C．To find more helpers. D．To make more progress.
学学科科网网（（北北京京））股股份份有有限限公公司司4．Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?
A．Planting Trees Changed the World
B．Fu Benfa Helped Farmers in the Village
C．An Able-bodied Man Amazed the Country
D．For 45 Years, a Paralyzed Man Planted Many Trees
（23-24高二上·浙江宁波·期末）Bertha Mahony Miller, a US editor and publisher, was born on March13th,
1882 in Rockport, Massachusetts. After her mother’s death, 11-year-old Mahony helped look after her three younger
siblings. She entered local teacher-training classes after high school but left the next year to pursue studies at newly
formed Simmons College in Boston. Unable to afford the four-year program in library science, she chose instead to
take a year of secretarial courses.
In 1906, Mahony became a secretary for the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union (WEIU), a nonprofit
social-service agency. Board members soon recognized her creativity and intelligence, so she was given a variety of
duties. One of her favorites was organizing plays for children, and her interest in children’s literature expanded as
she searched through books for appropriate material.
With the support of the Union, Mahony opened the Bookshop for Boys and Girls in 1916. The creation of this
Boston store devoted to children’s books came at a time when most parents, booksellers and publishers did not put
much thought into what children read. Mahony aimed to change this by offering a large selection of thoughtfully
chosen books and seeking help from many notable librarians such as Anne Carroll Moore and Alice Jordan.
Storytelling, author visits and other activities helped spark people’s interest in the store, and the creation of a
bookmobile extended its reach to other regions.
To coincide with (与……同时举行) the opening of the store, Mahony edited and published a buying guide of
selected children’s books, the first commercial list of its kind. It grouped some 1,200 books into categories based on
age and subject matter and provided a brief description of each publication. The attention it drew led her to another
idea. In 1924, Mahony and coworker Elinor Whitney founded The Horn Book Magazine, the first periodical devoted
entirely to children. Mahony and Whitney also compiled (汇编) Realms of Gold in Children’s Books (1929), a
publication covering five centuries of children’s literature.
Bertha Mahony Miller devoted much of her life to promoting children’s literature. Her efforts enlightened (启
发) consumers and encouraged publishers to expand and improve their juvenile (少年的) offerings. She is considered
a figurehead of the children’s literature movement.
学学科科网网（（北北京京））股股份份有有限限公公司司1．Mahony developed an interest in children’s literature when .
A．she was in high school B．she attended local teacher-training classes
C．she opened the Bookshop for Boys and GirlsD．she was working as a secretary for the WEIU
2．What does the underlined word “this” in the third paragraph refer to?
A．The bookstore only offered children’s books.
B．People paid little attention to children’s books.
C．Mahony could not get any help from the professionals.
D．It was challenging to expand the bookstore into other areas.
3．What’s mainly talked about in paragraph 4?
A．The awards Mahony received in her life.
B．The support Mahony got from her friends and family.
C．The contributions Mahony made to children’s literature.
D．The difficulties Mahony met during the creation of the bookstore.
4．What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?
A．To prove the importance of reading. B．To call on children to read more books.
C．To show the respect for Bertha Mahony Miller. D．To introduce the development of children’s
literature.
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