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hing—her family Bible. Lewis bought the Bible 35 years ago at the start of her marriage. Like many folks, she’d used it hold and keep her family’s history.The Bible was the first thing Lewis looked far when she returned to the house. It was on top of an antique dresser in her bedroom when she’d last seen it. In fact, the dresser wasn’t there at all. When two volunteers showed up to help the couple dig out, Lewis had one request for them: “If you can find anything, please find my Bible.”After an hour of searching, a volunteer ran up to her. She cried loudly looking at the book in her hands. The young woman had found the Bible while searching through the rubble. Stunningly, while many books inside the home had been destroyed beyond recognition, the Bible was still perfect, even though it had sat in the rain for days. “I pletely broke down,” says Lewis. “I thought it was gone forever. It was a miracle.”Even slowly, the treasures reappeared in her life. The Bible and her treasures in it actually lived through the terrible disaster. 24. What happened to Peggy Lewis?A. She lost her family after a tornado.B. A tornado destroyed her house.C. Her house survived the tornado.D. She benefited a lot from the disaster.25. After returning home, what did Peggy Lewis want to do most?A. Repair their house.B. Protect volunteers from rain.C. Explore the value of the Bible.D. Hunt for a family Bible.26. What does the underlined word “Stunningly” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?A. Unluckily. B. Worryingly.C. Surprisingly. D. Interestingly.27. What is the purpose of the text?A. To inform. B. To educate.C. To persuade. D. To instruct.CRoughly half of Americans drink coffee every day. Rarely do they think much about the people half a world away who picked the beans. “The work of picking coffee is demanding, literally backbreaking work,” explains Janet Jarman, an American photographer who’s been documenting coffee workers around the world for almost two decades.On a typical coffee plantation in Mexico, Nicaragua, and many of the other countries where the crop is produced, the work begins before sunrise. Coffee pickers rise early to traverse(穿刺)steep hillsides where the coffee plants grow and then spend up to 10 hours collecting the red cherries from which beans will later be extracted. Pickers can also encounter serious health dangers: for instance, the mosquitoes in these areas have been known to carry diseases like dengue or even Zika.Coffee labor is often performed by migrants who travel from poorer parts of the, continent to find work on the plantations. The harvesting period lasts from roughly November to February, so workers either leave their homes for many months at a time or take their entire families with them. They eat and sleep on the estates(私有土地), oftentimes in dirty conditions.One plantation can employ over 600 workers at the height of harvest, though sizes vary. Workers’ ages, too, span a very wide range: Jarman met men in their 60s doing the taxing work of collecting the fruit and carrying it back painfully. It also wasn’t unmon to see parents and children doing the same work together.Despite all the struggles these workers face, a lot of people took great pride in their craft, particularly those who ran and worked smaller farms. A lot of these people consider growing coffee to be a true art.28. Americans know little about __________.A. how to drink coffee B. the culture of coffeeC. coffee planting on farms D. the work of picking coffee29. What does the author think of coffee pickers?A. They suffer a lot.B. They have a sense of family.C. They are simple and hardworking.D. They aren’t satisfied with their work 30. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?A. What a coffee labor is.B. How working conditions are.C. How long and hard pickers work.D. What causes damage to coffee pickers. 31. What can be the best title for the text?A. Coffee drinking and healthB. Blood, sweat and coffeeC. Coffee farmer’s wisdomD. Little efforts make a differenceDPlastic remains one of the mostused materials for making many of the things we use in our everyday lives. Things made of plastic can