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piness through Honorable ActionsPassage 10 ( 福建,A)When I met him. I had a lot of anger inside of me. I39。ve lived my whole life in Spanish Harlem, but in my neighborhood, there are shootups all the time. I know kids who have been shot or beaten up. I have friends who ended up in prison. I could have ended up that way, too, but Mr. Clark wouldn39。t let that happen.Mr. Clark worked long hours, making sure I did my work. My grades rose. In fact, the scores of our whole class rose. One day, he took our class to see The Phantom of the 0pera, and it was the first time of some kids had ever been out of Harlem. Before the show, he treated us to dinner at a restaurant and taught us not to talk with our mouths full. We did not want to let him down.Mr. Clark was selected as Disney39。s 2000 Teacher of the Year. He said he would draw three names out of a hat。 those students would go with him to Los Angeles to get the award. But when theThe time came to draw names, Mr. Clark said, You39。re all going. On graduation day, there were a lot of tears. We didn39。t want his class to end. In 2001, he moved to Atlanta, but he always kept in touch. He started giving lectures about education, and wrote a bestselling book based on his classroom rules, The Essential 55. In 2003, Mr. Clark took some of us on a trip to South Africa to deliver school supplies and visit r\Manages (孤兒院). It was the most amazing experience of my life. It39。s now my dream to one day start a group of women39。s clubs, helping people from all backgrounds.1. Without Mr. Clark, the writer______.A. might have been put into prison B. might not have won the prizeC. might have joined a women39。s club D. might not have moved to Atlanta2. The Essential 55 is_______.A. a show B. a speech C. a classroom rule D. a book3. How many students39。 names were finally drawn out of a hat by Mr. Clark?A. None. B. Three. C. Fiftyfive. D. Ail4. In the passage, the writer intends to tell us that______.A. Mr. Clark went to South Africa because he liked travelingB. Mr. Clark helped to set up a group of women39。s clubsC. a good teacher can help raise his or her students39。 scoresD. a good teacher has a good influence on his or her students Passage 11 (浙江, A)If you were to walk up to Arthur Bonner and say, Hey, Butterfly Man, his face would break into a smile. The title suits him. And he loves it.Arthur Bonner works with the Palos Verdes blue butterfly(蝴蝶), once thought to have died out. Today the butterfly is ing backthanks to him. But years ago if you39。d told him this was what he39。d be doing someday, he would have laughed, You39。re crazy. As a boy, he used to be a little tough guy on the streets. At age thirteen, he was caught by police for stealing. At eighteen, he landed in prison for shooting a man.I knew it had hurt my mom, Bonner said after he got out of prison. Sri I told myself I would not put my mom through that pain again. One day he met Professor Mattoni, who was working lo rebuild the habitat (棲息地) for an endangered butterfly called El Segundo blue.I saw the sign 39。Butterfly Habitat39。 and asked,39。 How can you have a habitat when the butterflies can just fly away?39。 Bonner recalls. Dr. Mattoni Laughed and handed me a magnifying glass(放大鏡),39。 Look at the leaves. 39。I could see all these caterpillars(蝴蝶的幼蟲(chóng)) on the plant. Dr. Mattoni explained, 39。Without the plant, there are no butterflies.Weeks later, Bonner received a call from Dr. Mattoni, who told him there was a butterfly that needed help. That was how he met the Palos Verdes blue. Since then he39。s been working for four years to help bring the butterfly back. He grows astragalus, the only plant the butterfly eats. He collects butterflies and brings them into a lab to lay eggs. Then he puts new butterflies into the habitat.The butterfly39。s population, once almost zero, is now up to 900. For their work, Bonner and Dr. Mattoni received lots of awards. But fur Bonner, he earned something more: he turned his life around.For six years now Bonner has kept his promise to stay out of prison. While he39。s bringing back the Palos Verdes blue, the butterfly has helped bring him back, too.1. When he was young, Arthur Bonner ________,A. broke the law and ended up in prison B. was fond of shooting and hurt his momC. often laughed at people on the streets D. often caught butterflies and took them home2. Bonner came to know the Palos Verdes blue after he________.A. found the butterfly had died out B. won many prizes from his professorC. met Dr. Mattoni, a professor of biology D. collected butterflies and put them into a lab3. From the last sentence of the text, we learn that raising butterflies has________.A. made Bonner famous B. changed Bonner39。s lifeC brought Bonner wealth D. enriched Bonner39。s knowledge4. Which of the following would be the best title for the text39。.39。 A. A Promise to Mom B. A Man Saved by Butterflies C. A Story of Butterflies D. A Job Offered by Dr. MattoniPassage 12 ( 浙江,D)Tell a story and tell it well, and you may open wide the eyes of a child, open up lines of munication in a business, or even open people39。s mind to another culture or race.People in many places are digging up the old folk stories and the messages in them. For example, most American storytellers get their tales from a wide variety of sources, cultures, and times. They regard storytelling not only as a useful too! in child education, but also as a meaningful activity that helps adults understand themselves as well as those whose culture may be very different from their own.Most local stories are based on a larger theme, American storyteller Opalanga Pugh says, Cinderllla(灰姑娘), or me central idea of a good child protected by her goodness, appears in various forms in almost every culture of the world.Wo