-The blanket looks beautiful .How much is it?
-I________ 500 yuan for it.
A.cost B.spent C.paid D.took
When the building burns, the firemen will arrive at once and the fire.
A. put up B. put down C. put off D. put out
Do you like sleeping with the windows________?
A. open B. be opened C. opening D. opens
It’s said that (据报道) 11-year-old girl saw UFO yesterday.
A. an; an B. a; an C. an; a D. a; a
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1. Mary是印度一个贫困家庭的孩子。
2. 过去他们家太穷了，他没钱上学，只好在农场干活。每天早起晚归，十分辛苦。
3. 他多么希望自己能够上学啊！有一天， 一位UNICEF的工作人员来到他的村庄，了解了他家的情况后，给他提供了上学的钱。
4. Mary 现在在校读书， 他长大后也想成为一位UNICEF的工作人员，帮助更多贫困的孩子。
Mary is a child from a poor family in India.
The Spring Bud Project was organized by the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund(CCTF), under the leadership( 领导) of the All China Women’s Federation(联合会). The fund was started by Madam Zhou Jiebing, who donated 1 million Hong Kong dollars.
The purpose of the Spring Bud Project is to raise the quality of women’s education and ability from childhood. It has tried a lot to raise funds both at home and abroad and its aim is to help dropout girls in China’s poor, rural areas return to school.
In the past ten years, more than 10 million children in China have left schools because their families are too poor, and 70% of these dropouts are girls. In fact, girls’ education has become one of the most difficult problems in China. The CCTF wants to help hundreds of thousands of girls return to school, so it set up the Spring Bud Project.
Thanks to donations from so many people and organizations, by the end of 2009, the Spring Bud Project had raised 800 million yuan in total, built more than 1,000 Spring Bud schools, aided more than 2 million girls to return to school and provided technical training for more than 400,000 girls.
1.What is the Spring Bud Project organized by?
2.How many poor girls have left school in the last ten years in China?
3.What may the underlined word “dropout” mean in Chinese?
4.Can you think of another way of saying “thanks to” ? What is it?
5.What did the Spring Bud Project spend the donations doing?
