Question

Some people like to collect stamps. Others prefer posters or coins. But Pinky Bhutia is different. She collects children. In her mountain village, in Sikkim, she is known as the wonderful young woman who adopts(领养) all the children she can.

Pinky was 14 when she adopted her first child, a Nepali baby girl, whose patents passed away. Pinky’s parents did not mind. Pinky left school and started working full time because she had a baby to feed. Today , she has twelve adopted children, and two sons from her marriage.

Pinky is about 30 years old and she comes from a common family. If you passed her on the street, you wouldn’t give her a second look. She lives in a brown mud-washed(泥刷的) house. There is a vegetable garden outside. Red hens with noisy chicks run all over the garden looking for food.

If you ask her why she provides a home to so many kids, she smiles shyly. But her eyes are serious. “I know what it is to  be poor and hungry.” As a child, her only dream was to eat a full meal, and her favorite amusement was watching people with shoes and imagining what it felt like. By adopting poor and homeless children she is making sure that they never feel that hopeless.

Pinky feels very proud when she sees her children happy and bright, Her oldest baby, Aarita  Rai, is now 20 years old, Then, there is  19-year-old Nimbe who came to Pinky because her mother was unable to look after her. She started to work in a government office two years ago. Ten-year-old Bhim and 14-year-old Kumar came to Pinky five years ago, after their father’s death. They started living on a patch of land given by Pinky and grew vegetables for sale.

“I like children. It’s not one more mouth to feed but one more soul saved,” Pinky says.

1.After Pinky adopted her first  child, she______________.

A. began to raise some chickens

B. didn’t go to school anymore

C. asked her parents for help

D. left her mountain village

2.By adopting those poor and homeless children, Pinky wants to ______________.

A. teach them  to grow vegetables     B. offer them good jobs

C. make sure they live in hope        D. help them become rich

3.Whic of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Pinky likes collecting coins and posters.

B. Bhim and Kumar are from the same family.

C. People in Pinky’s village have no shoes to wear.

D. Sartita Rai works in a government office.

4.We can infer from the passage that Pinky is a ________ person.

A. kind          B. strict          C. bright          D. careful

Answer

1.B

2.C

3.B

4.A

【解析】

试题分析：短文大意：该文介绍了一个非常慈善的人Pinky，她专门收养那些贫穷和无家可归的孩子。她想确保他们不失去生活的希望。

1.B细节理解题。根据第二段中Pinky was 14 when she adopted her first child, a Nepali baby girl, whose patents passed away. Pinky’s parents did not mind. Pinky left school and started working full time because she had a baby to feed.可知Pinky在14时收养了她的第一个孩子后就不再上学了，所以该选B。

2.C细节理解题。根据第四段末By adopting poor and homeless children she is making sure that they never feel that hopeless.可知通过收养穷人和无家可归的孩子她是想确保他们有生活的希望。所以该选C。

3.B细节理解题。根据第五段中Ten-year-old Bhim and 14-year-old Kumar came to Pinky five years ago, after their father’s death.可知十岁的贝汉姆和十四岁的库马尔来自同一个家庭，所以该选B。

4.细读短文可知Pinky是一个非常慈善的人，所以该选A。

考点：人物传记类短文阅读。