Question

【題目】 Maria Rose Belding grew up working in the food bank in her community(社區(qū)) to help the poor. As she grew older, Belding knew that feeding the hungry wasn't as easy as it should be. The food bank was filled with some foods but was short of other truly needed foods.

In 2009, when she was 14, the food bank got lots of bread that was more than the community could use, and she saw how difficult it was to find other communities that could take it. At the same time the food bank was short of cheese.

Months later, she had to throw away hundreds of boxes as people in other communities might wait in line for food.

Belding had found two problems about food that still troubled the U．S. More than 40 million Americans don't have enough food to eat while up to 40% of the country's food is wasted(浪費(fèi)).

In high school, she had an idea for an online platform(平臺) that could help with both problems, but she wasn't able to make it work.

About nine months later, with the help of her friend, she successfully created MEANS. It is a free online platform that can help to send food to the people in need.

Since 2015, MEANS has helped to make sure that more than 1.8 million pounds of unwanted food get to hungry Americans.

【1】Belding was born in ________.

A.1993B.1995C.1991D.1999

【2】The underlined word “it” in Para.2 refers(指代) to “________”.

A.the breadB.the cheese

C.the food bankD.the community

【3】We can infer(推斷) from the passage that ________.

A.Belding had an idea for an online platform at the age of 14

B.40% of the Americans don't have enough food to eat

C.Belding knew it was easy to feed the hungry

D.it was not easy to create the platform MEANS

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】D

【解析】

這篇短文講述的是Maria Rose Belding，她在自己社區(qū)的食品銀行幫助窮人，她發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個問題：一些人在挨餓，而另外一些人的食物多得吃不了，都浪費(fèi)了。她建立了一個網(wǎng)上平臺，解決了這個問題。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文第二段的開頭In 2009, when she was 14,可知，在2009年的時候，Maria是14歲，簡單計算可知，她出生在1995年。故應(yīng)選B。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)劃線代詞所在的語境In 2009, when she was 14, the food bank got lots of bread that was more than the community could use, and she saw how difficult it was to find other communities that could take it.“食品銀行得到了很多面包，超出了社區(qū)的使用能力，她看到找其他社區(qū)來接受這些面包是多么困難”。因此it代指的是前面提到的bread，故應(yīng)選A。

【3】推理判斷題。根據(jù)短文第四段In high school, she had an idea for an online platform(平臺) that could help with both problems, but she wasn't able to make it work. 和第五段About nine months later, with the help of her friend, she successfully created MEANS.可知，Maria在上高中時，就有建立一個網(wǎng)上平臺的想法，但是無法實現(xiàn)。到9個月之后，在朋友的幫助下，才成功建立了這個平臺。由此可見，建立這個平臺是很不容易的，故應(yīng)選D。