《2025年亮点给力提优课时作业本八年级英语下册译林版》

五、（2022·扬州市宝应期末）阅读表达。
I have always dreamed of visiting Africa, ever since I read my first Tarzan comic as a child. Finally, in 2004, to celebrate my 60th birthday, I went to Tanzania to experience a safari（东非游猎） and climb Mount Kilimanjaro，the highest mountain in Africa. The person who seated next to me on the flight was Tanzania’s Minister of Water and Wildlife Development. We talked for thousands of miles，and he arranged me to visit a school. When I arrived at the school，I was surprised. The dirty floors turned into mud during the rainy season，and the walls couldn’t keep out the heat，cold or bugs（小昆虫）. The school was in need of building materials.
It broke my heart that these children had to try hard to survive，so I asked the headmaster how much it would cost to feed them. “As little as 20 cents per child per day，” he told me. Immediately after I got back，I founded（成立） Kids of Kilimanjaro. Since then we’ve grown big enough to provide hot lunches for nearly 13,000 school children in Tanzania every day. The free lunch programme has solved an essential（基本的） problem the children face.
I know good education could really make a difference in these children’s lives. My parents always told me the importance of education. I paid my own way through college in Tokyo by teaching English to students and business people. After attending university I moved to San Francisco，when I was 25 years old. In 1978 I realized my American dream when I founded my own company. My success all started with good education.
It’s amazing that something as simple as a hot lunch can change so many lives. Giving young people a better，healthier life can encourage them to go all the way through college and lead to a change in their country.
1. How old was the writer when he went to Tanzania for the first time?
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2. What made the writer surprised，the poor condition of the school or the poor children?
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3. How much would it cost to feed one child a day?
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4. What can change the children’s lives according to the passage?
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5. What is the writer’s purpose of writing this passage?
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答案： 1. 60./Sixty years old. 2. The poor condition of the school. 3.（As little as）20 cents. 4. Good education./Receiving good education. 5. To tell people even “small” things can change many lives./To ask people to do something for the poor/needy children./To encourage people to help children in need./He wants to tell us good education could really make a difference.（答案不唯一，言之有理即可）