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（2011·山東卷）B

     Tim Richter and his wife, Linda, had taught for over 30 years near Buffalo, New York--he in computers, she  in special education. "Teaching means everything to us," Tim would say. In April1998, he learned he would need a heart operation. It was the kind of news that leads to some serious thinking about life's purpose.

      Not long after the surgery, Tim saw a brochure describing Imagination Library, a program started by Dolly Parton' s foundation (基金會) that mailed a book every month to children from birth to age five in the singer's home town of Sevier, Tennessee. “I thought, maybe Linda and I could do something like this when we retire," Tim recalls.  He placed the brochure on his desk, "as a reminder."

      Five years later, now retired and with that brochure still on the desk, Tim clicked on imagination library .com. The program had been opened up to partners who could take advantage of book and postage discounts.

The quality of the books was of great concern to the Richters.  Rather than sign up online, they went to Dollywood for a look-see. “We didn’t want to give the children rubbish,” says Linda. The books-reviewed each year by teachers, literacy specialists and Dollywood board members-included classics such as Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day and newer books like Anna Dewdney’s Llama Llama series.

Satisfied, the couple set up the Richter Family Foundation and got to work. Since 2004, they have shipped more than 12,200 books to preschoolers in their in their area. Megan Williams, a mother of four, is more than appreciative: “This program introduces us to books I’ve never heard of .”

  The Richters spend about ＄400 a month sending books to 200 children. “Some people sit there and wait to die,” says Tim. “Others get as busy as they can in the time they have left.”

62.What did Tim want to do after learning about Imagination Library?

A. Give out brochures.                        B .Do something similar.

C. Write books for children                    D. Retire from being a teacher.

63.According to the text, Dollly  Parton is           .

A. a well-known surgeon                     B. a mother of a four-year-old

C. a singer born in Tennessee                  D .a computer programmer

64.Why did the Richters go to Dollywood?

A. To avoid signing up online.

B. To meet Dollywood board members.

C. To make sure the books were the newest.

D. To see if the books were of good quality.

65.What can we learn from Tim’s words in the last paragraph?

A. He needs more money to help the children.

B. He wonders why some people are so busy.

C. He tries to save those waiting to die.

D. He considers his efforts worthwhile.

Answer 1

【解析】：61-65:ABCDD

 【語篇解讀】本文講述了里克特作為教師的一家人在退休后又做出捐獻書給兒童的決定，并且為此建立了基金會的事情，而且他們認為這使得他們的人生更為有意義。

36.   A。細節(jié)理解題。由第一段最后兩句話可知是Tim 得病導致他思考生命的意義。

37.   B。細節(jié)理解題。從第二段Tim說的話中“I could do something like this when we retire”,知道他打算在退休后做類似的事，是B選項。

38.   C。細節(jié)理解題。從第二段的第一句話得出Dollly  Parton 是singer.

39.   D.。細節(jié)理解題。從第四段前兩句話中得出，“We didn’t want to give the children rubbish“ 比喻指我們不想要質量不好的東西。從本段首句主題句中也能得出the Richters 關心的是書的質量。

40.   D。從最后一段Tim的話” 有些人坐而等待死亡，而有些人則在他的余生盡可能的忙碌著“ 可知，他認為自己做出的事情是值得的有意義的。