Maria Keller — Teenager Wants Every Kid to Read Indeed!

Books have huge power. Between their pages, readers can be transported to

anywhere imaginable and become just about anyone…or anything. Unluckily, many

children all over the world don’t have chances to read books!

For several years now, Maria Keller, a teenager from America, has been changing

that fact.

When she was 8 years old, Maria already loved reading. She also noticed that

some of her classmates didn’t read as much as she did. When she asked her mother

why that could be, her mother said that they might have no money to buy books. Maria

had never thought of this. She could not believe that some children might not have

bedtime stories read to them. She decided to change this.

With her mother’s help, Maria set up Read Indeed. Read Indeed is a non-profit (非

營利的) organization that is to collect and share books to children in need. During the

early stages of Read Indeed, Maria set the goal to collect and share 1 million books by

the time she was 18. It didn’t take long to reach that goal!

So far, she has collected over 2.4 million books and has sent them to many states

and countries like India, China…She says, “I cannot live without books. As I continue

my task, I have learned that the number of kids who have no books are in the hundreds

of millions. So I just can’t give up, even after reaching my goal of 1 million books.”

She recently set a new goal: to give donations (捐贈) to kids in need in every state

in the United States, and every country in the world. She always pays attention to her

progress on a large map at the warehouse (倉庫) where they store and sort books.

1.Where does Maria Keller come from?

A. America. B. India. C. China. D. The UK.

2.With her mother’s help, Maria set up _____ to collect and share books.

A. a bookstore B. a school C. a warehouse D. an organization

3.After reaching her goal of 1 million books, she will _____.

A. stop giving books B. go on with her study

C. read bedtime stories D. go on donating books

1.A 2.D 3.D 【解析】本文講述了一個美國女孩瑪利亞·凱勒建立了一個非營利組織，來收集書，與那些需要讀書的孩子一起分享書。她的目標(biāo)是向美國每個州需要讀書的孩子們捐書，向世界上每個國家捐書。 1.A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)For several years now, Maria Keller, a teenager from America, has been cha...
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