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1、英语阅读( 3 )Passage 1This is a short passage about Dave , the Disk Doctor.Call the Disk Doctor!1 Desperate computer users who lose the data from their disks can get in touch with experts who, for a fee , will recover the lost information. One of these experts is Dave Smith , who , some years ago , set
2、up a company called Dave s Disk Doctor Service Ltd. Dave and a few of his friends work from home and give all the money they earn to charity. Thefees are always the same , no matter how precious the data on the disk is. Some people , however , are so grateful that they send extra money to Dave or to
3、 the charities his company supports. One oil company offered him 1 , 000 for his help and a vet sent him a blank check.2 It would be hard to put a value on the things rescued by the Disk Doctor. There have been disks containing medical research , television scripts , manuscripts of whole books , a c
4、omedian s joke collection , a solicitor s papers for a court case , and even Margaret Thatcher s itinerary for a visit to eastern Europe. For this last case , Dave was asked if he would go in person to Mrs. Thatcher s office for security reasons !3 Disks are usually sent to the Disk Doctor by post ,
5、 but sometimes people are in such a hurry that they cant wait for the post. Radio scripts have had to be rushed by taxi to Daves house because they were needed for broadcasting the next day , for example. When the material has been recovered , the disk is returned to the sender with a diagnosis and
6、aprescription for avoiding the problem in future. One grateful client , an author , put a thank you to Dave in the front of his book. Dave saved me from a cardiac arrest , he wrote. But says Dave, most people don t take any notice of the doctor s advice! Read Passage 1 and decide whether the followi
7、ng statements are True or False. Write T for True and F for False against the number of each of the statements on your Answer Sheet.1. Computer users can get back their lost data from their disks without any payment in Dave s company.2. The company named Dave s Disk Doctor Service Ltd is set up by D
8、ave Smith.3. Dave and his friends earn a large amount of money , and then they spend the money like water.4. According to the different value of the data on the disk , people need pay different amount of money for saving them.5. Most people will take notice of the disk doctor s advice after the disk
9、 is repaired。 （ key: F T F F F ）Passage 2CAl CHUNLONG, 28 , found a job after graduating from college , doing marketing for a company in Beijing. Last September , when he saw in the China Youth News a notice recruiting volunteers to go to poor areas to help local people eradicate poverty , Cai sudde
10、nly found it was something he really wanted to do and immediately applied. Two months later , Cai became a member of the first group of volunteers in the Poverty Relief Relay Program ,and , given a years leave by his company , went to Jingle County in Shanxi Province with 21other members. The Povert
11、y Relief Relay Program was launched by the China Young Volunteers Association (CYVA)in order to recruit volunteers from all walks of life to work in poor areas and share their experience in education , medicine , science and technology. Each group of volunteers puts in one year of service.CYVA was f
12、ounded in 1994 , aimed at motivating young people to provide voluntary service for the public good. As the first and largest organization of its kind in China , it has had an extensive impact on social welfare programs in China.The Poverty Relief Relay Program was conceived in June of 1996 , when th
13、e CYVA investigated several rural counties in northern China and finally chose Jingle as the first target for the program. In September , a notice to recruit volunteers was published in several newspapers , requiring participants to have an educational level higher than junior college and qualificat
14、ions for educational , or medical, or technical work. In addition , volunteers had to have their employers approval for a year s leave and a guarantee of being able to resume employment after a year s service. Usually , these volunteers have their salary suspended until they return.To the great surp
15、rise of the CYVA , their ads received a heavy response. In the half month following the publication of the notice , the association received more than 200 letters and telephone calls , and 171 applications were processed. Twenty volunteers were to make up the first group , but consequently two more
16、members were added. According to a survey conducted by a local newspaper in Beijing , most young people who had heard of the program expressed a willingness to participate.Read Passage 2 and then choose the best answer that may complete each of the statements below according to the passage. 1. In the second sentence of Paragraph 1, the word eradicate can be replaced by A. get rid of B. gainC. prod
