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专题02 完型填空
(2017年北京真题)
Hannah Taylor is a schoolgirl from Manitoba, Canada. One day, when she was five years old, she was walking with her mother in downtown Winnipeg. They saw a man ______ (36) out of a garbage can. She asked her mother why he did that, and her mother said that the man was homeless and hungry. Hannah was very ______ (37). She couldn’t understand why some people had to live their lives without shelter or enough food. Hannah started to think about how she could ______ (38), but, of course, there is not a lot one five-year-old can do to solve (解决) the problem of homelessness.
Later, when Hannah attended school, she saw another homeless person. It was a woman, ______ (39) an old shopping trolley (购物车) which was piled with ______ (40). It seemed that everything the woman owned was in them. This made Hannah very sad, and even more ______ (41) to do something. She had been talking to her mother about the lives of homeless people ______ (42) they first saw the homeless man. Her mother told her that if she did something to change the problem that made her sad, she wouldn’t ______ (43) as bad.
Hannah began to speak out about the homelessness in Manitoba and then in other provinces. She hoped to ______ (44) her message of hope and awareness. She started the Ladybug Foundation, an organization aiming at getting rid of homelessness. She began to ______ (45) “Big Bosses” lunches, where she would try to persuade local business leaders to ______ (46) to the cause. She also organized a fundraising (募捐) drive in “Ladybug Jars” to collect everyone’s spare change during “Make Change” month. More recently, the foundation began another ______ (47) called National Red Scarf Day - a day when people donate $20 and wear red scarves in support of Canada’s ______ (48) and homeless.
There is an emergency shelter in Winnipeg called “Hannah’s Place”, something that Hannah is very ______ (49) of. Hannah’s Place is divided into several areas, providing shelter for people when