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Almost 40 years ago, a community service organization started providing eye care in
Gujarat State, in western India.
The Rotary Club of Navsari operates an eye hospital and 9 area eye centers in and
around Navsari, whose services are for the poorest people. The group opened the hospital,
the Rotary Eye Institute of Navsari, in 1970. Institute officials say India has only about
one ophthalmologist for every 120,000 people. The Institute, however, has ten such
specially trained eye doctors. It has restored or improved the eyesight of thousands of
patients. Many people far from the city. Teams from it travel as far as 150 kilometers to
see patients. People go to their nearest camp, for conditions including glaucoma (青光眼),
night blindness and other problems. Some people are found to have cataracts, abnormal
growths on the eye that can lead to loss of eyesight. India has about 13 million people
with the condition. Cataract patients get free operations to correct the problem.
Rotary groups also operate eye banks. Doctors at these centers replace damaged eyes
with the healthy eyes of donors who have just died. One such center is the Rotary Rajan
Eye Bank. It operates in cooperation with the Rajan Eye Care Hospital in Chennai. The Eye
Bank opened in 1996. Hundreds of patients have received new corneas from donors since
then. The cornea is the clear front part of the eye that transmits light. 2 million people
in India are blind because of problems of the cornea. The Rotary Rajan Eye Bank holds
continuing eye donation campaigns. It urges people to leave the gift of sight to others
when they die.
1. Which of the following is TRUE about the Rotary Club of Navsari? [ ]
A. The Rotary Club of Navsari is a community service organization.
B. The Rotary Eye Institute of Navsari has only one eye doctor.
C. The Rtary Club of Navsari includes 9 area eye centers in big cities.
D. The Rotary Club of Navsari offers free operation to all the poor patients.
2. The underlined word "ophthalmologist" in Paragraph 2 refers to _____. [ ]
A. a physician who specializes in eyes
B. a worker working in countryside
C. a patient suffering eye problems
D. a volunteer working in eye centers
3. We can infer form the passage that _____. [ ]
A. there are 13 million Indians having eye problems in total
B. the Rotary Eye Instiute of Navsari is located in the center of India
C. the medical treatment is convenient for the local residents
D. Transportation in Navsari is difficult
4. According to the last paragraph, the Rotary Rajan Eye Bank gets new corneas mainly
by _____. [ ]
A. cloning
B. donating
C. cooperating
D. forcing
5. The author develops the passage mainly by _____. [ ]
A. providing typical examples
B. making a definition
C. comparing two different areas
D. presenting two examples and drawing a conclusion
