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     Want to know more about how World Food Programme helps women all over the world? Here is a

quick look at the valuable things it has done.

     Investing(投资) In Bulls, Woman Begins To Escape From Poverty

In Shahinoor's household there were days when she struggled to put even one meal on the family table.

She and her husband are among Bangladesh's poorest: those with no land, no wealth and little hope of

breaking out of hunger and poverty. But a new programme to unlock the entrepreneurial(创业的) spirit

of Bangladeshi women has transformed her life.

     Food Aid Brings Fresh Water To Nepalese Village

     Kanukura, 33, says that carrying water up the mountain slopes to her village used to be the hardest

part of her day. It's a job that mainly fell to women in this part of Nepal, who faced a difficult and tiring

climb when they needed water. But that's changed now, thanks to a new village tap, from which women

like Kanukura can get clean drinking water whenever they need it.

     In Colombia, Food Assistance Is Part Of Response To Violence Against Women

     In Colombia, WFP assists many victims of sexual and gender-based violence, providing them with

food assistance as they recover. As part of her work for WFP, Mariangela Bizzarri recently visited a

town on Colombia's Pacific coast to meet some of these women and to assess the effect of the violence

they have experienced. She sent us this personal account of one day of meetings.

     Afghanistan Diary - Day Six

     On the final day of Silke's trip to central Afghanistan, she meets three women, each of whom

impresses her with their determination to improve their own lives, and those of their families and their

community. One of them is thrilled at simply having a job in a government office. As a child the idea of

working outside her home had seemed impossible.

1. Who lives in a place where water used to be difficult to get according to the passage?     

A. Silke      

B. Kanukura    

C. Shahinoor    

D. Mariangela

2. We learn from the passage that women in Colombia ________. 

A. may give birth to 5 children 

B. can't go to school all their life

C. have to work in a government office

D. are more likely to get harmed than men      

3. Women in Bangladesh now become not so poor as they used to be by ________.   

A. raising bulls with the help of WFP

B. working more hours in the fields

C. doing part-time jobs in the evening

D. receiving money from the government

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?   

A. There are many victims of sexual violence in Nepal.

B. Getting clean drinking water is easier in Bangladesh.

C. The social position of women in Afghanistan has greatly changed.

D. Children in Colombia sometimes have only one meal a day.

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1-4: BDAC

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Poorer children would be offered the chance to attend lessons on Saturday to help catch up with their middleclass peers (同龄人), the shadow schools secretary, Michael Gove, said today.The Conservatives would give English state schools the freedom to choose to have longer teaching hours and extra classes at the weekend, he told the Association of Teachers and Lecturers’annual conference.

Gove said the move would help to close the achievement gap with richer children whose parents could afford extras such as tutoring and music lessons.

He told delegates (代表) in Manchester: “For children who come from homes where parents don’t have the resources to provide additional stretch and cultural experiences, there are benefits in having those children in the learning environment, in school, for longer.”

“Parents would love to have schools starting earlier in some circumstances, and certainly going on later in the afternoon, given the reality of their working lives,” he said. He held up the example of Kipp (Knowledge is Power Program) schools in the US, which are often based in the poorest communities and open from 7:30 am to 5pm on weekdays, plus Saturdays.

But it would be up to schools to decide to offer longer hours, Gove added. 

Parents said Saturday classes could become a “badge of dishonor”if pupils were forced to go, while teachers raised concerns about their workload.

Margaret Morrissey, of Parents Outloud, said: “I think the suggestion the government made about one-to-one teaching for these kids would be a more preferable way of improving these children’s performance. I’m just not sure whether taking away a child at weekends is actually going to make them cleverer in the week.”

The ATL’s general secretary, Mary Bousted, said: “If we want Saturday schools, then we need more teachers doing the extra hours, not the same teachers working longer.”

66. The program is intended for children____________. 

A. who are from middle-class families

B. whose parents can’t afford extra help 

C. who perform poorly academically 

D. whose weekends are mostly unoccupied

67. “Additional stretch” in Paragraph 4 probably refers to_________.

A. music lessons

B. physical relaxation 

C. entertainment activities

D. out-of-school improvement

68. Why did Gove mention Kipp schools in the US? 

A. To make a comparison.

B. To introduce a new program.

C. To seek supportive evidence.

D. To prove his program is better.

69. What is Margaret Morrissey’s opinion about the new program? 

A. Favourable.          B. Doubtful.           C. Optimistic.         D. Acceptable.

70. Which of the following is true?

A. Teachers may not like the program. 

B. Schools are trying to make profits.

C. The program is already under way. 

D. The program is popular with children. 

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