Kelly Christopher, a student at Lutheran High School in California, US, loves oranges. One day last week, she used a pole(竿子) to pick oranges off trees and collect them in baskets. It's the first time in her 15 years she's picked fruit from trees.
"This is quite different from buying oranges in the supermarket," said Christopher. "Every time I eat an orange, I'll remember this experience."
Christopher was one of the 30 student volunteers at Soil Born Farms. She volunteered as part of a project which was set up in 2009 to help homeowners in South Land Park pick oranges and other fruits out of their backyards. Before, the fruit would rot on the ground or get eaten by animals. Now the fruit is donated to those who need it.
"It is good for many people", said Randy Stannard, who works for the project. "The homeowner gets fruit picked and more people can have healthy food."
"Two harvests (收成 ) were organized in 2009 and volunteers picked 3,000 pounds (1,360kg) of fruit", Stannard said. In 2010, the number was 20,000. This year, Soil Born Farms hopes to get 40,000 pounds. They will harvest every weekend from January to April.
Shannon Galloway, Christopher's science teacher, brought her students into the project this year.
"You're making use of a resource that might be wasted," she said. "I think it's meaningful to everyone."
Donato Frazier, 15, always climbs up a ladder(梯子) and gets on the top of the tree.
"Standing on the treetop is pretty cool," Frazier said. "I can see clearly that many baskets are filled up, and even see that many people are eating healthy fruit because of our volunteer work."                                          
【小題1】Christopher and other students went to pick fruits from real trees because they wanted to _____.

Monty Robert’s father was a horse trainer. As a child, Monty often went from one farm to  21  with his father. Sometimes they didn’t have enough money to   22  food, but Monty still kept hoping to own a   23  farm.
When he was in school, his teacher asked him to write a paper   24  what he wanted to be and do when he grew up. He wrote a seven-page paper   25  his dream of having a horse farm one day. He   26  drew a picture of a horse farm in the paper.
The next day he handed   27  in to his teacher. Two days later, he got his paper back. On the front page was a large red “F” with some words “See me after class.”   28  the boy did and asked his teacher, “Why did I get an F?” The teacher said, “This dream will not   29   for a young boy like you.   30  a horse farm needs a lot of money. You have to buy the land. You have to pay for a lot of things. There is no way you could ever do it.” Then the teacher added, “If you write this paper again with a   31  dream, I will give you a good grade.”
After school he thought about it   32 . At last, he decided to hand in the same paper, making   33  changes at all. He wrote, “You can keep the F and I’ll keep my   34 .”
Many years later, Monty had his own 200 acres horse farm. His dream came true.
So don’t let   35  take away your dreams. Follow your dreams, no matter what they are.

Some day little cars may take the place of (代替) today’s cars. They are good for our earth. If everyone    26    such a little car in the future, there will be     27    pollution in the air. There will be more parking places in the cities, and the street will be      28    crowded(擁擠). Now the space for one car of the usual size can hole more than one such little car. Driving will be     29   , because these little cars can go only 50 kilometers one     30   . The future cars will be fine for going around the city, but they will not be     31    for going far away. The little car needs only two batteries(電池),     32    battery for the motor, and the other for the horn(喇叭) and the lights. If we still     33     the big cars along with the small ones; we will need to     34     two kinds of roads. Some roads will be used for the big fast cars,     35   other roads will be needed for the smaller and slower ones.

Some day little cars may take the place of (代替) today’s cars. They are good for our earth. If everyone    26    such a little car in the future, there will be     27    pollution in the air. There will be more parking places in the cities, and the street will be      28    crowded(擁擠). Now the space for one car of the usual size can hole more than one such little car. Driving will be     29   , because these little cars can go only 50 kilometers one     30   . The future cars will be fine for going around the city, but they will not be     31    for going far away. The little car needs only two batteries(電池),     32    battery for the motor, and the other for the horn(喇叭) and the lights. If we still     33     the big cars along with the small ones; we will need to     34     two kinds of roads. Some roads will be used for the big fast cars,     35   other roads will be needed for the smaller and slower ones.

1.                A．sits            B．drives          C．sells D．makes

2.                A．more          B．much          C．fewer    D．less

3.                A．less            B．much          C．fewer    D．more

4.                A．better          B．more dangerous  C．safer D．faster

5.                A．day            B．minute         C．month    D．hour

6.                A．careful         B．useful          C．bad  D．hard

7.                A．one           B．others          C．some D．no

8.                A．think           B．park           C．sell  D．like

9.                A．build           B．put            C．open D．find

10.               A．so             B．a(chǎn)s             C．a(chǎn)nd  D．or