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Passage One

    Everyone who eats in Carman's Country Kitchen in South Philadelphia knows that if you need a job, a place to stay or a friendly ear on a blue day, you come to Carman Luntzel. The six-foot, 46-year-old powerhouse not only cooks, she also acts as her restaurant's discussion leader and matchmaker. When breakfast regular Stephen Sacavitch wasn't meeting women, she put his picture on a bulletin board, with the words: "Girls. Nice guy. Give him a break."

    Last September a coffeepot left on a red-hot burner nearly destroyed the restaurant. Luntzel didn't have insurance. But bad news has a way of turning good at Carman's.

    Bereft at the thought of no more buttermilk pancakes or homemade pear pie － and no more Carman dishing out advice and help － her customers pitched in. They boarded up her windows, removed debris and primed and painted her scorched walls. It wasn't just the regulars. A guy on a motorcycle dropped off some cash. A woman from a nearby restaurant scoured charred dishes and stuck two $50 bills in Luntzel's pocket as she left. Just three weeks after the blaze, Luntzel was serving breakfast again. "It was incredible," she says.

    "There's a sense about Carman that is just can-do," says regular Kevin Vaughan. "It's infectious."

    (211 words)

1. The word "powerhouse" in paragraph one means ________.( C )

(a) a small powerplant

(b) a good restaurant

(c) an energetic person

(d) an angry woman

2. Carman Luntzel was all of the following except ________.( D )

(a) a cook

(b) a discussion leader

(c) a matchmaker

(d) an insurance agent

3. What happened last September?  ( A )

(a) There was a fire which nearly destroyed the restaurant.

(b) Luntzel lost a coffeepot.

(c) An insurance company offered to help.

(d) Carman could always turn bad news into good news.

4. How many weeks did it take to reopen the restaurant? ( B )

(a) Two weeks.

(b) Three weeks.

(c) Two months.

(d) Three months.

5. What was infectious about the restaurant?  ( D )

(a) The food served.

(b) The efficiency of work

(c) The desire of regular diners.

(d) The spirit of helping others.                                     TOP 

Passage Two

      One night last July, my 12-year-old car died on California's Santa Ana Freeway. It was an hour before sunset, and I was 25 miles from home. I couldn't reach anyone to pick me up, so I decided to take a bus. Not knowing the routes, I figured I’d just head east.

    A bus pulled up, and I asked the driver how far she was going. "Four more lights," she said. There was another bus I could take from there. This clearly was going to be a long night.

    She dropped me off at the end of her route and told me which bus to look for. After waiting 30 minutes, I began to think about a very expensive cab ride home. Then a bus pulled up. There was no lighted number above its windshield. It was out of service. But the door opened, and darned if it wasn't the same driver.

    "I just can't leave you here," she said. "This isn't the nicest place. I'll give you a ride home."

    "You'll drive me home in the bus?" I asked, perplexed.

    "No, I'll take you in my car," she said.

    "It's a long way," I protested.

    "Come on," she said. "I have nothing else to do."

    As we drove from the depot in her car, she began telling me a story. A few days earlier, her brother had run out of gas. A good Samaritan picked him up, took him to a service station and then back to his car. "I’m just passing the favor along," she said.

    When I offered her money as a thank-you, she wouldn't hear of it. "That wouldn't make it a favor," she said. "Just do something nice for somebody. Pass it along."

    (287 words)

    6. After the car broke down, the author decided to ________.( C )

(a) have it repaired

(b) walk home

(c) take a bus

(d) wait for a lift

7. The bus driver told the author that ________.( D )

(a) her bus had four lights

(b) her route was a long one

(c) she couldn't help

(d) she would help as far as four traffic lights

8. The bus driver came back to the author because ________.( C )

(a) the bus was out of service

(b) she had no lighted number

(c) she wanted to help the author to the end

(d) she wanted to take the author to another bus

9. When the bus driver's brother had run out of gas a few days earlier, he ________.( D )

(a) was left on the way

(b) walked to a service station

(c) was helped by his sister

(d) was helped by someone he didn't know

10. In the end of the passage, the bus driver suggested that the author ________.( D )

(a) offer some money

(b) say thank you

(c) make what she had done a favor

(d) pass the favor along                                              TOP

Passage Three

    In 1989, Melissa started Kids F.A.C.E. as an after-school club at her elementary school. The six-member group met each Monday to write letters and plan cleanup activities. "We never thought it was anything more than a group of kids coming together so they could talk about the environment," says Trish Poe, her mother.

    But then a letter from Milissa to the "Today" show got her club on television in 1990. When other kids heard about the club, they wrote asking how they could get involved.

    So Melissa, with the help of her mother, who today manages the Kids F.A.C.E. office as executive director, developed a membership book that instructed kids on environmental projects and how to start a club of their own. "I felt like I had to write them all back at once because I didn't like what the president did to me. Because I didn't like being ignored ... I didn't want the kids to have the same feeling." says Melissa.

    Requests for information came from all over the nation. At first, Melissa's parents paid the postage and supply bills for the club, but soon expenses became too high. So the club found a sponsor, Wal-Mart Inc., which began underwriting the bimonthly newsletter, Kids F.A.C.E. illustrated, which currently provides environmental updates, suggestions, and ideas to more than 2 million people world wide.

    (225 words)

11. When Melissa was starting the club, she was ________.( D )

(a) a school teacher working for the kids

(b) a social worker taking care of children after school

(c) the parent of a kid at school

(d) a kid attending an elementary school

    12. When Melissa first organized Kids F.A.C.E., she meant to ________.( C )

(a) have a writing club for the kids

(b) ask the kids to clean the environment

(c) give kids a chance to talk about the environment

(d) have a national club

13. More people wanted to join the club after ________.( C )

(a) a newspaper interview was made

(b) enough letters were distributed

(c) they heard about the club from a television show

(d) Melissa became an executive director

14. Melissa mentioned the president because ________.( B )

(a) the latter wrote to her to support her work

(b) she wrote to the latter but got no reply from him

(c) she wanted the kids to know her experience

(d) she wanted the kids to write to him

15. How many people worldwide can have access to the club's bimonthly newsletter? ( B )

(a) 1 million.

(b) 2 million.

(c) 3 million.

(d) 4 million.                                                       TOP