三、阅读理解(20小题，每小题2分，共40分)

阅读下面四篇语言材料，然后按文后要求做题。

A

The Folk Art Show

The best chance to learn about local art and culture.

Open: October 20-25

Organizer: City Museum

Address: 110 Century Road

Telephone: 72314431

Scan the QR code (扫描二维码) to get more information and book tickets.

The City Flower Show

Open: October 8-17

Price: ￥50 for each adult; ￥25 for each child; free under the age of 10; 20% off for groups over 10.

Address:112 New Town Road, Moonlight City

Telephone: 53418899

Visit www. flowersforlife. com for more information.

Camp of Folk Art

Would you like to learn paper cutting, Huangmei opera or to make paper flowers?

Come to Camp of Folk Art 2014 at the Youth Center!

Age: 13 to 18

Time: December 13-20

For more information, call the Youth Center at (010) 1106-2107.

Pop Music Week

Bands from home and abroad will give performances in Sunshine Park. Local bands and DJs from local radio station are waiting to share music with fans. Good chance for you to make friends with similar hobbies.

Price: ￥30—￥50

Time: 9:00 a.m.—9:00 p.m., December 21-27

(   )26. By scanning the QR code, you can get 　　　　.

A. an e-mail from City Museum

B. more information about the Folk Art Show

C. a ticket to the museum for free

D. a gift from the City Museum

(   )27. Tommy is a 9-year-old boy. He wants to visit the City Flower Show with his parents. How much will they pay?

A.￥25.   B.￥100.   C.￥125.   D.￥150.

(   )28. If Jane wants to learn to make paper flowers, she should go to 　　　　.

A. Century Road      B. New Town Road

C. the Youth Center      D. Sunshine Park

(   )29. Phillip, 20 years old, is NOT allowed to go to 　　　　.

A. the City Flower Show

B. Camp of Folk Art

C. the Folk Art Show

D. Pop Music Week

(   )30. 　　　　 lasts for the fewest days.

A. The City Flower Show

B. Camp of Folk Art

C. The Folk Art Show

D. Pop Music Week

B

After losing her job and home in 1984, Lynn Carr was living with her five-year-old son. “We slept in our car for about a week,” she said, “but then it was sold.”

As she moved from one friend’s house to another, Lynn began working toward a high-school-equivalence diploma (高中同等学历证书), listening to self-help tapes and making cakes.

After developing some new ways to make better cakes, she offered her cakes to a restaurant. The restaurant sold out all the cakes in several hours.

The following year, she met a man at a church and before long they married. Lynn began selling the cakes out of their home. Later she opened a cake company. As business became better and better, Lynn didn’t forget where she came from.

All the women she hires (雇用) are mothers or high-school dropouts (退学者). Her twelve workers make 100 to 150 cakes a week and Lynn owes (归功于) her success to her workers. She says, “We’re going to have a learning center and a day-care center in the company. Part of the workday will be spent studying for high-school-equivalence diplomas.”

Recently, a 33-year-old woman with three children came to Lynn. She hired her at once. “It is a real happy thing,” the woman said.