Unit 3
1.Direction: read the following passages, and then select the best choice for each of
the questions or incomplete statements.
Passage 1
Traditional American summer camps offer young people a chance to play many sports. These camps may be in the mountains. Or they may be in the woods, or at a lake. Some camps teach activities like painting or music. Or they teach computer programming or foreign languages. Children at all kinds of camps meet new friends. They learn new skills and develop independence.
Some children go to camp during the day and return home at night. Others stay at camp all day and all night. Children stay at an overnight camp for between one and eight weeks. Parents can pay less than one hundred dollars or more than seven-hundred dollars a week for an overnight camps.
Children from poor families might not have a chance to attend summer camp. The Fresh Air Fund is a well-known organization. People around the country give money to support the Fresh Air Fund. Each summer it sends ten thousand poor children to stay with families in the country or to five camps in New York State.
Summer camps have become very important to millions of families. Many American women now work outside the home. Working parents need a place where their children can be cared for during the summer when they are not in school.
Young people who like the arts can learn about painting, music, acting or writing. Camps that offer programs in science and environmental studies are popular, too. There are also camps for older children who like wilderness (野外) adventure. These campers take long trips by bicycle or canoe. Or they go rock climbing or ride horses. Other summer camps in American children learn about religion or help them lose weight.
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1. All traditional American Summer Camps teach children to be .
A) brave
B) lovely
C) patient
D) independent
2.In an overnight camp, children .
A) return home at night
B) only stay there for the night
C) spend less than a week there
D) are there the whole day and night
3. It can be learned from the passage that the Fresh Air Fund .
A) helps children in general
B) receives money from around the country
C) has established five summer camps
D) supports families in the country
4. Summer camps have become popular because .
A) children can learn more there than in school
B) they teach children new skills
C) children like living there
D) they are good places to send children to during summer vacation
5. The writer wants to explain that summer camp is .
A) something new
B) only for those in poverty
C) possible for children from either rich or poor families
D) possible only for those from rich families
