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問題詳情:
At the age of 14, Hugh Evans spent a night with cockroaches(蟑螂)crawling all over him.
That experience turned out to be life-changing for Evans, now 30. Far removed from his comfortable home in Australia, he traveled to the Philippines with an aid organization that set him up with a host family. Their home was in Smokey Mountain, a teeming slum(貧民窟) in Manila.
A boy in the family, Sonny Boy, was the same age as Evans. The difference between their lives shocked him hard. “I believed that I wanted to commit my life to this,” said Evans. “I want to see an end to extreme poverty in my lifetime.”
It’s the same goal shared by global organizations and world leaders, and some great progress has been made in reducing the number of the world’s poorest. In 1981, about half the developing world lived in extreme poverty. By 2010, it had fallen to about 20 percent. The organization has set 2030 as the goal to reduce the rate even further, to 3 percent.
The gains worldwide are unbalanced. China and Southeast Asia have made huge progress in lifting their populations above that line. But the opposite is true in some areas in Africa. Even though economic growth is developing across the continent, the number of extremely poor people actually increased over the last three decades.
The organization’s campaign, “Live Below the Line”, hoped for an even greater effect by actually having people eat the way that the world’s poorest have to do every day.
This year about 15,000 people worldwide joined in the campaign such as Ben Affleck and Josh Groban, as well as other notables, such as Jill Biden and Hunter Biden, the vice president’s son. The campaign will raise up to $4,000,000 for various aid organizations working to help the world’s poorest.
37. The author mentioned Evans’ experience in his teens to _________.
A. help him change his poor life
B. warn him not to live a poor life
C. show how he missed his teenage time
D. show how the poor life influenced him
38. What do we know about Evans?
A. He is 44 years old. B. His home is in Australia.
C. He lives in extreme poverty now. D. He often does business in Manila.
39. What do the underlined words “the continent” in paragraph 5 refer to?
A. Australia. B. Southeast Asia.
C. Africa. D. South America.
40. “Live Blow the Line” aims at_________.
A. making people know the reality of living in poverty
B. making wealthy people donate all their money
C. warning wealthy people not to waste food
D. helping poor people save more money
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