C. To report the performances.          D. To teach kids Chinese arts.

                                         C

   Close your eyes foe a minutes and imagine what life would be like of you had a hundred dollars less. Also imagine what it would be like spending the rest of your life with you eyes closed. Imagine having to read this page, not with your eyes but with your finger-tips.

With existing medical knowledge and skills, two-thirds of the world’s 42 million blind should not have to suffer. Unfortunately, rich countries posses most of this knowledge, while developing countries do not.

ORBIS is an international non-profit organization which operates the world’s only flying teaching eye hospital. ORBIS intends to help fight blindness worldwide. Inside a DC-8 aircraft, there is a fully-equipped teaching hospital with television studio and classroom. Doctors are taught the latest techniques of bringing sight back to people there. Project ORBIS also aims at promoting peaceful cooperation(合作) among countries.

 ORBIS tries to help developing countries by providing training during three-week medical programs. ORBIS has taught sight-saving techniques to over 35,000 doctors and nurses, who continue to cure tens of thousands of blind people every year. ORBIS has conducted 17 plane programs is China so far. For the seven to ten million blind in China ORBIS is planning to do more for them. At the moment an ORBIS is working on a long-term plan to develop a training center and to provide eye care service to Shanxi Province.ORBIS needs your help to continue their work and free people from blindness.
  For just US$38,you can help one person see; for $380 you can bring sight to 10 people; $1,300 helps teach a doctor new skills; and for $13,000 you can provide a training programme for a group of doctors who can make thousands of blind people see again.Your money can open their eyes to the world.Please help ORBIS improve the quality of life for so many people less fortunate than ourselves.

65.The first paragraph is intended to ______.

A.introduce a new way of reading

B.advise the public to lead a simple life

C.direct the public’s attention to the blind

D.Encourage the public to use imagination

66.What do we learn about existing medical knowledge and skills in the world?

A.They are adequate                        B.They have not been updated.

C.They are not equally distributed             D.They have benefited most of the blind

67.ORRIS aims to help the blind by ______.

A.teaching medical students                  B.training doctors and nurses

C.running flying hospitals globally            D. setting up non-profit organization

68.What does the authour try to do in the last paragragh?

A.Appeal for donations                     B.Make an advertisement

C. Promote training programs                D.Show sympathy for the blind

69.What can be the best title for the passage?

A.ORRIS in China                         B.Fighting Blindness

C.ORRIS Flying Hospital                   D.Sight-seeing Techniques

                                  D

Everyone looks forward to progress, whether in one’s personal life or in the general society. Progress indicates a person’s ability to change the way he is living at the moment. Progress must lead a better way of doing things.All these, however, remains true only in so far as people want to accept technology and move forward  by finding new and more efficient ways of doing things.

However,at the back of the minds of many people,especially those who the “good old days”, efficiency comes with a price. When communication becomes efficient,people are able to conduct one another no matter where they are and at whatever time they wish to.The click of a button allows people miles apart to talk or to see each other without even leaving their homes. With the communication gadets, such as mobile phones and ipads, people often do not take the effect to visit one another personally.A personal visit carries with the additional feature of having to be in the person’s presence for as long as the visit lasts. We cannot unnecessarily excuse our selves or turn the other person off.

With efficiency also comes mass production.Such is the nature of factories and t