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愛(ài)是黑暗中的一盞燈，照亮前行的遠(yuǎn)方;愛(ài)是一首無(wú)言的詩(shī)，溫暖著冰凍的心房;愛(ài)是春日的細(xì)雨，夏日的涼風(fēng)，秋日的紅果，冬日的暖陽(yáng)，讀了下文抒寫(xiě)著愛(ài)的事跡，你會(huì)感動(dòng)得潸然淚下。

Sometime today—perhaps several times Dick Winter will think about the 19-year-old who saved his life.

Because of this young man， Winter enjoys things like friendships， colours and laughter every day.

The young man saved Winter’s life by signing an organ donor card. “I can’t say ‘thank you’ enough，” Winter said yesterday at a news conference marking the tenth anniversary of the Multi Organ Transplant program at Toronto General Hospital.

What Winter knows of the 19-year-old who saved his life is only that he died in a car accident and that his family was willing to honour his wishes and donate his organs for transplantation.

His liver went to Winter， who was dying from liver trouble.“Not a day goes by that I don’t think of what a painful thing it must have been for them，” Winter said yesterday.

“They are very， very special people.”

Winter， 63， is fitter now than he was 10 years ago， when he got the transplant. He has five medals from the 1995 World Transplant Games in swimming and hopes to collect some more next year in Japan.

“At one time， we were probably strange people in the eyes of other people.Now it’s expected you should be able to go back and do everything you did before， only better.”

The biggest change for Winter， however， isn’t that he has become a competitive athlete. The biggest change is how deeply he appreciates every little thing about his life now.

“I have no time for arguments，” said Winter.

“You change everything. Material things don’t mean as much. Friendships mean a lot.”

Also at yesterday’s news conference was Dr. Gray Levy， Winter’s doctor.

Levy said he has bitter-sweet feelings when he looks at Winter and hears of his athletic exploits.

Levy knows that for every recipient like Winter， there are several others who die even though they could be saved because there aren’t enough donated organs.

“For every Mr. Winter， we have five to ten people that will never be given the chance that Mr. Winter was given，” Levy said.

Levy said greater public awareness and more resources are needed. He noted that in Spain and the United States， hospitals receive about $10，000 per donor to cover the costs of the operating room， doctors， nurses and teams to work with the donors’ families.

Notes:

1. organ donor card: 器官捐獻(xiàn)卡

2. liver n. 肝臟

3. recipient n. 接受者

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，選擇最佳答案:

1. Which of the following is true about the 19-year-old? ____.

A. He died of liver trouble

B. He got wounded in a battle

C. He was willing to donate his organs

D. He became a recipient of a prize

2. What do we learn about Dick Winter?____.

A. He is becoming less competitive now

B. He is always thinking about his earlylife

C. He knows all about the young man andhis family

D. He values friendships more thanmater-ial things

3. Dr. Levy would agree that ____.

A. Spanish hospitals have more favorableconditions for organ transplant

B. the Canadian public have realized theimportance of organ donation

C. Spanish hospitals received more moneyfrom the donors

D. Canadian hospitals now have enoughdonated organs

4. What’s the author’s purpose in writing thisarticle? ____.

A. The public should give more support toorgan transplant

B. Transplant patients are thankful for thehelp they receive

C. Transplant can change a patient’s lifegreatly

D. It is not easy to get organs for transpl-ant

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Tens of thousands of baby penguins face starvation after two giant icebergs broke off the Antarctic ice sheet and blocked their parents’ way to feeding areas.

Adelie and emperor penguins nesting on the Ross Island are now forced to walk long distances over the icebergs to obtain food for their chicks， born during the November-December breeding season.

“The penguins are having to walk 50 km further than usual to reach the sea，” said Dean Peterson. The flightless birds travel on land at just one to two km per hour.

The problem could halve the chick survival rate at the three Adelie penguin colonies on Ross Island—estimated at 130， 000 breeding pairs. In all Antarctica， there is an estimated three million Adelie penguin breeding pairs.

Around 12， 000 breeding pairs of emperor penguins， the largest penguin species at up to four feet tall， are also affected.

The icebergs broke from the vast Ross Ice shelf， south of New Zealand， in March 2000 and are now sandwiched between Ross Island and Franklin island， 93 miles to the north.

Scientist Peterson estimated that penguins were taking days to make the round trip to the sea to fish， and then back to their nests to regurgitate food for their chicks.

“At that point they were quite tired and probably don’t have much to regurgitate，” he said. Penguins already have long odds on reaching adulthood， with only 10 percent surviving beyond adolescence.

“We are probably looking at halving that again—we are sitting down at maybe the five percent rate，” Peterson said， adding some penguins already appeared to be leaving the Ross Island to breed elsewhere.

Penguins come ashore to breed and then take it in turns to leave the nest to fetch fish and other sea food to feed their young.

Researchers say large blocks of the Antarctic ice sheet are breaking off for several reasons， including global warming.

Emperor and Adelie penguins are restricted to Antarctica. The emperors weigh up to 66 pounds while Adelie penguins are much smaller， weighing around 11 pounds.

Notes:

1. breeding n.繁育 halve v. 平分restrict v. 限制regurgitate v. 反芻adolescence n. 青春期

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，選擇最佳答案:

1. Baby penguins on the Ross Island are starving because ____.

A. their parents can’t find their way backto the feeding areas

B. there is not enough food for so many breeding pairs

C. the broken icebergs damaged theirfeeding areas

D. their parents have to travel too far toget food

2. After the long trip， the mother penguins____.

A. have already ate up all the food

B. are too tired to feed their young

C. can’t bring up much to feed their young

D. are too hungry themselves

3. The underlined phrase “have long odds on”probably means ____.

A. have great hope of

B. have little chance of

C. have no difficulty in

D. spend long time in

4. From what scientist Peterson said， we caninfer that ____.

A. penguins usually have a high survivalrate

B. the survival rate of penguins is dropping

C. there are few penguins left on Ross Island

D. the present situation can cause thepenguins to die out

5. Which of the following best supports the main idea of the passage? ____.

A. Broken icebergs endanger penguin chicks

B. Global warming caused the icebergs tobreak off

C. The long trip makes mother penguins too tired to feed their young

D. The change of weather affects penguins

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