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p98.①

I am here to speak for all future generations to come. I am here to speak for starving children around the world. I am here to speak for animals dying across this planet.

I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in the ozone layer. I am afraid to breathe the air because I don't know what chemicals are in it. And now we hear about animals and plants going extinct every day vanishing forever. Did you have to worry about these little things when you were my age? All this is happening before our eyes, and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions.

Question:

What is the speaker afraid of?

• A) Losing money and resources.

• B) Breathing polluted air and going out in the sun.

• C) Sharing with others.

• D) The growth of deserts.

p99①

I'm only a child and I don't have all the solutions, but I want you to realize, neither do you! You don't know how to fix the holes in the ozone layer. You don't know how to bring salmon back to a dead stream. You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can't bring back the forests that once grew in areas that are now desert.

If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it! Here, you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organizers, reporters, or politicians. But really you are mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles and all of you are somebody's child.

Question:

What is the speaker asking people to do if they don’t know how to fix the environment?

• A) Keep trying new solutions.

• B) Educate children about the issues.

• C) Stop breaking it.

• D) Ignore the problems.

p99②

I'm only a child, yet I know we are all part of a family. I'm only a child, yet I know we should act as one single world toward one single goal. In my country, we make so much waste. We buy and throw away, buy and throw away. And yet northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we have more than enough, we are afraid to lose some of our wealth, afraid to share.

Question:

What does the speaker say we are all part of?

• A) A country.

• B) A family.

• C) A team.

• D) A business.

p99②

I'm only a child, yet I know we are all part of a family. I'm only a child, yet I know we should act as one single world toward one single goal. In my country, we make so much waste. We buy and throw away, buy and throw away. And yet northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we have more than enough, we are afraid to lose some of our wealth, afraid to share.

Question:

Why don’t people share, according to the speaker?

• A) They are afraid of losing money.

• B) They don’t care about others.

• C) They don’t know how to share.

• D) They don’t have enough.

p100①

Two days ago here in Brazil, we were shocked when we spent time with some children living on the streets. One child told us: "I wish I was rich. And if I were, I would give all the street children food, clothes, medicine, shelter, and love and affection." If a child on the street who has nothing is willing to share, why are we who have everything still so greedy?

Question:

What did the child on the street wish for?

• A) To become famous.

• B) To be rich and help other street children.

• C) To travel the world.

• D) To go to school.

p100①

Two days ago here in Brazil, we were shocked when we spent time with some children living on the streets. One child told us: "I wish I was rich. And if I were, I would give all the street children food, clothes, medicine, shelter, and love and affection." If a child on the street who has nothing is willing to share, why are we who have everything still so greedy?

Question:

What message does this story teach us?

• A) Street children want to be rich to show off.

• B) People with more resources should learn to share with others.

• C) It is impossible to help everyone.

• D) Children on the streets can survive on their own.

p100②

At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the world. You teach us:

not to fight with others

to work things out

to respect others

to clean up our mess

not to hurt other creatures

to share, not be greedy　　

Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do?

Question:

What is the main idea of this text?

• A) Adults don’t need to follow the rules they teach children.

• B) Adults should follow the same lessons they teach children.

• C) Fighting and hurting others is acceptable.

• D) Children should be left to decide their own rules.

p101

Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying, "Everything's going to be all right," "We're doing the best we can," and "It's not the end of the world." But I don't think you can say that to us anymore. My father always says, "You are what you do, not what you say." You grown-ups say you love us. I challenge you, please make your actions reflect your words. Thank you for listening.

Question:

What lesson does the speaker say their father taught them?

• A) Actions are more important than words.

• B) Children should solve their own problems.

• C) Saying "I love you" is enough.

• D) Words are more important than actions.