2012年阅读理解：

A篇

Some people believe that a Robin Hood is at work, others that a wealthy person simply wants to distribute his or her fortune before dying. But the donator who started sending envelopes with cash to deserving causes，accompanied by an article from the local paper, has made a northern German city believe in fairytales (童话）

The first envelope was sent to a victim support group. It contained €10,000 with a cutting from the Braunschtveiger Zeitung about how the group supported a woman who was robbed of her handbag； similar plain white anonymous (匿名）envelopes, each containing €10,000, then arrived at a kindergarten and a church.

The envelopes keep coming, and so far at least €190,000 has been distributed. Last month, one of them was sent to the newspaper ’s own office. It came after a story it published about Tom, a 14-year-old boy who was severely disabled in a swimming accident. The receptionist at the Braunschweiger Zeitung opened an anonymous white envelope to find 20 notes of €500 inside , with a copy of the article. The name of the family was underlined.

"I was driving when I heard the news,‖ Claudia Neumann, the boy s mother, told DerSpiegel magazine. ―I had to park on the side of the road； I was speechless. ‖

The money will be used to make the entrance to their house wheelchair-accessible .and for a course of treatment that their insurance company refused to pay for.

―For someone to act so selflessly, for this to happen in such a society in which everyone thinks of himself, was astonishing," Mrs. Neumann said. Her family wonder whether the donator is a Robin Hood character, taking from banks to give to the needy.

Henning Noske, the editor of the Braunschweiger Zeitung, said： ―Maybe it is an old person who is about to die. We just do not know. ‖ However, he has told his reporters not to look for the city’s hero, for fear that discovery may stop the donations.

（本篇文章是夹叙夹议）

56. The Braunschweiger Zeitung is the name of A. a church B. a bank C. a newspaper D. a magazine

答案：C推理判断题。根据第一段最后一句中的accompanied by an article from the local paper可推知 Braunschweiger Zeitung 是一份报纸的名字，另外在第三段第一句话有一个one of them was sent to the newspaper’s own office有提示。

57. Which of the following is TRUE about the donation to Tom?

A. The donation amounted to €190,000.

B. The donation was sent directly to his house.

C. The money will be used for his education.

D. His mother felt astonished at the donation.

答案：D 细节理解题。根据第四段谈到这位受害男孩母亲听到她的孩子被匿名捐赠的消息后表示的一句话“I was speechless‖可知她很震惊，不知道说什么了。D项表达正确。

58. It can be inferred from the passage that .

A. the donator is a rich old man

B. the donation will continue to come

C. the donation comes from the newspaper

D. the donator will soon be found out