C. brought diseases to Maoris

　D. lasted more than fifty years

5. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

　A. After the war New Zealand became a British colony.

　B. Maoris can speak both English and Maoris language.

　C. About 250 000 Maoris are now living in New Zealand.

　D. Maoris are allowed to keep their own language.

B

　　Harry Belafonte（哈利·贝拉方特）, a famous singer in America, felt sad when he saw a film about the starving people in Africa. He said to himself, “I should do something to help them. What can I do?” He thought of a plan to gather the stars from the music world and make a special record. The money from the record would help the starving people in Africa. Those famous singers and musicians were always very busy, but they were willing to come to the event(活动)from all over the country.

　　During the Christmas holiday in 1984,Micheal Jackson and Lionel Richie were writing the words and music for records. They often talked about the music far into the night, when they finished the music, they called it “We Are the World.”

　　On the evening of Jauary 28th, 1985, forty—five-singers made a historic recording. At 10 o’clock, every one sang part of chorus(合唱)and harmony(协调). At 4 the next morning, they started recording the solo vocal parts of the song. They finally finished recording at 8.

　　On April 5th. more than 8,000 radio stations all over the world played “We Are the World” at the same time.

6. This passage as a whole is about_________.

　A. a famous American singer B. the making of a special record

　C. the poor people in Africa D. a famous song

7. From the passage we can see that Harry Belafonte was a ________ man.

　A. rich B. strict C. kind-hearted D. interesting

8. What would help the starving people in Africa__________.

　 A. The special record. B. The money from the stars.

　 C. The money from the government. D. The money from the record.

9. The recording was made_________.

　A. soon after the words and music were finished

　B. during Christmas holidays in 1984

　C. about a month after the wordsand the music were finished

　D. on April 5,1995

10. “We Are the World” is the name of

　A. the famous singers B. the special record

　C. a country in Africa D. a song in the record

C

　　The news report that night was a famine(饥饿)in Ethiopia. The pictures were of people who were so thin that they looked like beings from another planet. The camera focused（聚焦）on one man so that he looked directly at me, sitting in my comfortable living room. All around was the sound of death.

　　It was clear that the world had not noticed this until now, you could hear the sadness in the voice of the reporter, Michael Buerk. At the end of the reporter he was silent. Paula started crying, then rushed upstairs to check our baby, Fifi, who was sleeping peacefully.

　　I kept seeing the news pictures in my mind. What could I do? I was only a pop singe rand by now not a very successful pop singer. All I could do was to make records which no one bought. But I would do that, I would give all the profits of the next Rats (the name of the music group he was in) record to Oxfam(an organization in Britain which helps poor music people around the world). What good would that do! It would only be a little money but it was more than I could give just from my bank account. Maybe some people would buy it because the profits were for Oxfam. And I would be protesting about disaster（灾难）. But that was not enough.