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阅读理解篇 （卷四） Name Score A American young people can join the Boy Scouts (男子童子军 ) or the Girl Scouts. The aim of these two organizations is to develop friendship, potential （潜力）and values and to prepare young people for life. They teach such skills as swimming, cooking, camping, finding food in a forest, building a fire without matches, and managing to save the environment. Some people call many of these activities “survival skills（求生技能）”. This is because sometimes in life, a person may be left alone and will have to survive without help from anyone else. Each scout is taught how to use a special knife for a variety of uses and how to survive in difficult environments. As scouts get older, boys can work to become Eagle (雄鹰高级) Scouts. This award is given to only the few scouts who survive a most difficult development plan. A special ceremony is attended by the other scouts and parents when this award is given. Girls work to become Senior Girl（高级女子） Scouts and learn such things as how to be a leader, how to use technology in their daily lives, and how to understand other cultures. Many boy and girl scouts have become important leaders in America because of their training through these organizations. True or False (7’) ( ) 1. One of the purposes of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts is to develop friendship. ( ) 2. Scouts are trained to use a knife to stay alive in difficult situations. ( ) 3. An award is given to the few bravest scouts by parents. ( ) 4. If a girl scout performs very well in the survival test, she can become an Eagle Scout. ( ) 5. All the scouts become leaders when they grow up. ( ) 6. The survival skills training plays an important role in the kids’ studies, life and future work. ( ) 7. The goals of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are completely different. B. The journalists from No.1 High School newspaper conducted a survey of students’ opinions about pocket money. The