In dreaming up the programme Tennis and Literacy for Youth, as a mother, I had hoped to share two of my passions, tennis and reading, with children. Throughout the year, I had advertised for participants at local elementary schools and volunteers at local high schools. With the help of kind people, I applied for money. I was even able to secure a camp site for the programme.

But on the first day of camp, in spite of my careful planning, things did not go the way I had hoped. Hector and Adrian exchanged blows with their racquets (球拍). Hector struggled to his feet moments later, covering a bloody nose with one hand. Georgie and Eduardo threw balls at each other. Then during the reading time, I raced from joyless child to demanding child, unable to convince even one to open a book. They would rather be watching Nickelodeon at home, Mylea told me, than “learning stupid tennis and reading boring books”.

That evening, exhausted as I was, I called my volunteers together for a meeting, and redesigned the entire curriculum. We created a good fellow system, where each volunteer paired with a camper to help him or her during reading time. To emphasize praise and progress, we established weekly prize ceremonies, presenting awards for most improved reading, tennis and behavior.

In the following days, with the chaos and the schedule changes and the meetings, these children, once in bad mood during reading time, untouched books in their laps, began to find joy in reading a story and playing tennis.

One day, Mylea shut the book and asked me, “Can I take this to read it to my mom tonight?” Looking up at her eager face, I couldn’t help myself. I jumped to my feet and wrapped her in a hug, lifting her right off the ground. “It’s all yours!” I overjoyed.

【小题1】What can we learn from paragraph 1?

A．The author was a teacher of a high school.

B．Volunteers from local schools donated a lot of money.

C．Local schools invited the author to plan a reading camp.

D．The author made good preparations for the programme.

【小题2】Which can be used to describe the first day of the camp?

A．Successful.

B．Messy.

C．Smooth.

D．Boring.

【小题3】How did the author adjust the programme?

A．By replacing the books with tennis.

B．By helping and inspiring the campers.

C．By calling on the children to work hard.

D．By emphasizing the importance of reading.

【小题4】What is the text mainly about?

A．A proposal of being volunteers.

B．An improvement of the teaching facilities.

C．A survey on how to help kids overcome difficulties.

D．An experience of introducing reading and tennis to kids.