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   Seven years ago, Joyce Akinpe moved to Australia to start a new life, finding an exciting job in Sydney. After the outbreak (爆发) of COVID-19, she suddenly lost her job.

Seeing that there were many others like herself in trouble from the outbreak, Akinpe and her two roommates, Michele Gomez and Maureen Lee, brainstormed ideas for how to help their local community. They came up with a street pantry（储藏柜）. Gomez said the idea was very simple, “Take what you need and leave what you can.”

With the help of Gomez’s father, they built the Blessing Box – a street pantry, with shelves and hanging baskets and two doors made from old furniture.

It sits just at the back of the three girls’ home, so they can look after it. They put some information notices into their neighbors’ mailboxes, and the Blessing Box was quickly filled with the donations (捐赠)from the community, “It is the community’s strong support that keeps the project alive,” Akinpe said.

We now have hundreds of people visiting our box every day. It might only a hours for the box to be full and next hour it might become empty again. “We are now helping others to carry out similar projects in their own communities, too”, Gomez said.

Lee said things in the box were mostly convenience foods, as well as some necessary life things such as spaghetti and toilet paper. “Few people take everything at once. They think there are other people who need them more.” Lee added.

There were many people rushing there for donations. The three girls needed to sanitize (消毒）all the donations and make sure all food packages were not broken. Gomez said that they had no time for rest, but what they did was well worth.

1．Paragraph 2 mainly talks about ________.

A．the way to build the Blessing Box

B．the help from the local community

C．the purpose of building a street pantry

D．the trouble from the outbreak of COVID-19

2．Put the following sentences in the right order according to the passage.
a. The three girls thought up a good idea.
b. The three girls received and sanitized the donations.
c. The three girls put information notices into their neighbors’ mailboxes.
d. The three girls built the Blessing Box with the help of Gomez’s father.

A．c—a—b—d

B．c—b—a—d.

C．a—b—-d—c

D．a—d—c—b

3．Few people take everything they need at once because __________.

A．they would like to use their own things

B．they think other people need these things more

C．there aren’t enough donations in the Blessing Box

D．it's not safe to use the things from the Blessing Box

4．The best title for the passage can probably be _________.

A．Challenges through Life	B．Happiness from Strangers
C．Friendship during the Hard Times	D．Kindness behind the Blessing Box