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1、The 2017 Back To School with Heartland event will be held: MondayThursday 2: 00 p. m. 5: 00 p. m. and Friday 1: 00 p. m. 3: 00 p. m. , Aug. 711. However, reduced costs for physicals will be available through Sept. 30 this year, for those who are unable to schedule an appointment during the event wee

2、k. Heartlands regular clinic hours are as follows: Monday & Wednesday: 8: 00 a. m. 5: 00 p. m. ; Tuesday & Thursday: 00 a. m. 7: Friday: 00 a. m. 3: 00 p. m. Heartland is a Level 3 Patient-centered Medical Home and a Health Center serving Douglas County and surrounding areas with primary care, behav

3、ioral health and assistance programs. Services are available to all, regardless of income or insurance status. Heartland is located at 346 Maine St. , Ste. 150 in Lawrence, KS, and also offers an office inside the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department at 200 Maine St. 【文章大意】文章主要讲述了Heartland Comm

4、unity Health Center为学生返校提供帮助。1. What can people get from Heartland during event hours? A. Pick-up service. B. Free school supplies. C. Reduced-cost technical training. D. Help in the form of money. 【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据文章第二段“Free backpacks filled with various school supplies and free toothpaste to protect

5、 teeth, along with other helpful information, will be available on a walk-in basis during event hours. 故选B。2. When can you visit Heartlands clinic?A. At 5: 00 p. m. on Friday. B. At 7: 00 p. m. on Monday. C. At 9: 00 a. m. on Wednesday. D. At 7: 00 a. m. on Thursday. 【解析】选C。根据第四段“Heartlands regular

6、clinic hours are as follows: 00 p. m. “故选C。3. What information about Heartland can we get from the text?A. Its development history. B. The number of its members. C. Its founder. D. Its address. 【解析】选D。根据文章最后一段最后一句 “Heartland is located at 346 Maine St. , Ste. 150 in Lawrence, KS, and also offers an

7、office inside the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department at 200 Maine St. ”故选D。 B Three Feet From GoldDarbys uncle was caught by the “gold fever” in the gold-rush days, and went west to dig and grow rich. After months of labor, he was rewarded by the discovery of the shining ore （矿石）. He needed m

8、achinery to bring the ore to the surface. So, with the “strike”, he returned home. And with the help of Darby, he borrowed a lot of money. After buying the machinery and having it shipped, Uncle and Darby went back to work the mine. The first car of ore was mined. And the returns proved they had one

9、 of the richest mines in Colorado! Down went the drills! Up went the hopes of Uncle and Darby!Then something happened! The vein （矿脉） of gold ore disappeared! They drilled on, but all in vain. Finally, they decided to quit and sold the machinery to a junk man for a few hundred dollars. The junk man c

10、alled in a mining engineer to look at the mine and do a little calculating. The engineers calculations showed that the vein would be found just three feet from where the Darbys had stopped drilling! The junk man took millions of dollars in the vein, because he knew enough to seek experts advice befo

11、re giving up. Most of the money which went into the machinery was borrowed through the efforts of Darby, who was then a very young man. The money came from his relatives because of their faith in him. He paid back every dollar of it, although he was years in doing so. Long afterward, Mr Darby made a

12、nother discovery that desire can be changed into gold. This discovery came after he went into the business of selling life insurance. Remembering that he lost a huge fortune, for he stopped three feet from gold, Darby profited by the experience in his chosen work, saying to himself, “I stopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop because men say no when I ask them to buy insurance. ”Darby sold more than a million dollars in life insurance annually. He owes his “stickability” to the lesson he learned from his “quitability” in the gold mining busine