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What would you do if you see a problem? Find a solution. That is what Alex Knoll, 13,
1. Alex lives in Idaho, the USA. One day, he saw a man trying hard to
2 a heavy door of a store. The man was in a wheelchair.
Alex had a question. Could the man go online to see
3 a store had automatic doors? That way, he would know if he could go into the store
4. "I searched on the internet, but I couldn't find any information," Alex said. So he came up with the idea of
5 an app. He calls it Ability App. He has a website about it. It says the app will be helpful to
6 people by providing information they need.
Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres heard about Alex's
7. She liked it. She invited Alex to her show and surprised him with a 25,000 check.
Tera Miller, a wheelchair user since childhood, is a friend of Alex's parents. "I think the app is really
8," she said. "There are a lot of places that I can't go
9 I don't know if they are accessible." She is sure the little thing will make a huge
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to people like her.
"I'm going to work as hard as I can to bring Ability App to life," Alex says.
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A
)1. A. believes B. orders C. plans D. forgets
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C
)2. A. break B. fix C. open D. clean
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D
)3. A. why B. when C. how D. if
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B
)4. A. slowly B. easily C. quietly D. fully
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C
)5. A. checking B. admiring C. creating D. drawing
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D
)6. A. homeless B. sick C. lonely D. disabled
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A
)7. A. idea B. courage C. feeling D. trouble
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D
)8. A. simple B. safe C. expensive D. useful
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C
)9. A. while B. although C. because D. unless
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C
)10. A. promise B. success C. difference D. choice