12-year-old John Thomas Robertson is a born train fan. 'I’ve liked trains probably from the day I was born,' he told Good Morning America. 'When I was very little,' he said, 'my grandpa got me a train model. I would just watch it go round for hours and hours.'
When Robertson finally had the opportunity to ride on a train, he felt great. His journey was so mind-blowing that he couldn’t keep it to himself: he decided to take all his classmates to go on a ride with him. When he found that some of his classmates couldn’t pay the fare, he collected cans (罐子) and bottles and raised more than $1,000 for them.
That trip was such a happy one that he made it a yearly action. 'It never gets boring for some reason; it’s just fun,' he said. 'It really lets people get away from their busy life and have fun.
Every October, Robertson takes a new group of children to ride on the train —but now, he has a problem. Several disabled children were refused because the train was not accessible (可用的) to disabled people. 'He was angry to think that children of his own age couldn’t ride a train,' his mother said.
But he wouldn’t say no: he recently sent a letter to the train office for help. To his surprise, the leader, Ty Pennington, accepted the letter in person. He said that he and his workers would work on a train accessible to disabled people.
小题1:The first time John Thomas Robertson took a train, ________. A．he was frightened by itB．he acted as a driverC．he watched it for hoursD．he fell in love with it小题2:The author says John Thomas Robertson is a born train fan, because he ________. A．was greatly attracted to trains since early childhood B．said so in Good Morning AmericaC．took a group of disabled children to travel by trainD．was taken to a train the day he was born小题3:The underlined words 'mind-blowing' can be replaced by ________. A．importantB．terribleC．amazingD．disappointing小题4:The disabled children were refused to get on the train because _________. A．the trains then weren’t accessible to the disabledB．Robertson had not saved enough money for the ticketsC．they couldn’t afford the train tickets D．the driver would not allow them to do so小题5:According to the last paragraph, we can see that Robertson is a ________ child. A．helpful and crazyB．kind and clever C．kind but boring D．lazy but kind