五、阅读理解。
My name is Feng Guixian. I want to tell you something about the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund(CCTF) and how it helped me.
One of the CCTF’s special activities is the Spring Bud Project. In 1989，millions of children in the country，aged from seven to fourteen，were unable to attend school. Eighty - three per cent of them were girls. Because of this，the CCTF launched the Spring Bud Project to help them. Since then，the project has helped millions of girls return to school. It has also built a lot of schools.
The very first “Spring Bud Class” was in Guangxi in 1989. The Spring Bud Project paid for me to attend that class. It also rented a room close to the school for me.
Before the project started，I stayed at home and helped my mother with the housework. Going to school changed my life. I learnt to read and write and do many other things.
Now I work as a teacher at a Spring Bud school in Guangxi. I wish to help other girls in the way the Spring Bud Project helped me.
（ ）1. The underlined word “launched” means “________”.
A. sent B. ended C. started D. paid
（ ）2. What can we know from the text?
A. Feng Guixian lived in Guangxi in 1989.
B. The CCTF launched the Spring Bud Project before 1989.
C. The Spring Bud Project only helped boys.
D. Feng Guixian wishes other girls to be teachers.
（ ）3. What is this text mainly about?
A. A girl called Feng Guixian.
B. The CCTF.
C. The importance of going to school.
D. The CCTF and the help to Feng Guixian.

1. C 【点拨】画线词所在句意为“中国儿童少年基金会发起了‘春蕾计划’来帮助她们”。start 与其意思相近。故选 C。
2. A 【点拨】根据第三段内容可知，作者上了第一届春蕾班，由此推断作者 1989 年住在广西。故选 A。
3. D 【点拨】通读全文可知，本文主要介绍了中国儿童少年基金会发起的“春蕾计划”和“春蕾计划”对作者的帮助和影响。故选 D。