B
Next week, Pushpa Nagaraj will appear for her 720th exam. But she won't be taking the exam for herself. Since 2007, she has helped hundreds of visually challenged(有视力问题的)students take exams by acting as their scribe(抄写员), reading them the questions and then writing down the answers they give.
When Ms. Nagaraj was growing up in Bangalore, the IT capital of India, her father lost his job after a back injury(受伤). The family suddenly found itself struggling(挣扎). She thought she'd have to drop out of school. Luckily, her mother managed to raise enough money to educate her through high school. Today, she's a project helper for an IT firm.
One day, as she was helping a few visually damaged children cross the road, it struck her how difficult even everyday tasks could be for them, let alone finishing their education. Ms. Nagaraj wanted to help those children.
"Many of the children with sight challenges balk at the thought of writing exams and drop out," says Ms. Sundararaman, a local educational expert. "And so, their education comes to a sudden stop, midway." Having a scribe can be the difference between passing and failing.
Over the past 12 years, word about Ms. Nagaraj's work has spread — so much that she now gets requests from people from all over India. She has also set up a network of volunteers that posts requests through a social media group.
Ms. Nagaraj is keenly aware(意识到)of ongoing challenges, chief of which is that, every once in a while, she has to refuse requests from students to give them the answers during exams. Another challenge is to develop more scribes. Despite these, she is very grateful for having the opportunity to help others. "I have no complaints. Actually, I feel very blessed," she says.
56. What do we know about Ms. Nagaraj from Paragraph 2?
A. She suffered from a back injury.
B. She struggled to finish her high school.
C. She raised enough money from an IT firm.
D. She had to work to help support her family.
57. What does the underlined word "balk" in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A. Become hopeful.
B. Feel unsatisfied.
C. Become afraid.
D. Become surprised.
58. The local educational expert explains to us .
A. why students with sight challenges stop going to school
B. how students with sight challenges study at school
C. how important scribes are for students with sight challenges
D. what we should do to help students with sight challenges
59. What challenge does Ms. Nagaraj have to overcome?
A. The shortage of available scribes.
B. The large number of exams to take.
C. The request to copy others' answers in the exam.
D. The building of a network of volunteers.
60. What's the text mainly about?
A. An Indian woman breaks the record in taking exams.
B. It's important to set up an organization for scribes.
C. A large number of students drop out of school in India.
D. An Indian woman helps disabled children as a scribe.

56.B 57.C 58.A 59.A 60.D

翻译:
B
下周，普什帕·纳加拉杰将参加她的第720场考试。但她不是为自己参加考试。自2007年以来，她通过担任抄写员，为数百名有视力问题的学生参加考试提供帮助，她会给他们读问题，然后写下他们给出的答案。
纳加拉杰女士在印度的信息技术之都班加罗尔长大，她的父亲背部受伤后失去了工作。这个家庭突然发现自己陷入了困境。她原以为自己不得不辍学。幸运的是，她的母亲设法筹集到了足够的钱供她读完高中。如今，她是一家信息技术公司的项目助理。
有一天，当她帮助几个视力受损的孩子过马路时，她突然意识到，即使是日常任务对他们来说也很困难，更不用说完成学业了。纳加拉杰女士想要帮助这些孩子。
“许多有视力障碍的孩子一想到要参加考试就会退缩，然后辍学，”当地教育专家桑达拉曼女士说。“因此，他们的学业在中途突然停止。”有一个抄写员可能就是及格和不及格的区别。
在过去的12年里，关于纳加拉杰女士工作的消息传开了——以至于她现在收到了来自印度各地人们的请求。她还建立了一个志愿者网络，通过一个社交媒体群发布请求。
纳加拉杰女士敏锐地意识到目前的挑战，其中最主要的是，她时不时地不得不拒绝学生在考试中要求她给出答案的请求。另一个挑战是培养更多的抄写员。尽管有这些挑战，她还是非常感激有机会帮助别人。“我没有抱怨。实际上，我觉得自己很幸运，”她说。
56. 从第二段我们对纳加拉杰女士有什么了解？
A. 她背部受伤了。
B. 她艰难地完成了高中学业。
C. 她从一家信息技术公司筹集到了足够的钱。
D. 她不得不工作来养家。
57. 第四段中划线的单词“balk”可能是什么意思？
A. 变得有希望。
B. 感到不满意。
C. 变得害怕。
D. 变得惊讶。
58. 当地教育专家向我们解释了______。
A. 为什么有视力障碍的学生停止上学
B. 有视力障碍的学生在学校如何学习
C. 抄写员对有视力障碍的学生有多重要
D. 我们应该做什么来帮助有视力障碍的学生
59. 纳加拉杰女士必须克服什么挑战？
A. 可用抄写员的短缺。
B. 要参加的大量考试。
C. 考试中抄袭别人答案的请求。
D. 志愿者网络的建立。
60. 这篇文章主要讲了什么？
A. 一位印度妇女在参加考试方面打破了记录。
B. 为抄写员建立一个组织很重要。
C. 印度有大量学生辍学。
D. 一位印度妇女作为抄写员帮助残疾儿童。