Read the passage and choose the most likely answer to each of the questions.
Four years ago Juliette Wright gave birth to her second child, a big healthy baby boy. Hudson grew so fast that Juliette was left with some unworn baby clothes. Feeling privileged to have a happy family, Juliette wanted to give the clothes to a less fortunate mother.
When she phoned her local charities, Juliette was shocked to find none of them needed more baby clothes. She pressed them for what they really did want and their responses were surprising.
One women's shelter needed closed-toe work boots. A family living at the shelter had been separated from their husband and father because he couldn't find work. With experience working in road construction, the only thing stopping him from finding work was the right safety clothes. "With some closed-toe work boots he'd be able to return to work on the roads," said Juliette. "I learnt that a simple item could pull a family out of poverty."
Workers at another women's refuge said they could use new underwear. "People donate used underwear but staffs refuse to accept it out of respect for clients," one told her. Juliette contacted her friends and together they bought enough underwear for dozens of women.
Dropping off this donation Juliette was filled with a sense of purpose. "I felt so good because I'd fulfilled a need in the community." Imagine, she thought, how good it would be to feel that way every day. Juliette instinctively felt the wider community, if given the right opportunity, might like to join her in what she called "direct giving."
Her reaction was contagious and a close friend who worked as a graphic designer volunteered to create a logo to add some seriousness and importance to Juliette's new found passion of locating items to meet charities' specific needs. The logo featured the word GIVIT, with the two Is embracing the V.
Juliette then set out to create a website that matched people in need with people who with goods. It was the website that charities could post requests for specific goods, and donors could go to find these requests. Ideally, potential donors could do this by searching postcodes. Importantly, once an item was donated the request would be removed from the list — she didn't want the site to resemble an auction. And to ensure privacy, donors and receivers would never meet face to face.
Juliette, who was still breast-feeding three-month-old Hudson and caring for his big sister Sara, enlisted a babysitter and began to visit local charities to discuss GIVIT. Then she and her husband used $5,000 of their own money to hire an excellent web developer who understood the complicated programming that they needed.
After a few months the site was fully functioning, and simply maintaining the lists was occupying Juliette full-time from her home on the outskirts.
In those early days, Juliette's GIVIT list included only essential items. So she was hesitant when she noticed a boxing bag had been requested for a local family. But it eventually made its way onto the GIVIT list. Two weeks later Juliette received some amazing feedback. "The charity told me that since that Mum had received the boxing bag, the kids were using it and they had not hit her once," Juliette said softly. "We cannot predict what's going to make a significant impact in someone's life."
Her greatest contribution came the next year. When the Queensland floods hit, the government enlisted GIVIT to help channel donations to flood-affected residents. Over three weeks, GIVIT matched more than 30,000 donations. The website found homes for everything from gumboots to washing machines. "It was a time of incredibly generous giving," Juliette recalled.
Now twenty volunteers work with Juliette to help coordinate the 720 charities who regularly access the website. "The act of giving does something to my self-esteem," she said. "I feel like I'm contributing and that completes me."
Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word "contagious" in Paragraph 6?（ ）
A、
Causing various criticisms.
B、
Spreading quickly to others.
C、
Making a lot of profits.
D、
Causing great changes.
【正确答案】：B
【题目解析】：
本题考查对第六段contagious的词义理解。
定位到第六段第一句：她的反应很有感染力，一位担任平面设计师的密友自愿为朱丽叶设计了一个标志，为她新找到的满足慈善机构特定（情感）需求的物品增添了几分严肃和重要性。 causing various criticisms：导致各种各样的批评；spreading quickly to others：迅速传播给他人；making a lot of profits：赚了很多钱；causing great changes：造成巨大的变化。她的好朋友主动帮助她设计标志说明她的反应给他人带来了积极的影响，故B选项符合题意。