1,000­rupee­a­year school their parents could not afford.

　　"It started without much effort，" he says. "There were lots of children who had dropped out of school, or never been to school at all. They were always asking questions about my lessons and I would repeat everything for them."

　　"There used to be just eight pupils, and my friends helped me with the teaching. We worked on the standard of teaching. The word spread to nearby villages, and gradually we took on more and more students."

　　Five years later, the school has a total of 10 teachers, all of whom are students at school, and 650 pupils.

　　On a typical day, Babar will rise at 5 am, do housework, then take a bus to school in a village three miles away. From 10 am to 4 pm, he focuses on his own studies, then he races back to his village to welcome his students at 5 pm. He teaches until 8 pm. The teaching doesn't make him tired, he says, but gives him more strength to keep up his busy life.

　　His parents are filled with pride. His father, Nasiruddin, was shocked when he first discovered his son was teaching. "I couldn't believe it. He's always rushing from place to place and I was worried it might affect his studies. So I visited his school. Seeing his dedication (奉献) to teaching cleared my doubts，" he says.

　　In 2009, Babar was named the "youngest headmaster in the world" by BBC. From then on, his story appeared in many textbooks, and now he is regularly invited to speak at many meetings all over the world.

　　语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要介绍了一个小小年纪就开始教书育人的印度青年的主要事迹。

　　5．Babar started teaching the children nearby________.

　　A．because he wanted to make money to pay for his studies

　　B．when they went to his school to ask him questions

　　C．because their parents asked him to do so

　　D．when he was quite a young boy

　　解析：选D　细节理解题。根据第一段中的"Since he was nine, Babar Ali has been running his own school"和"passing on to the children of poor families the knowledge"可知，巴伯尔在很小的年纪就开始了教书生涯。

　　6．As time went by, Babar ________.

　　A．is planning to set up more schools

　　B．had to ask some teachers to help him

C．gradually made his school bigger and bigger