Jake and Max are twin (双胞胎) brothers. They show love for volunteering. Their family has always done community services (社区服务). When they were young, they gave up gifts at their birthday parties. Instead, they hoped people to give money to a charity (慈善机构). Jake and Max help two charities. They had some nice ways to help their community, such as donating clothes and books.
When they were seven, Jake and Max were interested in volunteering with a friend at the local homeless shelter to help to cook. Unluckily, they were refused (拒绝) because they were too young. They had to think of another way to help other kids who were also facing a similar problem: wanting to help but being refused because of their age.
“So, they set up a project called Kids That Do Good to hope people to join the community and help others.” The small project has grown into a large website. It brings thousands of interested visitors each year.
Jake and Max are busy with school and after-class activities and other community services. Kids That Do Good hopes kids to build their own volunteering events.
1. The underlined word “donating” means “________” in Paragraph 1.| A．捐赠 | B．排斥 | C．研究 | D．舍弃 |
| A．ask rich kids to go back to school | B．help blind people in the world |
| C．hope people to join the community and help others | D．make the charities give money and food to them |
| A．didn’t love gifts they received | B．have built many charities these years |
| C．began helping others at 25 years old | D．hoped more children could join them |
| A．a charity organization | B．the twins’ volunteering work |
| C．a popular community | D．a story of a boy |
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【推荐1】4 Types of Teen Volunteer Opportunities (机会)
Interested in volunteering? Not sure what volunteer opportunities are available to you? There are a lot to choose from!
#1 People in Need of Volunteer Opportunities Interested in helping the elderly? You should consider volunteering at your local nursing home.  As a nursing home volunteer, you might help with meal delivery, cleaning up after meals, helping the elderly with daily tasks, or entertaining an elderly person (by reading to them, talking to them, watching movies with them, etc.). | #2 Education Volunteer Opportunities Love being around books? You should consider being a library volunteer.  As a library volunteer, you may organize books, help repair books, help visitors find books, help visitors use the computer, or help younger students with their homework. Find out how to sign up to volunteer at your local library by doing a Google Search for “[Your Hometown Name] library volunteer.” |
#3 Environmental Volunteer Opportunities Interested in helping the environment? Consider signing up to be a beach cleanup volunteer or forest/park/nature cleanup volunteer.  As a cleanup volunteer, you’ll be helping pick up garbage on the beach or in the forest or park. This is very important for reducing pollution and helping little creatures. To find a cleanup opportunity near you, search for “[Your Hometown Name] [beach, forest, or park] cleanup volunteer.” | #4 Museum Volunteer Opportunities Interested in someday working at a museum? Have an interest in art, science or history? You may want to be a museum volunteer. Most museums offer volunteer programs for teens aged 16 or older.  As a museum volunteer, you’ll educate guests about museum exhibits, conduct work-shops and demonstrations (演示) for visitors, and/or help with ticketing and directing visitors. |
1. What else may probably “entertain” an elderly person?
| A．Teaching them English. | B．Giving them a haircut. |
| C．Washing clothes for them. | D．Putting on short plays for them. |
| A．He/She helps sell books. | B．He/She cleans up the library. |
| C．He/She works in the gift shops. | D．He/She helps children do homework. |
| A．#1 and #2. | B．#2 and#3. | C．#2 and #4. | D．#1 and #4. |
| A．10. | B．13. | C．15. | D．16. |
| A．Teenagers. | B．Teachers. | C．Parents. | D．News reporters. |
【推荐2】All around the world, children and teenagers are helping to make their communities better places.
 | Help an elderly neighbour This is Emma. She lives with her family in Michigan in the USA. Their neighbour, Molly, is 86 years old. Emma visits Molly at the weekend once a month. She sweeps her garden and waters her plants. And she talks to Molly about her life at school. |
 | Clean up the countryside Nick and his friends help to clean up the countryside in the UK. They go to rivers, beaches, parks and forests to pick up all the litter they can find. Sometimes they have competitions to see who can find the most litter. |
 | Walk dogs Leo and his younger sister are volunteer dog walkers. Every weekend they go to a charity for homeless dogs in Dublin. They take the dogs for walks in the park or in the countryside. They also help to train the dogs. |
 | Visit a retirement home Lisa’s favorite subject is ICT. She is good with computers. So, once a week she visits a nursing home in Wellington. She teaches the old people how to send emails and how to use a social network. With Lisa’s help, some of them can write blogs. |
| A．Emma. | B．Nick. | C．Leo. | D．Lisa. |
| A．once a month | B．once a week | C．every weekend | D．every day |
| A．He sweeps the garden for Molly. | B．He picks up litter in the countryside. |
| C．He takes the dogs for walks in the park. | D．He teaches the old people how to send emails. |
【推荐3】One Saturday, we were preparing to go away for the weekend when my daughter heard cries for help. When I went out, I discovered our elderly neighbour had fallen on her front steps. She was clearly in pain, so I helped her inside her house and settled her on the bed.
I noticed her room was very narrow and dark. It was obvious she hadn’t cleaned it for a long time. She insisted she didn’t need an ambulance(救护车) and that someone would be around soon, so l left her with a bottle of water at her side.
As I left I felt sad when l realized that we hadn’t communicated with her, except a few smiles, for the past 18 months. She didn’t know my name and l didn’t know hers, and l hadn’t even noticed that she hadn’t been outside for weeks because of bad pain in her back.
That weekend I visited my grandmother for her 80th birthday and noticed how clean and spacious her flat seemed in comparison to my neighbour’s. My neighbour, as far as I knew, had no family regularly dropping by.
When I returned home I went to visit her. Very grateful to see me, she explained she was okay. Yet, unable bend down because of her back, her kitchen was filling with garbage that she was unable to take out by herself.
We’ve become good friends and chat every second day. She keeps thanking me for my kindness, but I enjoy helping her. Now, every time I return from putting out her garbage, collecting her mail or just chatting, I feel a deep sense of satisfaction and peace.
1. Why did the author feel sad when she left the old woman’s house?| A．The house she lived in was very small and dark. |
| B．They didn’t care much for each other as neighbours. |
| C．The author didn’t know the old woman’s name. |
| D．The author hadn’t noticed that her neighbor had back pain. |
| A．tidy | B．small | C．large | D．narrow |
| A．She had been ill for many years. |
| B．She always helped others when she was young. |
| C．She had no daughters and sons. |
| D．She was grateful for the author’s kindness. |
| A．attending her grandmother’s birthday party | B．helping her neighbour |
| C．having a big family | D．knowing her elderly neighbour’s name |
I’m Rose and now I’m helping in a zoo in Chengdu, China.
It’s 9 a. m. I start cleaning the panda house with some zoo keepers. The panda’s house is big, so it takes us an hour and a half to finish it.
It’s ________. After cleaning, we are all tired（累的）. We are having tea in the room.
It’s 11 a. m. It’s time for us to get food for pandas. A panda can eat about 30 kg of food a day.
It’s 11:30 a. m. It’s time for my lunch. We have some chicken rice.
It’s 1:00 p. m. I’m watching a movie about pandas. I know much about the animal.
It’s 2:00 p. m. We are doing cleaning again. It’s kind of boring, but we all work hard.
It’s 3:00 p. m. There is a panda called Yuanyuan. Today is her first birthday. We are making a big cake for her.
It’s 4:30 p. m. I’m leaving the zoo.
I am very happy at the zoo. I want to come again and be a zoo keeper next time.
1. The time for ________ in Paragraph 3 is 10:20 a. m.2. Rose has lunch first and then gets lunch for pandas.
3. They only clean the panda house in the morning.
4. Rose works hard all day so she has no time to relax.
5. Rose thinks it’s great to be a zoo keeper and wants to help in the zoo again.
Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Ma grew up as a happy kid. At the age of 12, he wanted to learn English. Every morning, he woke up at 5 am, cycled 40 minutes to a hotel near the West Lake where he could chat to foreign tourists. He did it for nine years, rain or shine.
In a 1995 trip to the US, Ma was showed the Internet for the first time. He searched Yahoo using the word “Beer”, and found that there was nothing in there about China. Seeing the chance, Ma returned to China and set up a website called China Pages without even knowing much about computers.
Four years later, 18 people including Ma, his wife and his friends founded Alibaba in Hangzhou. He believed in the Internet business potential (潜力) when few other Chinese did. Now, Alibaba has developed into the world’s largest e-commerce (电子商务) company, owning popular shopping websites like Taobao and Tmall. It makes more profit than Amazon and e-Bay combined.
1. We can tell from the first paragraph that _____.
| A．Ababa Group is the biggest company in China |
| B．Alibaba’s IPO has raised $25 billion |
| C．Jack Ma used to be a math teacher |
| D．Jack Ma is the richest man in the world |
| A．In 1995. | B．In 1998. |
| C．In 1999. | D．In 2014. |
| A．Alibaba. | B．Taobao. | C．Amazon. | D．e-Bay. |
【推荐3】The little prince leaves his planet to visit other planets. When he comes to the sixth planet, he sees an old man. The man is reading a big book with a magnifier (放大镜).
The old man: Where are you from, boy?
The little prince: What’s that big book? What are you doing?
The old man: I’m a geographer. The book is about all the seas, rivers, mountains and…
The little prince: Your planet is very beautiful. Does it have any mountains?
The old man: I don’t know.
The little prince: How about rivers and lakes?
The old man: I have no idea, either.
The little prince: Why? You are a geographer!
The old man: Right! But…Well, where are you from?
The little prince: My planet is very far away from yours. It’s very small. There is only a rose and three volcanoes (火山) on my planet. Not so interesting, right? That’s why I want to visit other planets.
The old man thinks for a minute. Then he says to the little prince, “The Earth can be a good place for you to visit.” The little prince says thanks and leaves.
—Taken from The Little Prince
1. The little prince visited _________ planets before coming to this old man’s planet.| A．six | B．five | C．four | D．three |
| A．Why do you work as a geographer? |
| B．Why do you live on this planet? |
| C．Why do you know all the seas and mountains? |
| D．Why do you know little about your planet? |
| A．story book | B．film poster |
| C．science newspaper | D．geography magazine |
