International Volunteer Day is on December 5 every year. It started on December 17, 1985. It’s a day to honor volunteers all over the world.
Every day and every minute, volunteers around the world work out of their own kindness and make the world a better place. They protect the environment, build schools, care for animals. Most volunteers work without getting paid, and many do so using their own money. International Volunteer Day offers us a chance to do so.
Celebrating International Volunteer Day also lets more people know about the work and encourages them to join the volunteer team. When people see how volunteering is changing things for the better, they may want to donate (拼赠) their time and play their part.
Doing volunteer work is also meaningful.Volunteering is a good way to open our eyes. We may do something we never do and meet different kinds of people. We can talk with them and get their good ideas. Volunteers especially students can learn much from practice, get some experience and know how to solve problems.
There are many problems in the world. No one has answers to all the problems. But when we face them together, we’re able to find good ways to solve them. The things we care about today will help build a better world tomorrow.
1. What do we know about International Volunteer Day from Paragraph 1?| A．It is on December 17. |
| B．It started about in the 1980s. |
| C．People celebrate it every 5 years. |
| D．A volunteer came up with the idea of it. |
| A．Volunteers only protect the environment on International Volunteer Day. |
| B．Most volunteers work with getting paid and not using their own money. |
| C．International Volunteer Day never provides us a chance to do volunteer work. |
| D．Celebrating the day can encourage more people to join the volunteer team. |
①Open their eyes and get good ideas.
②Learn a lot from practice and get experience.
③Know how to solve problems.
④Learn to protect themselves.
| A．①②④ |
| B．②③④ |
| C．①②③ |
| D．①③④ |
| A．When one gives, two get happy. |
| B．You don’t need a reason to help others. |
| C．Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much. |
| D．We can't change the past, but we can change the future. |
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【推荐1】Helping others is a great thing to do. You can learn new things and have fun. You can help people, animals or the environment. It can make you feel good too! How can you help?
Charities are organizations that help others, for example, UNICEF or the World Wildlife Fund. You can help charities by giving your time, giving money or giving things that you own. You can also help people or places you know.
Volunteering
Volunteering is when you give your time to help others. Some ways of volunteering are:
•visiting old people to talk to them or help them
•walking dogs at an animal shelter where homeless animals can sleep and get food
•cleaning up a park
Fund-raising
Fund-raising is when you collect money to help others. Some ways of fund-raising are:
•making cakes or biscuits to sell
•doing a sponsored (赞助) activity. For example, family and friends give you money if you finish a long walk.
Donating
Donating is when you give your things to help others. Some ways of donating are:
•giving your old toys or clothes to a charity that helps sick children or poor people
•giving your old books to a library
So, what can you do to help others?
1. Which organization is mentioned in the passage?| A．ORBIS. | B．Oxfam. | C．WWF. | D．WTO. |
| A．Visiting a sick child. | B．Cleaning up a library. |
| C．Doing a sponsored walk. | D．Talking with old people. |
| A．A house to protect animals from rain. | B．A home for large and dangerous animals. |
| C．A building to keep animals on show. | D．A place for poor and homeless animals. |
| A．To show ways of helping others. | B．To explain reasons for donations. |
| C．To share personal experiences. | D．To introduce some organizations. |
| A．A magazine. | B．A storybook. | C．A travelling guide. | D．Science fiction. |
【推荐2】Claude and Louis are “giraffes”. So are police officers Hankins and Pearson. These men and women don’t look like giraffes; they don’t look like you and me. Then, why do people call them “giraffes”?
A giraffe, they say, is an animal that sticks out, its neck can see places far away and has a large heart. It lives a quiet lie and moves about in an easy and beautiful way. In the same way, a “giraffe” can be a person who likes to “stick out his or her neck” for other people, always watches for future happenings, has a warm heart for people around, and at the same time lives a quiet and beautiful life himself or herself.
“The giraffe Project” is a 10-year old group which finds and honors “giraffes” in the US and in the world. The group wants to teach people to do something to build a better world. The group members believe that a person shouldn’t draw his or her head back; instead, they tell people to “stick their neck out” and help others. Claude, Louis, Hankins and Pearson are only a few of the nearly 1,000 “giraffes” that the group found and honored.
Claude and Louis were workers in the factory when they were young. When they were getting old, they left their work with some money that they saved for future use. One day, however, they saw a homeless man looking for a place to keep warm and they decided that they should “stick their neck out” and give him some help. Today, they lived in Friends’ House, where they invited twelve homeless people to stay every night.
Police officers Hankins and Pearson work in a larger city. They see crimes(犯罪) every day and their work is sometimes dangerous. They work hard for their money. However, the two men put their savings together and even borrowed money to start an educational center to teach young people in a poor part of the city. Hankins and Pearson are certainly “giraffes”.
1. What’s the meaning of the underlined words “stick out his or her neck”?| A．Give others a hand | B．Eat delicious food |
| C．Watch beautiful things | D．Save money for retirement |
| A．Four | B．Nearly 1000 | C．Only a few | D．Two. |
| A．It tells people how to live in an easy and beautiful way. |
| B．It tells people how to take action to protect giraffes. |
| C．It finds and honors warm heart people. |
| D．It looks for people who need help. |
| A．giraffes are beautiful animals |
| B．“the Giraffe Project” makes the world more beautiful |
| C．people should give their own money to help homeless and the young |
| D．people can call “the Giraffe Project” for help when they need |
Bonobos live in the rain forest. But some people come and kill their mothers A lady, Claudine André, comes to the rain forest to helpthe baby bonobos. She makes a safe place for them to live in. She also looks after(照顾)them. Soon, more and more people come to help look after the baby bonobos. They bring milk forthem and help them take a bath(洗澡).Also, they teach the bonobos to be like bonobos. With the help of many people the baby bonobos live therehappily. They learn to look for their food. They can find bananas and open nuts bythemselves. They learn to be friends with one another. They can go with the bigbonobos and be in a family. When the bonobos are ready, they can go back to therain forest and live in the trees again. They are happy there, for the rain forest istheir home.It is not easy. But I think it’s worthy(值得的),” says CIaudine André with a smile on her face
根据材料内容选择最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑
1. Why does the lady help the baby bonobos?
| A．They lose their mothers | B．The lady lives near them |
| C．They are lovely and cute | D．The lady wants to study them |
| A．They make a safe place | B．They bring water for them |
| C．They help them take a bath. | D．They teach them to cook food |
| A．Look for a better place | B．Help people around them. |
| C．Make friends with people | D．Be in a family with big ones |
| A．Funny | B．Kind | C．Clever | D．Beautiful |
| A．Find baby bonobos | B．Look after animals |
| C．Go back to the rain forest | D．Live with baby bonobos |
【推荐1】Has anyone ever told you that eating carrots will help you see in the dark?This is just one of many incorrect beliefs you may have heard. Below, TEENS has picked out scientific explanations for three mistakes that people make about their eyes. Let’s take a look.
Can eating carrots improve your eyesight?
Carrots are rich in vitamin A, which helps the eyes to turn light into information for your brain. This allows people to see in darker places.However, eating more carrots won’t help you see better. A certain minimum amount will help, but a large number of carrots will not give you superhuman vision.
If your parents have bad eyesight, will you have bad eyesight, too?
Myopia(近视)can be passed from parents to children. A study by the American Optometric Association found that if both parents are myopic, there’s a 33 to 60 percent chance that their child will be. For children who have one parent with myopia, the chance is 23 to 40 percent, and it’s down to 6 to 15 percent for kids with non-myopic parents. So if your eyesight is bad, your children might still have good vision.
Do color blind people see the world in black and white?
Color blindness doesn’t usually mean that people see the world like an old movie. They usually can’t tell certain colors apart, especially green and red. Another commonly confused pair of colors is yellow and blue.Our eyes have cone cells(视锥细胞)that sense different wavelengths (波长)of light. If these cells don’t work properly, color blindness occurs.
There are different levels of color blindness. Some people are only color blind in low light.
However, in the most serious form of color blindness, everything is shades of gray.
1. Which can help the eyes to turn light into information for the brain?| A．vitamin A | B．vitamin B | C．vitamin C | D．vitamin D |
| A．stops the brain from seeing |
| B．doesn’t help you see better at all |
| C．will give you superhuman vision. |
| D．is good for your eyes to some degree |
| A．40-67% | B．33-60% | C．23-40% | D．6-15% |
| A．Watching movies for too long. |
| B．Getting too little exercise. |
| C．Cone cells not working properly. |
| D．Changes in the wavelength of light. |
| A．To offer some advice on protecting your eyes. |
| B．To clear up some misunderstandings about our eyes. |
| C．To provide help for improving your vision. |
| D．To explain how bad eyesight and color blindness form. |
【推荐2】Recently, a special kind of Chinese rap becomes popular on the Internet. The singer is Guo Yuanfeng. The man from Fuzhou, Fujian Province, is an inheritor (传承人) of “versatile paper flowers (纸翻花)”, a traditional Chinese paper handicraft (手工艺). He uses rap to teach others how to play with the paper flowers. This rap is known as Funky Rapping Paper or Funky Paper Rap on the Internet. His video has been watched over l.5 billion times.
The Funky Paper Rap is as follows: How do you do the 72 changes? Remember the four-word method. First word: touch the top. Second word: touch the bottom. Third word: touch the left. Fourth word: touch the right. Touch the top and then touch the bottom. Touch the left and then touch the right. Pull with your hands. Turn it upside down to change. It’s called Rainbow Bridge. Push it up to change. It’s called Stone Arch Bridge.
Why do people call it Funky Paper Rap? Actually, “funky” comes from the word “funk”. Funk music is a style of dance music that developed from Black R&B, soul, and jazz in the mid-1960s. When Guo first put his video online, people thought his performance matches funk music perfectly. Many are curious about it, “What is this song? I don’t understand the words, but it’s so catchy (悦耳易记的)!” They started to reproduce the rap with different instruments and music styles.
Versatile paper flowers have a long history. They have been listed as intangible cultural heritage (非物质文化遗产) of China. The paper handicraft was started by the Guo family during the Qing Dynasty. People regarded the flowers as gifts to their friends or their families. As time goes by, the Guo family’s later generations (一代人) combine other art forms with the paper flowers to bring more fun to the traditional handicraft.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。1. Which of the following was created by Guo Yuanfeng?
| A．Funk music. | B．Black R&B. |
| C．Versatile paper flowers. | D．Funky Paper Rap. |
| A．He is an inheritor of “versatile paper flowers” |
| B．He makes videos to teach people how to make the paper flowers. |
| C．He teaches people how to play with the paper flowers by singing rap. |
| D．He performs funk music very well. |
| A．It’s a kind of music art form that has a long history. |
| B．It first appeared in the Qing Dynasty as gifts to friends or family members. |
| C．It will soon disappear and the future world can’t see it anymore. |
| D．Many people started to reproduce it because of Guo Yuanfeng’s videos. |
| A．Change. | B．Dream. | C．Connect. | D．Spread. |
| A．Kind and helpful. | B．Clever and creative. |
| C．Hard-working and independent. | D．Talented and humorous. |
Traveling in Taiwan, you can do lots of things. In Taipei, you can taste all kinds of delicious food . Standing at the top of Taipei 101, the world’s tallest building until now, you can get a view of the whole city.
Taiwan has nice natural landscape as well. Sun and Moon Lake is a beautiful lake. On one side of the island it looks like the sun, on the other side it looks like the moon. That is why people call the lake the Sun and Moon Lake. Ali Mountain is the nearest mountain around Sun and Moon Lake. You can enjoy a nice experience with Gaoshan people. It’s a wonderful place to see a very beautiful sunrise. If you enjoy swimming, fishing, boating and eating delicious fruit and fresh fish, Peng Lake must be a good place to visit. Everywehere in Taiwan, you can see mountains, valleys(山谷), and hot springs, together with fields of rice, oranges and tea.
1. What is “Taipei 101” in the passage?
| A．A large lake. | B．A big city. |
| C．A high mountain. | D．A tall building. |
| A．delicious food |
| B．scenery |
| C．sea |
| D．mountain |
| A．In Taipei. | B．In Peng Lake. |
| C．On Ali Mountain. | D．In the East Rift Valley. |
| A．Taiwan has many beautiful valleys, hot springs and lakes. |
| B．Taiwan has many big cities, old temples and tall buildings. |
| C．Taiwan has much nice human , natural landscape and delicious food. |
| D．Taiwan has many high mountains fields and hot springs. |
