Everyone can do something to make our society better. Being a volunteer is a good way. If you don’t know what volunteer work you can do, here are four activities.
Volunteer for the elderly
You can go to the old people’s homes to offer them your care. It is a good act to look after old people.
Volunteer in a nursing home
If you are fluent in English, you can provide your services for those who would like to learn. They can be children, village students, adults, or anyone who wants to learn a new language. As for the places, it can be in an English club or the community service center.
Volunteer to help animals
If you are an animal lover, you’d better not buy dogs or cats from pet shops. You can adopt (收养) street dogs or cats. If you don’t want to keep a pet, you can pay a visit to an animal shelter to look after the lovely animals.
| A．Volunteer to teach English |
| B．We should listen to them and care for them. |
| C．Volunteer to be in an after-school study program |
| D．Donating (捐赠) some money is also a good choice. |
| E．Home for patients is a good place to start your volunteer activities. |
| F．Old people are much more experienced than your friends and classmates. |
| G．There is no act better than lending a hand in helping build a better society. |
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【推荐1】How to Make an Ice-cream in a Bag
What You will need:
1 spoon of sugar,1/2 cup of half-and-half (牛奶和奶油的混合物), 1/4 spoon of vanilla extract (香草精), ice, salt, a big bag, a small bag.
How we make it:
First, put the sugar, half-and-half and vanilla extract into the small bag.
Next, put three glasses of ice into the big bag.
Then, pour about 1/2 cup of salt in the big bag.
When it's ready, place the small bag in the big bag and seal tightly (系紧) . You need to shake the bag for about five minutes.
Finally, take the small bag out. After wiping off (擦去) the salt on the bag, you can open it and enjoy your ice-cream.
You can finish all of the work in less than ten minutes.
1. When making the ice-cream, what do you need?| A．A spoon of sugar. | B．A cup of half-and-half. |
| C．A glass of ice. | D．A spoon of salt. |
| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D．Four. |
| A．More than five minutes. | B．Less than five minutes. |
| C．More than ten minutes. | D．Less than ten minutes. |
| A. Don’t worry. This sign tells that you didn’t shut down the computer correctly last time. This is only a warning. You can skip (跳过) this step. B. Shut your computer down from the start menu and there will be no such blue screen again. C. Maybe your computer does not back up (支持) this kind of files, so you cannot open it. D. Maybe you forget to press the “power" button or the connector (插头) of the monitor becomes loose (松脱的). E. The computer stops working because it is out of power. F. The speed of the website may be a little slow. Just wait for a few seconds and it will move again. G. Maybe the volume (音量) is not loud enough, or it is turned out (被关掉). H. Open the file again and again. |
【推荐3】For some people, it’s difficult to make new friends.
Step 1. Decide what kind of people you want to play with. Choose wisely, because you’ll probably become like them. Pick children that are nice to other people.
Step 2. Smile and say something nice to the person you want to be your friend. If you like a person’s shoes or think a girl is good at basketball, just say so.
Step 3.
Step 4. Ask some questions.
| A．If you want to make friends, you can follow these steps. |
| B．Join clubs and teams. |
| C．Especially (尤其是) when they are in a new place. |
| D．People love to talk about themselves. |
| E．Everyone likes compliments (称赞). |
【推荐1】Recently whenever I turned on my computer or my mobile phone, news about the great effect of Hurricane Harvey on thousands of people caught my eyes. We saw many unfortunate events. However, there were also the bright news that confirmed the goodness of mankind. As a journalist, I wrote many human interesting stories during my career. That’s why the story about the guys in the bakery caught my eyes.
When the staff at a Mexican bakery chain in Houston were trapped inside the building for two days, they didn’t sit there feeling sorry for themselves. They used their time wisely after flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey. While they were waiting for the eventual rescue that came on Monday morning, four decided to make as many loaves of bread as possible for their community.
The flood water rose in the street outside. They took advantage of their emergency power supply to bake bread. They used more than 4,200 pounds of flour to create hundreds of loaves and sheets of sweet bread. Although the water kept rising, they continued baking to help more people. By the time the owner managed to get to them, they had made so much bread that we took the loaves to loads of emergency centers across the city for people affected by the floods.
The store manager, Brian Alvarado, told The Independent, ”Whenever a disaster occurs, nobody should just feel forlorn. Instead, we should take positive action to save ourselves and help others. Our acts of kindness will make a big difference.”
1. What did the bakery store workers do after flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey?| A．They volunteered to make bread for their community. |
| B．They managed to live by selling more bread in the store. |
| C．They felt sorry that they couldn’t escape from the store. |
| D．They ate nothing but to wait for their community to rescue them. |
| A．Fortunate. | B．Hopeful. | C．Shallow. | D．Desperate. |
| A．Alvarado organized his workers to bake much bread. |
| B．Hurricane Harvey caused a power failure in Houston. |
| C．The staff in the bakery sent enough flour to emergency centers. |
| D．The author preferred to write stories about people facing disasters. |
| A．A Popular Mexican Bakery Chain in Houston |
| B．Wait for the Eventual Rescue in a Big Disaster |
| C．All Kinds of Disasters Caused by Hurricane Harvey in Houston |
| D．Bake Bread to Make a Difference in Face of Hurricane Harvey |
【推荐2】Don’t ignore the difference teenagers can make.
| John Michael Thomas, 14, Florida When John Michael Thomas decided to remember his friend Elizabeth Buckley, who died from cancer, he remembered how much she loved peacocks（孔雀）. He wanted to build a life-sized peacock fountain（喷泉）in Elizabeth’s favorite park. He thought it could be a place for people to relax and be cheered. John raised $52,000 to build the fountain. |
| Barrett England, 13, Utah Karma Bike Shop is a place where young people can earn a free bike by reading or performing community service. Barrett visited the shop’s owner with his idea: He would collect and repair used bikes and donate them to the shop. In the end, Barrett received 39 donated bikes. |
| Zachary Blohm, 15, Wisconsin The 25-year-old playground at an elementary school was so small that only 70 of its 575 students could play on it at a time. Zachary Blohm saved the day. He and some volunteers wanted to build a huge playground. To raise money, Zachary planned T-shirt and bake sales, sold tickets and more. Overall, he collected $130,000—enough to finish his project. |
| Jack Zimmerman, 16, New Jersey For some people, finding a meal is as simple as opening the refrigerator. For more than 366,000 hungry kids in New Jersey, it’s not that easy. Then Jack Zimmerman organized a drive to lessen childhood hunger in his state. His goal was to create 40,000 packaged meals. On game day, Jack and his volunteers started their work. After the final count, the team had packaged 47,124 meals. |
| A．To offer a place to children. | B．In memory of Elizabeth Buckley. |
| C．To raise money for Elizabeth Buckley. | D．To encourage people in trouble. |
| A．Danny who helped his mother do some housework. |
| B．Mary who bought something from the shop. |
| C．Jack who offered to help his classmate clean the classroom. |
| D．Jenny who volunteered to clean houses for the old people. |
| A．To buy T-shirts for the students. | B．To organize the bake sales. |
| C．To set up a large playground. | D．To build a new elementary school. |
| A．Reduce. | B．Develop. | C．Stop. | D．Include. |
| A．To encourage people to do more volunteer work. | B．To show how we can help those who are in need. |
| C．To introduce some teenagers who did something great. | D．To tell us some great ideas of raising money. |
Singer Han Hong took action to help Wuhan, the city at the center of the coronavirus outbreak (冠状病毒爆发). Han Hong had planned to hold the first concert of her 2020 national tour in Wuhan on February 29. But she called off the show and called upon people to donate(捐赠) to the city. Soon over 2 billion yuan was donated through Han Hong Love Charity Foundation which she founded in 2012.
“When you're going through a situation like this, you want to do anything you can to help. There are so many kind people out there,” wrote a fan, who donated through Han's foundation. “It's good to know that there are trucks with medical things going straight to the hospitals. They are badly needed.”
In 2008, Han held a charity performance for Wenchuan, Sichuan Province, after an earthquake. That inspired her to found her foundation. Over the years, she has donated to people in different disasters, including an earthquake in Yushu Qinghai Province, in 2010, a huge mudslide(泥石流) in Gansu Province and an earthquake in Yunnan Province in 2013.
“I almost spent all my savings. That's what I want to do and what I can do.” Han said in an interview on the online show, Opinion, in 2015. “Many people don't trust charity organizations to use their donations properly. Charities are held at a higher standard and need to win people's trust.” The show also reported that Han had helped over 200 orphans (孤儿) since 1999.
1. From Paragraph 1, we can know that Han Hong ________.| A．held a concert in Wuhan before the coronavirus outbreak |
| B．donated over 2 billion yuan to Wuhan by herself |
| C．founded a charity foundation ten years ago |
| D．has a great influence on the public |
| A．medical things | B．people in Wuhan | C．hospitals | D．trucks |
| A．an earthquake happened in Qinghai Province | B．an earthquake happened in Yunnan Province |
| C．a huge mudslide happened in Gansu Province | D．an earthquake happened in Sichuan Province |
| A．provide a new standard | B．make good use of donations |
| C．pay more attention to orphans | D．make themselves publicly known |
| A．the coronavirus outbreak | B．the donations to Wuhan |
| C．Han's efforts to help people | D．the importance of charities |
