【推荐2】Dear neighbors,

Next Saturday is the Volunteer Day of our community (社区). Here is the plan.

7:30 a.m.: Meet at the Community Center for breakfast.

8:00 a.m.— 8:30 a.m.: Decide which of the following organizations you’d like to work for. You can begin thinking about what you may want to do now.

Happy Homes: It provides (提供) home repairs for people in need.

Elder Care: It sends volunteers to old people’s home. Volunteers can play games with the old people there, or talk with them.

City Parks Association: It needs volunteers to help plant flowers and pick up trash (垃圾) in city parks. These are outdoor activities, so remember to bring some drinking water!

Love and Learning: It helps children with learning disabilities. Read books out loudly to groups of children and help them with their homework.

8:30 a.m. — 9:00 a.m.: Get on the bus for your chosen activity, and ride with the other volunteers to your activity site (地点).

9:00 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.: Work as a volunteer.

12:00 p.m. — 1:00 p.m.: Share lunch with your volunteer group.

1:00 p.m.— 3:30 p.m.: Go on with your volunteer work.

3:30 p.m.: Get on the bus that will take you back to the Community Center. You can talk with other volunteers and share your experiences.

To know more information, please call 718-384-782. We are looking forward to your joining.

Central Community

1. What do volunteers for Happy Homes do?

A．They repair homes.

B．They clean up homes.

C．They visit old people’s homes.

2. If one chooses to work for City Parks Association, he needs to bring ________.

A．

B．

C．

3. How will volunteers go to their activity sites?

A．By bike.

B．By car.

C．By bus.

4. Volunteers will finish their work at ________.

A．1:00 p.m.

B．1:30 p.m.

C．3:30 p.m.

5. The writer writes this passage to ________.

A．ask people to do Volunteer Day activities

B．show the importance of volunteering

C．describe a volunteering experience

【推荐3】Garbage Collector（垃圾收集工） Jose Gutierrez is 53 years old. When he was young, his family was too poor to keep him in school. Jose left school when he was in Grade two. But that did not stop him having a love of reading.

Jose said he got the love of reading from his mother. She always read to him. “She read me stories every night when I was young,” said Jose. He hopes that every poor child in his city can have books to read.

Jose started saving books from garbage (车库) 20 years ago. Every day he drives the garbage truck through the city’s rich neighborhoods to get old books. Now there are about 20,000 books in Jose’s small house. It is already a famous library in his neighborhood.

Books are rare（稀有的） things for boys and girls in poor neighborhoods. New books are too expensive. There are 19 libraries in Bogota, the city where Jose lives, but they are all far from poor neighborhoods.

Now Jose is famous in Bogota. Many people give old books to him. Jose plans to make more libraries to help more children.

1. Who did Jose get the love of reading?

A．His mother.

B．His father.

C．His friends.

D．His teacher.

2. How did Jose save old books?

A．He asked people to give old books to him.	B．He got old books from garbage.
C．He used his own money to buy old books.	D．He got old books from the libraries.

3. The word “ that ” in the first paragraph refers to ________.

A．Keeping him in school.

B．Leaving school.

C．Collecting garbage.

D．Being young.

4. What does this passage mainly talked about?

A．A way to get a love of reading.	B．A place to put your old books.
C．A famous library in Bogota.	D．A man who helps poor children to read.

【推荐1】A very big Lost and Found Office is at Baker Street in London. Do you know how many things there are in the office now? About 250,000!

You can see all kinds of things there. Most of them are common (普通的) things like books, bags, clothes and keys. But some are dear things like computers and watches.

Where do so many things come from? People often find them on trains, on buses and in taxis (出租车). The office worker marks (作标记) them with different colors. Red is for the things from a taxi, white is for the things from a bus and yellow is for the things from a train.

How many of the things can go to their owners (主人)? Many of the things are there for a long time, but no one comes to get them. If the office can’t find the owner of a thing in three months, they will give it to a charity (慈善机构) to help more people.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. What does the underlined word “dear” mean in Chinese?

A．丑陋的

B．便宜的

C．昂贵的

D．可爱的

2. Where do the things come from?
①trains                       ②buses                      ③schools                 ④taxis

A．①②

B．①②④

C．②③④

D．①③④

3. If you find a watch in a taxi, what color will the office worker mark it?

A．Red.

B．White.

C．Yellow.

D．Blue.

4. How long will the office keep the things if they can’t find the owners?

A．For two weeks.	B．For three weeks.
C．For two months.	D．For three months.

5. Which of the following is NOT true about the Lost and Found Office?

A．You can see all kinds of things there.

B．There are about 250,000 things there now .

C．The office uses four colors to mark the things.

D．The office gives many of the things to help other people.

【推荐2】3D printers are certainly the superstar today---they are being put to all kinds of uses, including creating model cars for movies. However, none of these ideas are as crazy as the one suggested by Anjan Contractor, who believes that they will be the key to ending world hunger（饥饿）.
If you think that sounds a little crazy, you are not the only one, but after hearing scientists, the idea seems to become true.
According to scientists, food will become extremely expensive and possibly, even out of reach, for billions of people in the future. It means billions of people won’t have enough food.
This is where 3D printers may save the day. Anjan, an engineer says that the only way to support the large population will be to provide every kitchen with a 3D printer and print out meals.
More importantly, it would be to make the basic food from things that we now do not think can be eaten. Anjan thinks that we could easily get the meat protein(蛋白质) from insects（昆虫）. Similarly, the vegetable nutrition（营养）could be made from greens like grass. Would you want to try 3D printed food?
1. The craziest idea is that           according to the passage.

A．3D printers are used to create model cars.

B．3D printer are used for architectural models.

C．3D printers will be the key to ending world hunger.

D．3D printers are the superstars today .

2. The underlined word “extremely” here mean        .

A．very

B．a little

C．little

D．so

3. When there isn’t enough food in the future,        may save people.

A．only 3D printers

B．only the scientists

C．the kitchens with 3D printers

D．the vegetable nutrition

4. Anjan thinks that we can get the meat protein from          in the future.

A．grass

B．insects

C．animals

D．plants

5. From the passage we know that           .

A．people will have enough food to eat in the future.

B．scientists can use 3D printers to print food now.

C．3D printers are being put to many uses

D．people can get any food and vegetables without planting