International Volunteer Day is a day to celebrate the efforts of people who create a positive change in their communities and work selflessly to bring about peace and development for the world. On International Volunteer Day, volunteers share their experiences with volunteering and talk about its influence on their personal lives.
Sharon first started volunteering at the age of 16. It was the summer before her junior year of high school, and she hadn’t really understood the meaning behind doing something for others until that day.
Sharon was going with a group to the Ronald McDonald House (RMH) in Dallas, Texas. RMH is a “home-away-from-home” for families so they can stay close by their hospitalized child at little or no cost.
Sharon recalls her first time walking into RMH-nervous and afraid of messing up or saying the wrong thing. After only 5 minutes, she began connecting with families. “That day, I played with kids, laughed with the adults, and heard countless stories-you name it!” says Sharon.
Now a 20-year-old student at the University of North Texas, Sharon has volunteered with RMH ever since. “I have met so many people there that have changed my life.”
In January 2012, Sharon met her soon-to-be hero: Dan. Dan was a car passenger, riding with a group of friends, when the driver thought it would be cool to show off and drive fast.
The car turned over, both the driver and one of the passengers were thrown out of from the car. Dan tried to get out of the car and then began searching for others quickly. One of the passengers was still caught in her seat. Without hesitation, Dan climbed back in to save her.
In doing so, he somehow managed to get himself stuck and caught fire. Although he was able to rescue himself, his skin was so badly burned that he had to take lots of surgeries (手术). Sharon helped care for Dan during his stay at RMH, helping him get better through stories, laughter, and companionship (陪伴). Sharon still keeps in touch with Dan today.
“Nothing brightens my day more than to be able to make someone who’s going through something beyond my understanding smile,” says Sharon. “I feel like I’ve become more of a caring and selfless person since I started volunteering. I look for joy in the joy I provide to others and focus less on myself. After a few months of volunteering, RMH brought out a more real version of myself-exactly who I want to be in life.”
1. When did Sharon first start volunteering?2. How did Sharon feel when she walked into RMH the first time?
3. What did Sharon do to help Dan get better?
4. Would you like to do volunteer work? Why? (Please give two reasons.)
| A Do you enjoy teaching? Do you like spending time with middle school students? Volunteer teaching is a perfect choice for you if you do. Teachers in the community are needed. You can teach English and math to students who need help. | B Do you have experience taking care of the elderly? Working to help the elderly isn’t for everyone. If you have worked in this field, come and join us The activities in this project include helping the elderly in nursing homes. |
| C If you are interested in the medical field and healthcare, this project may interest you. It includes activities like volunteering in community hospitals, and giving a helping hand to the sick and their families while they are seeing doctors. | D Do you like taking care of animals? If you do, you can volunteer your time with them. Please spend one or two hours every week working with us to help street animals, or work at an animal shelter to support animal rights. |
3 . “奉献、友爱、互助、进步”的志愿精神是雷锋精神的重要体现。
假如你是李华，你校英文公众号将推出以“弘扬雷锋精神争做优秀志愿者”为主题的系列推送。请你用英文给公众号留言，介绍你曾经参加过的一次志愿者活动及收获。
提示词语：old people’s home, help, clean, skill提示问题：What volunteer activity did you take part in? What have you learned from the experience?
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4 . 根据中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少于50词的文段写作。文中已给出内容不计入总词数。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。
假如你是李华，下周你们学校的英国友好学校的交换生将要来访。学校国际部正在招募志愿者，负责接待英国交换生并陪伴他们度过周末。假如你想成为志愿者，请用英语写一封申请信，在信中说明你申请的理由，以及你打算给英国交换生安排哪些周末活动。
提示词语：get along with, friendly, places of interest, Chinese dishes
提示问题：
●Why would you like to be a volunteer?
●What do you plan to do during the weekend?
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5 . When you hear the word hero, you may think of someone like Mahatma Gandhi or but they do what they can to help
Lee grew up in New York City. As his family was not rich, he learned from a young age the importance of
After he left university, Lee and a friend set up an organization called Rescuing Leftover Cuisine (RLC). Its purpose is to
RLC operates simply. Using an app developed by Lee’s team,
So far, Lee and his team have successfully
| A．record | B．respect | C．improve | D．manage |
| A．storing | B．avoiding | C．burning | D．recycling |
| A．sick | B．blind | C．lonely | D．homeless |
| A．collect | B．cook | C．research | D．receive |
| A．volunteers | B．organizations | C．restaurants | D．universities |
| A．heated | B．saved | C．lent | D．grown |
| A．small | B．secret | C．direct | D．sudden |
| A．need | B．time | C．promise | D．beginning |
When 19-year-old Sophia Giorgi said she was thinking of volunteering to help the Make-A-Wish Foundation (基金会), nobody understood what she was talking about. But Sophia knew just how important Make-A-Wish could be because this special organization (组织) had helped to make a dream come true for one of her best friends. We were interested in finding out more, so we went along to meet Sophia and listen to what she had to say.
Sophia told us that Make-A-Wish is a worldwide organization that started in the United States in 1980. “It’s a charity (慈善机构) that helps children who have got very serious illnesses. Make-A-Wish helps children feel happy even though they are sick, by making their wishes and dreams come true.” Sophia explained.
We asked Sophia how Make-A-Wish had first started. She said it had all begun with a very sick young boy called Chris, who had been dreaming for a long time of becoming a policeman. Sophia said lots of people had wanted to find a way to make Chris’s dream come true—so, with everybody’s help, Chris, only seven years old at the time, had been a “policeman” for a day. “When people saw how happy Chris was when his dream came true, they decided to try and help other sick children too, and that was the beginning of Make-A-Wish, Chris was the first child that Make-A-Wish helped,” explained Sophia.
Sophia also told us the Foundation tries to give children and their families a special, happy time. A Make-A-Wish volunteer visits the families and asks the children what they would wish for if they could have anything in the world. Sophia said the volunteers were important because they were the ones who helped to make the wishes come true. They do this either by providing things that are necessary, or by raising money or helping out in whatever way they can.
1. Did Sophia know how important Make-A-Wish could be?2. How does Make-A-Wish help children feel happy?
3. What was the name of the first child that Make-A-Wish helped?
4. Why were the volunteers important according to Sophia?
5. What do the volunteers do?
7 . Thanksgiving was just around the corner. The menu had been set. The shopping list was made. Everything seemed perfect. I could taste turkey and mashed potatoes Pictures of different pies, fruits and vegetables came into my mind. I couldn’t
The day before Thanksgiving my dad called a family meeting. He said, “we need to practice being
The next morning, we got up early. I followed my father to the shelter with my sleepy eyes. I had no great
However, those thoughts soon disappeared. Over the next few hours, I watched hundreds of people come through the shelter. For some, this was the only hot meal hey would eat that week. For others, it was the first time to eat a Thanksgiving meal! The shelter was filled with
Through this experience, I learned that Thanksgiving is a time to think about your blessings (祝福) and look for ways to bless others. When I gave up what I had wanted, I discovered how much I have. It is much better to
| A．care | B．wait | C．understand | D．imagine |
| A．creative | B．popular | C．different | D．thankful |
| A．expectations | B．questions | C．support | D．success |
| A．magic | B．happiness | C．fear | D．noise |
| A．waste | B．take | C．give | D．find |
8 . 假如你是李华，你和你的英国笔友Peter 都热心参与志愿服务，他给你发来邮件询问你参与志愿服务的情况。请你用英语回复一封邮件，介绍你所参加过的一次志愿者活动，并谈谈你的感受。
不少于50 词。文中已给出内容不计入总词数。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。
提示词语：Children’s Home, tell stories, teach, tired, happy
提示问题：
● Where did you do the volunteer work?
● What did you do there?
● How did you feel?
Dear Peter,
I’m glad to tell you about the volunteer work I did. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
9 . 假如你是李华，你打算邀请你校交换生Chris参加一次社区环境保护志愿活动。请用英语写一封电子邮件，告诉他活动的时间和地点，活动的内容，以及需要为此做什么准备。
提示词语：environment，clean，rubbish bags，gloves，put up
提示问题：
●What will you do in your community?
●When and where will you meet?
●What should you prepare for the activity?
Dear Chris,
How is it going? I’m writing to invite you to join us.
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If you want to know more, please let me know.
Yours,
Li Hua
10 . Students Raise Money for Baseball Team
Two years ago, high school students Michael Pinsky and David Connor read an article in a newspaper about a school in Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City. The school had a baseball team, but no money to buy the baseball equipment.
Michael and David had an idea. They decided to help the team get money for the equipment they needed. So the two boys started a project to raise money for the baseball team. They called the project “Home Runs for Harlem.” They placed boxes in stores to collect money for the team and sold bracelets (手镯；手链) with the words “Home Runs for Harlem” on them. Their plan was to collect money to support the team.
Michael and David’s project was a great success. They raised over $9, 000. The team bought the equipment they needed: gloves, baseballs and bats. The school also used some of the money to pay a baseball coach.
After the school in Harlem received the money, Michael and David spoke to the students at the school, and David explained why this was a dream come true. “It’s not just about me,” he says. “It’s for other people. It’s for the community.”
“I just hope they have a fun time playing baseball, and if they can have the equipment, then that just helps out,” says David. David and Michael now plan to raise money for other baseball teams in Harlem.
For their passionate and inspiring efforts to support school baseball programs, the two teenagers were New Yorkers of the Week on one of New York’s news stations.
1. A school in Harlem had no money to buy _______ for their baseball team.| A．newspapers and magazines | B．the baseball equipment |
| C．baseballs and news stations | D．boxes and bracelets |
| A．write an article in a newspaper |
| B．show their success to the team |
| C．sell things to pay a basketball coach |
| D．collect money to support the team |
| A．Their efforts to help the school baseball programs. |
| B．Their creation of bracelets with words on them. |
| C．Their programs for their news stations and school. |
| D．Their successful project on how to raise money. |
