1 . After his Master Chef Junior run, 12-year-old Evan Robinson is using his kitchen skills to raise money for Puerto Rico（波多黎各）. The TV show winner wanted to offer help after hurricanes（飓风）hit the country last September.
I’ve been seeing, all over the news, people lived too hard,”Evan said.“They can’t get fresh water, electricity. They can’t get really anything. I know I’m just a kid, but I think if a lot of people do something, a lot of things will get better.”
He raises money by baking and taking online orders for homemade pies. He started cooking on a recent Friday night. By the next Sunday evening, he had filled orders for 420 pies—roasted chicken, cheeseburger and vegetarian—getting $18 for six pies and $30 for a dozen.
For Evan’s out-of-town friends and supporters, he has also set up a crowdfunding（众筹）page. Through it, he’s already raised $1,500 in“virtual（虚拟的）pies”. He said fruit pies are up next.
His mom, Veronica Robinson, is in charge of delivering the pies around the city.“We’ve never done anything like this before,”she said.“But it’s a great idea, so I want to help him.”
His baking will continue as well. This is because he heard on the news that it would take Puerto Rico years, maybe even 10 years, to recover（恢复）from the hurricanes.
It’s not an easy job, especially for a kid with homework and Boy Scouts and friendships to tend to. But he doesn’t seem worried.“It’s what we’re supposed to do,”he said.“I’m a human. They’re humans. Why shouldn’t help them?”
1. Evan Robinsons was a TV show winner, wasn’t he?
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2. What happened in Puerto Rico last September?
Puerto Rico ____________________________________________________
3. How does Evan raise money for Puerto Rico?
______________________________________________________________
4. What does Evan’s mother do to help him?
She helps him __________________________________________________
5. Why will Evan continue his baking?
Because _______________________________________________________
6. Do you like to be a child like Evan Robinson? Besides donating money, what else can you do to help the poor?
_____________________________________________________________

2 . Emily was an eighth grader. To pass her Civics course, she had to do some volunteer services in a nursing home for a week.
One Monday, Emily went to the nursing home after school. When she arrived, she was told she would spent an hour every weekday with an elderly lady, Mrs. Blair. She was then led into a room, where an old lady in a flowery dress was sitting on a sofa.
Emily stood awkwardly（别扭地）in front of the lady. She cleared her throat and said, “Good afternoon   I’m Emily.”
“Good afternoon, Emily. Take a seat, please.” Mrs. Blair replied.
Then, _______ filled the space between them. Emily wondered what to say.
“Tell me about yourself, Emily,” Mrs. Blair said suddenly.
“Well,” Emily started, “I don’t have any grandparents, so I don’t know how to get on well with elderly people. I love the performing arts. I’m here mainly because I have to volunteer here to get a good grade for my Civics class.”
Mrs. Blair didn’t seem to mind. “Many people, especially teens, don’t seem to _______ old people like me. Now you are here, and I’m going to change that about you. Ask me anything.”
Emily thought for a moment, and finally decided, “What was your job?”
“I was a Broadway star in the 1950s.” Mrs. Blair answered.
“Cool! Can you tell me about it!” Emily asked, amazed.
Mrs. Blair smiled. “Back then, _______ the lead actress had the honor to wear a special bracelet. I was the lead in almost all of the plays, so I always wore the bracelet. Till this day, I still have it.”
Emily smiled along with Mrs. Blair and listened to the other stories, attentively. She had become very _______ Mrs. Blair’s stories. She decided to come earlier the next day.
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday passed by quickly. Then came Friday. As she was leaving, Emily was really upset to say goodbye.
“Don’t be sad. You can still visit me,” Mrs. Blair comforted her. She then handed a small box to Emily, “It’s my gift to you.”
Emily _______ opened the box and was surprised to see what was inside. “It’s the bracelet that you wore. Thank you!” Emily said, with tears in her eyes. “I’m sure to visit you whenever I’m free.”
On the way home, Emily thought of her own love for the performing arts. She touched the bracelet and_______ that she would keep her word to Mrs. Blair.1.

A．happiness

B．friendship

C．silence

D．humour

2.

A．care for

B．agree with

C．depend on

D．worry about

3.

A．even

B．maybe

C．yet

D．only

4.

A．afraid of

B．interested in

C．pleased with

D．familiar with

5.

A．angrily

B．easily

C．carefully

D．suddenly

6.

A．promised

B．denied

C．introduced

D．lied

3 . Volunteers are needed
Clean People’ s Park!
We need five people who are strong and can help clean up people's park. We need help to collect rubbish If you are free for four hours this weekend, come and join us!
Tel:0398-8651518
Email:park699@126.com
Teach Music!
We need three volunteers to work as music teachers in SOS Children’s Villages. You needto be good at singing and dancing, and open-minded with a loving heart.
If you are free for two hours every weekend, join us!
Tel:0398-8858518
Email: lovekids(@sina.com
Help old people!
We need four volunteers to help at Xinxin nursing home, You need to be good with older people. Your job is to wash clothes for them.
If you can spare three hours on May 6, come and join us!
Tel:0398-8656869
Email:homelove@163.com
1. If you are free for_____ this weekend, you can help clean people's Park

A．two hours

B．three hours

C．four hours

D．five hours

2. The SOS children's Villages need three volunteers to teach kids_______.

A．maths

B．music

C．science

D．physics

3. To volunteer in SOS children's Villages, you need to________.

A．be strong and helpful	B．be interested in nature
C．be creative and love kids	D．be good with kids

4. Volunteers are asked to _________at Xinxin Nursing home.

A．collect rubbish	B．teach English
C．learn music	D．wash clothes

5. ________volunteers are needed in all according to the poster.

A．Three

B．Four

C．Five

D．Twelve

6. Of the following information, ___________is NOT true.

A．If you can help collect rubbish, you can call 0398-86515i

B．Music teachers need to work for two hours every weekend

C．You can send an email to homelove(@163.com to help kids

D．Xinxin nursing home needs volunteers to wash clothes on May 6.

4 . Every year, the town of Verona, where the well-known love story Romeo and Juliet took place, receives thousands of letters to Juliet. These letters are written in different languages and sent from all over the world.

The tradition of sending letters to Juliet dates back to centuries ago. At first, people left notes on a local landmark said to be Juliet’s tomb（坟墓）. Later, they started to send letters to the town.

To deal with these letters, the Juliet Club was set up in 1972.

The staff of the Juliet Club are volunteers who call themselves “Juliet’s secretary.” They can be students, couples and even grandmothers. They can read letters in many languages.

These people take their work seriously. They use their own experiences to reply. When there is a letter difficult to reply to, they will discuss it with each other to give the best answer. Thanks to them, every letter is read, translated and answered by hand in the name of Juliet.

The Juliet Club has been dealing with Juliet’s letters for more than 40 years. You can read some of the letters on the club’s official website. You can also write your own letters. Here is the address:

Club Di Giulietta,

Corso Santa Anastasia 29,

37121 Verona, Italy

1. Did the well-known love story Romeo and Juliet take place in the town of Verona? (1分)
_____________________________________________________________
2. When was the Juliet Club set up to deal with the letters sent to Juliet?
__________________________________________________________________
3. Who are “Juliet’s secretary”?
__________________________________________________________________
4. How is every letter read, translated and answered?
___________________________________________________________________
5. Where can people read some of the letters?
_________________________________________________________________
6. What do you think of the volunteers in the Juliet Club? (1分) Why do you think so? (2分)
_________________________________________________________________

5 . Chris is not a traditional explorer（探险者）- he usually works in an office for a large organization. Yet his job can sometimes be just as exciting and dangerous as being an explorer.
Chris works for MSF, an organization also known as Doctors Without Borders (无国界医生). MSF sends trained doctors all over the world to help people after a war or a disaster. Chris is a doctor from France who has travelled to many places to organize programmes that help people.
At the moment, there are over 27,000 trained medical staff taking part in MSF projects and tasks. The organization received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. All kinds of doctors can volunteer for MSF. They need to be prepared to go almost anywhere in the world and, of course, they should expect difficult conditions. Doctors with experience in tropical（热带的）diseases are especially useful because most of MSF’s work is in Africa. When MSF accepts a doctor for a task, he has to go for at least six months. When doctors have completed a few tasks, they might be sent on an emergency task following a disaster, such as an earthquake.
But why would a doctor leave a comfortable life and a good salary to join MSF? According to Chris, the experience you gain is a great help in your career. Besides, just like the explorers of the past, you need to keep an open mind and learn to mix well with the people you meet. Most importantly, at the end of each task, you have made a real difference to people’s lives.
1. Does Chris work for a large organization?
_________________________________________________
2. When does MSF send trained doctors all over the world to help people?
_________________________________________________
3. How many medical staff are taking part in MSF projects and tasks?
_________________________________________________
4. What kind of doctors are greatly needed in Africa?
_________________________________________________
5. According to Chris, why is his work important to other people?
_________________________________________________
6. Why is an MSF doctor’s job exciting and dangerous?
_________________________________________________

6 . One morning, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, “I am blind, please help me.”
There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, “Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write? ”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth, I said what you said, but in a different way. ”
What he had written was, “ Today is a beautiful day, but I cannot see it.”
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
The first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.
There are at least two lessons we can learn from this story.
The first is: Treasure（珍惜）what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.
The second is: Be creative(有创造力的). Think differently. There is always a better way!
1. Who sat on the steps of a building asking for help?
_____________________________________________________
2. A man walked by and gave the boy a few coins, didn’t he?
____________________________________________________
3. What did the man do to the boy’s sign?
____________________________________________________
4. What happened to the boy’s hat soon?
___________________________________________________
5. How did the man write the sign?
___________________________________________________
6. Which sign do you prefer, the first one or the second one ? Why ?（answer the question in no more than 20 words）
___________________________________________________

7 .

A.mark B. checked C. population D. destroyed E.chemicals

In Tanzania, an African country, a company called APOPO trains African pouched rats(非洲有袋鼠）to find landmines(地雷）left over from the wars. The rats are trained to smell out some of the    1    in them. More importantly, these rats are too light to set off the landmines.
Generally speaking, after 8 to 12 months of training, the rats can find landmines so that they can be safely destroyed. Rats and trainers search one small area at a time. To be sure that every inch of the ground is     2    , APOPO workers use a harness-and-rope system that guides the rats back and forth in rows. The trainer stands safely on the edge(边缘) of the area.
When a rat smells landmines, it will dig the dirt in that spot(地点). The trainers     3    each spot on a map. Later, people set off the landmines safely.
In the African country of Mozambique, nearly half of the     4    are younger than 15 years old. A lot of kids are in danger as they play and work. With the help of the rats and trainers, there will be no threat any more.

8 .        That cold January night, it seemed I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco. There I was, walking home at one in the morning after a tiring practice at the theater. With opening night only a week away, I was still learning my lines. I was having trouble dealing with my part-time job at the bank and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about giving up both acting and San Francisco. City life had become too much for me.
       As I walked down empty streets under tall buildings, I felt very small and cold. I began running, both to keep warm and to keep away any possible robbers(抢劫犯). Very few people were still out except a few sad-looking homeless people under blankets.
       About a block from my apartment, I heard a sound behind me. I turned quickly, half expecting to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was empty. All I saw was a shining streetlight. Still, the noise had made me nervous, so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I realize what the noise had been. It had been my wallet falling to the sidewalk.
       Suddenly I wasn’t cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to where I’d heard the noise. Although I searched the sidewalk anxiously for fifteen minutes, my wallet was nowhere to be found.
       Just as I was about to give up the search, I heard the garbage truck(垃圾车) pull up to the sidewalk next to me. When a voice called from the inside, “Alisa Camacho?” I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? The door opened, and out jumped a small red-haired man with an amused look in his eyes. “Is this what you’re looking for?” he asked, holding up a small square shape.
       It was nearly 3 a.m. by the time I got into bed. I wouldn’t get much sleep that night, but I had got my wallet back. I also had got back some enjoyment of city life. I realized that the city couldn’t be a bad place as long as people were willing to help each other.
1. How did the writer feel when she was walking home after work?

A．Cold and sick.

B．Lucky and hopeful.

C．Satisfied and cheerful.

D．Disappointed and helpless.

2. From the first paragraph(段落), we learn that the writer was busy _____.

A．solving her problem at the bank

B．taking part in various city jobs

C．learning acting in an evening school

D．preparing for the first night show

3. On her way home the writer _____.

A．lost her wallet unknowingly

B．was stopped by a garbage truck driver

C．was robbed of her wallet by a man with a knife

D．found some homeless people following her

4. In the fifth paragraph, why did the writer say she was dreaming?

A．Someone offered to take her back home.

B．A red-haired man came to see her.

C．She heard someone call her name.

D．Her wallet was found in a garbage truck.

5. From the text, we can infer that the writer _____.

A．would stop working at night

B．would stay on in San Francisco

C．would make friends with cleaners

D．would give up her job at the bank

9 . Helen Monson has always been interested in helping her community. Her first volunteer experience was for the American Red Cross when she was in high school. When she was a school teacher, she also found time to volunteer. One year, she organized a Super Saturday fun day for kids in the community. She also used to volunteer at the mint festival every year, One summer she served food, another year she organized an art programme.
After she retired, she started volunteering to help the old. When her father was older, he was not able to see as well as he used to, which made her sad because he had always enjoyed reading.
She decided it would be fun to read to elderly people in her community. She also helped one woman write her stories. Ann was almost 100 years old, and Helen wrote down information about her life when she visited her. She put the information in a book and got it published. Ann was very excited to share her life story with her children and grandchildren.
After a hurricane( 飓风 ) destroyed some southern cities, Helen volunteered again for the American Red Cross. She prepared food and answered phones in a care centre. She says,” I have always liked the Red Cross because the organization helps people in need no matter what.”
One day Helen read an article in the newspaper about refugees( 难民 ) who needed to learn English. Now, she meets once a week with Sahra, a 38-year-old woman from Somalia. Sahra is reading and writing skills. Helen gave Sahra a camera and asked her to take pictures of her daily life. She developed the pictures, and then asked Sahra questions about them. In the end, they wrote a book   together and used the photos in the book. This helped Sahra learn many new words about
her everyday life.
Helen says, “The most rewarding( 有益的 ) part of volunteer work is becoming friends with the people I help, They enrich my life as well as I enrich theirs.”
1. When was Helen’s first volunteer experience for the American Red Cross?
2. What did Helen do after she retired?
3. Why was Ann excited when her book got published?
4. Where did Helen work when she volunteered again for the American Red Cross?
5. How far is Sahra living and working from Helen’s home?
6. Did Helen help Sahra to learn English?
7. What can you learn from Helen?

10 . Choose the best answer (根据文章内容，选择最恰当的答案)：
I put my carry-on in the luggage compartment(行李舱架),
and sat down in my seat.Just before take-off,a line of soldiers came down the aisle（过道） and filled all the empty seats.

After flying for about an hour,an announcement was made that sack lunch （午餐袋）were available for $5.As I reached for my wallet to buy one,I overheard the soldier ask his buddy if he planned to buy lunch."No ,that seems like a lot of money for just a sack lunch.I'll wait till we get to Chicago."His friend agreed.
I looked around at the other soldiers.None were buying lunch.I walked to the back of the plane,and handed the flight attendant（服务人员）a $50 bill." Take a lunch to all those soldiers."
After we finished eating. I went again to the back of the plane,heading for the restroom.A man stopped me."I saw what you did.I want to be part of it.Here,take this."He handed me $25.
Soon after I returned to my seat,I saw the Flight Captain coming down the aisle.
When he got to my row,he stopped and said,"I want to shake your hand.I was a soldier and I was a military（军队） pilot.Once,someone bought me a lunch.It was an act of kindness I never forgot."I was embarrassed when applause（掌声） was heard from all of the passengers.
Later I walked to the front of the plane so I could stretch my legs.A man who was seated about six rows in front of me reached out his hand,wanting to shake mine.He left another $25 in my hand.
We landed in Chicago,I picked up my belongings.Waiting just inside the airplane door was a man who stopped me and put something in my shirt pocket.Another $25.
Upon entering the terminal（航站楼）,I saw the soldiers gathering for their trip to their base.
I walked over to them and handed them $75."It will take you some time to reach the base.It will be about time for a sandwich.God Bless You."I   said.
These soldiers were giving their all   for our country.I could only give them a couple of meals.It seemed so little.
1. The writer met the soldiers when he          to Chicago.

A．took a coach	B．took a plane
C．took a bus	D．took a train

2. The soldiers didn’t buy sack lunches because                 .

A．they were not hungry at the time

B．They missed the time when they could buy sack lunches

C．They thought the sack lunches were too expensive

D．They thought the lunches on the plane tasted bad

3. When the writer bought lunch for the soldiers,             .

A．he wanted the soldiers to thank him

B．he expected others to pay for them with him

C．he wanted to impress the Flight Captain

D．he didn’t know others would notice what he did

4. The writer received      from the other passengers in the end.

A．$125

B．$75

C．$50

D．$25

5. Which of the following statement is TRUE according to the article?

A．The writer bought sack lunches for the soldiers and the captain

B．A flight attendant give the writer $25 to buy lunch for the soldiers

C．Someone once bought the Flight Captain a lunch when he was a military pilot

D．The writer bought sandwiches for the soldiers when they got off the plane

6. The article is mainly about “                          .”

A．Love for one’s motherland is often rewarded

B．You should show pity to people around you

C．An act of kindness will invite others to join in

D．Sometimes it costs a little to help people in need